It has been an exciting day today as we completed the Q3 2011 Windows Phone 7 Webinar.

As always, all of our webinars are available for viewing on tv.telerik.com. So far, the following webinars are available for viewing:

• What's New in Windows Phone 7
• What's New in Silverlight and WPF Recorded Webinar
• What's New in ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC
• Overview video of What’s New in Q3 2011 (All Products)

Some of the new controls covered in the Windows Phone 7 presentation are:

• BulletGraph
• ContextMenu
• AutoCompleteBox
• ToggleSwitch
• MessageBox
• SlideView

The Source Code to the presentation is also available to download now.

We have several other great webinars lined up that you may...

Or how to uncover the touch horizons for your applications.

The once unnamed RadPanorama control is here to make your Windows Forms applications rock! Together with the Touch API we have introduced in our previous blog, it brings the full power of touch-optimized applications to your Windows 7 users.

If you have not heard anything about RadPanorama before, let us introduce it with a few words. Basically, this new control allows you to represent a small amount of data in the form of tiles that the end-user is able to smoothly scroll left or right with a gesture, just like in Win8, and...

In case anyone in the audience has been sleeping for the past couple of weeks, we're smack in the middle of the annual Webinar Week for the Telerik Q3 2011 release.

It's now 11:03AM EST on Tuesday, meaning you've already gotten to see the kick-off, data, phone, and Xaml webinars and are probably watching Ajax/MVC right now - but in case you missed any of these you're in luck. 

All of our recorded content makes its way up to Tv.Telerik.com for your viewing pleasure, so head on over here in case you missed the live What's new in Xaml webinar yesterday to see everything that's...

I have provided technical support for RadScheduler since its inception and I can say that it is truly like an iceberg - the more you dive in knowing the control the more you come to appreciate its power, richness of features, potential for customization and flexibility. But what good is something if you don't know that it exists? For the Q3 2011 release, we have made a thorough review of the RadScheduler demos and realized that they show only a fraction of RadScheduler's potential. So, we have updated some old demos and added a few new ones. We will continue this practice in the future...

Just a few short weeks ago, Telerik was a proud sponsor for 2011 ‘Agile Testing Days’ event in Potsdam, Germany. This event brought together agile testers from all over Europe to converse and learn in an intimate setting. Jim Holmes and Daniel Levy were there to guide the European agile testing community through many of the recent advancements that have been made in our automated functional and performance testing software, Test Studio. 

Those who dropped by the Telerik booth were treated to in-depth product demos and some amazing ‘SWAG’ including our new testing t-shirts featuring a soon-to-be-named character.

While the event has...

With the Q3 2011 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced three connection pool types which are explained in this blog post. In this blog post we will have a look at the connection pooling behavior of the Oracle driver and what setting to be used when we want to use Telerik OpenAccess ORM with Oracle databases.

 

Which setting for Oracle and why?

When we want to use Oracle as our backend, it is advisable to use the connection pool type Open Access Connection Pool with OpenAccess Connection Management or the Ado Connection Pool setting. When using one of the two settings, we...

We are proud to introduce the newest member of the Telerik XAML family - the Color Editor. With its powerful color selection mechanism, the Color Editor allows an intuitive way of picking your desired color. The Color Editor provides support for few of the major color modes - RGB, HSV, HLS and CMYK. In addition, the Color Editor allows you to edit each individual channel of the above mentioned color models.

Let's begin with the most basic declaration of the Color Editor in XAML.

By changing the value in the color mode drop-down you can control which color model is currently active. As mentioned...

Unlike the Webinar Weeks from the last few releases, this time we're doing things a little differently. With more than 12 products to talk about, we needed a new format that would let us cover more topics in fewer days, so with Q3 2011 there will be multiple webinars today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. The full schedule for the week looks like this:

Date	Time	Topic
Monday, Nov 28	9:30 AM	Kick-off, Webinar Week Overview
	11:00 AM	Silverlight & WPF
	12:30 PM	Data Tools
Tuesday, Nov 29	9:30 AM	Windows Phone
	11:00 AM	AJAX & MVC
	12:30 PM	Tools for Better Code
	2:00 PM	Test Studio
Wednesday, Nov 30	9:30 AM	Preparing for Windows 8
	11:00 AM	Putting It All Together
	12:30 PM	Sitefinity 4
Thursday, Dec 1	11:00 AM	Kendo UI Launch...

One of the fresh new add-ons for the official Q3 2011 release of RadControls for Windows Phone is RadSlideView. The control provides smooth and slick user experience allowing for navigating a sequence of content items slide-by-slide. The control is also fully aware of orientation changes and the items are resized and re-arranged accordingly to the current orientation.

In this post I want to demonstrate how easy it is to build a simple picture-browser application based on our RadDataBoundListBox and RadSlideView controls.

 

Download Demo

What’s more interesting in the demo:

Simulating Wrap Layout with RadDataBoundListBox
Building a custom control to be used for image holder
Using RadSlideView with SlideViewPictureSource 

App architecture

It is...

We are very proud to be the first (and still only) Windows Forms component suite to provide full multi-touch support and API. As discussed in the sneak peek blog Get Ready to Touch’n’Roll with RadControls for WinForms, the powerful touch API that our components expose allow you to handle the touch gestures that occur on the screen and take some actions depending on what your touch scenario is.

Now that Q3 2011 is a fact, allow us to introduce the main aspects of the touch API. These aspects will allow you to unleash the power of windows forms under touch-enabled devices,...