It’s that time of the year again and we’re getting ready for the next quarterly release here at telerik. This time we have a major visual update coming for the ASP.NET product line. Almost all skins will get a refresh – some a minor QA to bring back to original designs, others a more thorough facelift. Wanted to get back to you even before the beta release next week with a sneak view of what’s coming so you can have your say. Here’s the major planned changes in skinning: Black skin preserves its general look only gets a bit less….well,...

Recently we've been building some cool stuff in WPF with resources and animations. In this post I will share some experience with a bug from our code base I fought recently. The actual code is complex, so here is a simple example that I used when hunting the nasty bug (source code is in the bottom of the page): <Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"    Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">     <Window.Resources>         <Style TargetType="{x:Type Rectangle}" x:Key="RectangleStyle">             <Setter Property="Fill" Value="Blue" />         </Style>     </Window.Resources>     <Grid Name="testGrid" >        ...

With the release of the .Net 3.5 SP1 Beta more and more people have started to ask us if the RadGrid for ASP.NET Ajax supports binding to ADO.Net DataServices. And what is the answer, you may have asked yourself? Yes it does! To demonstrate this I have updated one of  Vlad's well-known client data binding examples. As you may notice there are only a few changes to the code, mostly the parts where the web service calls are concerned.   Download the example.

As you most probably know (see Falafel Releases Telerik Trainer At TechEd 2008, Telerik Trainer Sneak Preview) we have been working on a new training tool for Telerik products. Telerik Trainer is a state of the art learning tool which we have produced together with our great partners at Falafel Software.   You can now get your hands on the Telerik Trainer at: http://www.telerik.com/support/teleriktrainer.aspx (signing in required). We are initially releasing a total of 27 training sessions (for RadControls ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik Reporting) and we plan to regularly add more tutorials for all Telerik Products. Telerik Trainer is an important milestone in our...

Let me clarify first that the title is a bit misleading. You may think that the story will comment on these devices in general, but you are wrong :). I will comment NVidia’s* entry in the handheld and portable devices business in particular, and what it means for the whole industry. Will they shape the landscape the way they did in the GPU market? Why is this event important enough to compel a guy that develops software to blog about hardware? Why the Nvidia Tegra? Why not the IPhone 3G? Or the HTC Diamond? A lot of tough questions to answer...