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  • Mobile

    Going mobile – the UX perspective. Part 1 – be Metro

      We are proud that our controls are not only excellent development tools but they also excel in appearance, styling, great usability and overall user experience. This is a result of the united efforts of the whole team of our developers and us - the UX and UI designers here in Telerik. Our brand new RadControls for Windows Phone 7 and the all new Metro design guidelines bring so many new UX challenges that we thought it would be a good idea to share them with you and to hear your thoughts, which are of great value for us. This is the first...
    December 16, 2010
  • Mobile

    Find RadControls for Windows Phone on the Marketplace

    Now you can download RadControls for Windows Phone examples directly on your phone from the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. Check out the unique animations and page transitions, the Window, the UniformGrid and many other controls that can’t be found in the Microsoft Windows Phone toolkit. If you’d like to see the controls in action, check the Mood Swing application also available on the Marketplace. It is built with RadControls for Windows Phone, using RadWindow, RadWrapPanel, RadDatePicker and RadTimePicker. Mood Swing enables you to track your feelings and share them with the world in the most unique and elegant way. Just...
    December 15, 2010
  • Mobile

    UI vs. Compositor – Demystifying the main Windows Phone 7 OS threads

    Having spent a couple of months focused on Windows Phone 7 development, I must admit that Microsoft have managed to bring something completely unique and intriguing to the mobile world. Not only the fact that the UX has nothing to do with what’s currently on the shelves, but also the whole platform with its potential and developer accessibility make WP7 very thrilling. I really think that ‘Silverlight’ and ‘mobile’ are two words that should have been stick together anytime soon and with WP7 Microsoft made what should bring them back on the scene – they simply brought Silverlight into mobile. In...
    December 13, 2010
  • Mobile

    Integrating your Windows Phone unit tests with MSBuild #1: Introduction

    When we started preparing our development infrastructure for the RadControls for Windows Phone 7 suite one of the interesting challenges that we faced was the automation of the unit tests execution. Of course, each developer could run the tests on their local machine manually, but this approach is rather cumbersome, especially when the amount of unit tests grows as the project evolves. Therefore we decided to take some time and research the possibilities for running our unit tests on the Windows Phone emulator automatically by integrating them with our MSBuild projects. The idea we came up with is quite simple in...
    December 13, 2010
  • Mobile

    RadControls for Windows Phone 7 – an in-depth comparison with MS Toolkit

    Many users have asked the question “What are the differences between your controls and their equivalents in the Microsoft’s Toolkit for WP7”. With this article I will try to give you a more detailed perception on the added value of RadControls for Windows Phone 7. Please note that this is “our” point of view and how we see the differences between our suite and the Toolkit. We by no means belittle the efforts of Microsoft’s team that created such a nice components package.  I will list only the components/features that are present both in Telerik’s suite and the Toolkit. All of the...
    December 10, 2010