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  • Mobile

    GDI+ in a Windows 8 C# Metro Application – Experimenting for Fun

    It’s been about two months since Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out and we, at Telerik, have been enjoying the new framework and all the features it offers. One of the aspects we've been exploring is the immediate mode rendering and what options the new runtime offers. XAML is in the core of WinRT (Windows Runtime) and it offers rich presentation capabilities but sometimes, especially on devices with limited hardware resources, we need to achieve even better performance to get up to the “fast and fluid” Metro applications' standard. As I explained in this blog post, Direct2D is undoubtedly the best choice...
  • Mobile

    Add the Error Diagnostics Control to Your Windows Phone App with 3 Lines of Code

    Everyone in the mobile apps business needs real-time feedback about their app’s crashes. These have to be quickly fixed, so that you are not losing converted leads. Instead, these users need to be treated with the utmost attention. To get the feedback you have three ways to go: 1)    Use the error reporting procedure on App Hub, but you’ll have to wait for 3 to 4 days for the crash reports to be ready, which may result in losing some of  your users. 2)    Put some time and efforts and write the functionality yourself. 3)    Use Telerik ready-to-use Error Diagnostics control that allows...
  • Mobile

    XAMLflix Introduces RadTreeView

    Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadTreeView for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadZipLibrary and RadTileView. What is XAMLflix you might ask? Well, it is Telerik’s way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Telerik’s XAML suite. Each and every Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control. Since our Silverlight and WPF share a common codebase and API, you only have to learn how to use these controls once! You can simply copy and...
    April 24, 2012
  • Mobile

    10 New Apps Join the Telerik Windows Phone Showcase Gallery

    I’ve just added 10 great customers’ apps to the Telerik Windows Phone Showcase Gallery.    Some of them are already doing great on the Marketplace, such as for example: Free Music Cloud at # 9 in the music + video / free category Private Photobox at # 94 in the photo / free category Don’t forget to send us your apps built with RadControls for Windows Phone at [windowsphoneapps at Telerik dot com]. ...
    April 12, 2012
  • Mobile

    Metro, Direct2D and XAML – Burst of Performance in Windows 8

    Now that Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out we are eager to explore the new framework and the features it offers. While part of it is the good old XAML, there are plenty of other unique features, one of them being the DirectX integration at XAML level. While XAML is a great technology and offers literally unlimited features regarding layout and UI richness, sometimes there are cases where we need to push the framework beyond its limits in order to achieve highly-performing components with responsive and fluid user interaction. Although in most cases writing efficient algorithms and using the proper data structures...