Ina Tontcheva

  Our team got so excited about the new addition to the Windows Phone family and all the new development opportunities opening up that we created a Nokia Lumia skin for our WP7 emulator just for fun. And then we thought that you might have fun skinning your emulator in the smoking hot black or white Nokia Lumia skin too.  Download for free our Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin and dress up your WP7 emulator. The zip file contains a Readme.txt file which explains in several simple steps what you need to do to skin your emulator.  If you are already a Telerik customer...

About a week ago I tweeted that two happy Windows Phone developers will go home with $5000 and $300 from Telerik. What I didn’t mention was that these are the Telerik Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Events Grand Prize and the Community Vote Award. 25 apps from all apps submitted by the participants in the Windows Phone Unleashed Events were selected to participate in the contest for Telerik’s Grand Prize - $5000. The winner will be randomly picked up and announced on October 28. Check out the page here We are also announcing one additional prize for the WP7 community favorite app -...

Which one is harder and takes more work? Build a great WP7 app? Or make hundreds of thousands of people download your app? I had a one-hour discussion over lunch with our product team today and we finally agreed that making your app popular is probably harder. To help starting Windows Phone 7 developers build their first app and promote it for free we have a special combo offer: If you are among the first 25 people to buy RadControls for Windows Phone till the end of the month you will get 20,000 impressions for free from AdDuplex – the ad exchange network...

As every year Telerik sponsored the biggest .NET developer conference in Germany, BASTA. It was good to see that the number of attendees has grown again keeping us pretty busy on our booth. Considering that we got 18 products at the moment it is quite a challenge to staff the booth with people. Anyway we managed it with 3 guys plus extra support from Richard Campbell. A little surprise was that quite a lot of people were interested in our WinForms controls. So it’s not always the latest technology people are looking for, some like it mature ;-) This just further confirms the...

10 new customers’ apps are added to the RadControls for Windows Phone Showcase Gallery and with 10 more in the pipeline, we will soon be celebrating our 100th customer showcase app.   Among the fresh apps is Baby Expert which is currently on #22 in its category. It’s always a pleasure to hear such news.