Telerik blogs
  • Release

    Get your Learn on With Telerik 2012 Q3 Webinar Week

    Webinar week is coming!  From October 22 to October 26, we will be hosting nine webinars showing off the best of what’s new, including an incredible level of support for Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8.  In addition to seeing all of the cool new features in Telerik’s ever expanding suite of products, you can have a chance to win valuable prizes, including DevCraft Ultimate licenses.  Please visit this link to register: http://www.telerik.com/developer-productivity-tools/whats-new.aspx I will personally be involved in three of the webinars, on Telerik Reporting, the Just suite of products, and support for Windows8 development. The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful...
    October 09, 2012
  • Mobile

    Controlling current culture in your XAML Windows Store apps

    When building an application for Windows 8 we find the same known feature for Globalization through the CultureInfo.CurrentCulture and CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture properties, used in many cases where it comes to using culture-specific strings, formatting dates, numbers, etc. And while developing, you might be surprised that, in the common scenario, the current culture does not derive from the OS culture for the current machine. Then, how the current culture is resolved? It turns out that there is a way to get the correct OS UI culture. To understand the process I will start from a blank app and modify it for our needs. Package.appxmanifest default language When...
    September 26, 2012
  • Release

    What’s new in Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Release Candidate

    We are happy (well, and proud :)) to announce the public availability of our Windows 8 UI Controls Release Candidate, which allows you to build Windows Store-Ready Apps at no cost. This is an important milestone for us as we are getting closer to the official release and I just can’t wait to share what we have baked for you in this new release. Strictly following our commitment to deliver the same functionality to XAML and HTML developers all the new goodies are available for both environments. HubTile A screen of the First Look example in our Demo Center application Enrich your Windows Store...
    September 18, 2012
  • Release

    What’s New in Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Beta 2, Compatible with Windows 8 RTM

    Now that Windows 8 RTM is available to developers, we have prepared a BETA 2 update of our Windows 8 UI suite. This update is fully compatible with the latest Win8 bits as well as it adds several new components/features that we believe will add even more value to the suite. I can’t wait to share what’s new, so let’s get straight to the list: HTML – Date/Time pickers Our commitment is to deliver same components and user experience regardless of the platform – be it XAML or HTML. Following this commitment we have added DatePicker and TimePicker components to the HTML part of the suite...
    August 16, 2012
  • Mobile

    Consuming RadControls for Metro/XAML from C++

    Two weeks ago we released a public BETA of the world’s first commercial library for building Windows 8 Metro applications – Telerik RadControls for Metro. So far we have gathered lots of positive feedback as well as some specific questions regarding our XAML components. Such an interesting question is whether our controls can be used in a C++ application. Prior to WinRT (Windows Runtime), the XAML platform was available to managed developers only and we, at Telerik, have solid technical background with C# and .NET. That’s why we have built our Metro XAML components using C# and the .NET runtime. We performed...