Telerik blogs
  • Mobile

    Introducing Design-Time Gallery for RadChart for Windows 8/XAML

    We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the RadChart design-time gallery feature that is part of our latest RadControls for Windows 8 XAML Q2 2013 release. Some of you that have used our charting components for the other XAML platforms are probably familiar with the concept and would be happy to hear that we have now incorporated the same visual tooling and productivity boost to our Windows 8 XAML control as well.
    June 24, 2013 2 min read
  • Mobile

    How to Build a Windows 8 Like Portal Page with Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX TileList Control

    Get started with the new RadTileList control by revamping the Visual Studio 2012 ASP.NET Web Forms Application template to a modern portal page with a Windows 8 look and feel.
    June 20, 2013 7 min read
  • Release

    Meet RadCalendar for Windows 8 XAML

    It is our pleasure to announce the newest RadControls for Windows 8 XAML member – RadCalendar. Following all the principles and design patterns of the modern UI, RadCalendar will deliver flexibility and style to your Windows Store applications.
    June 18, 2013 4 min read
  • Mobile

    RadCalendar for Windows 8 HTML

    This blog post introduces the new addition to the RadControls for Windows 8 HTML suite - the RadCalendar control. The control supports many features, which allow developers to build simple and complex Windows Store Apps that can benefit from an intuitive, usable and touch-optimized UI for picking dates, from booking applications to todo lists.
    June 18, 2013 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Data Storage for Windows Store Apps - a Walkthrough

    With the Q2 Release of RadControls for Windows 8 we announced a new Data Storage framework that fills the gap of a local database solution missing in Windows 8/RT. Our solution is based on the well-established SQLite engine but provides additional functionality. Particularly, we implemented a LINQ to SQLite provider and some simple ORM features for the .NET Framework on top of it. On the JavaScript and HTML 5 side, the ORM capabilities are wrapped by a lightweight library which allows JavaScript developers to take advantage of the local database storage using JS objects and standard SQL expressions.
    June 13, 2013 6 min read