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  • Mobile

    New Hub Tile Control for Your Windows Phone Apps

    With our Q1 2012 SP1 release we managed to bundle something that will make your apps go off the fanciness chart, something that will make your apps look way better. That something is called RadHubTile and the WP7 home screen experience is now available to your apps without any effort. Just put one of the hub tiles we have prepared for you on your page and watch your app shine. That probably sounds great but how do you actually use that thing? “Where are the classes!?” I hear you shout. They will be revealed a little later because I think it’s time...
    March 22, 2012 2 min read
  • Release

    Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012 SP1

    Now that Q1 2012 has been out for a while we have managed to gather some very useful feedback from you on the new stuff that we released with it and with Q1 2012 SP1 it’s time to bring it officially to you. Besides the fine tuning of existing functionality, we are really proud to announce one pretty important and powerful new component that can easily make your application shine: RadHubTile:          This component brings the Windows Phone home screen experience directly to your app without much complexity. It not only covers all native Tile behaviors (animations, layouts etc.) but delivers even new...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls Support Visual Studio 11 Beta from Day One!

    Unless you missed it somehow, last week Microsoft released the public preview of Windows 8 along with the beta of Visual Studio 11. They are both available for download right now and we encourage you to check out the tiled future :). If you already did that and you are still wondering if it's possible to build normal ASP.NET AJAX web applications using the new Win and VS releases, then this blog post will be helpful to you! First of all, a new build of the Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX controls is available in your accounts, specifically targeting Visual Studio 11 beta! The features...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Wrap Layout + UI Virtualization = RadDataBoundListBox for WP

    The standard Silverlight for Windows Phone ListBox, as many of you already now, can be easily tuned to use a different Items Panel from the standardized Stack Panel. This is a really very powerful feature that many of pointed out was missing in RadDataBoundListBox. Since the WrapPanel is another commonly used layout panel in the ListBox context, many of you asked for similar feature in RadDataBoundListBox provided that it further extends to supporting the powerful UI virtualization approach that we already use in our control. Some time ago Georgi Atanasov from my team gave a very thorough explanation of how to mimic a Wrap Layout...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012

    Welcome to this milestone release for RadControls for Windows Phone, as it brings the suite to a whole new level - fully embracing the concept of Rapid Application Development. This is actually our first release which includes not only classic UI components, but also infrastructure that helps you implement and integrate very common scenarios used throughout mobile applications.                     But let’s just skip the  lengthy introduction and move directly to the unpacking. I’ll start with the entirely new components that are available now: RadPaginationControl – a really powerful approach to deliver rich content presentation in your WP application. This control allows you to enable...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read