Welcome to the newly-created marketing blog!

While all developers at Telerik were busy preparing new cool features and upgrades for the Q2 release, the efforts of the marketing team were focused on cooking up brand-new print ads to match the enhanced Telerik products. Finally our concepts saw the light of day – you can find their online versions below. We’ll be happy to read what you think about them.

To dig deeper into the topic, people say technical ads full of info are the ones that developers pay attention to. However, is this really the case or are you more likely to...

UPDATE: You can download the latest Dynamic Data bits from here.

We have just published a new update of our Dynamic Data bits. We fixed a bug which could cause possible duplication of items in RadComboBox (in the ForeignKey editor). The zip also includes the latest official release of RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax. You can download the bits from here....

I am pleased to bring you the first of many episodes from my new video series, RadTips. These episodes will be posted regularly here on the Telerik blogs, and each will highlight a specific feature of a RadControl in a short, concise screencast. The point of this effort is to bring you quick tips on how to take advantage of the features of our RadControls without having to devote more than a few minutes of your time to the learning process.

In this first episode, we'll take a look at client-side data binding with the RadGrid. There are no bells and...

We would like to welcome you to the Telerik RadControls for WPF and RadControls for Silverlight Early Adoption Program!

As part of the Early Adoption Program we would like to reward all community members who are eager to try our newest products – RadControls for Silverlight and/or RadControls for WPF. Your feedback and feature suggestions will be instrumental in helping us further develop the products so that they meet your requirements.  Your ideas and suggestions will be rewarded according to the scheme below:

• Bug Report – 1000-2000 Telerik points
• Feature Request – depending on how valuable the feature request is and whether it can be implemented or not –...

We just extended RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX with native client-side data binding to ADO.NET DataServices. Now you can use getDataServiceQuery() method and the grid will construct ADO.NET DataService style query:

var northwindService = new Sys.Data.DataService("NorthwindDataService.svc");
var tableView = $find("<%= RadGrid1.ClientID %>").get_masterTableView();
northwindService.query(tableView.getDataServiceQuery("Customers"), updateGrid);

All operations like paging, sorting and filtering are automatically persisted using $top, $skip, $orderby and $filter...

Once again, I am excited to announce the start of a new initiative to improve the user experience with skinning the Telerik controls. We are starting work on a new Visual Style Builder application for the ASP.NET AJAX Controls and a major upgrade of the existing application for the WinForms Controls. The Visual Style Builder will allow easy, point-and-click customization of component skins, eliminating the need to get acquainted with the front-end structure of the controls. The Visual Style Builder will also speed up development of skins across several components - you will be able to define a style once and...

Today is an exciting day for me. Scratch that. Today is an exciting day for a whole lot of people here in Telerik. For the past several months we have been tirelessly crafting the future of telerik's Charting product line. Today, my friends, is an exciting day indeed because it all goes public. The Futures release of our WPF effort has just been published here with online examples available here.

Together with the Chart and Gauges controls we are also featuring a technical preview of our scheduler component of WPF. Here is a summary for all the controls included with this release:

RadChart for WPF -...

When you use a tool day-in and day-out you typically want it to be accessible as quickly as possible and to launch just the way you like it, with all your favorite bells and whistles ready to go. For those of us saving the world every day with our .NET applications, Visual Studio is no exception. So here are a couple of easy tips for fine-tuning Visual Studio to get you from the icon to the code just a little bit faster, as well as a few of my own preferred features and settings.

Launch Tips

1. Get rid of the splash...

With the Telerik Q2 release the Silverlight team releases the Beta version of the Rad Controls for Silverlight2.

The controls are separated in 4 different assemblies:
 
Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation
  - Window, Menu, TreeView, TabControl, PanelBar, Cube

Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input
  - ComboBox, Upload, Calendar, DatePicker, NumericUpDown

Telerik.Windows.Controls.MediaPlayer 
 - MediaPlayer.

Telerik.Windows.Controls
  - Range Slider, ProgressBar, WrapPanel, DockPanel, UniformGridPanel
  

What is the current status of the suite and where we are heading to?

All of the controls are fully featured and extensively tested. We released two CTP versions of the controls before the current "Beta 1". We have got a lot of feedback from the community (a big THANKS! for that - keep it coming!)

• We will now continue to work...

…Or how you should manage predefined themes in Q2 2008

As mentioned previously, RadControls for WinForms is the only WinForms suite which provides WPF-like effects on the classic Windows Forms platform. This has its challenges, because the Windows Forms platform was not build with such rich visualization in mind. For example, performance suffers if too many elements are animated on the form; the form/application start up time increases with too many visual elements on the form, etc. It is our job to try and find ways to keep these times at a minimum, but keep the same rich functionality and dazzling...