We suppose you have already read the Q2 2012 Announcement blog for WinForms and have noticed the three new great controls that we developed for you – RadChartView, RadAutoCompleteBox and RadTextBoxControl. We also feel, however, that one of the big new things about Q2 2012 may remain unnoticed in the bunch of innovations. Therefore, we decided to dedicate a separate blog post to it. This improvement concerns one of the most important things for each and every application – performance. Namely, in our latest release we introduced a new and improved theming engine. It minimizes the startup time for your application and...

We are very happy to announce the Q2 2012 release of Telerik Reporting. The release includes the official version of the standalone Telerik Report Designer. There is no beta tag any more and we have added support for sub-reports, navigation actions (such as drill-down and drill-through), and many UI updates. Some of the UI updates are ribbon tools for borders and format setup, as well as contextual tabs for modifying the TextBox and Table items. One of the new and more important Q2 features are the Report Sources, because they add a natural abstraction to the different report formats, even...

It’s a great privilege for our team that the Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET won the Best of TechEd 2012 Award for Best Software development tool. Announcing every new award the Telerik products sweep means thanking all our customers for their support, for their feedback and for simply using our products every day. Perhaps it’s not by accident that the Best Software Development Tool Award coincided with the announcement of two new products at TechEd – Icenium and RadControls for Metro. Do check them out and request your invitation code. Another great news on the awards front is that Kendo UI – one of...

 After another 4 months of hard working I am pleased to present to you the latest XAML release for Silverlight and WPF Q2 2012. Again, we put a lot of love and effort in our components and the result is 2 brand new controls, one of our existing components “grew” from its Beta to an official version and of course a numerous new features and improvements across all controls. Our new RadHeatMap control is in its Beta stage, but I hope you’ll find it as exciting as I do. Heatmaps are a matrix like controls which use color to encode a value along...

Many of you have probably noticed that RadChart is missing from the online demos for WPF and Silverlight. What’s going on? Don’t worry. We are publishing this blog post as a list of FAQ (frequently asked questions) which should cover most of your concerns. Q. Is RadChart for WPF/Silverlight gone for good? Definitely not. The RadChart control (Telerik.Windows.Controls.Charting.dll) is still shipping with all installers and zip files. Q. Why is then RadChart missing from the online demos? The answer to this question is two-fold. First of all beginning with Q1 2012 we have released our RadChartView control for Silverlight and WPF. This control is designed...