With the Q1 2011 release just around the corner, we remain true to our tradition to provide you with a special preview of the release highlights across Telerik’s entire product portfolio. This time around we will start with a sneak peek at some exciting new improvements and additions to JustCode, our Visual Studio productivity add-in. The product development team has been busy acting upon your feedback and is excited to add decompiling, code-cleaner and code style-sharing to JustCode’s list of features. Coupled with JustCode’s real-time solution-wide code analysis and powerful refactorings, these three new features will allow you to write better .NET...

Part one: Moving a child element from one parent to another 1. Problem     The purpose of this post is to show one possible way to solve the following scenario. Having a Silverlight RadTreeView that loads its items from a database via WCF RIA services, we want to update the database immediately after a drag and drop operation has been performed within the RadTreeView. The drag and drop operation in this post will be moving a child element from one parent to another. Reordering items will be shown in a future post. 2.Design     We will be using the MVVM Design Pattern. Let’s take a close look...

Telerik Page Transitions for WP7 sample code With the first CTP of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 we introduced the page transitions. You can read more info about them in my blog post. Now with the beta1 release we created a sample application which you can use as a reference in order to add the Metro transitions into your application. Check the video screencast of the sample application here. The sample application is based on a design of a ToDo application. We are showing the more complex transitions. We have examples for:  - Tile transition,  - Continuum transition,  - Slide and Swivel transition,  - Turnstile and slide transition.  Apart from...

Tell your friends, have fun, and play for your chance to win Telerik Premium Collection for .NET worth $1,299! Every day for five consecutive business days we will ask two questions about two quite small tasks related to the demos of Telerik ASP.NET Ajax and Silverlight controls. Answer the 10 questions, leave the same e-mail address each day, and get a chance to win the Telerik Premium Collection for .NET. The game is already live and will end at 11:59pm EST on Thursday, Feb. 24. The winner will be announced on Feb. 25, 2011 on the game page and via Telerik's Twitter...

It is hard to believe that January is already behind us as we dive deeper into 2011. For the testing tools we saw an amazing year of product growth and innovation and I would like to share with you some big announcements from the testing tools division for the upcoming year. The first big announcement is that we are going to have two major releases a year for Telerik automated testing tools in order to focus more on new product development and new feature development. The R1 release will be around the end of April and the R2 release will ...