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    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
  • Mobile

    Implementing WP7 ToDo application part3 - adding richness and device features

    Add/Edit Task This is part 3 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. The add/edit task screen is a standard form for adding and editing tasks. The more interesting things here are how the rich (voice, photo, location) fields for the tasks are specified. But first let’s see how to populate the “standard” fields. The design of the add/edit screen is specified below:  We basically have a form field for each of the Task class properties. For the string properties we have...
    March 30, 2011
  • Mobile

    Implementing WP7 ToDo application part2 - building the home screen

    Building the Home Screen Panorama This is part 2 of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details about the application and links to the other part of the series. The home screen of the application consists from the following major components: Home Panorama Tasks List Projects List Let’s first examine the Panorama control. The requirements were that that the logo of the application and the “New Task” button should be always visible regardless to which item of the panorama the user has scrolled. To accomplish this we are using the Title property of the Panorama control...
    March 30, 2011
  • Mobile

    Implementing WP7 ToDo application part1 - Getting started

    Getting Started This is part 1 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. The first step for us when starting to work on the application was to create the wireframes. Our wireframes basically consisted of the app screens and the flow diagrams for all the actions that users can do in the application. Download a PDF file with all wireframes of the application. The benefit for having these wireframes (still no graphic design available) at this early stage helped both developers and designers to get...
    March 30, 2011