Introduced with the 2011 Q2 Release of the RadControls for AJAX, WinForms, WPF and Silverlight is the new Toolbox Grouping functionality. Controls in the toolbox will be delivered in multiple tabs, organized by type and role, right after installation.   The users of the Toolbox Configurator wizard will also benefit from the improvement. For those who aren’t familiar, it can be found under the Visual Studio Telerik menu. Using the toolbox configurator will add the items in the toolbox organized in groups, although the old ‘one-tab’ look will still apply for previous releases. If you find it hard to keep...

We are pleased to announce that Test Studio's R1 2011 SP2 (version 2011.1.712) release is now available to download! This service pack features over 70 updates in almost every area of the application. Updated areas include: HTML automation, XAML (Silverlight & WPF) automation, Browser Plug-Ins, Dialog Handling, Test Explorer, DOM Explorer, Team Pulse Integration, TFS (Team Foundation Server) Integration, Results Viewing, Reporting, and more! We have added some major (and I mean major) updates to our Find Expression Builder - its been completely reinvented combining the ease of use you have come to expect from Test Studio, with the ...

  We are happy to let you know that Telerik released new Visual Studio Extension for RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Q2 2011. This means VSX Team now supports Visual Studio Extensions for all Telerik UI Components! If you create Windows Phone 7 applications using the new Visual Studio Extension everything will be configured automatically for you. If you want to install new version you don’t need to browse with hours any more just use Upgrade Wizard and it will find latest version and download it. Now I will give you more detailed information on how to use this new Visual Studio Extension for...

The Q2 2011 release is already in sight and bringing along some new features and fair improvements for the TelerikSPRadGrid Web Part. Faster Data-Binding to SharePoint Lists SPRadGrid’s data-binding to SharePoint Lists has been completely reworked to take advantage of the Dynamic Linq library and the SharePoint Collaborative Markup Language. SPRadGrid’s filtering and sorting expressions are now converted into CAML queries to produce quicker data retrieval whereas the paging operations have been re-tailored along the lines of RadGrid’s custom paging so that no uncalled-for data is pulled from the underlying data store. All of this call-up information is used to produce...

Moving further into our discussion of controls as “tools” that we utilize, we want to take a look at RadRichTextBox and see just how it provides an amazing out-of-the-box rich text editing experience. One of the first questions we often hear when demoing this control to people is “That isn’t Word?”, meaning that our team has done a pretty good job of setting up the control to look and perform like everyone’s favorite Office document editing solution.  Now we can take a look at just how easy it is to get started with “This isn’t Word?” and some of the...