Have you ever wondered how to save the properties of your UI elements with just one line of code? Do you need to load a previous visual state of an UI element? We're proud to introduce the newest member of the Telerik XAML family - the Persistence Framework. With its powerful save and load mechanism, the Persistence Framework allows you to save the UI related properties of your controls in a stream or an isolated storage so that you can retrieve their values later. This way you can easily store the layout of your application and keep your users' preferences. The...

Among all the goodies that we are going to introduce in Q2 2011, there are two new controls that will surely fit nicely in your applications. The first one is a Visual Studio-like property grid which will allow developers to easily implement advanced interface for editing the properties of their objects. We will reveal more information about this control soon, so stay tuned! The second one is the RadListView – a bindable new control for representing and editing list data with lots of customization abilities. Let’s take a quick tour of what the RadListView has to offer. First of all, RadListView will...

We reached a second important milestone before the official Q2 2011 release. Today we announce the Beta 2. In this release we included major additions to the Chart and the DataBoundListBox controls. Our Windows Phone Charts now support:  Stacked 100 Bar, Line and Area series  Scatter (XY) series – ScatterPoint, ScatterLine and ScatterArea Pan & zoom behavior – the chart can be zoomed in/out and panned both horizontally and/or vertically. Pan and Zoom can also be set programmatically  Track ball behavior – allows extended data point information to be displayed upon Hold gesture  Tooltip behavior – displays context-sensitive...

Q2 2011 Beta 2 of RadControls for Windows Phone 7 is on its way and part of the box is a meaty new RadDataBoundListBox feature: multiple items selection ability. As many of you already know, the mail client on all Windows Phones shows a check box next to each visual container thus allowing the end-user to select a bunch of items and perform an action with them. RadDataBoundListBox can now do pretty much the same thing by exposing a very convenient API and neat UX for working with checkboxes. There is now a CheckedItems collection which exposes methods for checking/unchecking items programmatically,...

Today’s RadControls for Windows Phone 7 MVVM post is brought to you by the smart tag: Now of course you must be wondering why a smart tag is being highlighted?  Great question!  As part of the Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 suite, RadGauge is an integral data visualization component that can be used to show a variety of different information with either a linear or radial gauge model.  Perhaps the best part about RadGauge is that our development team didn’t just publish a quick component with a few properties, rather this versatile control allows you to have as many or...