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  • Mobile

    Bringing Data Virtualization to RadDataBoundListBox for Windows Phone 7

    Since its introduction the RadDataBoundListBox has been constantly optimized and extended to bring the great UX it delivers today for WP7: both in terms of data processing and UX. It was clear from the beginning that UI virtualization brings great value for a fast performing Windows Phone 7 application but we had some further mighty plans for this control and now we can proudly demonstrate some early bits of a new, fully integrated mechanism for virtualizing data (yes, not only UI!). What does this actually mean? Well, in a nutshell, data virtualization means that you do not need to download the whole list...
    April 13, 2011
  • Mobile

    30 Customers’ WP7 Apps Built with RadControls Uploaded on the Showcase Section

    Big thanks to 14 more customers who were kind enough to send me their Windows Phone 7 apps built with Telerik RadControls. And for their patience as well, since it took me a while. It’s great to hear that some of those apps are in the top selling positions in their categories. Visit our Showcase gallery if you want to learn more. If you have an application built with RadControls for Windows Phone and uploaded on the Marketplace, send it to me at windowsphoneapps@telerik.com . I’ll be happy to add it to our Showcase gallery.
    April 08, 2011
  • Mobile

    Make Your Own Live Tiles with RadControls for Windows Phone 7

    Without a doubt one of the coolest features of the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform sits on the home screen in the form of Live Tiles.  For those with lesser mobile operating systems, a Live Tile is a large icon that represents your application on the home screen of a WP7 device that allows for live updates.  Examples of these are seeing Facebook updates pop in for a pinned person on your phone, weather alerts popping up in WeatherBug, or something as simple as your Exchange email rolling up the numbers as new emails come in.  To give an example,...
    April 08, 2011
  • Mobile

    RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Are Here - So Now What?

    Now that the official release of RadControls for Windows Phone 7 has shipped, we have been seeing a few questions from both current and potential customers around what is coming next and what to expect from the suite now that it is official.  Luckily, I’ve got some answers for you! First up, now that the suite is official, the official “free lunch” with the RadControls for Windows Phone 7 is officially over.  What does that mean, you might ask?  As it turns out, during both the CTP and both Betas of the WP7 suite we had tons of developer interest, so much so...
    March 30, 2011
  • Mobile

    Using SterlingDB with Telerik RadJumpList to achieve maximum performance in LOB scenarios

    This is the last part of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details and links for the other part of the series. In this article I will show you how to implement a real life LOB scenario for WP7. In our latest Telerik WP7 ToDo application we have a lot of tasks which should be persisted on the device. We are using SterlingDB to persist and retrieve the data to/from the IsolatedStorage and RadJumpList to group and display the data. SterlingDB is an open source, well documented and high performance database – it is available on...
    March 30, 2011