Telerik blogs
  • Release

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q1 2010 Introduces New Visual Designer

    Q1 2010 will be a milestone release for our enterprise-grade ORM. With it we will introduce the new Visual Designer for OpenAccess ORM. The designer will give developers the ability to map their databases on a specially designed graphical surface as well as perform modifications to the mapping process and the domain model. Some of the features included in the designer are: The DSL Designer – This is a specialized visual editor that visualizes the mapped classes and their relationships. You will be able to easily interact with them with simple point-and-click actions. The designer will also offer a contextual menu...
    March 04, 2010 3 min read
  • Release

    Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Official Release is Just Around the Corner

    The Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC continue to march triumphantly towards their v1 in the Q1 2010 release. Thanks to your valuable feedback during the past few months, we were able to shape our roadmap and produce the next batch of UI extensions: TreeView, Calendar, DatePicker and a set of 4 Input components - NumericTextBox, CurrencyTextBox, PercentTextBox and IntegerTextBox. All of them are lightweight, semantically rendered, embracing the ASP.NET MVC principles and designed to deliver maximum performance to your MVC applications. The flagship component, Grid for ASP.NET MVC, matures more and more with its latest enhancements. You can now achieve multi-level grouping,...
    March 02, 2010 2 min read
  • Release

    Improvements in the visual appearance of RadSlider for ASP.NET AJAX

    The RadSlider is getting a subtle, but still important update for its visual appearance in the Q1 2010 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. We made the appearance of all skins be consistent so you can have more choice when it comes to picking the right one for your application. Here is the comparison between the old an new look: The first difference is that we have added a border at both ends of the slider track. The border is not part of the track itself. The second difference is that all slider arrows now have a background and look...
    February 26, 2010 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Performance Gains and Advanced Data Visualization Brought to RadControls for Silverlight and WPF with Q1 2010

    For the past two years our Silverlight and WPF teams have been aggressively adding new controls to both XAML suites. Offering more than 70 controls for Silverlight and WPF in total, we concentrated our efforts in the last month on strengthening other aspects of the suites: delivering unmatched performance, enhancing and polishing RadControls themes and providing new and highly advanced features, especially for the data visualization controls. Get a glimpse of what’s hot in the upcoming Q1 2010 release!  Utilizing the concepts of UI and Data virtualization into the data-centric controls, Telerik provides real-time performance even when the controls are using millions...
    February 25, 2010 2 min read
  • Release

    Q1 WinForms Preview TODAY, New Visual Style Builder

    This week's weekly webinar is special. It will deliver one of your first "sneak peeks" at some of the new functionality shipping in the rapidly approaching Q1 2010 release (scheduled for mid-March). The Thursday Weekly Webinar will provide a complete overview of a brand new tool shipping with the RadControls for WinForms in Q1: the new Visual Style Builder for WinForms. The new Visual Style Builder is a completely new tool, not a minor upgrade of the old VSB for WinForms. It dramatically simplifies the process of creating custom themes for the RadControls for WinForms, and in so doing unlocks more of...
    February 25, 2010 1 min read