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    Telerik RadControls for Silverlight - the concept of performance with facts and examples

      We have been asked many times about the performance of our RadControls for Silverlight. We completely understand that “performance” is a key evaluation factor that makes users decide whether to go with a certain product or not. We also know that it is not only the fast performance that turns you, it is also a combination of several key factors, like Feature-set, Slick UI, Better User Experience, Rich API, etc. We have always tried to deliver all these in the best way so that as a result our controls keep on performing extremely fast and at the same time...
    February 15, 2010
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    Training courseware for RadControls for Silverlight

    We now have a brand new, including over 1000 pages, free training courseware for RadControls for Silverlight. It provides tons of tips and tricks, how-to's, code samples (in XAML and both in C# and VB). All these structured in a step-by-step manner and covering most of the available RadControls for Silverlight. This training material will help you quickly get up to speed with Silverlight and will discuss some of the issues in common with all RadControls such as binding or theming, working with RIA Services (also WCF and ADO.NET), working with Expression Blend, etc.    The courseware is available to everyone...
    January 20, 2010
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    Telerik XAML controls Q3 2009 SP2 is now live

    The Q3 2009 SP2 of RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF has just been released and the files are available for download under the users' accounts - both trial and dev versions. Full Release notes can be read at: RadControls for Silverlight Q3 2009 SP2 Release Notes RadControls for WPF Q3 2009 SP2 Release Notes   You can also refer to our public RoadMaps for Q1 2010 about RadControls for Silverlight/WPF for more information about what is coming after this service pack release....
    January 15, 2010
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    Telerik RadControls for Silverlight/WPF Roadmap Q1 2010

    For the upcoming Q1 2010 we will mostly work on improving and further polishing our current offering. We will work in several major directions – Performance improvements, VS 2010/Blend Design-time support improvements, Themes and Animations improvements, new Documentation, Assemblies’ size optimizations, Silverlight 4 builds. We are aware that the major tasks mentioned above are highly critical for most of our users and we will be putting lots of efforts into meeting our customers’ expectations.  The full Roadmaps can be found at: RadControls for Silverlight RadControls for WPF In these Roadmaps we included not only tasks that will be fully completed during this quarter, but also other major initiatives, which we have already started and on...
    January 11, 2010
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    Telerik Silverlight controls and SharePoint 2010

    We just uploaded a video produced by Sahil Malik, a Microsoft MVP and INETA speaker. This video shows how to use Telerik Silverlight controls in SharePoint 2010. The approach demonstrated in this video is Telerik Silverlight controls working with the client object model, in particular RadScheduler talking to the Calendar list.     For more details you can also check Sahil's blogpost at: Telerik Controls with SharePoint 2010 Client Object...
    December 22, 2009