Telerik XAML controls Q2 2011 Beta Release

by Nikolay Atanasov | Comments 11

Staying committed to our plan to further improve the ease-of-use and provide new controls and major features for achieving Rich Data Visualizations and Line-of-Business applications, we are proud to announce the Q2 2011 Beta release.

New Executive Dashboard demo

 

Telerik’s Executive Dashboard demo showcases the next generation of rich data visualization achieved with RadControls for Silverlight. Theming, real-time customization, and a dashboard structure that follows the industry’s best practices ensure that data is displayed in a meaningful and engaging manner. 

Check the demo

New controls and major features

Persistence Framework
You can now save and load the state of the user interface so that the end user can continue working with the application as it was before closing it. 

  • Built-in integration with isolated storage for saving and loading the data 
  • Rich and flexible settings to control the serialization process 
  • Customizable serialization and deserialization 

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DataServiceDataSource
The DataServiceDataSource control ensures seamless integration between Telerik data controls and WCF Data Services. Binding to the DataServiceDataSource is straightforward and absolutely codeless. Thanks to this new control your applications will achieve maximum responsiveness as data operations will be asynchronously executed on the server.
 
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PropertyGrid
With this new control you can easily display and edit properties of an object at runtime. The PropertyGrid provides an easy and versatile approach to processing data-objects' properties. Utilizing its auto-generation features and the intuitive custom editors’ capabilities, users will be able to either display data in a way that best fits their needs, or modify it with minimal effort. 

 

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Breadcrumb
 (only available as part of RadControls for Silverlight at this time. For the official Q2 2011 release the control will also be available for WPF).
Build complicated navigation systems through hierarchical data with many levels. With its powerful data-binding mechanism, the control lets you display hierarchical structures, such as directories and relational data.

 

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RibbonView
The new RibbonView control now provides significantly improved XAML, MVVM, Blend and Design-time support. We had to take the decision to introduce this new control as the existing RibbonBar control did not allow us to implement the architectural changes to achieve the desired results. As always we will stay committed to assist our customers in moving to the new RibbonView control. For that purpose we will continue to support (minor bugfixes) the old RibbonBar control towards the end of the year.

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ImageEditor
Add image editing capabilities to your applications with basic operations like crop, flip, resize, and rotate, as well as the ability to use custom pixel shaders.



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RichTextBox

  • Headers and Footers support - you can now define headers and footers in the RichTextBox document area, set different headers and footers on odd and even pages as well as custom headers and footers on the first page of your documents
  • Input Method Editor (IME) - the RichTextBox now supports writing in languages that require Input Method Editors 
  • Support for image blocks - now images can be added to the document not only inline, but also as floating blocks with the text wrap around the images 


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Data Visualization

  • Now you can inverse the range of the Chart axes
  • The Map control supports SQL geospatial data and Bing Traffic provider
  • TimeBar now offers Minutes and Second interval types as well as localization support

 

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You can find the Q2 2011 Beta download files under your accounts:

RadControls for Silverlight

RadControls for WPF

The online demos are also available at:

RadControls for Silverlight online demos

RadControls for WPF online demos. With this beta release we introduce click-once installation of our WPF online demos.

 

Win a FREE iPad2!


Learn how on the Executive Dashboard Contest page.

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11 Comments

Oguz
Hi, I can't find the source code of this Executive Dashboard. Can you provide me with a link please? Thank you, keep up the good work.

KR

Oguz
Remco Ros
I'm really excited about the new ribbon control. the lack of full databinding support was a real showstopper to using this in our modular silverlight app.

Also the image editor is a good addition ! thx for that. I hope it is fully extendable.
Nikolay Atanasov
@Oguz - the source code of the Executive Dashboard demo is now available under your account (in the Beta category)
Anders

Hi, I'm happy to hear about the Persistence Framework. One question though, will we be able to configure where to save the data?

We would like to save user preferences in a database connected to each user account so it is not tied to the computer it is run on. There are scenarios where users may use our Silverlight application at another computer and then wants the same layout there. Is this scenario possible? If not, can you add it?

Nikolay Atanasov

The persistence framework returns a Stream object that holds the needed information. Through a web service or other preferred way you can add/save this Stream object to your database and then use it whenever needed.

Anders
Thanks Nikolay for your answer and for clearing that up!
Oguz
Nikolay Thanks!
j k
Is the source for the dashboard available?
Nikolay Atanasov
@j k yes you can download the source code under your account
Doug S
PropertyGrid doesn't support editing collections/lists but very exciting that you are adding this to your line.
andrea
image editor demo doesnt workingfor a long time please fix it...!!!!!!!!

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