Everyone likes to look good. We put on our new clothes when we schedule our meetings, show some data or go to the movies. And this spring we all will go freshen up our wardrobes.   …   For the past year we have been working out showing muscle. Our focus was on performance, feature richness and building a complete tool set. Currently there are 40+ controls in the suite ready, willing and able to work together to bring your Rich Business Applications to the next level. Being where we are it was time to add a touch of brilliance and make them look...

Join our webinar to get started with Telerik WebUI Test Studio and see how you can create automated tests in less than 15 minutes. The event will be about half an hour and will take place on Thursday, March 4th @ 11AM EST. We'll also be happy to answer all your questions after the demo. Register here>>

    While we are still on the crest of a performance wave, I want to spend some time to introduce the power of UI Virtualization in CoverFlow for Silverlight coming with our 2010 Q1 release.     The two most common scenarios for using a CoverFlow is either to create a navigation menu that features a small number of items, or to build a browsing control for images or videos that can feature up to a million items. The first case is quiet straight-forward. For a navigation control you generally have no more than 10-12 items which are handled with ease in...

In an op-ed piece in this month’s SD Times, I make the argument that software development productivity tools have evolved over the years to become more mainstream. I make the case that while some developers shun tools, in reality they take for granted the tools they are using today that were not available 10 years or so ago, or were not that mature. For example today we use some tools without even thinking such as: SCM, build management, standards enforcement, ORM and UI components. Tools today save a team a tremendous amount of time and are the missing link in the software development process. You can get...

The Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC continue to march triumphantly towards their v1 in the Q1 2010 release. Thanks to your valuable feedback during the past few months, we were able to shape our roadmap and produce the next batch of UI extensions: TreeView, Calendar, DatePicker and a set of 4 Input components - NumericTextBox, CurrencyTextBox, PercentTextBox and IntegerTextBox. All of them are lightweight, semantically rendered, embracing the ASP.NET MVC principles and designed to deliver maximum performance to your MVC applications. The flagship component, Grid for ASP.NET MVC, matures more and more with its latest enhancements. You can now achieve multi-level grouping,...