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    Telerik acquires Avaxo

    It’s a great pleasure to announce that Telerik completed the acquisition of Avaxo Ltd., makers of the Bookvar mind-mapping software. The Avaxo team will join Telerik’s Silverlight and WPF product groups in their quest to deliver next-generation interfaces. We plan to use Bookvar as a showcase application which incorporates (in the future) many of Telerik’s WPF and Silverlight components and demonstrates how to create brand new customer experiences using emerging Microsoft...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    WPF, Silverlight and the Telerik MIX Show Off videos

    This year the  MIX conference had a very cool Show Off contest. Here's what the organizers had to say about it: "At MIX08, we’re hosting what will be a world famous Show Off event. If you’ve ever wanted to put the smack down on lesser mortals, flex your brain, and get everyone to gloat at your—deservedly—awe-inspiring work, this is what might be called a prime opportunity. We want you to inspire others with your unique software, tip, tool, technique, animation, or anything else we can’t think of. All you need to do is create a short, 3-minute-or-less video demonstrating what you want...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms WPF

    Have a safe trip from WinForms to WPF

    We have received several requests so far by customers who one way or another ask for the same thing: "Can you make your WPF controls in such a way that later when I convert my WinForms application (which use your WinForms controls) to WPF I wouldn't need to deal with different APIs and inconsistencies?".   In general, this could be achieved if we had: the same feature set in these two product lines the same API for our WinForms controls and WPF controls The first point is feasible and we'll do our best to do it.   The second, however, is something we probably won’t do....
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Pony returns

    Well... I haven't blogged for so long that I almost forgot about this activity. One of my last posts was around the time we made "the big Bang release". It was so long ago (April 2007) that we spelled Rad as r.a.d. at that time. May be you remember that at that time there was a quest about the release and there was a forum thread about the quest. One guy (Mark Fitzpatrick) asked for RadPony. Well, we couldn't release a pony and it's still not sure it’s going to appear on the roadmap but somehow for me the pony...
    February 01, 2008 2 min read