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  • Release

    Introducing Telerik Patterns & Practices for Silverlight and WPF

    If you’re like me and you enjoy reading developer controls documentation (who doesn’t?), you may have noticed a new addition to the online documentation today for both RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a new effort we are launching alongside the Q3 2011 release – Telerik Patterns & Practices: Our first series for Telerik P&P is in direct response to a customer request, specifically for advice on how to handle an Event-to-Command scenario within their Silverlight application. Since there are more than a few ways to handle that we figured it would be...
    November 18, 2011
  • Release

    Want to Decompile Silverlight XAP files? Try JustDecompile Beta!

    Introduction JustDecompile is a new, free developer productivity tool designed to enable easy .NET assembly browsing and decompiling. In the past it has only worked with .NET assemblies, but today it also works with Silverlight XAP files. I’m going to walk you through a sample of using this functionality. Lets get started Head over to Telerik.com and click on the Download Beta button. After everything is downloaded and installed then you will see a new icon on your desktop called Telerik JustDecompile. Go ahead and double click it to open JustDecompile. Your screen should look like the following: ...
    November 18, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Get Better Performing Input Fields in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps

    As we are constantly trying to improve our controls, in Q3 2011 we are introducing new HTML rendering for Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Input control – single input rendering. First of all I should assure you that the old rendering is still available, so all your custom styles and complicated scenarios with RadInput will still work. Let’s check some of the advantages of the single input rendering mode comes with:  No table is used when having buttons and/or labels, which results in quicker rendering. Less HTML is rendered as a whole, which leads to less data transferred to the client. The control can show readable text when...
    November 18, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik XAML controls Q3 2011 comes with new ChartView and next-generation CRM demo

    Q3 2011 enriches our XAML suites with 6 new controls for Silverlight and 7 for WPF. ChartView for Silverlight | WPF   Our brand new ChartView control empowers users to understand and analyze complex data and ensures great performance for your applications requiring rich data visualization applications. The new architecture comes to serve the numerous requests for improvements in our existing RadChart control. We decided to build this new control from scratch to achieve the best results that could not have been done with the architecture of the old RadChart. The new ChartView reuses the charting engine from our Windows Phone 7 Chart and guarantees...
    November 17, 2011
  • Release

    TreeList for ASP.NET AJAX Enhanced with Keyboard Navigation and Export to PDF in Q3 2011

    Following the tradition of extending the accessibility support for our controls, we are glad to announce that, starting with the Q3 2011 Beta release, we have added keyboard support to Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX TreeList control as well. This enables the user to carry out most major operations of the control with a few handy shortcut keys. Some of the more important actions accessible through the keyboard are: Action Shortcut key focusing the control on the page Ctrl + Y single, multiple and range selection Ctrl/Shift + Space expand/collapse of items Left/Right arrow keys navigating the active row Up/Down arrow keys insert/update/delete operations Enter and Delete keys You can set the preferred keys and other...
    November 17, 2011
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM NuGet Packages for Code First Development

    We have a lot of exciting new features available in the Q3 2011 release of OpenAccess ORM.  Among my favorite additions are our awesome NuGet packages. These packages make it even easier to get started building a domain model using OpenAccess ORM’s fluent mapping, or code first, API. In this release we have added two NuGet packages to the NuGet repository. When these packages are added to a project, it will be configured automatically to work with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Free Edition.  Let’s take a look at these great new additions to OpenAccess. The Packages The OpenAccess.CodeFirst package sets up the project for code...
    November 17, 2011
  • Productivity

    The Most Efficient Way to Capture Customer Feedback in Microsoft TFS

    How much time and money would it cost you to capture feedback from 100 external users in your Microsoft Team Foundation Server projects? In this post we will show you that there is a simple and cost-effective way to do that and it's called the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal. But first let's start with some background information for TFS. The Challenges of Capturing Feedback in TFS Access to TFS  A lot of our customers use Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) as the heart of their development environment as TFS provides facilities to manage source control, manage automated builds, ...
    November 17, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik's Q3'11 brings codeless OData binding support for the AJAX and scatter chart for the MVC suite

    Following the Q3 2011 Beta previews of our AJAX and MVC components, I am happy to present you the official new major release of both bundles. Aside from the new functionality that has been instituted with the Beta packs, there a few more important spotlights that I would like to draw your attention to. MVC Scatter Chart In addition to the Pie chart which marked its debut with the Q3'11 MVC Beta release, we inaugurate the scatter/scatter line chart types as two more visualization options when you want to display your data in charting format. Here are a couple of screen shots for your...
    November 16, 2011
  • Release

    Say Hello to RadOrgChart

    With Q3 2011 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, a new data visualization control becomes part of the suite – RadOrgChart. As the name suggests, RadOrgChart’s purpose is to visualize hierarchical structures of organizations in a nice graphical chart. Here is a quick peek in the First Look demo (It’s pretty nice with the Transparent skin, isn’t it?):
    November 16, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik's Q3'11 brings codeless OData binding support for the AJAX and scatter chart for the MVC suite

    Following the Q3 2011 Beta previews of our AJAX and MVC components, I am happy to present you the official new major release of both bundles. Aside from the new functionality that has been instituted with the Beta packs, there a few more important spotlights that I would like to draw your attention to. MVC Scatter Chart In addition to the Pie chart which marked its debut with the Q3'11 MVC Beta release, we inaugurate the scatter/scatter line chart types as two more visualization options when you want to display your data in charting format. Here are a couple of screen shots for your...
    November 16, 2011