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    A Quick Look at the Q2 2012 Release of the Telerik Extensions for ASPNET MVC

    How time flies! Seems like just yesterday we were rolling out with a fresh new release of the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, but here we are ready to go with the next iteration. As always with a new release we want to do a quick highlight of what is new in the product suite, so get excited everyone – here’s the latest news on the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. Platform Support We’ve added quite a lot of new things in the way of support to this release. First of all we have the highly anticipated support of the latest IDE...
  • Release

    The new theming engine for WinForms: Speed, give me what I need

    We suppose you have already read the Q2 2012 Announcement blog for WinForms and have noticed the three new great controls that we developed for you – RadChartView, RadAutoCompleteBox and RadTextBoxControl. We also feel, however, that one of the big new things about Q2 2012 may remain unnoticed in the bunch of innovations. Therefore, we decided to dedicate a separate blog post to it. This improvement concerns one of the most important things for each and every application – performance. Namely, in our latest release we introduced a new and improved theming engine. It minimizes the startup time for your application and...
  • Release

    Telerik Reporting Q2 2012: Access Reports Stored in Different Locations and Formats

    We are very happy to announce the Q2 2012 release of Telerik Reporting. The release includes the official version of the standalone Telerik Report Designer. There is no beta tag any more and we have added support for sub-reports, navigation actions (such as drill-down and drill-through), and many UI updates. Some of the UI updates are ribbon tools for borders and format setup, as well as contextual tabs for modifying the TextBox and Table items. One of the new and more important Q2 features are the Report Sources, because they add a natural abstraction to the different report formats, even...
    June 15, 2012
  • People

    One Best of TechEd 2012 Award, 2 New Products and Two More Awards in 2 Weeks’ Time

    It’s a great privilege for our team that the Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET won the Best of TechEd 2012 Award for Best Software development tool. Announcing every new award the Telerik products sweep means thanking all our customers for their support, for their feedback and for simply using our products every day. Perhaps it’s not by accident that the Best Software Development Tool Award coincided with the announcement of two new products at TechEd – Icenium and RadControls for Metro. Do check them out and request your invitation code. Another great news on the awards front is that Kendo UI – one of...
    June 15, 2012
  • Release

    Telerik XAML controls Q2 2012 are here

     After another 4 months of hard working I am pleased to present to you the latest XAML release for Silverlight and WPF Q2 2012. Again, we put a lot of love and effort in our components and the result is 2 brand new controls, one of our existing components “grew” from its Beta to an official version and of course a numerous new features and improvements across all controls. Our new RadHeatMap control is in its Beta stage, but I hope you’ll find it as exciting as I do. Heatmaps are a matrix like controls which use color to encode a value along...
  • Desktop WPF

    Where did my RadChart go? (Silverlight/WPF)

    Many of you have probably noticed that RadChart is missing from the online demos for WPF and Silverlight. What’s going on? Don’t worry. We are publishing this blog post as a list of FAQ (frequently asked questions) which should cover most of your concerns. Q. Is RadChart for WPF/Silverlight gone for good? Definitely not. The RadChart control (Telerik.Windows.Controls.Charting.dll) is still shipping with all installers and zip files. Q. Why is then RadChart missing from the online demos? The answer to this question is two-fold. First of all beginning with Q1 2012 we have released our RadChartView control for Silverlight and WPF. This control is designed...
  • People

    glƏƏk!, Baseball Pro ’12, Kony 2012, Play the Hunt, ManyAppz…

    This is just a tiny bit of the last updates on our Windows Phone Showcase Gallery page. It currently features 168 apps, and 50 more waiting to be uploaded. If you are looking for an inspiration, check out the newest, smartest, and sleekest apps at the Telerik Windows Phone Showcase Gallery. Among them, you will find,glƏƏk!, the social miracle, winner of the 3rd place in the “Best User Experience 2012 Award” . Moreover, there are some very useful Tools + Productivity Apps, such as Carbon Trip, ..honey, I got it!, etc. For more info, check out the...
  • Mobile

    What is a Hybrid Mobile App?

    Over the past week, since we released the first beta of Icenium, I’ve been talking with lots of web and mobile web developers who are either starting to...
    June 15, 2012
  • People

    Doug Seven on Cross-Platform Development Challenges

    While at TechEd 2012 NA I had the pleasure of sitting down with Richard Campbell of the Tablet Show for a short discussion on some of the exciting technologies being talked about, and my thoughts on cross-platform mobile development. Watch the video here.
    June 15, 2012