Hey everyone!  This past week/weekend I was in Canada to speak at two user groups and a code camp (could be a sitcom title) on some Silverlight related topics.  It was very exciting to be heading to the country where the Winter Olympics were happening.  Above and beyond that, according to my community manager (a Canadian) I was going to get to experience the rich culture that Canada has to offer and get a lifetime of experiences in my short time there.  So what did I show up to? Canada is cold!!!  Late February in Saskatchewan is not the balmy beach...

The Q1 2010 Beta release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX uncovered the veil about what is cooking for you for the official Q1 2010 release of the suite, namely: - Native NET 4 builds of Telerik.Web.UI.dll and Telerik.Web.Design.dll (currently built against VS 2010/.NET 4 RC, later compiled against the RTM when it comes out) - Javascript Intellisense support for RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX client scripts under VS 2008/VS 2010   Closely following the Microsoft's .NET framework release schedule and being one of the first who announced VS 2010 Beta2 and RC support, we are going to ship .NET 4 assemblies of our controls residing in /bin40...

I recently published a blog post series on the Silverlight Show site regarding Internationalization/Globalization in Silverlight. As a follow up to this series, I would like to address a couple of Telerik-specific approaches to this topic. One thing to note is that the source code that I have attached above is written in Silverlight 4, using VisualStudio 2010 Beta 2, so if you are developing with Silverlight 3 you could copy the code into a Silverlight 3 solution.  In part 5 of the Silverlight Show series I provided a step-by-step example of how to set up an internationalized version of a...

Let’s face it: we did not get the response rate we expected for the Reporting case-study contest. Naturally, we were starting to wonder why, since Telerik Reporting is used by thousands of developers world-wide, and we have contacted them all regarding this contest. So the reason must be somewhere else. And just when we started scratching our heads, the reason presented itself before us. As with all things unexplainable, it was quite simple. It turned out that time was not enough. As the deadline for submission got closer we started receiving numerous requests from clients for extending the deadline so...

When using applications, people generally enjoy personalizing their experience to some degree. Allowing your applications users to choose from a set of pre-defined custom themes is one way to accomplish this. Achieving this functionality is actually quite easy through the use of RadControls for WinForms. Today I am going to show you how. Please note that I am using the Q1 2010 beta of the RadControls for WinForms in this blog entry. Telerik Themes The default installation of RadControls for WinForms includes several pre-defined themes that you can use in your application. To begin using them, you simply need ...