We decided that for the MIX11 conference we will show some of the internal things that we are working on for Windows Phone 7. If you want to see the *new* controls in action - come visit our booth on MIX - we are exhibiting at "The Commons" hall. So what we are working on for our next release? For Q2 release (coming in ~July.2011) we will have the following new WP7 controls: Charting Line chart, Area chart, Bar chart, Pie chart See a video of how the charts are displayed in the emulator .

Similar to my previous post, I've made small example to illustrate how to use Telerik Reporting in Microsoft LightSwitch Beta 2. 1) Create new LightSwitch project and add new screen:  

Tired of enabling installer packages with User Account Control turned on? Miss the right-click & Run as Administrator command on MSI files? Want to easily run each installer with logging enabled? At least I was. Here is a quick way to add a Run As Administrator With Log command to msi files (inspired by David Ebbo’s post ): All we need is modify the MSI.Package class definition in the registry. The first step is to add a “runas” shell entry. This allows the command to automatically be run as administrator. The next step is defining a command to be executed. This is the...

Big thanks to 14 more customers who were kind enough to send me their Windows Phone 7 apps built with Telerik RadControls. And for their patience as well, since it took me a while. It’s great to hear that some of those apps are in the top selling positions in their categories. Visit our Showcase gallery if you want to learn more. If you have an application built with RadControls for Windows Phone and uploaded on the Marketplace, send it to me at windowsphoneapps@telerik.com . I’ll be happy to add it to our Showcase gallery.

Without a doubt one of the coolest features of the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform sits on the home screen in the form of Live Tiles.  For those with lesser mobile operating systems, a Live Tile is a large icon that represents your application on the home screen of a WP7 device that allows for live updates.  Examples of these are seeing Facebook updates pop in for a pinned person on your phone, weather alerts popping up in WeatherBug, or something as simple as your Exchange email rolling up the numbers as new emails come in.  To give an example,...