TechEd 2011 was another great event.  We had a lot of traffic at the Telerik booth, giving away a huge amount of T-Shirts and Ninja head stress balls, showed a ton of demos of our software, and had great conversations with not only customers but people discerning what to buy. I was also busy working the “Ask the Architect” booth in the Microsoft Technical Learning Center, and I gave two Birds of a Feather sessions, and both were a great success. Agile Development: Can it Work For Everyone This session I gave in conjunction with Mario Cardinal, another thought leader in the agile space. ...

Picking up where we left off in the previous post, we are working in a new project that will accommodate all of the controls we highlight throughout this entire series, with the hub of our navigation being a RadJumpList instance.  The next step we have is to add some style to our RadJumpList in order to both take advantage of the built-in functionality and to make it look like a more inviting navigation experience. Step 1 – Adding an ItemTemplate One of the huge advantages of any listbox-type control is the ability to style the individual items.  RadJumpList is no different, allowing...

Shortly after the amazing success we had at this year’s StarEast event, we had the chance to demo our software testing tool to the British testing audience too. Telerik sponsored and exhibited at the Fifth anniversary Next-generation testing conference which was organized by Unicom and took place in the Thistle Marble Arch Hotel, London. Once again we were able to impress attendees with the revolutionary UI, ease of use and advanced features the Test Studio offers. Note quite surprisingly we also met some faithful Telerik customers & fans there too. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our...

The next stabilization release of the Telerik AJAX controls has just been shipped. To see what is included in this wrap up, visit the quick links below: RELEASE NOTES / LIVE DEMOS / ONLINE DOCUMENTATION TRIAL DOWNLOAD / PAID DOWNLOAD Although there is nothing flashy in this service pack, there a few noticeable additions/improvements that are worth to be mentioned explicitly, hence I am giving them in a "digested" form: AsyncUpload - added functionality to set TemporaryFolder globally using the appSettings section in web.config Calendar - added a quick option to enable Today's day highlighting via RadCalendar's SmartTag Grid - introduced a new property (RadGrid.ClientSettings.DataBinding.ShowEmptyRowsOnLoad) to provide the option to hide empty data...

As you might know from previous posts our Windows Phone team is busy working on a Windows Phone 7 Charting component. After months of research, starting from high-level concepts, chart domain knowledge and architecture, a super fast WP7 Chart control is on its way. And when I say fast, I mean it. Read how the team did it in details in this blog post. Meanwhile here is a sneak peek at the control. The Chart will be released at the end May with a Beta tag and will be officially released with Telerik Q2 release, mid-summer. Our product development has always...