Following the Telerik MVC Q1 2011 BETA release announced yesterday, we are sharing another exhilarating news: the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2011 BETA release is here! This is an early preview of the next major release of our AJAX suite which is focused on major supplements to the SharePoint 2010 Telerik AJAX webparts armory, new controls (RibbonBar and MonthYearPicker) and important updates across the whole Telerik AJAX portfolio.

Check our ONLINE DEMOS and RELEASE NOTES

The downloads are now available in your account (or free trials): both full installation (MSI) or manual installation (ZIP)

Details on the Q1 2011 BETA (also present on Telerik Labs)

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As Platinum sponsors of this inaugural event, Telerik has 3 FREE PASSES to give out for Code PaLOUsa 2011 March 4th & 5th in Louisville, Kentucky put on by Chad Green, whom we met back in November at the ALM Summit. Back then, CodePaLOUsa was still in the works and he has done a bang up job with putting together this event. These passes are worth $200 EACH.

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Q1 2011 marks the official release of RadControls for Windows Phone with several exciting new features, such as RadGauge design-time support – you will be able to choose from a predefined Gauges gallery with a single click.

Another highlight of the release will be the RadDataBoundListBox control, which is a light-weight version of the standard ListBox component and what’s more – the fastest ListBox component available. Thanks to its unmatched performance, your end-users can navigate through thousands of items without ever slowing down the application.

The JumpList control is using Telerik’s unique DataLayer building upon LINQ to make filtering, sorting and grouping possible with setting a single property....

The Q1 2011 version of the Chart control will include code to support empty/null values. There are many scenarios, in which the property of an object, or a collection of objects, to which the Chart is data bound, is null. The following code example demonstrates one such case:

The null values above are hard-coded, however they convey the general idea of null values being returned by the data layer, to which the Chart is data bound.

Internally, there are three ways in which these null values can be handled. This is specified by a property in the control, for the series...

As a good tradition we are happy to announce the availability of Q1 2011 Beta of RadControls for Silverlight and WPF. Along with a bunch of new features and improvements we are glad to present you several new controls.

RadScheduleView for Silverlight 

The ScheduleView empowers end users with unprecedented control over precision and flexibility when handling their appointments. This is achieved through features such as multi-level grouping, powerful zoom for smart navigation through a large number of appointments and blazing fast scrolling.

RadRichTextBox for WPF 

In response to numerous client requests we included the RichTextBox control in our WPF suite. Just like...

We are excited to present you the Q1 2011 BETA release of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC! For everyone who is eager to know what we cooked for the next major release of the MVC bundle, please read on.

In addition to the official ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM and NuGet Package Manager support and the VS Extensions MVC3 project templates we announced with the Q3 2010 SP1 launch, three new extensions are joining the Telerik MVC UI components family:

• Upload
• Splitter
• Slider

Furthermore, we enriched the set of Telerik MVC Grid features with some fresh additions like batch editing/updates, group aggregates and group header/footer...

It’s been a while since the last blog on this topic but it’s for good: we have been heavily working on our upcoming Beta 2 release. The amount of feedback we received from you was extremely valuable and we managed to address many issues and make our suite more polished than ever. Keep in touch since the official release is coming and we’re very excited to share with you what we wouldn’t practically achieve without your support.

Now back on the topic; essentially, this blog covers the last technical aspect of the whole WP7 Unit Test Automation Infrastructure with the last blog...

Being eager to share with you all the cool things we have been working on for the past few months, we are once again organizing the What’s New Webinar Week. During this already traditional series of webinars following the release date, Telerik Evangelists will walk you through all the new stuff we ship in Q1 2011 and will show you how to best take advantage of them.

The webinar week starts March 21, so make sure to mark that in your calendars. As usual, one person at each webinar will get a Telerik Ultimate Collection license (value=$1999)!

Register now as seats are...

7 new customers’ Windows Phone 7 applications built with RadControls for Windows Phone hit the Marketplace and our brand new Showcase section as well. Below are the deep links for all the apps. You need to have a Zune installed if you want to see them though.

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The Resolutions app helps you prioritize and monitor each resolution status...

As the next release of the Telerik Winforms controls is coming close, we would like to uncover some details regarding a new control to be released – RadWizard. The wizard control will help you to break a complex process into separate steps and provide your users with the opportunity to guide the process and make decisions – just like the well-known installation wizards.

RadWizard supports both Wizard97 and Wizard Aero specifications. The control provides the developers with predesigned Welcome, Completion and Internal pages. Here is an example of the default look of a Welcome page:

The design time capabilities of the RadWizard control...