Staying committed to our plan to further improve the ease-of-use and provide new controls and major features for achieving Rich Data Visualizations and Line-of-Business applications, we are proud to announce the Q2 2011 Beta release. New Executive Dashboard demo   Telerik’s Executive Dashboard demo showcases the next generation of rich data visualization achieved with RadControls for Silverlight. Theming, real-time customization, and a dashboard structure that follows the industry’s best practices ensure that data is displayed in a meaningful and engaging manner.  Check the demo New controls and major features Persistence Framework You can now save and load the state of the user interface so that the end...

Telerik’s partner Falafel Software is organizing a 3-day training class demonstrating how to create websites using major Telerik ASP.NET AJAX controls. If you are willing to learn RadControls from the ground up and see in action key techniques for making the most out of them, this class is just the right thing for you. The sessions will demonstrate how RadControls are configured declaratively - both in the markup and in the visual designer, as well as programmatically - in code-behind and client-side scripts. You will also learn to data bind RadControls using industry standard data sources and use templates to...

Windows 8 will bring exciting times to all application developers, especially those who will invest in creating the immersive applications we all saw in that video . We loved the tiles and the clean modern look and how they integrate perfectly within the UI. And I am guessing a lot of software will transition to new ways. As always Telerik will ease this process by providing its Silverlight and WPF offering with Metro UI Theme and kick start your Windows 8 development. The theme is built from the ground-up to accommodate all the best practices in Metro UI applications. Line of Business Ready

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Our projects should always strive for simplicity in the way they are structured and organized.  This is especially true for the organizations of release and iteration plans.  With iterative development using agile methodologies such as Scrum, we emphasize breaking down a project or a software release into time boxed iterations (called Sprints in Scrum).  It’s very important to note that iterations truly represent a “bucket” of work – the capacity of this bucket determined by the fixed length of the iteration (usually ranging from 1-4 weeks) and the amount of work your team can get done in that period of ...