I have to admit that I get scared each time I read terms like "loosely coupled", "enterprise", "architectural framework" and so on at one place.Even so, my colleagues and I had to suppress our fear and test our WinForms controls with the the Composite UI Application Block framework (you can find more info about it here).I was pleasantly surprised that everything went very smoothly and well. The CAB framework does exactly what it claims - it provides an easy way for building complex UIs based on separate blocks / "smart parts". I recommend it to everyone who embraces the Smart...

There's a well known quote (I think by Mark Twain) saying:The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. I can paraphrase and say something like this:The "hottest" summer releases (in case you haven't missed MSDN Magazine this June) we've made so far will happen this winter. Ok, it's still fall but here in Sofia the first snow and the low temperatures made me feel like it's winter. Now r.a.d.controls for WinForms Q3 is finally live. Thanks to all who have sent us their feedback. We made some fixes, added a few more examples and new controls - ListBox, ShapedForm and SplitButton. Each...

Hi Folks, My name is Vladimir Enchev and some of you may already know me from telerik forums. I am part of team1 @ telerik and I’ll try to inform you regularly about all cool things related to r.a.d.ajax, r.a.d.grid, etc. and of course some other hot stuff about my daily tasks. Ok :-) .. so my first top secret confidential info is that the next version of r.a.d.grid will support some really useful client-side operations such as “Delete”. Here is a link with small online demo: http://betas.telerik.com/examples/clientdelete/  ... and here is the code: <radG:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" DataSourceID="SessionDataSource1"AllowAutomaticDeletes="True" runat="server">  <MasterTableView DataKeyNames="ProductID">     <Columns>       <radG:GridClientDeleteColumn ConfirmText="Are you sure?" />     </Columns>  ...

The conversion contest announced some months ago by Mike Swanson ended a few days ago: http://wpf.netfx3.com/content/ConversionContest.aspx It's a pity that none of the contestants has written a Flash (SWF) to XAML converter so far. Although to me, it looks like a hard job to do I think soon there'll be some third party tools which will successfully convert some simple flash files to XAML. I found a good tool by Kinesis Software which decompiles SWF to RVML. The task gets simplified and now someone should write an extension which converts RVML to XAML. As easy as that :) Btw I've got another favorite missing - Maya to...

As some of us have found the latest installment of MS AJAX is not backwards compatible. Shortly after ScottGu’s official statement our QA team reported that none of our controls worked with MS AJAX Beta 1. That is really bad news if you happen to claim to be the first ASP.NET component vendor with official ATLAS support. This called for a desperate debugging session which happens to be what I and Hristo Deshev like the most :). So I downloaded and installed the latest version (kudos to Microsoft for the painless install). I created an “Ajax enabled web site” and wired up r.a.d.input....