It’s a great pleasure to announce that Telerik completed the acquisition of Avaxo Ltd., makers of the Bookvar mind-mapping software. The Avaxo team will join Telerik’s Silverlight and WPF product groups in their quest to deliver next-generation interfaces. We plan to use Bookvar as a showcase application which incorporates (in the future) many of Telerik’s WPF and Silverlight components and demonstrates how to create brand new customer experiences using emerging Microsoft...

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls/WinForm controls:  ASP.NET RadEditor Knowledge base articles Error: Web.config registration missing! The Telerik dialogs require a HttpHandler registration in the web.config file: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-hek-b454T-ctb-b454c-ctb.aspx RadEditor Content Not Saved After Ajax Update in Firefox: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-hee-b454T-ctb-b454c-ctb.aspx Applying external stylesheet to the content of RadEditor in Preview mode http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-hed-b454T-ctb-b454c-ctb.aspx RadSpell Knowledge base articles RadSpell "Prometheus" for DNN - FormatException: Invalid length for a Base-64 char array: http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-hdh-b454T-a-b454c-cbetemdget.aspx

With design and User Experience fast gathering momentum as the leading factors behind the success or failure of IT projects, we're continuing efforts here at telerik to make sure the RadControls suites stay at the forefront of presentation layer trends. We have been riding the waves with the introduction of our black skin (ever since Vista and Office 2007, black seems to be the new white in interface design), and we fully support both the Vista and the Office 2007 interface looks - for the web and Winforms. So what's next? We thought we should ask you. We're running a short survey...

I am very excited to announce that the Q1 release of RadControls "Prometheus" will include major improvements of RadScheduler. Flexible grouping You probably are familiar with the “group by resource day view”. We referred to it as "Resource View". We now extend this concept further and you will be able to enable resource grouping in every view type - day, week and month. Here is how the week view looks when it is grouped by resource: In addition, you will be able to specify the grouping direction. The screenshot above demonstrates the default value – horizontal. Here is how RadScheduler looks when using...

I showed you some Telerik Silverlight goodness in my last post but here's some more: check out the iZoofari video case study that was shown at the MIX 08 keynote. It's a great demonstration of how Microsoft's latest technologies can help IT people and developers roll out amazing applications and enjoy tremendous productivity. The really special thing about the San Diego Zoo project though is that the Silverlight UI is built with a number of Telerik controls! If you go to 3:31 of the video (highly recommended to watch the whole video), you'll see the...