What's new in Telerik Minifier

It is a huge pleasure to announce the release of Telerik’s new Minifier tool now featuring Xap file minification option. It has been a while since we have released the Assembly Minifier and now we bring the concept for minification and reducing the XAP file size to a new level. We have just released the new Telerik Minifier tool that now features Xap Minification to enable you prune and remove everything that your application does not need from the Telerik assemblies in the Xap. As a result, the size of your application's Xap file will be dramatically reduced. Behind the scenes it...

I guess the larger part of you have to maintain various projects using different versions of a Telerik suite, let’s say RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX.

Having in mind the above mentioned scenario, working with two projects referring different versions of the Telerik.Web.UI assembly there are the following options :

1. Have parallel installs of both the RadControls versions on your machine.
   This one works fine until one day, while in a hurry, you just expand a RadControls group in your Toolbox, drag a control over your page, attempt to build the project and find it broken. The reason for...

Bring Motion to your Windows Phone 7 Application using the Telerik animation engine and page transition framework.

I will not reveal a big secret if I say that the whole Metro UI guidelines are based on content and motion. But how can you bring motion to your applications? This is the question we asked ourselves back in the days when we started to work on our Rad Controls for Windows Phone 7. We are now happy that we released the first CTP version of the controls with support for Metro like animations and transitions. We built our own Animation and Transition engine from the ground up...

Our biggest Silverlight release - Q3.2009 is now officially released. We added ten (yes ten!) new controls to the Silverlight suite:

1. RibbonBar 
2. TileView 
3. OutlookBar 
4. FluidContentControl 
5. Book 
6. TreeListView (CTP version)
7. Map (CTP version)
8. CoverFlow 
9. DropDown Button 
10. Split Button 

And not only this but we made significant performance improvements to the TreeView, TreeListView and GridView controls. Now these controls are using the new UI virtualization logic allowing them to display millions of records.

For a full list of changes please check our what's new page. You can check the online demos here, read the documentation here and if you have any feedback on them - please open a support ticket here.

A control with which we are...

I’ve been working on a project that uses OpenAccess ORM as the persistence layer between my app and the database. Since the app is going to be used on both web and client platforms I wanted to add a services layer to serve up the data. Turns out it’s pretty easy to do. So I’ll walk you through a quick demo of how to hook OpenAccess up to WCF services and then consume the data with a RadGrid.

Set up the project structure

First, create a class library project called Data to hold the data access code. This is where you’ll use OpenAccess to...

I’m happy to announce another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. Here is a list of the last few episodes...

• Add an 'Export to PDF' Button to the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX
• Customizing the Look of the RadAjaxLoadingPanel for ASP.NET AJAX
• Sharing Toolbars with the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX
• Using Declarative Client-Side DataBinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 1
• Using Declarative Client-Side DataBinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET...

I’m happy to announce another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. Here is a list of the last few episodes...

• Spell-Checking with the RadSpell for ASP.NET AJAX
• Add an 'Export to PDF' Button to the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX
• Customizing the Look of the RadAjaxLoadingPanel for ASP.NET AJAX
• Sharing Toolbars with the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX
• Using Declarative Client-Side Databinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 1

If you’re interested...

I’m happy to announce another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. Here is a list of the last few episodes...

• Customizing Templates in the RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX 
• Spell-Checking with the RadSpell for ASP.NET AJAX
• Add an 'Export to PDF' Button to the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX
• Customizing the Look of the RadAjaxLoadingPanel for ASP.NET AJAX
• Sharing Toolbars with the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX

If you’re interested in these and...

I’m happy to announce another episode of RadTips, a series of screencasts offering tips and tricks for using Telerik's RadControls. If you've missed previous episodes, be sure to check them out. Each is only a few minutes long and covers a specific feature of the RadControls. Here is a list of the last few episodes...

• Customizing Appointments with Resources in the RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX 
• Customizing Templates in the RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX 
• Spell-Checking with the RadSpell for ASP.NET AJAX
• Add an 'Export to PDF' Button to the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX
• Customizing the Look of the RadAjaxLoadingPanel for ASP.NET AJAX

If you’re interested...