Telerik blogs
  • People

    I know what you’re thinking, and you’re wrong.

    A blog by Doug Seven, Executive Vice President at Telerik. (Original post here) Its day 2 of the Microsoft Build conference, and if you’ve been keeping up with the hype you are probably thinking that you need to throw away that WPF or Silverlight app you’re building and start fresh with HTML5 or this new XAML that is the future. If that is what you are thinking, you are wrong. Everything you are doing today you should keep doing. The world didn’t end for you, and your job is not at risk (at least not because of this!). As a .NET...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • People

    Hot Interviews Straight from the BUILD Venue

    Straight from the BUILD Venue, we’ve got Richard Campbell from DotNetRocks in an open-air studio, interviewing industry influencers. First on the hot chair is Miguel Carrasco reflecting on day 1 of //build/ 2011. See how a UX guy feels about Silverlight, WPF and HTML 5.     Next is Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio. Follow this page for...
    September 14, 2011 1 min read
  • Release

    Telerik: Delivering More than Expected at //build/….in a Lamborghini Gallardo

    How are you getting to //build/? Need a ride from your hotel to the conference center? Not too inspired by shuttle buses? How about a Lamborghini Gallardo?  If you’re at //build/, you’ll likely witness the unveiling of something so new and exciting that it will change your life, as well as millions of other developers worldwide. To celebrate the anticipated ‘big news’ from Microsoft, Telerik will be giving random //build/ attendees rides to the conference center in a Lamborghini Gallardo driven by our Vice President, Doug Seven (@dseven). Just wave your attendee badge at Doug and he will swing over and give...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • People

    The New Kindle: Android Tablet Killer

    I have argued before that the Android tablet market is a mess and can’t compete with the iPad. I said that the Android manufacturers were developing a tabletized laptop while Apple was developing an “experience” centered around their integrated services.  I made the claim that only Amazon can really take on the iPad with its integrated experience and books, music, video service as well as its own AppStore. Last week it was leaked that Amazon is nearly done with a 7 inch Kindle branded Android tablet. It should sell for about $249 and hit the markets in October or November....
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Exciting WP7 Marketplace Statistics Revealed

    Telerik RadControls for WP7 is the most widely used commercial UI suite on the marketplace. Says who? Says Justin Angel. The man kindled the WP7 dev world with exciting Marketplace statistics. He has downloaded all Windows Phone 7 XAP’s using the Windows Phone 7 marketplace API’s and has answered a bunch of questions that preoccupy a lot of Windows Phone devotees’ minds. Justin found out that 97% of the apps on the Marketplace are not obfuscated and that the Silverlight platform accounts for 90% of the WP7 apps compared to 10% for XNA. There is a very interesting piece of information about...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read