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  • Mobile

    What makes a marketer of a toolset for building Windows Phone apps happy?

    It is news like this one: two of the four apps that won the big prize of the 30 to Launch competition are built with RadControls for Windows Phone - the product our team is building with so much care. And the apps are: Play the hunt – built by Eshy Media Social Mints – built by Techark. Social Mints was also the winner of Core77's FastTrack to the Mobile App International Design Award and was featured at Mobile World Congress 2012. “We are extremely excited about this win as there were more than 130 apps submitted for the contest,” said Pratik Kothari from Techark. And So...
  • Mobile

    Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1

    A lot of the Windows Phone developers out there are already considering porting their Windows Phone apps to Windows 8. May be you are thinking: from Metro to Metro - it has to be pretty easy and straightforward, doesn’t it? Let’s see if this is true. This case study gives insights into porting the design of an existing Windows Phone app to a Windows 8 Metro app. It discusses the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the two platforms, what can and cannot be reused. User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows 8 For...
  • 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