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  • Mobile

    Is This Thing On? (Part 2)

    In our last post we looked very briefly at the APIs currently available to help detect connectivity state in mobile/web apps. Our conclusion? Browser APIs have a long way to go in this area! Nevertheless, when used together – and in tandem with a heartbeat check that attempts to talk to a remote endpoint – these tools can be quite useful. But what's the best way to use them 'together'? At the end of part 1, I said that I think a state machine abstraction would work well to manage all of this…but you might be wondering, "What's a state machine?". Before I show you the what and how of finite state machines, I think it's important for us to understand the why of state machines. So, grab some popcorn and prepare to laugh (and hopefully commiserate) as I walk you through what it could look like to solve the connectivity problem without a proper state machine.
    May 10, 2013 11 min read
  • Release

    Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2013 SP1: Improved Chart, Calendar Enhancements and Much More

    It’s been a while since we had our official Q1 2013 release and what a better way to show you what we've been working on than a Service Pack. Q1 2013 SP1 comes as a milestone in the development of our Chart control as it introduces a ton of new functionality (multiple axes, empty values, annotations etc.). In addition, Calendar now supports different date formats and can display the date in different calendars such as Hebrew, Hijri and many others. And finally, we've improved the integration between the DataBoundListBox and the Expander even further.
    April 18, 2013 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Alternate Rendering Tricks for Mobile Websites with ASP.Net and AJAX Controls

    We're going to bust the myth that ASP.Net web forms cannot output HTML5 and mobile friendly user interfaces. In this article, Jeff will show you some tips and tricks to adapt your ASP.Net web forms project to handle formatting for browsers on mobile devices.
    April 15, 2013 4 min read
  • Mobile

    Getting Your Bearings

    There is no shortage of confusion around the question of which path to take when targeting mobile devices. Entire white papers cover this topic and are still incomplete. With that in mind, my goal with this post is to provide, perhaps, a starting point. Getting answers is critical, of course - but knowing the questions to ask is the first step.
    April 04, 2013 6 min read