We have received several requests so far by customers who one way or another ask for the same thing: "Can you make your WPF controls in such a way that later when I convert my WinForms application (which use your WinForms controls) to WPF I wouldn't need to deal with different APIs and inconsistencies?".   In general, this could be achieved if we had: the same feature set in these two product lines the same API for our WinForms controls and WPF controls The first point is feasible and we'll do our best to do it.   The second, however, is something we probably won’t do....

Hi, my name is Erjan Gavalji. I am a developer in the ASP.NET division at Telerik. I am new to blogging, but I hope the topics I present will be of a real use. RadControls for ASP.NET provide rich client-side functionality and nice look trough a number of external files - JavaScript code and CSS definitions. Those resources are registered through <script> or <link> tags and are downloaded by the browser. Part of the client-side code in RadControls “Prometheus” is shared between all controls. It is contained in a different file to prevent downloading it multiple times when several controls coexist in a...

It’s an interesting question that I got from a customer at a conference recently. He was wondering why we entered the Windows Forms space when we were a few years late compared to the other vendors and WPF was knocking on the door.  There were a couple of reasons – we have a passion at Telerik to bring controls to Microsoft developers on whatever platform they are developing on. Also at the time we wanted to take the challenge to create desktop UI components where there was no market for WPF. WPF technology was changing from release to release which lead...

Last Friday we announced the availability of the first service pack of RadControls for WinForms Q3 2007. As always, the service pack fixes many issues that have been reported to Telerik since the Q3 2007 release in December.

Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET/WinForms controls:  ASP.NET RadAjax Prometheus Help topics Error handling for Ajax requests: http://www.telerik.com/help/radcontrols/prometheus/?ajxErrorHandling.html Controls not compatible with RadAjax Prometheus: http://www.telerik.com/help/radcontrols/prometheus/?ajxControlsNotCompatible.html RadTreeView Prometheus Code library entries Populating RadTreeNodes on demand via WCF Service: http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bcaeek.aspx