Monday marked the first day of the Telerik Q2 2010 Webinar Week. Today (Tuesday, Jul 20, 11am EST) you will have the chance to catch a one-hour webinar on what’s new in RadControls for WinForms and Telerik Reporting, which also comes with live demos of everything new we have introduced in Q2 2010 for those two products. The webinar is not only free; during the live event attendees will have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection (valued at $1999). Register for What’s New in RadControls for WinForms and Telerik Reporting.  Here is a quick overview of what's new in the product lines: RadControls for WinForms 5 New...

As our second official release for the year is out, I would like to share with you the regular portion of visual updates for the ASP.NET AJAX suite. In Q2 2010 we continued to improve cross-control consistency. Polishing the overall look & feel and introducing subtle, but value-adding visual features were of major importance among all UX related tasks.   Rounded corners, shadows, consistent buttons, icons ... let's see what you are getting with Q2 2010: RadFileExplorer The FileExplorer control has undergone thorough appearance review. Here is a list of the visual improvements: Wrapper – border color is changed to fit the skin-specific...

[Want to see JustMock in action? Register for the free webinar this Thursday, Jul 22, 11 am EST and check out What’s New in JustCode, JustMock, and OpenAccess ORM. During the live event attendees will also have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection (valued at $1999).]   In JustMock. The tale continues... (Part 1) we saw how we can inject prologue/epilogue code in .NET methods with JustMock. We covered the most simplest scenarios and some more complex ones as methods with ref/out parameters. Today I will show you how to do code injections in generic methods. Basically there is nothing new. We are already familiar with: AtStartOfAction AtStartOfFunc AtEndOfAction AtEndOfFunc etc. and last time...

The Q2 2010 release of Telerik Reporting introduces two new data source components that are aimed at improving the integration with business applications utilizing the ADO.NET Entity Framework or the OpenAccess ORM. (You can see the new data source components in action in the free webinar tomorrow, Tuesday , Jul 20, 11 am EST. Just register for What’s New in Telerik Reporting and RadControls for WinForms. During the live event attendees will also have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection, valued at $1999). Prior to the Q2 2010 Telerik Reporting release, the only option for connecting a report to an existing entity model...

With the Q2 2010 release, RadTileView supports two major new features: Animation optimization By setting the IsAnimationOptimized property to True, you can turn on the animation optimization. This optimization should be used only when necessary i.e. in scenarios where the visual tree of the TileViewItem is quite large and the animations do not run smooth. Scrolling of the minimized items  If the sum of the minimized heights/widths of all minimized TileViewItems exceeds the available space, RadTileView will show a ScrollBar allowing you to scroll the minimized items.   This article will show you how to put a GridSplitter between the maximized item and the minimized item and...