Release

Q3 2009 was an exciting release for the Data Visualization Team here at Telerik. My colleague Vladimir already highlighted the most notable new features and improvements to our charting solution and now I would like to draw your attention to one of our newest additions to the control suite – RadMap for Silverlight. Here are the main highlights: Map Sources support – RadMap for Silverlight allows you to visualize rich geographical information from external geo imagery sources. VEMapProvider (Bing Maps)   EmptyProvider – the Map control also supports empty provider that is not connected to any real imagery service;...

It has been a busy Q for the data visualization team at telerik! Our flagship chart product saw many improvements and new features the last four months and today I will summarize the most important ones for you. Here are the 5 big ones:   1. Grouping and Aggregation – RadChart now utilizes our powerful data engine already present in the RadGridView control to allow for a really fast grouping and aggregation of data. This comes built-in and works with all supported data sources! You can read more here. 2. Multiple YAxis support – RadChart will now allow you to add unlimited number...

  It has been another quarter for the XAML teams here at Telerik. During this time we worked on producing new tools and significant new features demanded by our customers. The results of our efforts can be seen in the latest Q3 2009 release that was officially launched two days ago. In this release we included lots of new tools, including navigational controls, like RibbonBar(Silverlight WPF), OutlookBar(Silverlight WPF); rich UI(visual) components like TileView(Silverlight WPF), Book, Map; Commands support with our Button controls(Silverlight WPF). The RadGridView control now uses new UI virtualization mechanism that makes you scroll 5x faster than before. The new UI virtualization works both vertically and horizontally,...

digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,56e074ee-bb50-453c-98b3-6f91b9773bed.aspx";digg_title = "Telerik “M” Compare and “Repository” Migration Tool November CTP";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Last summer Telerik released the Oslo Comparison and Migration Tool. It is a tool that is available free for the community. It allows you to compare two Microsoft code named “M” files, see a visual diff, and then merge the results. (M is the code name for a new data modeling language from Microsoft.) Telerik has expanded the tool to allow comparison of items in the SQL Server “Repository” and then do the same visualdiff and them merge the schema. Developers who have been playing with the M language and repository will find it very useful to have a tool that will allow comparisons and migrations, since the requirements...

Last week we updated the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit for RadControls for WinForms on CodePlex with the mighty Q3 2009 versions of our WinForms tools. A few compatibility issues were resolved with this update as well. If you are using the WinForms CAB kit, just visit http://telerikcab.codeplex.com/ to download the latest update. Enjoy!...