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  Several weeks ago we announced that we are currently working on a first-class charting solution for Windows Phone 7. Our primary goal – as with every single component – is to deliver highly-performing, pixel-perfect component with an intuitive and easy-to-use public API. Today we are releasing the first BETA of RadChart for WP7 and we are excited to share that our goal has been successfully completed so far – RadChart not only performs well, it is actually the fastest charting component available for Windows Phone 7. Being well familiar with all of the Windows Phone internals and cave-eats, and possessing extensive Silverlight...

I'm happy to announce that the first Beta release of the upcoming official Q2.2011 release of Telerik Windows Phone toolkit is now available for download! This is a major milestone for us and it is including many major improvements over the current official release. We are proud to announce that our newest control - Telerik Chart for Windows Phone is the fastest chart available for Windows Phone. Check out our test bed and test results in this more detailed blog post. If you know of a fast chart for WP7 - compare it with ours and let us know the results :). With this first drop of the chart binaries we...

The next version of Windows Phone OS codename "Mango" was released last week. There are a lot of new features added - we can say that this is a major update of the OS. Here is the list of more important features targeting the developers (I'll skip the end-user features which you can see here, together with the full press release). Silverlight 4 New profiler and emulator for testing  Use of Silverlight + XNA together   Background processing  IE9 web browser control Live Tile enhancements: use of back of tiles and ability to update Live Tiles locally Additional sensors; direct camera access, compass & gyro...

Following our second webinar in the Telerik Windows Phone Wednesdays series, we now have the recording online and available to view!  In this webinar, industry expert and Microsoft MVP Jim Wooley covers the Reactive Extensions (Rx), a framework that allows for more asynchronous calls to take place within your applications, keeping your UI responsive while all the behind-the-scenes operations still take place.  Head on over to Telerik TV to check out the recorded version here: Become an Rx Pusher with Windows Phone 7 by Jim Wooley Then head over to Jim's website to check out the sample code as well as the...

The next stabilization release of the Telerik AJAX controls has just been shipped. To see what is included in this wrap up, visit the quick links below: RELEASE NOTES / LIVE DEMOS / ONLINE DOCUMENTATION TRIAL DOWNLOAD / PAID DOWNLOAD Although there is nothing flashy in this service pack, there a few noticeable additions/improvements that are worth to be mentioned explicitly, hence I am giving them in a "digested" form: AsyncUpload - added functionality to set TemporaryFolder globally using the appSettings section in web.config Calendar - added a quick option to enable Today's day highlighting via RadCalendar's SmartTag Grid - introduced a new property (RadGrid.ClientSettings.DataBinding.ShowEmptyRowsOnLoad) to provide the option to hide empty data...