Design

Recently, I joined efforts with two of my good friends and fellow Telerik Evangelists Michael Crump and Jesse Liberty to jointly build an application that would run on Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Michael will do the Windows Phone development, Jesse Windows 8 with C# and XAML, and I will tackle the WinJS version. Jesse did a great job of outlining the goals of the application and the initial wireframes of the application in his post on the project kick off. I want to focus on the value of using Wireframes in application design.

While working on some projects recently, I found myself frequently writing CSS rules like this to enable CSS3 hardware accelerated "fade" transitions for elements in my app: .mySelector {    -webkit-transition: opacity 1s linear 0s;    transition: opacity 1s linear 0s; } When this rule is applied, any change to an element's opacity...

Yes, it’s that time of the year. We just exchanged gifts here in the Telerik office and we thought it’s time to present our gift to you, our customers. ;-) Here’s what we have prepared to wish you very happy holidays – this small but essential guide on how to celebrate them metro-style. Do you have any other tips? Please share them in the comments section below. We wish you Happy Metro Holidays! The Telerik Team

This past week I had the opportunity to attend the DevReach conference in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Coincidentally, the team working on Kendo UI is also in Sofia.  I spent a few days at the office talking with the team and sneaking glances at what they are currently working...

 All you need to create your own custom skin for RadGrid is to copy one of our existing skins and change desired CSS settings. To do this you need to perform following steps: Copy one of our existing skins (for example Gray skin) in your application. Replace all occurrences of "_Gray" with your skin name (for example "_MyCustomSkin") in the CSS file. Change urls for the images (and other desired settings) in the CSS file. Register your CSS file in the HEAD tag of your page. Set Skin="MyCustomSkin" and EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" for RadGrid.   The result: Your own custom grid look and...