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  • Release

    Get your Learn on With Telerik 2012 Q3 Webinar Week

    Webinar week is coming!  From October 22 to October 26, we will be hosting nine webinars showing off the best of what’s new, including an incredible level of support for Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8.  In addition to seeing all of the cool new features in Telerik’s ever expanding suite of products, you can have a chance to win valuable prizes, including DevCraft Ultimate licenses.  Please visit this link to register: http://www.telerik.com/developer-productivity-tools/whats-new.aspx I will personally be involved in three of the webinars, on Telerik Reporting, the Just suite of products, and support for Windows8 development. The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful...
    February 26, 2025 2 min read
  • Mobile

    How to Build a Picture Gallery app for Windows Phone - Part 3

    In this last part of the Picture Gallery blog series, we will discuss how the app handles errors and how RadControls for Windows Phone improved the development experience. In case you missed the previous two posts, they can be found here and here. Handling exceptions No application is complete without proper error handling. To be robust the application should handle the expected exceptions in a meaningful way or crash noisily when an unexpected error occurs. In the Picture Gallery app there are a few situations that should be expected.  The first and most important condition that we need to verify on app startup is whether...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Mobile

    Controlling current culture in your XAML Windows Store apps

    When building an application for Windows 8 we find the same known feature for Globalization through the CultureInfo.CurrentCulture and CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture properties, used in many cases where it comes to using culture-specific strings, formatting dates, numbers, etc. And while developing, you might be surprised that, in the common scenario, the current culture does not derive from the OS culture for the current machine. Then, how the current culture is resolved? It turns out that there is a way to get the correct OS UI culture. To understand the process I will start from a blank app and modify it for our needs. Package.appxmanifest default language When...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read