PDC is in full force at the LA Convention Center. The keynote was somewhat bland, but the big news of the day is Windows Azure. Microsoft's cloud services offering, Azure promises to allow developers to host and manage their applications in the cloud, scaling storage and computing resources on demand without concern for the infrastructure that will support them. With Azure, developers will be have access to the entire spectrum of Microsoft LOB development technologies (SQL Services, Sharepoint Services, .NET Services, etc) in the cloud. Attendees of PDC will get early access to an Azure CTP, so keep an eye...

I thought it might be interesting to do a quick rundown of the Visual Style Builder.  This tool comes with your Telerik WinForms control suite and provides a quick and easy way to change the look of a control.  The Visual Style Builder is located under the Telerik directory in your Start menu. It allows you to modify a variety of settings for a given control to build your own themes.  For example, if you select the RadButton control under the File | LoadControl menu, you will see it displayed center screen.  As you move your mouse cursor over the control...

With our upcoming version of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (early November) you will be able to bind our grid even if the grid is in edit mode. RadGrid will locate automatically all built-in column editors (GridNumericColumn, GridDropDownColumn, GridDateTimeColumn, etc.) and you can get old/new values directly from the grid client-side API. You can use client-side editing completely codeless with templates as well. The requirement here is to set ID for the control to be equal to desired data field. Example: <telerik:GridTemplateColumn HeaderText="CompanyName"> <EditItemTemplate>    <telerik:RadTextBox ID="CompanyName" runat="server" /> </EditItemTemplate> </telerik:GridTemplateColumn> We have introduced also three new client-side methods for GridTableView to get new...

No, Microsoft hasn't announced any special changes to the framework. Instead, one of the first news items out of PDC (before the conference has even started, no less) is that they'll be changing the .NET branding.

Ok, Todd and Kevin already blogged about our presence at PDC this year and I'll second them. We have so many things to show that it's a petty PDC is only 4 days long, we'll need at least 2 weeks to show everything. Of course we have to show mercy to all the Telerik guys who will be nonstop at the Telerik booth so 4 days should be enough :)   Todd and Kevin already mentioned all the products, new features and releases we're about to demo at our booth. We'll also demo 2 "secret" projects which will show you the combined power of WPF and the new ways...