A couple of days ago I finally managed to get my hands on the latest hype, Windows 7, and to give it a spin. The first impression I got after installing the new OS went to the performance improvements it offered – it felt better than Vista, and the boot up time was really impressive. Then came the appreciation of the UI improvements which seem to be a natural evolution of the features Vista introduced. Win7 goodies aside, I am happy to say that RadControls for WinForms run perfectly fine on the beta – there are no hiccups, messed layouts...

I am glad to announce that yesterday we released a public sample application built with RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax, ASP.NET MVC and Telerik OpenAccess. You can check the online demo, or download the source code. This application is a basic online forum which uses RadControls in ASP.NET and demonstrates integration with ASP.NET MVC. Here are a few screens from the forum: The "home" page (uses RadTreeView, RadGrid and RadMenu) The "new thread" page (shows RadEditor)

In my previous post, I showed how to instantiate LINQ to SQL DataContext using ObjectDataProvider in WPF. With ADO.NET Entities you can do something similar: <Grid.Resources> <ObjectDataProvider x:Key="customers" ObjectType="{x:Type local:NorthwindEntities}" MethodName="get_Customers"> </ObjectDataProvider> <ObjectDataProvider x:Key="orders" ObjectType="{x:Type local:NorthwindEntities}"...

Edit: The following content applies to ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 Preview 4. Download the project that uses the latest MS Ajax 4.0 Preview 6 from Here Many of you have asked us, the ASP.NET support officers, whether RadComboBox supports templates when bound to WebService. Using the latest official .NET Framework (3.5) the answer was ‘no’. Fortunately, this is possible with the client-side templates introduced in the next version of the .NET Framework – 4.0. Currently it is in a Preview stage and you can find its roadmap here.  We have already demonstrated how to use the new client-side templates in RadTreeView and RadGrid.

We have posted two new Telerik Trainer sessions for our WinForms suite: An Overview of RadCalendar for WinForms, which shows its basic usage incl. setting some of its more important properties, how to use the Special Days collection, and how to style a particular day by using the Visual Style builder. The session is about 10min long and comes with working samples in VB and C# (for both VS2005 and VS2008). Download session (ZIP 17.8 MB). The other session, on RadComboBox for WinForms, is about 15 min long and demonstrates the various autocompletion modes, and how to take advantage of the multi-line text support....