Now that the 2008 Q1 release is out the door, I finally managed to spare a couple of hours for blogging.
Telerik is one of the few vendors that
offer support for the Composite UI Application Block (CAB). Till recently, however, the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit (TCEK) was in beta as we wanted to hear your feedback on our implementation. The feedback was not grand, but it was enough to tell us that it is time to release TCEK to the public.
The beta came with an example application which mimicked the famous WPF Woodgrove Finance Application. For our official release we decided to spice up our implementation by upgrading the familiar UI with the new Desert theme which is one of the new themes that came with RadControls for WinForms Q1 2008. I personally like this theme very much and am very happy with the result:
Also new are the
UIElementAdapters for
RadPanelBar that allow it to be used as an extension site.
Another very important addition to the example application is RadGridView. It joins the rest of the Telerik controls showcased above, which are RadDock, RadChart, RadMenu, RadPanelBar and RadTreeView. For the official release we also updated all RadControls assemblies to the latest and greatest 6.0.0.0 (2008 Q1) version.
For the next TCEK version we are planning some nice improvements including
- Support for our new RadForm .
- Excellent developer experience by providing project templates, installation options, etc.
- Support for changing themes directly in the Finance Application sample to demonstrate our common themes.
Download TCEK from your
Client.Net accounts and don’t forget to give us your feedback!