Release

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...

As you might know from previous posts our Windows Phone team is busy working on a Windows Phone 7 Charting component. After months of research, starting from high-level concepts, chart domain knowledge and architecture, a super fast WP7 Chart control is on its way. And when I say fast, I mean it. Read how the team did it in details in this blog post. Meanwhile here is a sneak peek at the control. The Chart will be released at the end May with a Beta tag and will be officially released with Telerik Q2 release, mid-summer. Our product development has always...

We at Telerik understand how helpful to you it is to be learning in a timely manner about updates and new releases of the UI components you use, as well as getting tips and tricks and pieces of advice from the developers who built the controls. This is why we wanted to provide you with an easy way to access all this information and we hope we can do this through our new dedicated blogs. You can now subscribe to the dedicated feeds for RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC and be among the first to...

For those of you who have not yet upgraded to the new TeamPulse R1 2011 version, but plan to do so, check out this short video we prepared about the process. The upgrade is really seamless – it takes just a few clicks to get the new version up and running. And if you need help to get started with the new features, check out the new videos available on the TeamPulse video portal: What’s new in TeamPulse R1 2011 Webinar Upgrading to TeamPulse R1 2011 Getting Started with Bug Management Getting Started with Ideas and Feedback Getting Started ...

Yesterday we dropped a new minor version of Telerik Reporting Q1 2011. Among the plentiful fixes, you will find some important improvements, aided to improve the overall operation of the product, both in design time and run time. Performance Improvements in Rendering Silverlight and WPF Reports The XAML rendering extension now uses a new lightweight mechanism that overcomes issues related to highly concurrent multi-threading applications. The new XAML rendering removes the STA thread requirement when generating Silverlight and WPF reports, which leads to improved performance and optimized server resources. The new rendering aims at improving the rendering speed of large SL and...