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Or How to Store Semantic Information In Documents Through Custom Annotations When we develop RadRichTextBox’s API, we always try to make it as extensible as possible. One of the most popular demands was the option to store “meta” information about parts of the document which is not directly visible by the user. The technique that most developers attempted to implement was to extend the document model and use custom document elements (Spans, Paragraphs, etc.). This approach, however, is not quite reliable, because RadDocument controls the lifecycle of all document elements while editing the content in RadRichTextBox and the document structure is only...

The first release of 2012 is already a fact and even though this Q has been shorter due to the shift in the release dates which Todd Anglin blogged about, we managed to include some long-awaited improvements and new features. The first and most important change is that RadRichTextBox now supports multiple sections in the document. To see how it works, you can open the Silverlight demo, choose the Page Layout tab from the RibbonUI and click “Breaks”. Inserting a section break will split the current section into two, providing the option to format the two parts differently. Section breaks are extremely...

Unless you missed it somehow, last week Microsoft released the public preview of Windows 8 along with the beta of Visual Studio 11. They are both available for download right now and we encourage you to check out the tiled future :). If you already did that and you are still wondering if it's possible to build normal ASP.NET AJAX web applications using the new Win and VS releases, then this blog post will be helpful to you! First of all, a new build of the Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX controls is available in your accounts, specifically targeting Visual Studio 11 beta! The features...

For those of you who are already playing with the Beta version of Visual Studio 11, we have some exciting updates, as well as a bit of a roadmap to share. We have been (and will continue) working very closely with Microsoft to make sure all of our products support the beta.  I am happy to report that most of our products are compatible with the beta and can be downloaded today:  UI Components: RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX RadControls for ASP.NET MVC RadControls for WinForms  Data: Telerik Reporting Telerik OpenAccess ORM - in Fluent scenarios only, get the NuGet package here.  Visual Studio Productivity Plug-ins: Telerik JustTrace Telerik...

The time has come for Microsoft to officially announce and deliver Visual Studio 11 Beta and Windows 8 Consumer Preview. We are aware that together with us you want to ride the wave of the latest innovations in the software world. Therefore, we decided that we should deliver the respective updates as soon as possible. And here they are: Visual Studio 11 Support Just install our WinForms suite on VS 11 and you will be immediately available to start working with our tools. Toolbox, design-time support, templates – all this is supported by VS 11 allowing you to continue your work with the...