The Q1 2012 Service Packs for Telerik XAML controls (Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone) have been released.  You will find many improvements and fixes in the service packs, which you can download now under Your Account. 

Be sure to check the updated Silverlight and WPF Trials

This new service pack brings a number of improvements and fixes. 

You now have the option to disable the Telerik StyleManager and to style controls using implicit styles (i.e., Style without the x:Key attribute). There are a number of advantages to using implicit styles, including:

• Custom themes are easier
• Basing styles on themes is easier
• Assemblies are smaller
• Improved Blend support

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It’s amazing how much we managed to do since the official Q3 2011 release. We’ve improved and introduced so many things you guys have shared with us, so go ahead and check the Service Pack out.

Here’s a small part of the release highlights: 

• jQuery library used in Telerik.Web.UI is updated to version 1.7.1
• AsyncUpload – hover state is added for the select button
• Grid – introduced new client-side methods, clearSort() and clearFilter(), for clearing the applied sort and filter expressions, as well
• Grid – improved support for OpenAccessLinqDataSource control
• Input – new HTML5 input type “time”
• ScriptManager – added support for scripts grouping...

You can find a bunch of improvements and fixes in the service packs that are currently available for download under your accounts. You can check the updated demos at: 

Silverlight demos

WPF demos

Some of the high spots for Silverlight and WPF are: 

• Improved QCV performance when having lots of groups on many levels (LinqToEntities) in the GridView.
• Added UI Layers API and allowed more than one style (Bold, Italic, Underline, FontSize) to be set on an empty span while editing a document in the RichTextBox.
• Optimized memory and performance of the TreeListView.
• Added declarative support for...

Right in the apogee of THE //build conference when the Microsoft developer community is impatiently swallowing the news revolving around the future of the Windows and .NET development, we are delivering for you the service pack releases for the Telerik AJAX and MVC product lines. And not to distract you from collecting the information that is pouring every day over the mass media, I will briefly give you the highlights (in terms of enhancements) of our maintenance releases.

RadControls for...

Right in the apogee of THE //build conference when the Microsoft developer community is impatiently swallowing the news revolving around the future of the Windows and .NET development, we are delivering for you the service pack releases for the Telerik AJAX and MVC product lines. And not to distract you from collecting the information that is pouring every day over the mass media, I will briefly give you the highlights (in terms of enhancements) of our maintenance releases.

RadControls for...

The latest internal build of JustCode has been released with support for the asynchronous language features in the Microsoft Visual Studio Async CTP. Improvements to the semantic analyzer detect errors on usage of the async method modifier and await operators in C# and Visual Basic. This feature will be available for the general public in JustCode Q2 SP1.

If you’re new to the async and await keywords and would like to know to learn asynchronous programming with C# 5, refer to Going Asynchronous. I provide an example of a twitter client using synchronous programming, the current way of doing asynchronous...

A month after the successful JustCode Q1 release we are ready with a new wave of improvements – Q1 2011 SP1. You can download it directly from Visual Studio through the JustCode Auto Updates or get it from telerik.com.

Highlights for the Service Pack:

• Performance optimizations – startup performance, solution load performance, memory consumption, etc.;
• New Generate ToString() feature;
• A ton of other fixes and improvements (more info in the full release notes).

As always for the service pack we focused on fixing reported issues. Additionally we were able to squeeze in some nice improvements that should make your just-coding experience a better one.

In the same time...

A month after the official Q1 2011 release of our AJAX and MVC components, I would like to announce the immediate availability of the first maintenance packs for both product bundles and appoint the most important bullets in them. See the next two paragraphs for details:

AJAX Q1 2011 SP1

Release Notes | Demos | Documentation

Highlights

• Updated the internally used jQuery to 1.5.2
• Addressed reported IE 9 issues for all components
• Grid - Updated the grid's visual designer to provide support for grouping and client settings; Support for default font setting when exporting RadGrid to PDF
• RibbonBar - Added RadRibbonBar>RibbonBarMenuItem>NavigateUrl property
• SiteMap - All SiteMap nodes...

Our goal is to make JustCode’s typing assistance save keystrokes, without getting in your way. As such, typing assistance received quite a few changes for SP1.  It now works faster, and better than ever :)     

Bracket Completion

When you add an  open bracket at the beginning of a line, JustCode will now add the closing bracket for you at the end of the line, even if there is code. When you hit enter, the auto formatter will run.

Prevents Bracket Doubling

The SP1 release now does it’s best to prevent you from doubling parenthesis, braces, and brackets. Instead of doubling up these items up, it...