Release

With Q3 2010 release the WebForms team adds one more to the family of demos built to show you best practices with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. Let me introduce you the "Rent a Car" sample application: http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/carrental/ Take a look at and download it to see how to implement new functional features around RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and how easy is to integrate them with Telerik OpenAccess ORM. Those of you who are familiar with our skins will notice that the skin used is not a built-in. The goal was to see the custom skinning approach with our controls. In our previous...

Graphical user interfaces are rife with popups and messages springing from every direction in order to notify users of important information. The Windows Phone 7 experience is no different and RadWindow is here to provide this functionality. Currently the toolkit for windows phone development provides a Popup control out of the box, so why bother writing a window from scratch? The main reason is that the stock popup is not hardware accelerated, that is, animations on UI elements displayed on it are executed on the UI thread, it doesn’t matter if the animation is a simple double animation, if you...

[You can see all new hierarchy modes of RadGridView in this week’s webinar. See details and register >>] More and more developers are using ORM frameworks like Telerik OpenAccess, Entity Framework, and NHibernate to save valuable time from writing dependent and synchronization code for the database server. In many cases it is often necessary to create complex custom business objects that contain the object relations to support the different needs of the application like serialization (database, file storage, online service) and transactions. In many of these scenarios the developers are looking for a convenient and quick way to visualize the data and...

Great enterprise features were pushed in Telerik Reporting and RadControls for WinForms in Q3 2010, and this is your chance to see how easy it is to use them! Join us for the live webcast on What’s New in Telerik Reporting and RadControls for WinForms this Wednesday for a chance to win a Telerik Premium Collection (worth $1299): Wednesday, November 17, 11 am Eastern Time: Register here >> You can also register for some of the other webinars dedicated to the release and learn about all the major new features that ship with the Q3 2010 release. Book your seat for a chance to win a Telerik Premium Collection (worth...

Q3 2010 brings more slickness, better performance and new controls to RadControls for Silverlight/WPF to allow you develop your most interactive and richest Line Of Business applications. The latest major release includes new powerful data visualization controls, Data Virtualization for data-bound controls, supercharged RichTexBox and the most feature-rich and innovative ScheduleView control for WPF. RadSparklines Sparklines are intense, simple, word-sized graphics that bring context and history to numbers. Adding sparklines to the numbers in any report shows patterns and trends for those numbers, making the report much more useful for the end-user.   RadBulletGraph The BulletGraph is extremely useful in dashboards, or just any report, because it...