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  • Release

    RadControls for Silverlight 5 + SP1 Officially Released!

    Hello everyone, Santa came early this week with RadControls for Silverlight 5 and the Q3 2011 Service Pack 1! Just last week I blogged that we will be releasing our Silverlight 5 build of RadControls shortly. I am pleased to announce that it is currently available to download right now by heading to your client account and selecting RadControls for Silverlight. This is built against Silverlight 5 and has passed all our Q/A checks for use in production applications.  We have however, noticed some quirks that made it through to the SL5 runtime from Microsoft (including the RadRichTextBox  wizard for SL...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone

    We are most excited to announce the immediate availability of our Q3 2011 Service Pack 1 release of RadControls for Windows Phone. Together with all the bug fixes and improvements, we also managed to add several cool new features in our controls. LiveTileHelper, Date/Time pickers Step property, Radar charts and financial indicators as well as the much requested pinch-to-zoom functionality for RadSlideView showing pictures. The pinch-to-zoom gesture is well known and most of the users are familiar with it. More, people will expect it from any application that displays pictures in a gallery. Well, no need to implement your own gesture handling; it is all...
    December 22, 2011 2 min read
  • Mobile

    RadDate- & RadTimePicker for Windows Phone 7 extended to support custom selector intervals

    It is a common scenario when we would like to limit the selectable values in a time or date picker control. Normally we would do this by setting an allowed date-time range but a more sophisticated case is when we also want to filter out some selection possibilities and allow only specific ones. Imagine an application that provides the end-user with the possibility to create reminders that can only happen in time intervals of 15 minutes: 3:00 AM, 3:15 AM, 3:30 AM... Here we don’t want to prevent the user from selecting values from the whole time-range, but want to make some...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Design

    5 Tips for Stellar Metro-Style Holidays

    Yes, it’s that time of the year. We just exchanged gifts here in the Telerik office and we thought it’s time to present our gift to you, our customers. ;-) Here’s what we have prepared to wish you very happy holidays – this small but essential guide on how to celebrate them metro-style. Do you have any other tips? Please share them in the comments section below. We wish you Happy Metro Holidays! The Telerik Team
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    Service Pack 1 of RadControls for WinForms Q3 2011 now available

    We could not stop ourselves from serving you yet another portion of great new features, improvements and fixes, so we decided that it is time for a Service Pack. The interest that we received for our RadPanorama control, multi-touch support and the other new cool bits of the suite naturally made the suite even cooler for this Service Pack. Here are the highlights for this release: RadScheduler built-in multi-touch behavior. Now your end-user can switch between views or navigate in a view by a multi-touch operation Improved RadPanorama design-time support. Playing with tiles has never been more fun. With the specifically designed Live Tile Editor...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    Announcing RadControls for WindowsPhone Q3.11 Service Pack1 release

    Today we are releasing a Service Pack 1 of Q3.2011 release for RadControls for WindowsPhone. The files are available for download here. Among the fixes and improvements, based on the feedback we've got in the last month, we had the time to add and the following new features to the product:  - LiveTileHelper - with this helper you can easily create and pin LiveTiles from your application to the device home screen. The key feature we are adding on top of the standard live tiles in the Silverlight framework is the ability to create dynamic and custom designed tiles. All you need...
    December 21, 2011 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Create beautiful and dynamic Live Tiles with Telerik LiveTileHelper

    Download the sample project here. In the quest of making Windows Phone developers life easier we decided to add a little addition to Telerik Windows Phone toolkit with the Service Pack that was announced today. One of the coolest things that were added in the Mango update of the Windows Phone OS was the support of secondary live tiles. With secondary live tiles you can add a link on the home screen of the device which can point to any Page inside your application. With the default support for live tiles that comes from the Silverlight framework you get a fixed template for the live tile...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    New Video: Common Functional Testing Problems

    I’ve just posted up a new video on Telerik TV, Common Functional Testing Problems, which will help you understand three common issues people run in to when working with automation for web applications: JavaScript interfering with text injection into input fields Dynamic data (such as AJAX or Silverlight service calls) where Elements you need to interact with aren’t present on the page until after a service call completes The elements you need to interact with are on the page, but the content in them isn’t present until after the service call completes The video walks you through each of ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Live Data and Source Code in JustTrace

    Although it was only a month ago when JustTrace Q3 2011 was released, we've launched JustTrace Q3 2011 SP1 with two new major features: a completely redone “Live Data” view and the ability to view source code. In addition, a number of enhancements have been made, resulting in a smoother user experience. Visit the What’s New page for a list of all changes. Live Data View The Live Data view has been updated to provide visual information via charts representing CPU and memory usage. This enables you to visualize how the profiled application process is currently affecting performance and memory consumption. More importantly, you now see...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Mobile

    Smartphone shipments outpaced PCs in ALL of 2011

    At the end of 2010, it was big news when all of the analyst firms reported that smartphone shipments had out-paced PC shipments in the final quarter of the year for the first time in history. Never before had the traditional PC been out-shipped by a different...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read