In this second part of the picture gallery blog series we'll discuss how information is being passed between pages and how favorites are persisted to the phone's flash memory. If you haven't read the first part of this blog series, be sure to also check out the first part as well. Passing state When navigating between pages we need a mechanism to tell the new page what it will be visualizing. There are two ways to achieve this. One is to pass information between pages as parts of the query string in the page’s Uri. This is a rather limited approach and in...
Exciting news never comes alone. The brand-new Visual Studio 2012 is officially released bringing lots of good and handy new features, options and opportunities for all .NET developers. Telerik is never behind, and we’ve released Service Packs for your favorite Telerik tools that make them integrate seamlessly with Visual Studio 2012. The recent Telerik JustCode Service Pack 2 adds dynamic support for the new color themes in VS 2012. This means that if you change the colors and theme of your Visual Studio 2012 instance, JustCode will simply pick them up and use them. And if VS looks good, JustCode will look...
The other day I was looking with someone at the demos for the Kendo UI DropDown List and I noticed that the drop downs now have cascading functionality built right in out of the box. You would think that I would know these given the fact...
Test Studio 2012 R2 is nearly here! How close is it? I’ll tell you tomorrow. In the meantime, please join us for our release webinar next Wednesday, 26 September, at 11AM US Eastern. (Register here.) We’ll record the webinar and post it to Telerik TV; however, attending the webinar gives you the chance to ask questions and interact during the webinar. And one of you attending live will be lucky enough to win a free Instructor Led Online Training Session worth $349! The R2 release adds significant functionality around our Load and Performance testing, plus there are some ...
I am in Europe this week and for the next three weeks, traveling from city to city and giving presentations on Windows 8. Along the way I will be distilling these presentations into blog posts, adding in commentary about what I’m learning as I give the presentations.There are four presentations that I’m giving in total:Crash Course In Windows 8 ProgrammingWindows 8 Programming for .NET DevelopersTo 10 Things You’ll Love About Windows 8 ProgrammingCrash Course II – Beyond the Basics of Windows 8 ProgrammingLast evening I gave the second of these, and as I often do, I begin with a core...
IntroductionWe all love pizza. I know that I do and several have speculated how it will be ordered in the future. Don’t take my word for it, check out the video below:Ordering Pizza in the Future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJl9EEcsoEWhile it may seem strange that in the year 2015 people are using Windows 98 to order pizza, it may be more realistic to say they will be using Windows 8 instead. So, let’s build a Windows 8 HTML app using several new controls that are part of Telerik’s Windows 8 UI Controls that we have not seen yet. They include: RadDropDownList, RadSlider and RadGauge. Before We...
Telerik was proud to be a Gold Sponsor at the very first Smashing Conference this week, held by our friends from Smashing Magazine. The Conference was located in Freiburg, Germany September 17th-19th. According to Wikipedia, the name Freiburg means "fortified town of free citizens". The town was found in 1120 by Konrad and Duke Bertold III of Zähringen as a free market town. Today Freiburg is known as an eco-city, and successfully manages to mix the medieval atmosphere of the region with the modern eco-friendly lifestyle. The Freiburg Minster gothic cathedral dominates the central square of the city. Right next to it is...
Summary: In this post, I’ll share five practical tips (with code samples and illustrative videos) for making Kendo UI DataViz charts and graphs more accessible. These are things you can quickly and easily do in your own apps today to make it easier for disabled users to...
We are happy (well, and proud :)) to announce the public availability of our Windows 8 UI Controls Release Candidate, which allows you to build Windows Store-Ready Apps at no cost. This is an important milestone for us as we are getting closer to the official release and I just can’t wait to share what we have baked for you in this new release. Strictly following our commitment to deliver the same functionality to XAML and HTML developers all the new goodies are available for both environments. HubTile A screen of the First Look example in our Demo Center application Enrich your Windows Store...
If you are in Germany right now, you are probably attending BASTA! 2012 - the largest independent developer conference for Microsoft technologies in the country. With more than 120 exciting lectures, workshops, and sessions, it is an experience to remember. If you are enthusiastic about the conference and you don’t want to miss on any interesting lectures or workshops, then you need to get your hands on the official Windows Phone app of BASTA! 2012 built with Telerik UI controls for Windows Phone development. The app provides you with an overview of all the keynotes and presentations plus a floor plan with...