Telerik RadControls for WinForms Q3 2009 Beta includes improvements in the feature set of existing controls and several optimizations in performance and behavior.

Telerik Presentation Framework

The Beta preview of Telerik’s Q3 release focuses on optimizations in Telerik Presentation Framework allowing for breaking improvements in performance. For the Beta release we have refactored the RadElement lifecycle which decreases RadControls application’s load and dispose times between 20% and 300%. The new RadElement life cycle also eliminates the major disadvantages of the previous element tree’s "Lazy" loading mechanism.

The HTML-like text rendering has been optimized to boost rendering performance by more than 40%, and now supports HTML tags for relative font size, lists, links, background-color, and style.

Controls Enhancements

Telerik team has also introduced fixes and performance improvements throughout the rest of the WinForms suite, namely in GridView, ComboBox, RadButtons, Dock, Form, Menu, TreeView, RibbonBar, and Scheduler.

RadMarkupEditor (new user control)
RadMarkupEditor is a WYSIWYG editor which has been added on framework level to simplify the way users and developers edit text in HTML-like markup. The editor provides an intuitive and easy to use Ribbon interface and can be used both in design-time and at runtime (runtime support will be available in the official Q3 release). RadMarkupEditor is available for all Telerik WinForms controls which support HTML-like text formatting.

RadGridView
The Beta version of RadGridView features improved scrolling in hierarchy mode so that a single scrollbar is used for the whole grid (instead of each child view having its own scrollbar).

RadComboBox / RadListBox
The new version of RadComboBox and its derivative – RadListBox – come with improved data binding through refactoring, which results in faster binding, support for large number of items, and memory footprint improvements.

RadScheduler

• Drag-and-drop improvements - Q3 2009 of RadScheduler brings improved rendering feedback and better responsiveness in all drag-and-drop operations.

  

• Resource grouping - The new version also features Resource Grouping – an enhancement our enterprise customers will surely welcome. The grouping allows you to group different resources in different views and show them on the same scheduler surface:

  

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