Next week I will be speaking at the 4th Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) in Bengaluru, India. I have spoken at the last three GIDS and really enjoy the “ninja” speaking style: 50 minute sessions! So my technical sessions will be all code/demo, no slides, only the “please fill out the evaluation” slide at the end. Here are my sessions: Tuesday April 19th, .NET day: Building RESTful Applications with the Open Data Protocol (no slides!) Agile Estimation (ok, slides for this one) Enhancing Developer Productivity across the Entire Stack (Telerik vendor session, NO SLIDES, no marketing, just code!) Wednesday April 20th, Web day: Introduction to WCF RIA Services for Silverlight 4 Developers (no slides!) Friday April 22nd, Seminar...

If you have taken a look at the blog post about the new features introduced in the latest Q1 2011 and have taken a liking to the multilevel lists, you should definitely read this one. It will give you some insight on the usage of the options that come out of box and some information on how you can extend them to suit the purposes of your project. In case you are in the habit of starting reading from the end, you can preview the Silverlight demo to see the lists in action. You should note that there are buttons both in...

A month after the official Q1 2011 release of our AJAX and MVC components, I would like to announce the immediate availability of the first maintenance packs for both product bundles and appoint the most important bullets in them. See the next two paragraphs for details: AJAX Q1 2011 SP1 Release Notes | Demos | Documentation Highlights Updated the internally used jQuery to 1.5.2 Addressed reported IE 9 issues for all components Grid - Updated the grid's visual designer to provide support for grouping and client settings; Support for default font setting when exporting RadGrid to PDF RibbonBar - Added RadRibbonBar>RibbonBarMenuItem>NavigateUrl property SiteMap - All SiteMap nodes...

As you might have already read Valio’s blog or have stopped by our booth at MIX11 and seen our WP7 demos, we are currently focused on delivering a highly performing charting solution to our users. As with every control or feature we are aiming high - exceptional performance, intuitive and easy-to-use model and pixel-perfectness are some of the major tasks we have setup. We have spent literally months of research, starting from high-level concepts, chart domain knowledge, architecture and ending with implementation details like logical trees, extremely fast home-grown property store and entirely custom layout system. Every single detail has been verified...

Since its introduction the RadDataBoundListBox has been constantly optimized and extended to bring the great UX it delivers today for WP7: both in terms of data processing and UX. It was clear from the beginning that UI virtualization brings great value for a fast performing Windows Phone 7 application but we had some further mighty plans for this control and now we can proudly demonstrate some early bits of a new, fully integrated mechanism for virtualizing data (yes, not only UI!). What does this actually mean? Well, in a nutshell, data virtualization means that you do not need to download the whole list...