Last week during the BUILD conference Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview was announced. Soon after that it was made available to the public. Here at Telerik we are committed on providing support for the latest and greatest technologies so we are already working on JustCode for Visual Studio 11. Actually, JustCode is happily running inside VS11 on our own PCs. Now it is a matter of an internal build or two to test and fix some compatibility issues before we can give it to you for test...

The last time we all got together was before a little conference known as Build. Everyone learned a ton of information about what is coming next in Windows 8 and the WinRT platform, but one thing stuck out for sure – Metro is in. Thankfully our designers have been all over this for quite a while and we have some very nice things in the works, most of which I can’t publicly talk about (yet!), but in the terms of this application we’re definitely on the right track. And don’t forget, an investment in a Silverlight application today means...

The Service Packs of Telerik XAML controls (Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone) are out.  You can find a bunch of improvements and fixes in the service packs that are currently available for download under your accounts. You can check the updated demos at:  Silverlight demos WPF demos Some of the high spots for Silverlight and WPF are:  Improved QCV performance when having lots of groups on many levels (LinqToEntities) in the GridView. Added UI Layers API and allowed more than one style (Bold, Italic, Underline, FontSize) to be set on an empty span while editing a document in the RichTextBox. Optimized memory and performance of the TreeListView. Added declarative support for...

Or maybe it isn’t that dead? OK…you expected me to say that, and you’re thinking, “this guy is just trying to sell me Silverlight tools and save his business.” I will not argue…you’re almost right. There’s one small correction to be made - we are not trying to save our business. :) Rather, we are hard at work on all fronts, be it HTML5 or Win8, so it doesn’t make a difference for us what technology you’ll ultimately choose as we have all bases covered. As I’ve said many times, use whatever makes most sense for your business. That said, I...

In mid-August, sometime after the Q2 2011 release, we upgraded RadControls for Windows Phone 7 to support Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and released an official build that contains some major performance improvements in RadDataBoundListBox and also all major controls that were introduced back then with Q2 2011: RadChart RadCalendar RadBusyIndicator Enough time has passed for us to gather some very valuable feedback from you to prepare a Service Pack which addresses some critical issues, introduces a new control (RadBulletGraph) and a meaty new feature in our powerful RadChart. We have also managed to greatly optimize the performance of our Data Engine by using the new System.Reflection.Emit APIs. RadChart alone represents...