It gets quiet around the office over the holidays. I like to use this time to reflect on the year behind us, both from the industry perspective, as well as from the Telerik perspective. It's the only 5 days out of the 365 in the year when we are not in a turbulent whirlwind of activity.

From an industry perspective, 2011 was pretty dynamic and we saw some really powerful trends pick up steam:

1. Cloud
   The proliferation of cloud computing. Every solution needs to have a cloud back-end. More and more of our information is starting to live...

Hot on the heels of the eagerly anticipated 2011 Q3 release of Telerik JustCode we publish its Service Pack. Our main goal was to improve performance and memory consumption but without forgetting about adding new functionalities and fixing the pending issues, as for example improving the existing code templates. If you want to be up to date with all that is added to JustCode, please visit our What’s New page.

Test Runner

With this release we introduce support for NUnit data driven tests. Now you can enhance your unit tests by using these attributes:

• TestCaseSource
• Combinatorial
• Sequential
• Pairwise
• Repeat

Also you will see that we have made changes to the...

Hello everyone,

Santa came early this week with RadControls for Silverlight 5 and the Q3 2011 Service Pack 1!

Just last week I blogged that we will be releasing our Silverlight 5 build of RadControls shortly. I am pleased to announce that it is currently available to download right now by heading to your client account and selecting RadControls for Silverlight. This is built against Silverlight 5 and has passed all our Q/A checks for use in production applications.  We have however, noticed some quirks that made it through to the SL5 runtime from Microsoft (including the RadRichTextBox  wizard for SL...

We are most excited to announce the immediate availability of our Q3 2011 Service Pack 1 release of RadControls for Windows Phone. Together with all the bug fixes and improvements, we also managed to add several cool new features in our controls. LiveTileHelper, Date/Time pickers Step property, Radar charts and financial indicators as well as the much requested pinch-to-zoom functionality for RadSlideView showing pictures.

The pinch-to-zoom gesture is well known and most of the users are familiar with it. More, people will expect it from any application that displays pictures in a gallery. Well, no need to implement your own gesture handling; it is all...

It is a common scenario when we would like to limit the selectable values in a time or date picker control. Normally we would do this by setting an allowed date-time range but a more sophisticated case is when we also want to filter out some selection possibilities and allow only specific ones. Imagine an application that provides the end-user with the possibility to create reminders that can only happen in time intervals of 15 minutes:

3:00 AM, 3:15 AM, 3:30 AM...

Here we don’t want to prevent the user from selecting values from the whole time-range, but want to make some...

Yes, it’s that time of the year. We just exchanged gifts here in the Telerik office and we thought it’s time to present our gift to you, our customers. ;-)

Here’s what we have prepared to wish you very happy holidays – this small but essential guide on how to celebrate them metro-style.

Do you have any other tips? Please share them in the comments section below.

We wish you Happy Metro Holidays!
The Telerik Team

If you'd like to download the guide as a PDF file, click here.  ...

We could not stop ourselves from serving you yet another portion of great new features, improvements and fixes, so we decided that it is time for a Service Pack. The interest that we received for our RadPanorama control, multi-touch support and the other new cool bits of the suite naturally made the suite even cooler for this Service Pack. Here are the highlights for this release:

• RadScheduler built-in multi-touch behavior. Now your end-user can switch between views or navigate in a view by a multi-touch operation
• Improved RadPanorama design-time support. Playing with tiles has never been more fun. With the specifically designed Live Tile Editor...

Today we are releasing a Service Pack 1 of Q3.2011 release for RadControls for WindowsPhone. The files are available for download here. Among the fixes and improvements, based on the feedback we've got in the last month, we had the time to add and the following new features to the product:

 - LiveTileHelper - with this helper you can easily create and pin LiveTiles from your application to the device home screen. The key feature we are adding on top of the standard live tiles in the Silverlight framework is the ability to create dynamic and custom designed tiles. All you need...

Download the sample project here.

In the quest of making Windows Phone developers life easier we decided to add a little addition to Telerik Windows Phone toolkit with the Service Pack that was announced today. One of the coolest things that were added in the Mango update of the Windows Phone OS was the support of secondary live tiles. With secondary live tiles you can add a link on the home screen of the device which can point to any Page inside your application.

With the default support for live tiles that comes from the Silverlight framework you get a fixed template for the live tile...

Although it was only a month ago when JustTrace Q3 2011 was released, we've launched JustTrace Q3 2011 SP1 with two new major features: a completely redone “Live Data” view and the ability to view source code. In addition, a number of enhancements have been made, resulting in a smoother user experience. Visit the What’s New page for a list of all changes.

Live Data View

The Live Data view has been updated to provide visual information via charts representing CPU and memory usage. This enables you to visualize how the profiled application process is currently affecting performance and memory consumption. More importantly, you now see...