We are excited to announce the latest SP1 edition of the RadControls for WPF Q3 2008. The controls have been under serious development during the last couple of weeks and we managed to include major improvements and bug fixes in this latest service pack release.   Online examples can be seen at: Online Demos To download the latest build please visit your Client Account   A detailed list of all the changes can be found below:   RadGridView New themes New Office_Black theme has been added New features New API has been added for starting/canceling new row insertion Improvements Scrolling performance improvements ...

With the Q3 edition of RadControls for WPF Telerik has officially included in the suite three major controls - RadScheduler, RadChart and RadGauge. Thus, Telerik puts the accent on rich data visualization and interactivity by introducing powerful and completely stylable and customizable controls.   RadControls for WPF features a new theming mechanism for the Slider, ProgressBar, TreeView, TabControl, PanelBar, Calendar and DatePicker controls to make them consistent with the rest of the controls in the suite. Also , a new skin (Vista) has been added to further enrich the UI capabilities of the controls and let you create consistent LOB applications. Not only we introduced new...

As the official Q3 release approaches, we decided to launch a preview of our controls that will officially become a part of the "RadControls for WPF" bundle. These are our RadGauge, RadChart and RadScheduler controls. We have been continuously working on these during the last several months to improve and further advance the controls to let you build complete Line-Of-Business applications with our full range of controls for WPF. With the wide variety of LOB controls and the consistent skins these controls provide, we aim at easing the process of building a complete and flexible UI of desktop applications. You can check...

 Although Expression Blend and Visual Studio can work on the same solution / project files, they remain two separate IDEs and it is not uncommon for certain functionality to work correctly in the Visual Studio design-time environment and throw an error in the Expression Blend one. The Blend error output does not always help much with identifying the reason for the erroneous behavior:    This clearly does not give us enough information to track the problem down. Fortunately there is an easier way to detect the problem instead of wandering around the code in a manual “debugging” session – the Visual Studio...

We prepared a new build of RadScheduler for WPF that is fully compatible with the Q2 2008 SP1 release of RadControls for WPF. The ZIP file is attached to the following forum thread: RadScheduler new build for Q2 2008 SP1   You can download it and give it a go. We also featured in the ZIP file the updated examples about RadScheduler. Below, you can find a full list of all the changes that have been included in the latest RadScheduler build: New Features: SchedulerView changes   - The derived classes for each View (Day, Week and Month) have been removed   -...