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  • Mobile

    What Makes End-Users and the Marketplace Love Your Windows Phone App?

    An unusual thing happened at the Telerik Windows Phone team product planning meeting for Q1 2012 a few months ago. Instead of starting with our usual mantra “What does our customer need in order to build a great app?” we talked about love. What does love have to do with a mobile app you would ask? Well, a lot. Keep reading. The two questions we asked were: 1)    What is it that will make the end-users love our customer’s Windows Phone app? 2)    What is it that will make our customer’s app be loved by the Windows Phone marketplace?  And here’s a preview...
    February 07, 2012
  • Mobile

    How to Write a WinRT XAML Metro App on DevProConnections

    Happy Monday, XAML lovers! For anyone who has been following along in the rumors space, things with Windows 8 are heating up and it looks like we may soon be seeing the "consumer preview", previously known as the Beta to us tech geeks. I for one welcome the proposed new Start button experience as well as anything else they manage to get into this next release (full disclosure, I was at Build and use that tablet almost as much as my work laptop... my iPad has become a glorified Kindle), especially if it has more developer goodness included. Getting...
    February 06, 2012
  • Mobile

    Using RadDiagnostics for WP7 to receive error reports anonymously

    [Please download the attached project with full source code available.] Last week we released a Beta preview of Telerik RadControls for WindowsPhone. You can read more info on the 6 bright new components for Windows Phone here. RadDiagnostics was one of the released components which received a lot of attention from the Windows Phone developers. This component is sending rich crash reports when an ApplicationUnhandledException has occurred. Read more about RadDiagnostics in this detailed blog post. One of the features with which RadDiagnostics was created in mind is to allow developers to receive anonymous crash reports without user interaction. By default the control will display a message box...
    February 06, 2012
  • Mobile

    Kendo UI on Windows Phone

    The purpose of this post is two-fold: To let you know about our recent appearance on the popular WP Dev Podcast To talk about our position towards Kendo UI on Windows Phone Kendo UI on Windows Phone Dev Podcast I had the privilege of joining Ryan and Travis...
    February 06, 2012
  • Mobile

    Using RadSlideView for Windows Phone to Load Items on Demand

    Download the demo project Download the Q1 2012 BETA   RadSlideView is one of the major and widely used controls in our RadControls for Windows Phone tools. For the Q1 2012 BETA release we completely revamped its architecture and API design to meet all the feedback and feature requests we gathered from our users. Instead of inheriting from RadLoopingList, the control now inherits from the abstract DataControlBase class and exposes properties and methods similar to the ones found in our RadDataBoundListBox. We believe this approach will have better adoption and will be more intuitive to you – our users. This re-design allowed us to improve performance...
    February 02, 2012