Release

As some of us have found the latest installment of MS AJAX is not backwards compatible. Shortly after ScottGu’s official statement our QA team reported that none of our controls worked with MS AJAX Beta 1. That is really bad news if you happen to claim to be the first ASP.NET component vendor with official ATLAS support. This called for a desperate debugging session which happens to be what I and Hristo Deshev like the most :). So I downloaded and installed the latest version (kudos to Microsoft for the painless install). I created an “Ajax enabled web site” and wired up r.a.d.input....

In my last blog post about Q3 I forgot to mention two VERY VERY important benefits for customers: firstly, we changed the license agreement and secondly, we started to ship the source of the r.a.d.controls with every purchase of a Subscription license (the one that costs $999 per developer). Over the last few months many customers contacted us with questions about our redistribution policies as our license agreement wasn't very clear cut about what is acceptable and what isn't. If you remember, I blogged about this not long ago in an attempt to clarify our policies: Demystifying the telerik r.a.d.controls...

It's a late Sunday afternoon (actually, it's Monday as I started the post yesterday). The weather is great, everyone's out as its unusually hot and people are having a great time. I myself am in the office since early morning with part of our team but I love it! It's always really invigorating around releases as everything you've worked on for months stitches together and you can see it in its full beauty. And, for this release, we've got plenty of things coming. I haven't been so excited in a long time and I decided not to be selfish and...

A prospective customer recently commented on our distribution policies and it prompted me to write a blog post and try to explain things in not-so-legal terms. Possibly because of improper wording on our part many ISVs do not feel comfortable with our terms and conditions when it comes to using our products in a commercial product. Here's what our agreement says:"You are not allowed to integrate and distribute the SOFTWARE as part of branded commercial products meant for mass distribution. This is subject to a redistributable license. For more information and inquiries, please contact sales@telerik.com." I've been re-reading this paragraph over and over while...

I just tried the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor and found out that I'll need to upgrade my graphics adapter in order to enjoy the Windows® Aero™ user interface. The advices which this tool gives are a little bit questionable but you may still find them useful. At least now I have an incentive to upgrade my computer...