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    Kendo UI Now Available

    The day has finally arrived! Kendo UI v1 is now, as I type, officially available on KendoUI.com. This marks the end of the official Kendo UI beta and begins the next phase of Kendo UI's life as an official, commercially available product. To fully understand today's release,...
    November 30, 2011
  • Release

    RadControls for Windows Phone Q3 2011 Webinar Now Available on Telerik

    It has been an exciting day today as we completed the Q3 2011 Windows Phone 7 Webinar. As always, all of our webinars are available for viewing on tv.telerik.com. So far, the following webinars are available for viewing: What's New in Windows Phone 7 What's New in Silverlight and WPF Recorded Webinar What's New in ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC Overview video of What’s New in Q3 2011 (All Products) Some of the new controls covered in the Windows Phone 7 presentation are: BulletGraph ContextMenu AutoCompleteBox ToggleSwitch MessageBox SlideView The Source Code to the presentation is also available to download now. We have several other great webinars lined up that you may...
    November 30, 2011
  • Desktop WinForms

    Bringing Windows 8 UI to Windows 7 with RadPanorama for WinForms. Today.

    Or how to uncover the touch horizons for your applications. The once unnamed RadPanorama control is here to make your Windows Forms applications rock! Together with the Touch API we have introduced in our previous blog, it brings the full power of touch-optimized applications to your Windows 7 users. If you have not heard anything about RadPanorama before, let us introduce it with a few words. Basically, this new control allows you to represent a small amount of data in the form of tiles that the end-user is able to smoothly scroll left or right with a gesture, just like in Win8, and...
    November 30, 2011
  • Release

    Q3 2011 What's New in Telerik Silverlight and WPF Webinar is Live On-Demand

    In case anyone in the audience has been sleeping for the past couple of weeks, we're smack in the middle of the annual Webinar Week for the Telerik Q3 2011 release. It's now 11:03AM EST on Tuesday, meaning you've already gotten to see the kick-off, data, phone, and Xaml webinars and are probably watching Ajax/MVC right now - but in case you missed any of these you're in luck.  All of our recorded content makes its way up to Tv.Telerik.com for your viewing pleasure, so head on over here in case you missed the live What's new in Xaml webinar yesterday to see everything that's...
    November 29, 2011
  • Release

    New and Updated Demos for RadScheduler (ASP.NET AJAX) Part I

    I have provided technical support for RadScheduler since its inception and I can say that it is truly like an iceberg - the more you dive in knowing the control the more you come to appreciate its power, richness of features, potential for customization and flexibility. But what good is something if you don't know that it exists? For the Q3 2011 release, we have made a thorough review of the RadScheduler demos and realized that they show only a fraction of RadScheduler's potential. So, we have updated some old demos and added a few new ones. We will continue this practice in the future...
    November 29, 2011
  • People

    Telerik at Agile Testing Days

    Just a few short weeks ago, Telerik was a proud sponsor for 2011 ‘Agile Testing Days’ event in Potsdam, Germany. This event brought together agile testers from all over Europe to converse and learn in an intimate setting. Jim Holmes and Daniel Levy were there to guide the European agile testing community through many of the recent advancements that have been made in our automated functional and performance testing software, Test Studio.  Those who dropped by the Telerik booth were treated to in-depth product demos and some amazing ‘SWAG’ including our new testing t-shirts featuring a soon-to-be-named character. While the event has...
    November 29, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q3 2011 – Connection Pooling in Oracle environments

    With the Q3 2011 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced three connection pool types which are explained in this blog post. In this blog post we will have a look at the connection pooling behavior of the Oracle driver and what setting to be used when we want to use Telerik OpenAccess ORM with Oracle databases.   Which setting for Oracle and why? When we want to use Oracle as our backend, it is advisable to use the connection pool type Open Access Connection Pool with OpenAccess Connection Management or the Ado Connection Pool setting. When using one of the two settings, we...
    November 29, 2011
  • Release

    Introducing Telerik Color Editor for Silverlight and WPF

    We are proud to introduce the newest member of the Telerik XAML family - the Color Editor. With its powerful color selection mechanism, the Color Editor allows an intuitive way of picking your desired color. The Color Editor provides support for few of the major color modes - RGB, HSV, HLS and CMYK. In addition, the Color Editor allows you to edit each individual channel of the above mentioned color models. Let's begin with the most basic declaration of the Color Editor in XAML. <telerik:RadColorEditor Height="220" Width="400" /> By changing the value in the color mode drop-down you can control which color model is currently active. As mentioned...
    November 29, 2011
  • Release

    Q3 2011 Webinar Week, This Week!

    Unlike the Webinar Weeks from the last few releases, this time we're doing things a little differently. With more than 12 products to talk about, we needed a new format that would let us cover more topics in fewer days, so with Q3 2011 there will be multiple webinars today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. The full schedule for the week looks like this: Date Time Topic Monday, Nov 28 9:30 AM Kick-off, Webinar Week Overview 11:00 AM Silverlight & WPF 12:30 PM Data Tools Tuesday, Nov 29 9:30 AM Windows Phone 11:00 AM AJAX & MVC 12:30 PM Tools for Better Code 2:00 PM Test Studio Wednesday, Nov 30 9:30 AM Preparing for Windows 8 11:00 AM Putting It All Together 12:30 PM Sitefinity 4 Thursday, Dec 1 11:00 AM Kendo UI Launch...
    November 28, 2011
  • Mobile

    Building a Picture Browser app for Windows Phone using RadSlideView and RadDataBoundListBox

    One of the fresh new add-ons for the official Q3 2011 release of RadControls for Windows Phone is RadSlideView. The control provides smooth and slick user experience allowing for navigating a sequence of content items slide-by-slide. The control is also fully aware of orientation changes and the items are resized and re-arranged accordingly to the current orientation. In this post I want to demonstrate how easy it is to build a simple picture-browser application based on our RadDataBoundListBox and RadSlideView controls.   Download Demo What’s more interesting in the demo: Simulating Wrap Layout with RadDataBoundListBox Building a custom control to be used for image holder Using RadSlideView with SlideViewPictureSource  App architecture It is...
    November 28, 2011