Release

Though the time since the last official release, Q3 2011, and today’s release of the next Q Beta is a month shorter than usual, I am happy to present you the early preview of the Q1 2012 version of Telerik’s Controls for ASP.NET AJAX. Thanks to the hard work of the AJAX team members, we were able to include all of the major features here in the Beta version. And as most of them have been highly requested by you for some time now, I am sure you are eager to get them. But let’s stop wasting time and see...

Two weeks before the official Q1 2012 release we have prepared a Beta package containing all the new stuff that we have been working on the previous months for you to check out. There are some brand new components, as well as cool new features in RadSlideView, RadDataBoundListBox and RadBusyIndicator.   Let's start with the newborn components available in RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012 Beta: RadToolTip - this is a control that allows you to display a popup associated with a given visual element on your page. This popup may contain any type of information, like additional details or some hints. We have a...

As part of the Telerik “Q1.2012 Beta” package for Windows Phone we are releasing a new set of "Application Building Blocks" components. You can find more info on the idea of Application Building Blocks here. Among these components is RadDiagnostics. Overview RadDiagnostcs component will enable you to receive crash reports, get specific debug and run-time information from your end users when an issue (ApplicationUnhandledException) in your application is encountered. When an exception occurs, a MessageBox dialog is displayed and users are asked to report the diagnostics data. The collected data contains rich information about the exception, device and runtime info. Optionally a screenshot of the current application state can be provided....

With Telerik WindowsPhone Q1.2012 Beta release we are shipping the first parts of the new line of Telerik components – Application Building Blocks for Metro mobile applications. These components are created to target mobile Metro applications for Windows Phone 7 and for Windows 8/Rt at a later stage. The tricky part in mobile development is that you have to think about development and promotion simultaneously.  The Marketplace is the primary distribution channel for your app and it has its logic and app’s success metrics. What’s cool is that there are a number of in-app tricks that you can do yourself that will influence the...

  As a response to your constant requests for sample projects demonstrating the best practices of using OpenAccess ORM in web projects, we have released some of the new and updated samples before Q1 2012 so that you can benefit from them immediately.   MVC developers will be happy to know that along with the MVC 2 example “MVC Forum”, we are now offering two solutions demonstrating MVC 3 usage with Fluent API or an .rlinq Domain Model – whichever approach you prefer. In addition, you can see an implementation using the Razor view engine as an alternative of the default one. Find the...