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    Q1 2012 Keynote Recording & Resources

    Phew! Yesterday was a HUGE day for Kendo UI. Not only did we officially ship the latest Kendo UI release (right on schedule), we also held a BIG online keynote where nearly 2,000 people joined us live to see what’s new in Kendo UI. If you can imagine 2,000 people...
    March 23, 2012 4 min read
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    Kendo UI Q1 2012 Release Available Now

    The moment you longed-for, fellow JavaScript developers, has finally come! The next important milestone in Kendo UI's progress towards an all-in-one HTML5/JS framework for cross-platform and cross-device development has arrived! The fresh Q1'12 bits are now available for immediate download, marking the first official release of...
    March 23, 2012 7 min read
  • People

    [Podcast] Know Thy Customer - Part 2 with Pete Brown and Rachel Appel

    Listen to Part 2 of ours discussion with Pete Brown and Rachel Appel on how to Know Thy Customer. Download Podcast
    March 22, 2012 1 min read
  • Release

    RadControls for WinForms Q1 2012 SP1 is here

    Just a month and a week after yet another great WinForms release, it is time to complement this release with your feedback in the form of cool improvements and fixes. Among the highlights of the release are: Support for printing of appointments grouped by resource. Localization providers for RadTimePicker and our Printing dialogs. Sorting GridViewComboBoxColumn by DisplayMember in unbound mode. A bunch of fixes. For more information, you can check our Release Notes. Go and get Q1 2012 SP1 from your Telerik account now. As always, your feedback will be greatly appreciated. Happy...
    March 22, 2012 1 min read
  • Web

    XAMLflix Presents RadPDFViewer for Silverlight and WPF

    Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadPDFViewer 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 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 have to learn how to use these controls once! You can simply copy and paste the code between frameworks. RadPDFViewer – Say Goodbye to installing additional software! The RadPDFViewer control allows you to...
    March 22, 2012 2 min read
  • Mobile

    New Hub Tile Control for Your Windows Phone Apps

    With our Q1 2012 SP1 release we managed to bundle something that will make your apps go off the fanciness chart, something that will make your apps look way better. That something is called RadHubTile and the WP7 home screen experience is now available to your apps without any effort. Just put one of the hub tiles we have prepared for you on your page and watch your app shine. That probably sounds great but how do you actually use that thing? “Where are the classes!?” I hear you shout. They will be revealed a little later because I think it’s time...
    March 22, 2012 2 min read
  • People

    Interview with Jim on STP Radio Live

    Tuesday, March 19th, I had the pleasure of appearing on STP Radio Live hosted by Rich Hand. This live blogtalk radio show centers around talking with people who are presenting sessions at upcoming Software Test Professionals conferences. (By the way, that’s a picture of Rich, not me!) Rich invited me to talk about test automation in general, plus we covered what my “Automation Isn’t All Shiny Toys” presentation’s about. We also chatted on the main points of my article at STPCon "3 Common Pitfalls when Functional Testing a Web Application.” Our chat on the show covered ...
    March 22, 2012 1 min read
  • Release

    Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012 SP1

    Now that Q1 2012 has been out for a while we have managed to gather some very useful feedback from you on the new stuff that we released with it and with Q1 2012 SP1 it’s time to bring it officially to you. Besides the fine tuning of existing functionality, we are really proud to announce one pretty important and powerful new component that can easily make your application shine: RadHubTile:          This component brings the Windows Phone home screen experience directly to your app without much complexity. It not only covers all native Tile behaviors (animations, layouts etc.) but delivers even new...
    March 21, 2012 2 min read
  • Web

    MVVM / Declarative Initialization And HTML5 Data Attributes

    Since the introduction of Custom Data Attributes in the HTML5 spec, developers have discovered a whole new world of possibilities.  When you combine the ability to store arbitrary information in an HTML element with the power of JavaScript, you get some very interesting alternative development experiences. One of...
    March 21, 2012 7 min read
  • Release

    RadDiagram Q2.2012 Roadmap

    It was just a month ago when we released the first version of the RadDiagram control/framework and now is time to share with you some plans about the future. We (and our partner and friend - The Orbifold) are very committed to the RadDiagram success and becoming one of the top diagramming frameworks for WPF and Silverlight out there. We will be pushing new features and possibilities as much as possible as well as trying to reach different platforms. Official for Q2 As you already know it is currently in beta state (even we think it is more than a beta) but with the upcoming...
    March 20, 2012 2 min read