We are excited to announce the latest SP1 edition of the RadControls for WPF Q3 2008. The controls have been under serious development during the last couple of weeks and we managed to include major improvements and bug fixes in this latest service pack release.   Online examples can be seen at: Online Demos To download the latest build please visit your Client Account   A detailed list of all the changes can be found below:   RadGridView New themes New Office_Black theme has been added New features New API has been added for starting/canceling new row insertion Improvements Scrolling performance improvements ...

Just a quick follow-up: we uploaded the application sample as a code library item named "Using OpenAccess with SilverLight and Ado.Net Data Services" and it is available at:...

After we prepared our data service it is time to put some client UI into it. I must apologize in advance as the only UI that I’ve used is a ListBox control, and it looks… well pretty much ugly. The goal was to proof that the whole setup works as expected, not to design a profound UI solution. I am pretty sure that as a follow up, our SilverLight team will enhance the sample to a full-scale integration example very soon.

With our next service pack you will be able to compress your entire AJAX traffic completely codeless with a single web.config setting: ... <httpModules>    <add name="RadCompression" type="Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression" />  </httpModules>  ...   <!--         The system.webServer section is required for running ASP.NET AJAX under Internet         Information Services 7.0.  It is not necessary for previous version of IIS.     -->    <system.webServer>      <modules>         <add name="RadCompression" type="Telerik.Web.UI.RadCompression" />      </modules>  ... Features: Support for all traditional ajax requests including RadAjaxManager,...

In my previous post we looked into providing data to the client using ADO.NET Data Services and Telerik OpenAccess. However it is very rare just to present data, as usually some processing is done by the application on the client side, data gets modified and it is pushed back to the server for persistence. With ADO.NET Data Services this is done by implementing the IUpdateable interface by the data context class used on the server. NOTE: We do not implement IExpandProvider at the moment. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so same is true for the code – I...