I suppose that you guys were as much excited about the presentation of Windows 8 as we were. We were also very eager to put our hands on the Developer Preview of Windows 8 and we did so right after the build was released. And here comes the good news – RadControls for WinForms run smoothly on Windows 8! The Telerik Metro and Telerik Metro Blue themes that we have introduced during the past several months will allow your RadControls-enabled applications to nicely match the Metro design of the new Operating System.   RadControls for WinForms Examples application running on Windows 8   Happy coding!...

We’ve got a great new release of Test Studio coming up which contains a number of tremendous new features and some great updates to existing functionality.The list is long, but here are a few highlights: Dive into your web application’s performance with our new performance testing feature set Bring your manual test cases into Test Studio where you can manage them, record results, and even create “fast forward” automated steps to offload tedious prerequisite setup tasks Take advantage of HTML 5 with Test Studio’s enhanced support for interacting with a variety of HTML5’s common tags Improved element management: search the ...

  While Windows 8 is ushering in an exciting new model for Windows development called "Metro style apps" that run a new "unified" Windows Runtime (WinRT), it's not necessarily the right choice for all new Windows software development. In fact, there are a lot scenarios where it's not a good choice. In this over-simplified decision tree, I try to provide some crude logic for how to pick between your platform options. Clearly, there are many nuances not covered in this tree, but I'll work on expanding the "logic" to make it more bullet proof in the coming weeks. The first decision is the most important, though: Do you need to continue...

Right in the apogee of THE //build conference when the Microsoft developer community is impatiently swallowing the news revolving around the future of the Windows and .NET development, we are delivering for you the service pack releases for the Telerik AJAX and MVC product lines. And not to distract you from collecting the information that is pouring every day over the mass media, I will briefly give you the highlights (in terms of enhancements) of our maintenance releases. RadControls for...

Right in the apogee of THE //build conference when the Microsoft developer community is impatiently swallowing the news revolving around the future of the Windows and .NET development, we are delivering for you the service pack releases for the Telerik AJAX and MVC product lines. And not to distract you from collecting the information that is pouring every day over the mass media, I will briefly give you the highlights (in terms of enhancements) of our maintenance releases. RadControls for...