Release

I thought I was the only one.  I thought it was just me and that I was doing something wrong or extraordinary.  I shut up.  Now the genie is out of the bottle.  First it was Roy Osherove's frustration with VS2005.  Now, my colleague and friend Atanas forwarded Ayende Rahein's complaints and his rant about VS2005 getting in the way of TDD.  minimsft has collected a lot of other rants about all the defects that have long been known and have not been fixed for the final version. I have two problems with VS2005: Web site projects compiles are sloooow.  The r.a.d.controls suite installer packs a...

Boy, did I have fun this morning... Here's what we received as a feature request from a customer:"I would like such a control for my clients that will make them understand that consulting on how to do projects is not free and that they should expect a bill when they get a solution, whether verbal or delivered. Could you create a control that I could embed in my correspondence and web projects that would change their ethical thinking? I am thinking r.a.d.Morality is a good name for it. Of course, you can wait until you have completed r.a.d.Telepathy as there is more demand...

Now that I entered the blogosphere, I am finding out that apart from the time spent writing the content of a blog entry, you often have to spend time to properly format the content, include code, links, images and so on. In all internal applications we are using r.a.d.editor and I've been having some real issues with the FreeTextBox control that comes with Community Server by default. Some of the things I have struggled with:- table management- link management- <P>s and <BR>s- image management (I don't like going into HTML view to add an image)- absence of a spellchecker (FreeTextBox...

It's a great pleasure to announce the availability of r.a.d.controls Q3. You can read the full press release at: http://www.telerik.com/Default.aspx?PageId=1861&b21ActiveNewsId=YeA&b21CategoryId=ddu. Big thanks to everyone who contributed with ideas and reported problems. Overall, this was a great release. We managed to include everything we initially planned for in terms of new features and enhancements, we managed to test all products extensively, documentation was improved significantly, and last but not least, we were on time. The only thing that did not go as planned was the releases of the two brand new products r.a.d.callback (http://www.telerik.com/r.a.d.callback) and r.a.d.dock (http://www.telerik.com/r.a.d.dock) which were not released with Q3. The new docking control and the...