We just extended RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX with native client-side data binding to ADO.NET DataServices. Now you can use getDataServiceQuery() method and the grid will construct ADO.NET DataService style query: var northwindService = new Sys.Data.DataService("NorthwindDataService.svc"); var tableView = $find("<%= RadGrid1.ClientID %>").get_masterTableView(); northwindService.query(tableView.getDataServiceQuery("Customers"), updateGrid); All operations like paging, sorting and filtering are automatically persisted using $top, $skip, $orderby and $filter...

Once again, I am excited to announce the start of a new initiative to improve the user experience with skinning the Telerik controls. We are starting work on a new Visual Style Builder application for the ASP.NET AJAX Controls and a major upgrade of the existing application for the WinForms Controls. The Visual Style Builder will allow easy, point-and-click customization of component skins, eliminating the need to get acquainted with the front-end structure of the controls. The Visual Style Builder will also speed up development of skins across several components - you will be able to define a style once and...

Today is an exciting day for me. Scratch that. Today is an exciting day for a whole lot of people here in Telerik. For the past several months we have been tirelessly crafting the future of telerik's Charting product line. Today, my friends, is an exciting day indeed because it all goes public. The Futures release of our WPF effort has just been published here with online examples available here. Together with the Chart and Gauges controls we are also featuring a technical preview of our scheduler component of WPF. Here is a summary for all the controls included with this release: RadChart for WPF -...

When you use a tool day-in and day-out you typically want it to be accessible as quickly as possible and to launch just the way you like it, with all your favorite bells and whistles ready to go. For those of us saving the world every day with our .NET applications, Visual Studio is no exception. So here are a couple of easy tips for fine-tuning Visual Studio to get you from the icon to the code just a little bit faster, as well as a few of my own preferred features and settings. Launch Tips 1. Get rid of the splash...

With the Telerik Q2 release the Silverlight team releases the Beta version of the Rad Controls for Silverlight2. The controls are separated in 4 different assemblies:   Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation   - Window, Menu, TreeView, TabControl, PanelBar, Cube Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input   - ComboBox, Upload, Calendar, DatePicker, NumericUpDown Telerik.Windows.Controls.MediaPlayer   - MediaPlayer. Telerik.Windows.Controls   - Range Slider, ProgressBar, WrapPanel, DockPanel, UniformGridPanel    What is the current status of the suite and where we are heading to? All of the controls are fully featured and extensively tested. We released two CTP versions of the controls before the current "Beta 1". We have got a lot of feedback from the community (a big THANKS! for that - keep it coming!) We will now continue to work...