A popular feature that is often requested is multi-touch scrolling in the RadGridView control. This is easily achievable in WPF, because of the new yummy System.Windows.Input.Manipulations namespace introduced in .NET 4.0. However, Silverlight has yet to receive such a high-level touch API. The only tool we have at our disposal is the System.Windows.Input.Touch class with its one member, the FrameReported event. Nevertheless, it gives us a lot of control when it comes to handling touch events. I used it to make a little behavior that enables touch scrolling. You can also scroll horizontally and by dragging the mouse (both options controlled...

With the Q1 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM, Telerik released a brand new LINQ Implementation and supporting Visual Entity Designer. With the upcoming Q2 release next month, we will introduce full WCF RIA Services support. If you want to get started now you can wire up the services yourself pretty easily. Let’s take a look at how to get your feet wet with RIA Services and Telerik’s LINQ implementation. Before you get started, you will need a few things installed: Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight 4 WCF RIA Services for Visual Studio 2010 Northwind sample database Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q1 Service Pack 1 or higher Getting Started: The Easy Stuff Let’s create a new Silverlight...

It’s been two full months since we announced TeamPulse to the world!  Since the launch of our first public beta, the TeamPulse team has been extremely busy consuming the amazing feedback we’ve received from all of our private and public beta customers.  Combined with our original plans for the product, the feedback that we’ve received has really helped to re-shape the product, as well as help focus our approach, resulting in a product that we believe will provide our customers with even more value. If you don’t know much about TeamPulse, you should check out some of our videos online...

We are most excited to announce the availability of the much awaited Q2 2010 Beta of RadControls for WinForms (version 2010.2.10.0610). This beta is a major milestone for the entire suite because it adds several brand new controls to your toolbox as well as gives you completely re-designed, optimized and feature-rich RadGridView. We put a lot of efforts in meeting the expectations of our users and we are positive that you will find all the new features worthy. Here is a brief overview of Beta's highlights: RadGridView We have reworked both the UI layer and the data layer, which advances the control to a new...

Yesterday I mentioned Telerik was nominated for 3 Best-of-TechEd award. As you might have read on our CEO blog, late last night Telerik was awarded Best of TechEd award in Components and Middleware category. Coming on heels of CodeProject award for the best Silverlight suite I wrote about yesterday, this was certainly nice recognition of the work we have put in all of our component suites.  And…..it was worth a celebration     It was also a fun day for Telerik fans. TechEd-ers who wore Telerik t-shirt on Monday were awarded with a nice (and educational from what I hear) trip to Louisiana swamps....