Back in Berlin again after a year: more products, more people. It's almost impossible to keep up with all the new products, so we had basically to double our staff to make sure that attendees find an expert for each product: The week is starting smooth on the first day with some pre-conference sessions and the exhibition will officially open after lunch. Come by and say Hello to Christopher, Joel, Deyan, Nikolay, Teodor, Thomas and me. Steve will be around as well again ... And don't forget to join our raffle for two Ultimate Collections tonight at 7 pm during the reception. Let's get started...

A true measure of our products’ quality is the opinion of the people who use them day by day. That is why we would like to give a word of gratitude to you, our customers, for your positive recognition of Telerik’s products in the Visual Studio Magazine (VSM) Readers Choice Awards 2010. Telerik’s Web UI Test Studio, RadControls for Silverlight and Sitefinity CMS were ranked as a premier choice by the VSM audience in the categories Best QA & Testing Solution, Best Silverlight & RIA Development and Best Web Design & Development Tools. What’s more, we walked with a number of merits...

Bring Motion to your Windows Phone 7 Application using the Telerik animation engine and page transition framework. I will not reveal a big secret if I say that the whole Metro UI guidelines are based on content and motion. But how can you bring motion to your applications? This is the question we asked ourselves back in the days when we started to work on our Rad Controls for Windows Phone 7. We are now happy that we released the first CTP version of the controls with support for Metro like animations and transitions. We built our own Animation and Transition engine from the ground up...

It has been a wild weekend for sure. A slew of important announcements at PDC, sudden withdrawal of all Silverlight sessions, Bob Muglia’s statement about Microsoft’s change in plans, the uptake from journalists, the community uproar... A comedy of errors was unfolding in the technology space while I was happily spending my weekend enjoying my kid’s birthday and not thinking about dev platforms. So, I come in the office today and my inbox is blinking like crazy, mails from a ton of people from inside the company and out and the common question is – what are you/we doing with Silverlight?...

RadDatePicker and RadTimePicker have a lot of basic common functionality. One of the components that provide some of this common functionality is RadPickerBox. It is a very basic control designed to provide an easy way for users to display some content, just like ContentControl :