Here are the upcoming XAML Talks that I have scheduled. If you are attending any of them then feel free to stop by and say Hello. All About Xaml – 10/27/2011 @ 6PM – WinRT XAML/C# and what this means for SL Developers.   Desert Code Camp – 11/5/2011 in Chandler, Arizona. Title: Getting started with Silverlight 5 Abstract: This session is designed for people who want to quickly understand the key features in Silverlight 5. We will walk you through downloading the bits to finally starting your first project starting from File->New Projects. We will also take a look at several key features such as XAML...

Two days after the Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta launch we are presenting you the MVC Q3'11 Beta preview bits. Among the highlights are the new Metro skin for all Telerik MVC Extensions, improved mobile support, new Pie chart series type, keyboard support for the editor and a bunch of new features for the grid extension. The compressed packages for the Open Source and Commercial distributions are ready and steady for download. Enhanced Mobile Support | Metro skin With this early preview we are conveying improved mobile support for our MVC extensions in terms of drag & drop and touch support for the grid,...

We are excited to announce the release of one of the most requested TeamPulse features – the Ideas & Feedback Portal. The portal is a web-based solution for managing customer ideas and feedback and comes as a TeamPulse extension. The main benefit of the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal is that it helps you connect your product team with your external stakeholders so that you can focus on what matters most - building the right features in the right priority and increase customer value. This first version will allow users to: Capture feedback and problem reports from customers Publish project ...

During the previous episode we explored some of the controls that are being used within the CRM demo, including RadDomainDataSource, RadSparklines, RadUniformGrid, and RadCoverFlow, but don’t think we stopped there with uses for the RadControls for Silverlight suite. All of those were found within a single view of a single module, helping to better streamline development and provide the performance and functionality we are looking for, but that leaves quite a few other modules to cover. Since we’ll be seeing it pop up more than a few times, I thought it would be best to take a look...

I bet that everyone using a Windows Phone have noticed the slick animations that are applied to a single item when it is removed or added to the viewport in the native mail client. That happens when you sync and the recent mail is added on top of the other items. Inspired by this, we decided to extend our RadDataBoundListBox and provide out-of-the-box support for per-item animations. Moreover, we made sure to allow customizations like defining your own animations, performing batch animations when resetting the source collection and defining a time interval between each separate animation when performing a batch operation. So...