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  • Mobile

    Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone

    We are most excited to announce the immediate availability of our Q3 2011 Service Pack 1 release of RadControls for Windows Phone. Together with all the bug fixes and improvements, we also managed to add several cool new features in our controls. LiveTileHelper, Date/Time pickers Step property, Radar charts and financial indicators as well as the much requested pinch-to-zoom functionality for RadSlideView showing pictures. The pinch-to-zoom gesture is well known and most of the users are familiar with it. More, people will expect it from any application that displays pictures in a gallery. Well, no need to implement your own gesture handling; it is all...
    December 22, 2011
  • Mobile

    RadDate- & RadTimePicker for Windows Phone 7 extended to support custom selector intervals

    It is a common scenario when we would like to limit the selectable values in a time or date picker control. Normally we would do this by setting an allowed date-time range but a more sophisticated case is when we also want to filter out some selection possibilities and allow only specific ones. Imagine an application that provides the end-user with the possibility to create reminders that can only happen in time intervals of 15 minutes: 3:00 AM, 3:15 AM, 3:30 AM... Here we don’t want to prevent the user from selecting values from the whole time-range, but want to make some...
    December 22, 2011
  • Mobile

    Create beautiful and dynamic Live Tiles with Telerik LiveTileHelper

    Download the sample project here. In the quest of making Windows Phone developers life easier we decided to add a little addition to Telerik Windows Phone toolkit with the Service Pack that was announced today. One of the coolest things that were added in the Mango update of the Windows Phone OS was the support of secondary live tiles. With secondary live tiles you can add a link on the home screen of the device which can point to any Page inside your application. With the default support for live tiles that comes from the Silverlight framework you get a fixed template for the live tile...
    December 21, 2011
  • Mobile

    Smartphone shipments outpaced PCs in ALL of 2011

    At the end of 2010, it was big news when all of the analyst firms reported that smartphone shipments had out-paced PC shipments in the final quarter of the year for the first time in history. Never before had the traditional PC been out-shipped by a different...
    December 20, 2011
  • Mobile

    Getting Started Video Series for our New Controls in WP7

    Just two short weeks ago, our Q3 2011 release for Windows Phone 7 was made available. Today, we have some fresh resources ready for you to watch to start getting the hang of working with the new controls including: RadSlideView, RadContextMenu, RadAutoCompleteBox and RadToggleSwitch. The videos below are hosted on TelerikTV and are around 8-10 minutes each. So grab a coffee, put on your favorite headphones and check them out. Getting Started with RadSlideView (also includes RadToggleSwitch) Getting Started with RadContextMenu Getting Started with RadAutoCompleteBox The Source Code to all of the videos is also available to download now. In case you missed the Q3 2011...
    December 14, 2011