We are excited to announce the latest SP1 edition of the RadControls for WPF Q3 2008. The controls have been under serious development during the last couple of weeks and we managed to include major improvements and bugfixes in this latest service pack release.

 

Online examples can be seen at:
Online Demos

To download the latest build please visit your Client Account

 

A detailed list of all the changes can be found below:

 

To show our intention to work on major LOB controls, we are launching a CTP version of RadGridView control for SIlverlight. We wanted to share our efforts with the community and receive valuable feedback on the results we have accomplished. Therefore, we are launching the CTP edition of the Grid control to ask you evaluate the product and provide all your thoughts on the matter. Our Grid team is eager to include all the features that are heavily demanded by the community. The CTP build is currently available under the users’ accounts as an additional download to the latest SP1 ...

With the Q3 edition of RadContorls for WPF Telerik has officially included in the suite three major controls  - RadScheduler, RadChart and RadGauge.

Thus, Telerik puts the accent on rich data visualization and interactivity by introducing powerful and completely stylable and customizable controls.

 

RadContorls for WPF features a new theming mechanism for the Slider, ProgressBar, TreeView, TabControl, PanelBar, Calendarand DatePicker controls to make them consitent with the rest of the controls in the suite. Also , a new skin (Vista) has been added to further enrich the UI capabilities of the controls and let you create consistent LOB ...

After we launched the RC1 release shortly after Microsoft published Silverlight RTW it was high time for us to start preparing for the official edition of the RadControls for Silverlight suite. Here it is, with Q3 2008, RadControls for Silverlight is officially released.

 

RadControls for Silverlight is the richest set of tools to help you develop Silverlight applications, which is a solid foundation for the next-generation of line-of-business applications.

RadControls for Silverlight includes over 20 UI controls that can be used in pure Silverlight applications or as parts of existing ASP.NET applications. Sharing the same codebase with our WPF ...

We are just a few days away from releasing the full RadControls for Silverlight suite which with its advanced and unique capabilities will help you accelerate your Silverlight development.  As we follow closely the Microsoft release schedule, the suite was released and updated right after Microsoft Silverlight2 RTW release, when we showed you two new controls RadCoverFlow and RadContextMenu. Here are the novelties that you can expect with the upcoming release on November 5:

• RadGauge
• Great new integration examples showing our new Drag&Drop functionality, Page Navigation functionality, Databinding and Telerik advanced media components. New QSF design.
• New Theming mechanism allowing ...

As the official Q3 release approaches, we decided to launch a preview of our controls that will officially become a part of the "RadControls for WPF" bundle. These are our RadGauge, RadChart and RadScheduler controls.

We have been continuously working on these during the last several months to improve and further advance the controls to let you build complete Line-Of-Business applications with our full range of controls for WPF.

With the wide variety of LOB controls and the consistent skins these controls provide, we aim at easing the process of building a complete and flexible UI of desktop applications. ...

The latest RadControls for Silverlight 2 have been uploaded to the Telerik site. The files can be downloaded form the Client.Net accounts. This version is entirely compatible against MS Silverlight 2 RC0 that was launched a few days ago.

 

Still to come in the following days:

Detailed release notes, all the breaking changes, what's new in the suite.

To demonstrate a real life business application that uses Telerik RadControls for Silverlight, we prepared another sample application showing a web portal about job offerings. We called it the JobBoard application. We managed to include there most of the currently available RadControls for Silverlight. These are:

RadComboBox
RadTreeView
RadWindow
RadUpload
RadNumericUpDown
RadDatePicker
RadMediaPlayer

The Home page features a "quick find" section at the top most part of the screen, a tree-view navigation on the left and a grid showing the results.

The RadTreeView on the left loads its child nodes on demand for a better performance and faster initial ...

There are lots of exciting things coming up with the official release of “RadControls for Silverlight”. One of them is the newly included RadGauge control in the suite. As it has already become a tradition – RadGauge for Silverlight will share the same code base as its WPF analogue. This will allow the users to use the same API with both the controls.
With Telerik RadGauge for Silverlight you will be able to display and monitor live data using the rich set of  features the control provides. Furthermore, you will be able to completely customize the look of the control ...

We prepared a new build of RadScheduler for WPF that is fully compatible with the Q2 2008 SP1 release of RadControls for WPF. The ZIP file is attached to the following forum thread:
RadScheduler new build for Q2 2008 SP1

 

You can download it and give it a go.

We also featured in the ZIP file the updated examples about RadScheduler.

Below, you can find a full list of all the changes that have been included in the latest RadScheduler build:

New Features:

• SchedulerView changes
    - The derived classes for each View (Day, Week and Month) have been removed
  ...