14 new customers’ apps from different categories just joined our Windows Phone Showcase Gallery. Check them out here. And while looking at them I couldn’t help but notice that 3 of them are in the very top of their respective categories. Such as Gooroovster at #12 in the music + video / top category. The app is the first Google Music player for Windows Phone and is using Telerik’s PhoneApplicationFrame, JumpList, DatabountListbox and TileHelper. Connecting with businesses, movies, people and what not is a piece of cake with Poynt at #20 in travel + navigation / free category. And then there is Math Rocks at...

In case you have missed the news, Telerik Reporting is one of the many Telerik products that support the beta version of Visual Studio 11. To use it in VS11 you will just need to download the Q1 2012 Refresh build from your Telerik account (or use the trial link at the bottom) and install it: The installer will register the Telerik assemblies in VS11, and will populate the toolbox with the Telerik Reporting items. Every feature (Report Designer surface, item creation and data binding, report exporting, etc.) has been tested so you can start using Telerik Reporting right away to produce quality reports with...

We just finished our Q2 2012 planning here at the Telerik HQ and we’ve got some pretty big news to announce! Thanks to the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX product survey quite a few of you answered in the beginning of this year (thank you!), we identified a few things we could do to add even more value for you to Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX control suite. The results show that the majority of you will benefit from the addition of ASP.NET AJAX PivotGrid and HTML5 Chart controls and this is why we will make sure we deliver them to you for Q2 (expected...

Programming with the new GanttView control As many of you already know with Q1 2012 we introduced a RadGanttView for Silverlight and WPF - a control designed with MVVM-friendly API. In this blog post we will set-up a sample project with RadGanttView to get you started. First, to add RadGanttView to a new or existing application we need to add references to the following assemblies: Telerik.Windows.Controls Telerik.Windows.Controls.GanttView Telerik.Windows.Scheduling.Core Now, let’s add the telerik namespace: xmlns:telerik=http://schemas.telerik.com/2008/xaml/presentation Add add a sample definition of the control: <telerik:RadGanttView/> Here is a screenshot of what you should see after running the project:   Now, we will create a data source in our ViewModel and bind...

We’re dropping so much new awesomeness on you with this beta release that’s it hard to keep up with it all.  One of the more powerful things in the beta is the new MVVM framework.  If you are familiar with MVVM and you have been using Kendo UI,...