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    Telerik sponsors the Silverlight Control Builder Contest 2008

    Silverlight platform is getting more mature, the adoption rate is constantly raising and at the same time Page Brooks and Dave Campbell, together with some of the Silverlight community leaders and Microsoft MVPs have started a control builder contest. Check out the contest website to see the rules, prizes and how to register - http://gosilverlight.org/. As we are deeply involved with the Silverlight platform and community, we decided to make our contribution to the contest by giving our most valued license control bundle to all the winners!!! The bundle includes "ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Telerik Reporting" controls. The license will also automatically give you the Silverlight controls once they are officially released (which will happen till the end of this summer). The first place winner will also...
    July 01, 2008 1 min read
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    What To Do When Your Toolbox is Devoid of RadControls

    Unplug your wireless mouse. I promise I’m not crazy. That’s really the answer. And now that I’ve gone Tarantino on this blog post, let me give you the rest of the story. My development lately has been solely on my new laptop. However, tonight I decided to rebuild my desktop PC, loading it up with Visual Studio and the latest RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX so that I could work on a project. After spending several hours installing Vista, drivers, and Visual Studio I was finally ready to load up the Telerik bits and get to work. The installation went smoothly and I thought...
    June 29, 2008 2 min read
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    Tip of the Day: Clear your ClickOnce application store

    ClickOnce is a great technology that blurs the line between web and client(windows) applications. You can use it to easily deploy windows forms and WPF (through XBAP) app's. However there is common problem with it. The application store (the place where all ClickOnce applications get stored) has the ability to corrupt it self ending in an appropriate version mix of your application. You can end up in situation where "it works on my machine", but in reality the application did not work correctly. To avoid such situation it is a good practice to clear your application store before testing the...
    June 24, 2008 1 min read
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    Twitter much?

    Are you a Telerik fan? If so, rest assured that we are coming up with new ways for you to stay connected and up-to-date on the latest and greatest news from the Telerik team.
    June 23, 2008 1 min read
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    The Man Behind the Curtain

    A short time ago, in a land not so far away, I was back in college doing the whole evangelism thing part-time as a member of Microsoft's Student Partner program. I got a lot of exposure to some great Microsoft products and, most importantly, was able to spend a lot of time coming up with cool ways to show students how to dive head-first into .NET development. At the end of my senior year, just before leaving the Student Partner program, I had this crazy idea that I could mosey on up to Redmond and say hi to the man behind the curtain...
    June 16, 2008 2 min read