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Editor's note

Vassil Terziev

It gets quiet around the office over the holidays. I like to use this time to reflect on the year behind us, both from the industry perspective, as well as from the Telerik perspective. From an industry perspective, 2011 was pretty dynamic and we saw some really powerful trends pick up steam: cloud, mobile, "Consumerization" of IT and fragmentation of platform being the most important ones in my opinion ... (read the rest in my year-end post).

Year 2011 was just a prelude for the very exciting things coming up in 2012 - from brand new products, to major extensions of existing product lines to a ton of improvements that don't make the headlines but matter for you in your daily lives. Many of those great, and unannounced, projects and products will soon see the light.

The business things aside, don't forget to be nice, to be human. Say something nice to the people around you. Be a better and more responsible citizen of the world. Don't forget that you matter. All of us do. 2011 was a great one; I'm looking forward to 2012 and once again wish you and your family all the best. On behalf of the Telerik team, I'd like to wish you a very happy and prosperous 2012.

Vassil Terziev,
CEO
@terziev

In this issue

Happy Holidays, Metro-Style Silverlight 5 is Out. Now What?
Steve Forte in the Scrum Alliance Board Get the Q3 2011 Service Packs
Help Shape 2012 ASP.NET Roadmaps Touch Support in the WinForms Scheduler
Improve Your Windows Phone App Rank More TFS Features and Additional Security
Cross Project Perspective with TeamPulse Sitefinity 4.4 Boosts Developer Productivity
Telerik Sweeps14 DevProConnections Awards Tips and Tricks

News & Updates

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays, Metro-Style

This season Metro carries the holiday spirit! Take a look at our small but essential guide on how to celebrate metro style. This is our way of wishing you very happy holidays! Hope you enjoy it and don’t forget to include your tips for metro-style holidays in the comments section.

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Silverlight 5

Silverlight 5 is Out. Now What?

Microsoft's long awaited release of Silverlight 5 happened earlier this month. It shipped with a ton of new features, but what does this mean to you, the Telerik developer? Find out in this blog post by our CEO.

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Scrum Alliance

Steve Forte in the Scrum Alliance Board

We are happy to announce that our Chief Strategy Officer, Steve Forte, has been elected as a member of the Scrum Alliance Board of Directors with 42% of all votes, surpassing Daniel Mezick and George Gosieski. We would like to congratulate Steve on this victory and wish him good luck!

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Telerik Q3 SP

Get the Q3 2011 Service Packs

Just in time for the holidays our developers have dispatched the first batch of service packs for the Silverlight, WPF, WinForms and Windows Phone control suites, as well as for the OpenAccess ORM, JustCode and JustTrace tools. There are new controls and many improvements, so make sure to download them today.

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ASP.NET Roadmaps

Help Shape 2012 ASP.NET Roadmaps

The preliminary 2012 plans for RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC are already public. Take a look at what the product teams have prepared and let us know how we could make it better, so that the improvements best fit your needs!

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WinForms Scheduler

Touch Support in the WinForms Scheduler

RadScheduler for WinForms gets touch support in the latest release, making it the first scheduling component to support touch (under Win7 and Win8). We have introduced pinch-to-zoom support, selection support, and scrolling between views, all with touch gestures.

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Windows Phone App

Improve Your Windows Phone App Rank

You’d be surprised how much you can do on your own to help your Windows Phone app ranking. This free whitepaper offers tips and tricks from both the developer and marketing perspective. Learn how to build your most loyal users’ core, how to increase downloads through in-app tricks, in-app ads and much more.

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TFS Features

More TFS Features and Additional Security

Do you use TeamPulse to manage your Microsoft TFS projects? With the latest version of TeamPulse you get a whole bunch of new TFS Project Management features such as the Single Item Synchronization and the TFS Attachment Linking. For those looking to add an extra level security to their projects, we created the Role-based permissions and the Forms-based authentication.

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TeamPulse

Cross Project Perspective with TeamPulse

In just a few weeks we’ll release a great new feature for our project management tool TeamPulse, the Cross-Project Dashboard. It will let managers track progress across multiple projects from a single place and get real-time alerts when something is wrong. What’s more, the dashboard will work with Microsoft TFS out of the box thanks to the TeamPulse work item synchronization feature.

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Sitefinity 4.4

Sitefinity 4.4 Boosts Developer Productivity

The Module Builder introduced in Sitefinity 4.4, brings CMS extensibility to a new level and sets the foundation for many new Sitefinity features and modules, which are now significantly faster to create. Another highlight of the release, site synchronization, makes Sitefinity an ideal solution for enterprises managing multiple sites and servers.

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DevProConnections Awards

Telerik Sweeps14 DevProConnections Awards

Thank you for supporting us in the 2011 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards! We are very happy to share that this year, thanks to your votes, Telerik won a total of 14 awards, including a Gold Medal in the "Best Vendor Support" category. Thank you for your continued support!

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