RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Q2 2011 Beta 1 is already at the doorstep which means that you will be able to have a hands-on experience with everything we have been working on lately. A significant piece of the cake are the new data virtualization capabilities that RadDataBoundListBox adds to its repertoir. We have already announced some of the bits in an earlier blog post and now it is time to reveal the bigger picture of what you will be able to do with this control after the new release. So, we will be adding two more virtualization modes that will provide the same...

Telerik is coming to Norway next week for the Norwegian Developers Conference, which takes place in Oslo on June 8th – 10th.  Visit our booth in Oslo Spektrum and grab a T-shirt for a chance to win amazing prizes, such as Telerik licenses, a Windows Phone 7 coupled with a license for Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone, and a tablet. In addition to the alluring prizes, visiting our booth is your ticket to seeing all the amazing new things we have been busy working on! Some highlights include: • JustDecompile: Telerik’s brand new free .NET decompiler, which has taken the community by storm • JustTrace: a new...

The next version of Windows Phone OS codename "Mango" was released last week. There are a lot of new features added - we can say that this is a major update of the OS. Here is the list of more important features targeting the developers (I'll skip the end-user features which you can see here, together with the full press release). Silverlight 4 New profiler and emulator for testing  Use of Silverlight + XNA together   Background processing  IE9 web browser control Live Tile enhancements: use of back of tiles and ability to update Live Tiles locally Additional sensors; direct camera access, compass & gyro...

Following our second webinar in the Telerik Windows Phone Wednesdays series, we now have the recording online and available to view!  In this webinar, industry expert and Microsoft MVP Jim Wooley covers the Reactive Extensions (Rx), a framework that allows for more asynchronous calls to take place within your applications, keeping your UI responsive while all the behind-the-scenes operations still take place.  Head on over to Telerik TV to check out the recorded version here: Become an Rx Pusher with Windows Phone 7 by Jim Wooley Then head over to Jim's website to check out the sample code as well as the...

Good news for any member of a developer user group who’s interested in winning a $100 for his/her user group.   Here’s the deal: Telerik in partnership with PreEmptive Solutions and Microsoft will donate a $100 to your user group for each eligible app published at the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. The app needs to use Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 and PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone. You get both Telerik RadControls and PreEmptive Solution at no cost. What’s even better is that if you get Telerik RadControls for WP7 now, you will automatically receive the updated version of the suite...