Telerik blogs
  • Release

    Premiere of Telerik RadControls for Metro at TechEd’12 – the First Commercial Library for Windows 8

    True to our tradition of being the first company out-of-the-gate to arm developers with tools for Silverlight and Windows Phone, Telerik will be revealing the first commercial library for Windows 8 at TechEd’12, June 11-14. RadControls for Metro is the toolset for building Windows 8 enterprise and consumer apps that will run on tablets and large screens using your language of choice – HTML or XAML. The suite will include two mirror libraries with the same user experience, functionality and behavior. No matter if you are an HTML or XAML developers, you will be able to build exactly the same app...
  • Mobile

    Download the source code of a Windows Phone app that the users love

    I’d like to thank wp7applist.com for organizing the Windows Phone 2012 Community App Awards: For creating excitement and good vibes in the Windows Phone community And for making our customers’ apps get the credit they deserve We are very excited for …i’m a WP7! winning the ‘Best Free App’ 2012 Award. And glƏƏk! Winning the 3rd place in the ‘Best User Experience’ 2012 Award. Both apps are built with Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone. If I’m missing to mention another app using RadControls please leave a comment on this post. We are also using the occasion to thank Tasks’s users for getting us Honorable Mentions...
  • Mobile

    How to make money from your Windows Phone app free webinar. Sign-up now! Check out the prizes.

    It’s official. Building top-notch mobile app that generates actual revenue takes more than a smart idea,  developer’s skills, excellent tools and nice implementation. The app needs promotion and you as a developer need to take advantage of every potential opportunity for making money. Join us for our free webinar where we’ll talk about how to make money from your Windows Phone app. We’ll cover topics such as: the composite parts of a mobile app; discoverability of the app, best methods for monetization and best methods for re-engagement. We’re co-hosting the webinar with Tapjoy, a company offering a mobile advertising and publishing...
  • Mobile

    What makes a marketer of a toolset for building Windows Phone apps happy?

    It is news like this one: two of the four apps that won the big prize of the 30 to Launch competition are built with RadControls for Windows Phone - the product our team is building with so much care. And the apps are: Play the hunt – built by Eshy Media Social Mints – built by Techark. Social Mints was also the winner of Core77's FastTrack to the Mobile App International Design Award and was featured at Mobile World Congress 2012. “We are extremely excited about this win as there were more than 130 apps submitted for the contest,” said Pratik Kothari from Techark. And So...
  • Mobile

    Add the Error Diagnostics Control to Your Windows Phone App with 3 Lines of Code

    Everyone in the mobile apps business needs real-time feedback about their app’s crashes. These have to be quickly fixed, so that you are not losing converted leads. Instead, these users need to be treated with the utmost attention. To get the feedback you have three ways to go: 1)    Use the error reporting procedure on App Hub, but you’ll have to wait for 3 to 4 days for the crash reports to be ready, which may result in losing some of  your users. 2)    Put some time and efforts and write the functionality yourself. 3)    Use Telerik ready-to-use Error Diagnostics control that allows...