Were you among the hundreds that joined us yesterday for the Chrome Packaged Apps webcast?If yes, thanks for joining! We hope you learned something and enjoyed the demos presented by Paul Kinlan (@Paul_Kinlan) and Burke Holland (@burkeholland). If no, don’t worry! We recorded the entire event...

I received an email from an old buddy on the Windows team at Microsoft, who is using Telerik RadControls for Windows 8 to build an application. He asked how to create a RadRadialGauge with 0 at the center, and negative numbers to the left and positive numbers to the right (click on illustration for full size) for his Level Meter (part of a Synthesizer control). None of the examples show how to do this, but it really only takes setting four properties to get just the effect he was looking for...

At Raleigh Code Camp, I had an unfortunately familiar conversation with another developer. Me: How often do you profile your application for performance or memory issues? Him: I don’t. Me: Really? How do you know if your app has any issues? Him: Because I write good code.

In an earlier post I introduced the initial wire-frame design for an application that I’ll be creating from scratch in XAML and C#, tentatively named Conference Buddy. As noted in that article, Phil Japikse will be creating the same application in HTML/JavaScript and Michael Crump will be creating the companion application for Windows Phone 8. As we think about and design (and re-design), we’ve switched over to a Telerik AppMockPage1show case application named AppMock , available in the Windows Store.

We are happy to announce the Service Pack 1 release of our RadControls for Windows 8 suite. Along with the numerous bug fixes and improvements we have also implemented two highly requested new features for our Date/Time Picker components, available both for the XAML and HTML parts of the suite.