What's new in Telerik Q1'11 Release

Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and Coded UI Test Support

The Telerik WinForms controls are the 1st third party Windows Forms controls to be compliant with the latest user interface accessibility and UI automation standards, namely Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and Coded UI tests. MSAA is designed not only to help visually impaired people, but it is also a great automation tool, which Microsoft included in Visual Studio 2010. The automation allows developers to access and manipulate all UI elements in applications that support it.

Localization Support and Support for Right-to-Left Languages

We have extended our localization support and support for right-to-left languages to all of our controls, on par with Telerik’s vision for making its products accessible and available to a wide range of people.

Two New Office 2010 Themes

In Q1 we have added Office2011 Black and Office2010 Silver to the control suite, and now we cover the full Office 2010 palette:

Theme Viewer

This new tool allows you to review all themes that ship with Telerik RadControls for WinForms (or your custom theme), and gain a visual perception of what your application will look like:

RadWizard

The new wizard control will help you break a complex process into separate steps and provide your users with the opportunity to guide the process and make decisions -- just like the well-known installation wizards. RadWizard will support both Wizard97 and Wizard Aero specifications and will provide developers with predesigned Welcome, Completion and Internal pages:

RadSeparator

This simple component allows for separating your forms vertically and/or horizontally. It represents a line and a shadow, both of which customizable by color.

RadTreeView

RadTreeView's brand new version is more flexible, intuitive, and easier to develop with. It has been extended with a rich assortment of performance optimizations, such as virtualization, faster loading, and decreased memory footprint. It also offers an easy to use built-in filtering mechanism, which allows you to filter the treeview on the fly.

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RadGridView

RadGridView comes with a mixed hierarchy mode where you can use a self-reference hierarchy AND the classic hierarchy mode together, for example mimicing a file explorer where the main level presented a folder tree, and a nested level displaying file properties:

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RadScheduler

RadScheduler gets the ability to save and share various view settings across different views in RadScheduler - a feature that decreases coding time, and at the same time saves the users' settings of each scheduler view.

In addition, inline editors allow end-users to create a new appointment without opening the Edit Appointment Dialog. The feature works exactly like in Microsoft Outlook - the user selects a cell or a sequence of cells and starts typing. Upon pressing Enter or clicking outside the appointment the appointment is created automatically.

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RadRibbonBar

RadRibbonBar receives an easily customizable Office 2010 Backstage view with all corresponding themes.

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