We are so excited with this release. It includes tons of new capabilities and features. What a platform! We are working with the new bits from a couple of weeks and very soon we will release our controls based on this platform.  Of course first we will make a SL4 compatible drop of the controls and then we will start adding the new features.   Tim Heuer was the first to blog about the Silverlight 4 release. Check-out all the new features and tools that are coming on his perfect blog post: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx   The official page for Silverlight 4 is also ready - you can read...

Q3 2009 was an exciting release for the Data Visualization Team here at Telerik. My colleague Vladimir already highlighted the most notable new features and improvements to our charting solution and now I would like to draw your attention to one of our newest additions to the control suite – RadMap for Silverlight. Here are the main highlights: Map Sources support – RadMap for Silverlight allows you to visualize rich geographical information from external geo imagery sources. VEMapProvider (Bing Maps)   EmptyProvider – the Map control also supports empty provider that is not connected to any real imagery service;...

If you need a custom editor to edit a specific data, you can use one of the following approaches:   Use CellEditTemplate property of the GridViewColumn. Create a custom column by inheriting from GridViewBoundColumnBase.   As almost anything in our life both approaches have some advantages and disadvantages. Although it is quite easy to implement the first option, there are some significant disadvantages like not so usable with many RadGridView instances, and more important this bypasses the RadGridView validation and editing engine. For more information about this approach you can take a look at this online example.   In this blog post I’ll try to explain how to...

  It has been another quarter for the XAML teams here at Telerik. During this time we worked on producing new tools and significant new features demanded by our customers. The results of our efforts can be seen in the latest Q3 2009 release that was officially launched two days ago. In this release we included lots of new tools, including navigational controls, like RibbonBar(Silverlight WPF), OutlookBar(Silverlight WPF); rich UI(visual) components like TileView(Silverlight WPF), Book, Map; Commands support with our Button controls(Silverlight WPF). The RadGridView control now uses new UI virtualization mechanism that makes you scroll 5x faster than before. The new UI virtualization works both vertically and horizontally,...

Our biggest Silverlight release - Q3.2009 is now officially released. We added ten (yes ten!) new controls to the Silverlight suite: RibbonBar  TileView  OutlookBar  FluidContentControl  Book  TreeListView (CTP version) Map (CTP version) CoverFlow  DropDown Button  Split Button  And not only this but we made significant performance improvements to the TreeView, TreeListView and GridView controls. Now these controls are using the new UI virtualization logic allowing them to display millions of records. For a full list of changes please check our what's new page. You can check the online demos here, read the documentation here and if you have any feedback on them - please open a support ticket here. A control with which we are...