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Mobile
Comparison of RadControls for Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Toolkit.
Overview RadControls for Windows Phone 7 completes the missing controls and functionalities from the UI Toolbox for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone Toolkit. We not only offer controls not found in those resources, but we build upon existing controls they have created to offer our users a better experience. Our controls also aim to cut the development time by providing controls based on user feedback. Lastly, our controls are optimized for performance. A quick example of this is our RadDataBoundListBox compared to the ListBox offered in the Toolkit. Our control can handle hundreds of thousands of records without performance degradation....May 23, 2012 -
Release
See the early bits in action – Try Telerik’s AJAX Q2’12 Beta
I am happy to share with you that the Q2 2012 Beta of Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls is here and you can try it right away. Just as the Q1 2012 SP1 was full of fixes, today’s Beta is full of new features and controls. Let’s have a quick trip. NEW CONTROLS Barcode – The control allows you to visualize barcodes for your products using the most popular standards. It’s really easy to use and configure. The resulting image is rendered as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) in the modern browsers where HTML5 allows embedding SVG in your web pages. In older browsers the output...May 23, 2012
by Iana Tsolova
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Desktop WPF
XAMLFlix RadDataBars Tutorial for Silverlight and WPF
Every Wednesday we publish a new tutorial based on the XAMLFlix video series. This gives you the same information as the video, but in a searchable text form. This week we are looking at RadDataBars. RadDataBars are a very useful way to display information about relative sizes and percentages. RadDataBars come in three flavors: RadDataBar RadStackedDataBar RadStacked100DataBar The RadDataBar reflects a single value, typically as a horizontal bar. The RadStackedDataBar reflects a series of values and their relative sizes, one stacked upon another . The RadStacked100DataBar is much like the RadStackedDataBar except that it is sized to fill the entire provided area -- each value given a...May 23, 2012 -
Mobile
Introducing the ActionSheet for Kendo UI Mobile
Highlights New! ActionSheet introduced in the Q1 2012 SP of Kendo UI Mobile (v2012.1.515) ActionSheet displays a set of choices related to a task the user initiates Super-easy to add the ActionSheet to your apps built on Kendo UI Mobile Easy to add ActionSheet to existing Kendo UI Mobile applications (i.e. TeamThing) Introduction In case you missed it,...May 23, 2012 -
Productivity Testing
Webinar Series: Getting Started With Web UI Automation
I mentioned earlier that we’ll be hosting a three day “lunch and learn” format webinar designed to help folks new to web UI automation get off on the right foot. We’ll be covering lots of fundamental concepts to help you and your team succeed with automation instead of falling in to the pit of despair. You can start signing up now for the webinar! You’ll only need to sign up once, and you can join us for any or all of the sessions. The webinar is a three day series, with each day’s sessions running somewhere between 30 and ...May 23, 2012 -
Mobile
How to make money from your Windows Phone app free webinar. Sign-up now! Check out the prizes.
It’s official. Building top-notch mobile app that generates actual revenue takes more than a smart idea, developer’s skills, excellent tools and nice implementation. The app needs promotion and you as a developer need to take advantage of every potential opportunity for making money. Join us for our free webinar where we’ll talk about how to make money from your Windows Phone app. We’ll cover topics such as: the composite parts of a mobile app; discoverability of the app, best methods for monetization and best methods for re-engagement. We’re co-hosting the webinar with Tapjoy, a company offering a mobile advertising and publishing...May 22, 2012 -
Web
XAMLflix Video Tutorial: RadCoverFlow for Silverlight
Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadCoverFlow for Silverlight. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadCalculator and RadGauge. This week we will be taking a look at RadCoverFlow for Silverlight and WPF. What is XAMLflix you might ask? Well, it is Telerik’s way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Telerik’s XAML suite. Each and every Tuesday and Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control. Since our Silverlight and WPF share a common codebase and API, you only...May 22, 2012 -
Mobile
How to design a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Part 2
Welcome to the second blog where we talk about the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the Windows 8 and the Windows Phone platforms and what this means to designers and developers. In the first blog post we covered: Design process Layout and navigation In this part we will take a deeper look at: Commands and actions Touch Orientation and views Notifications and live tiles Telerik upcoming Windows 8 suite You can download the full series as: high resolution pdf (~7 MB), or low resolution pdf (~2 MB).May 22, 2012 -
Productivity
Localization of the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal
With the 2012 R2 Release, localization of the Ideas and Feedback Portal is as easy as editing a text file! Background Localization is the process of changing the text in an application to another language, or locale. Well designed applications allow for changing the text that is displayed without having to branch the source code and recompile, and TeamPulse certainly falls into this category. Built on Microsoft’s .NET Platform, TeamPulse takes full advantage of the localization features provided by the .NET Framework, allowing you to customize the Ideas and Feedback portal to the language that best meets your needs. Based on our customers’...May 21, 2012
by Phil Japikse
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Release
Windows Phone Controls Roadmap - what is coming in our next release
The next release of RadControls for WindowsPhone is near and I would like to shed some light on what we have been working on in the last three months. In this blog post I'll just highlight the new goodies, more details will be available later as we approach to release. The first thing that I want to share is the work that we did to improve the total experience in creating applications with our tools. Matching the Metro design guidelines and designing your application to the highest Metro standards sometimes is hard and we decided to give you a major help in this...May 21, 2012
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