Release

We are just a few days away from releasing the full RadControls for Silverlight suite which with its advanced and unique capabilities will help you accelerate your Silverlight development.  As we follow closely the Microsoft release schedule, the suite was released and updated right after Microsoft Silverlight2 RTW release, when we showed you two new controls RadCoverFlow and RadContextMenu. Here are the novelties that you can expect with the upcoming release on November 5: RadGauge Great new integration examples showing our new Drag&Drop functionality, Page Navigation functionality, Databinding and Telerik advanced media components. New QSF design. New Theming mechanism allowing you to...

As the official Q3 release approaches, we decided to launch a preview of our controls that will officially become a part of the "RadControls for WPF" bundle. These are our RadGauge, RadChart and RadScheduler controls. We have been continuously working on these during the last several months to improve and further advance the controls to let you build complete Line-Of-Business applications with our full range of controls for WPF. With the wide variety of LOB controls and the consistent skins these controls provide, we aim at easing the process of building a complete and flexible UI of desktop applications. You can check...

With our upcoming version of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (early November) you will be able to bind our grid even if the grid is in edit mode. RadGrid will locate automatically all built-in column editors (GridNumericColumn, GridDropDownColumn, GridDateTimeColumn, etc.) and you can get old/new values directly from the grid client-side API. You can use client-side editing completely codeless with templates as well. The requirement here is to set ID for the control to be equal to desired data field. Example: <telerik:GridTemplateColumn HeaderText="CompanyName"> <EditItemTemplate>    <telerik:RadTextBox ID="CompanyName" runat="server" /> </EditItemTemplate> </telerik:GridTemplateColumn> We have introduced also three new client-side methods for GridTableView to get new...

No, Microsoft hasn't announced any special changes to the framework. Instead, one of the first news items out of PDC (before the conference has even started, no less) is that they'll be changing the .NET branding.

Last week the ASP.NET team released a Beta of Q3 2008 for RadControls ASP.NET AJAX.  You can download it from http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/thread/b311D-bgmcha.aspx  , and run examples built with it on the online samples page here http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax-beta/Controls/Examples/Default/DefaultCS.aspx.  The Q3 2008 will be shipped with a new server control - RadInputManager. The RadInputManager offers an easy and intuitive way to extend a standard ASP.NET TextBox. Sometimes web apps will contain, for whatever reason, a large number of Input controls that can significantly impact the page performance. A great solution in these cases is to use RadInputManager. The big benefit with this control is that it...