Hello everyone, Santa came early this week with RadControls for Silverlight 5 and the Q3 2011 Service Pack 1! Just last week I blogged that we will be releasing our Silverlight 5 build of RadControls shortly. I am pleased to announce that it is currently available to download right now by heading to your client account and selecting RadControls for Silverlight. This is built against Silverlight 5 and has passed all our Q/A checks for use in production applications.  We have however, noticed some quirks that made it through to the SL5 runtime from Microsoft (including the RadRichTextBox  wizard for SL...

We are most excited to announce the immediate availability of our Q3 2011 Service Pack 1 release of RadControls for Windows Phone. Together with all the bug fixes and improvements, we also managed to add several cool new features in our controls. LiveTileHelper, Date/Time pickers Step property, Radar charts and financial indicators as well as the much requested pinch-to-zoom functionality for RadSlideView showing pictures. The pinch-to-zoom gesture is well known and most of the users are familiar with it. More, people will expect it from any application that displays pictures in a gallery. Well, no need to implement your own gesture handling; it is all...

It is a common scenario when we would like to limit the selectable values in a time or date picker control. Normally we would do this by setting an allowed date-time range but a more sophisticated case is when we also want to filter out some selection possibilities and allow only specific ones. Imagine an application that provides the end-user with the possibility to create reminders that can only happen in time intervals of 15 minutes: 3:00 AM, 3:15 AM, 3:30 AM... Here we don’t want to prevent the user from selecting values from the whole time-range, but want to make some...

Yes, it’s that time of the year. We just exchanged gifts here in the Telerik office and we thought it’s time to present our gift to you, our customers. ;-) Here’s what we have prepared to wish you very happy holidays – this small but essential guide on how to celebrate them metro-style. Do you have any other tips? Please share them in the comments section below. We wish you Happy Metro Holidays! The Telerik Team

We could not stop ourselves from serving you yet another portion of great new features, improvements and fixes, so we decided that it is time for a Service Pack. The interest that we received for our RadPanorama control, multi-touch support and the other new cool bits of the suite naturally made the suite even cooler for this Service Pack. Here are the highlights for this release: RadScheduler built-in multi-touch behavior. Now your end-user can switch between views or navigate in a view by a multi-touch operation Improved RadPanorama design-time support. Playing with tiles has never been more fun. With the specifically designed Live Tile Editor...