Today is a big day for the Windows Phone world with the long-awaited release of the Windows Phone SDK 8.0, a day after “the latest launch blockbuster event to rock the technological launch season” as itwire.com called the official unveiling of Windows Phone 8 in San Francisco yesterday. Exciting news for the Windows Phone ecosystem is coming from Nokia as well. And this time it is not about the next amazing device. Nokia has just announced its Premium Developer Program to help you get a jump-start on Windows Phone development. Once you join the program you get Telerik RadControls for Windows...

Roger that! We are excited to let you know that RadControls for Windows Phone 8 are now available for download, released simultaneously with the official launch of the WP8 developer platform today at /build//. Less than two weeks after the last release of RadControls, we are shipping a new version of the product, with full support for Windows Phone 8 that leverages the platform’s new features and offers speech recognition support as well as a responsive image control. See what’s hot: Speech Recognition support – end-users can navigate and interact with your app using their voice. We’ve created a demo to show you...

A typical scenario is for someone to browse a website on his computer, and then to wish to open a link of the site on his cellphone. It would be easier for the person to open it, if it’s encoded as an image that the phone can directly read, because smartphones cannot understand human readable text, but most of them can read images, called QR codes. What are QR (Quick Response) codes and how are they used? The QR is a two-dimensional code. It looks like a matrix which consists of black square dots (modules) on a white background. Text information can...

Slides, Source Code and Video to the "The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful Than Ever" Webinar Now Available We want to thank you all for attending the Telerik Reporting Webinar. As promised, all of the materials are now available for you to download and explore on your own. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below. We also suggest that you download Telerik Reporting and the new standalone Report Designer if you haven’t already done so. For Those Who Couldn’t Attend, What is the Telerik Reporting? Telerik Reporting is a lightweight reporting solution for all .NET cloud, web, and...

We want to thank you all for attending the Windows 8 Webinar yesterday. As promised, all of the materials are now available for you to download and explore on your own. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below. We also suggest that you download the UI Suite for Windows 8 if you haven’t already done so. For Those Who Couldn’t Attend, What is the UI Suite for Windows 8? The UI Suite for Windows 8 is a toolset for building Windows Store applications that run on tablets and large screens, whether you are writing your...