Release

With the Q3 edition of RadControls for WPF Telerik has officially included in the suite three major controls - RadScheduler, RadChart and RadGauge. Thus, Telerik puts the accent on rich data visualization and interactivity by introducing powerful and completely stylable and customizable controls.   RadControls for WPF features a new theming mechanism for the Slider, ProgressBar, TreeView, TabControl, PanelBar, Calendar and DatePicker controls to make them consistent with the rest of the controls in the suite. Also , a new skin (Vista) has been added to further enrich the UI capabilities of the controls and let you create consistent LOB applications. Not only we introduced new...

After we launched the RC1 release shortly after Microsoft published Silverlight RTW it was high time for us to start preparing for the official edition of the RadControls for Silverlight suite. Here it is, with Q3 2008, RadControls for Silverlight is officially released.   RadControls for Silverlight is the richest set of tools to help you develop Silverlight applications, which is a solid foundation for the next-generation of line-of-business applications. RadControls for Silverlight includes over 20 UI controls that can be used in pure Silverlight applications or as parts of existing ASP.NET applications. Sharing the same codebase with our WPF components, the...

Even though we did not consciously schedule our Q3 release to occur during the US presidential election week, we now see the similarities between the election and our release.  Just as the election is of historical significance to the US people, so too is our Q3 release for us.  We managed to push our biggest release in time filled with major improvements and new additions and refinements across all existing product lines,  an official release of our Silverlight controls, 3 major new controls for WPF (gauge, chart and scheduler) and, last but not least, the first release of our newly acquired OpenAccess ORM product. But...

For the past several months, we've been rebuilding & redesigning the Telerik.com web site.  Our existing web site had served us very well, but it was beginning to show some age.  We were anxious to utilize some of the newer techniques & technologies available to us and, in the end, hopefully offer a better experience to our customers. Telerik.com is a big a web site and rebuilding it wasn't a trivial task.  Not only does Telerik.com get a lot of traffic, but it also contains a TON of content (product information, demos, support articles, forum posts, etc.).  To support this task we needed a...

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