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    Kendo UI overview video now live

    Looking for a quick explanation of Kendo UI? Need to know what makes Kendo UI's approach to JavaScript and HTML5 development unique? If you've got 2 minutes, we've got a video that will do just that! In this beta overview video, you'll quickly learn that Kendo...
    August 18, 2011
  • People

    Announcing the Speaking Lineup for Philly Day of Agile

    Technorati Tags: Agile,Conferences,Scrum,Kanban,Test Driven Development While we still have a couple of speakers that we are trying to work into the line-up (but we only have so many slots, so decisions are very tough), the lineup for the Philadelphia Day of Agile is gearing up to be an awesome event! We have international speakers, agile thought leaders, and experts in the field coming from all over the country to share their knowledge with you!  And the best part?  Admission is only $50!  This is less than half of what it costs to run this event, the rest is paid for by our generous...
    August 18, 2011
  • Release

    Introducing RadMessageBox for WP7

    We are happy to announce an intermediate release with which we officially declare that RadControls for Windows Phone now support Mango. This release includes a few improvements to the control suite, the most important of which is of course our updated list box that still performs better than the default, framework list box.  Aside from improved existing controls we also decided to include a message box that can be customized and restyled as required and that is extremely easy to use. It is also localized. To get a taste of what it is like to use RadMessageBox consider the following example. It demonstrates the...
  • Web

    A New Era in Application Development, Part I

    Roughly speaking, we have had four “eras” in the computing industry, each era defined by the dominate platform at the time. The eras were: Mainframe Minicomputer Client-Server Web I believe that we are now entering a 5th era: the Device + Cloud era. Simply said, the Device + Cloud (D+C) era is defined by users having multiple devices and running thin applications that share data via the cloud on each of them. As your use of the devices goes up, you rely...
    August 17, 2011
  • Productivity

    Manually set tag colours in TeamPulse

    With the release of TeamPulse 2011 R2 we have introduced the ability to create and assign tags to items within your backlog (stories, bugs, issues, and risks). When a new tag is created within a project it is assigned a random color from an internal list of colors. These colors can be helpful visual indicators, but what if your team wishes to add meaning behind the chosen colors? It sure would be nice to have the colors match up with the words in the screenshot above. While there currently is no in-app method for defining tag settings, those unafraid of ...
    August 17, 2011
  • Productivity

    One Year since TeamPulse V1

    I can’t believe it’s only been a year since we launched our first version of TeamPulse. We actually announced to the world that Telerik was entering into the world of Agile Project Management tooling in April of 2010, however, our first “official” release wasn’t until July 27th of 2010. Today we released our 4th official release of TeamPulse; the 2011 R2 release: http://www.telerik.com/agile-project-management-tools/whats-new.aspx Our initial release shipped with what we thought were a “core” set of features that we could build upon very aggressively to support our long term vision: In our latest release, we really nailed some ...
    August 16, 2011
  • People

    Build Your Custom RadControls Skin and Get in the Competition for a $200 ThinkGeek Gift Card

    Dear Telerik Community, We are happy to let you know that the Skin Sharing Portal, Telerik’s medium for community-shared skins for the RadControls, is back! Here’s what it brings for you: You can now share your amazing designs and skins for our components with your peers You can download different free skins and PSD files that you can use to style your applications Until August 31st (! Deadline extended until Sept 15th !) you can submit your custom skin (of at least 7 skinned RadControls), collect as many tweets with your skin name and the #TelerikSkins hashtag and win a $200 ThinkGeek...
    August 15, 2011
  • Web

    Our Strategy Has NOT Shifted – Telerik, HTML5 and Silverlight

    Todd Anglin from our team posted a great blog entry yesterday. In it, he provides some interesting examination and commentary on Microsoft’s vision of the web, the birth of XAML technologies and the evolution of MS’s view on what the development experience for the web should be. Some of Todd’s main points are that  We should not be terribly surprised by Microsoft’s swings in direction.  The swings are driven by competitive pressure.  HTML5+JS+CSS3 is a viable application development stack.  You need good tooling for that (and he makes a gentle Kendo plug). The blog also received a number of interesting comments that made me think Todd was being...
    August 12, 2011
  • Web

    Location Crosshair for Silverlight Chart

    Hello everyone, This blog post will demonstrate how to add location crosshair for RadChart as well as location indicator (achieved by two TextBlock-s that track the current mouse location). To achieve the crosshair functionality you will add two custom gridlines to the ChartArea (each of them parallel to one of the axes). Also, you will need three events – MouseEnter, MouseLeave and MouseMove to track the mouse cursor position and “move” the gridlines across the plot area. By handling the MouseEnter and MouseLeave events you’ll change the visibility of the gridlines to Visible and Collapsed whenever the mouse cursor enters or leaves the...
    August 12, 2011
  • Web

    Supporting a Dinosaur: Time to end IE6 support?

    Like it or not (and, frankly, I’m not sure who likes it), IE6 is not yet 100% dead. Try as is it might, the web developer community and even Microsoft have failed to put this ancient, broken browser in the dust bin more than 10 years after its...
    August 12, 2011