In addition to the fact that our next release focuses mostly on our accessibility and automated testing as described in this blog post, in our upcoming version we will include many bug fixes in all RadControls for WinForms, including a highly optimized version of RadTreeView. In this article however, we want to present a new interesting feature in RadGridView that you will surely find useful. A customer of ours requested a mixed hierarchy mode where he wanted to use a self-reference hierarchy AND the classic hierarchy mode together. The scenario that he described used a file explorer where the main level...

In case you missed the news about the recently introduced beta releases of the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC component suites, this blog post is coming just at the right time to set your expectations about the upcoming first major release for 2011. IE9 RC compliance and enhanced mobile devices support are the two major themes overarching the releases of the Telerik ASP.NET suites. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, for example, will ship an upgraded TouchScrollExtender and support for touch-and-drag gestures for all controls. Q3 2010 introduced Level A accessibility compliance for all Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC and now the...

The Beta 2 release of our Windows Phone controls is here, it brings a bag of improvements to the existing controls and one of these improvements is a design-time gallery for the gauges. The need for a design-time gallery arose when we were creating the examples in our QSF application. It turned out that creating a full gauge design was more tedious than it looked at first. The gauges have a lot of functionality to tweak and this directly translates to a lot of XAML. After the first two or three implemented designs we thought "Oh my, we have to do something about writing...

I’ll be speaking in Sydney on Tuesday March 15th on building your own Agile methodology.  As usual, Joel will be joining me. The Agile Buffet Table: Implementing your own Agile Process  with Microsoft ALM Tools New to Agile? Having challenges implementing an agile process in your organization? Have you been using Scrum, but need to bend the rules to make it work in your organization? Can’t get the business to “buy-in”? Come and learn about implementing an agile process in your organization. You'll look at the “buffet table” of agile processes and procedures and learn how to properly decide “what to eat.”  We’ll start by defining XP, Scrum, Kanban...

It is our pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the new product line that joins the broad Telerik portfolio - Telerik SharePoint Acceleration Kit (SAK).   + =                             Leveraging the industry-leading Telerik AJAX and Silverlight components and hassle-free SharePoint 2010 web parts which expose codeless point-and-click configuration, implementing high-performing and interactive SharePoint applications is no-brainer with Telerik SAK either for developers, business users or managers. Connecting to your SharePoint data (either SP Lists, SQL or Excel files) and visualizing it using standards compliant, semantically rendered and accessible UI has never been easier using the ready-to-deploy web parts stacked in the Telerik...