My colleague Hristo Deshev just announced the availability of Telerik RadControls for WPF Beta2. This is a very important release not only because it brings so many new features and controls for WPF, but because this is our first release that includes the Silverlight and WPF controls under a single distributable. For this first release we ported just a few Silverlight controls for WPF (namely TreeView, PanelBar, Calendar, DatePicker, Slider, ProgressBar and NumericUpDown), but in the long run almost all Silverlight controls that are applicable in a desktop scenario will be included in the WPF suite. What does this mean to you as a developer? Why is this...

Boy, am I excited! We managed to push our second public beta out of the door, getting ready for the big Q2 release. Here is what's new: I am especially proud with the new filtering support in RadGridView. We designed the feature so that it would both allow you to plug your own filtering logic and have a cool default UI that will let your users quickly filter the grid. An image is worth more than a thousand words, so here it goes: RadCarousel got even fancier. Check those reflections: We got several new controls, freshly-ported from the upcoming Silverlight control suite:...

In a series of posts I will walk through some of the new features for RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2008. Here is the first part: - global cancelable client-side Command event which will be raised for all grid post-back commands (paging, sorting, filtering, group/ungroup, etc.)....

Silverlight platform is getting more mature, the adoption rate is constantly raising and at the same time Page Brooks and Dave Campbell, together with some of the Silverlight community leaders and Microsoft MVPs have started a control builder contest. Check out the contest website to see the rules, prizes and how to register - http://gosilverlight.org/. As we are deeply involved with the Silverlight platform and community, we decided to make our contribution to the contest by giving our most valued license control bundle to all the winners!!! The bundle includes "ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Telerik Reporting" controls. The license will also automatically give you the Silverlight controls once they are officially released (which will happen till the end of this summer). The first place winner will also...

Unplug your wireless mouse. I promise I’m not crazy. That’s really the answer. And now that I’ve gone Tarantino on this blog post, let me give you the rest of the story. My development lately has been solely on my new laptop. However, tonight I decided to rebuild my desktop PC, loading it up with Visual Studio and the latest RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX so that I could work on a project. After spending several hours installing Vista, drivers, and Visual Studio I was finally ready to load up the Telerik bits and get to work. The installation went smoothly and I thought...