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    Some Exciting Updates Come out with Q2 2011 for the SharePoint Acceleration Kit

    Along with the thrilling new products and functionality that Q2 brought to Telerik’s tool collection, the second major release for this year also introduced a few new features and updates to our SharePoint Acceleration Kit which you’ll find quite handy and worth exploring: Much speedier data-binding to SharePoint lists was achieved by completely revising our SharePoint web part data-binding functionality – it’s now leveraging the Dynamic LINQ library and the SharePoint Collaborative Markup Language thus offering great performance optimizations. Client-side data-binding for SharePoint lists and Excel files within your SharePoint doc libraries: now you can easily bind your Grid to data existing...
  • Release

    RadControls for WinForms Q2 2011 suite is here introducing RichTextBox, PropertyGrid, ListView and a lot more

    We are excited to announce the availability of Q2 2011 – yet another great release full of new controls, improvements and…pleasant surprises. This time the surprise is big! Yes, that’s right, the title of this article does not lie, we are more than happy to introduce RadRichTextBox for WinForms. It comes on top of what we have scheduled for Q2 2011 and we hope that it will fit nicely in your applications. Currently, RadRichTextBox for WinForms is in Beta stage and supports the following features: Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike-through Built-in fonts and font sizes Text color and background Bullet and numbered lists Paragraph...
  • Productivity

    How does OpenAccess resolve the ADO.NET driver?

    One category of  frequent support questions that we receive is regarding the ADO.NET driver version used to communicate with the database. Various problems related to resolving the appropriate driver are reported and it can be a cause of considerable frustration to the user. Beginning with the Q2 2011 version we have taken quite a big step towards eliminating these problems. This blog post talk about what's changed and what this means for the user. Prior to the Q2 2011 release the Telerik OpenAccess ORM product shipped, amongst the various assemblies, the 'Telerik.OpenAccess.Adonet2' assembly which had the ADO.NET specific implementation to obtain...
    July 14, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik XAML controls (Silverlight and WPF) - Q2 2011 Official

    This major release of the market-leading controls for LOB applications adds 8 new controls, 2 new Dashboard demos and a modern Metro theme built from the ground-up to accommodate all the best practices in Metro UI applications.  Among the new controls included in this release you can find Persistence Framework, ImageEditor, DataServiceDataSource, BreadCrumb, PropertyGrid, RibbonView, ZipLibrary, TreeMap and PivotMap.  In addition to what we announced for the Beta release you will find TreeMap and PivotMap control as well as a brand new ZipLibrary framework. The TreeMap and PivotMap controls can be used to visualize large amounts of hierarchically organized data. TreeMaps have been used to successfully visualize various kinds of...
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC – Getting Started with the Chart

    With the release of Q2 2011 we here at Telerik are proud to announce the Chart Extension for ASP.NET MVC. This component has been designed from the ground up with a high focus on performance and cross-browser compatibility and is based off of SVG and VML (for browsers that do not support SVG). Many of you are probably interested in how you can start working with the chart and this blog post should help guide you along the first couple of steps. Server Binding Out-of-the-box the chart component can very easily bind to any supplied model on the server. If the view...
  • Release

    Q2 2011 OpenAccess Released!

    The team has been hard at work, as always, to bring some really neat new features to Telerik OpenAccess ORM for Q2 2011.  You can check out the release notes to see the full list of new features, but make sure to sign up for the release webinar to see all these new features in action!  For now, we will take a quick look at a few features available in the new bits. Profiler and Tuning Advisor One of the most anticipated features in the Q2 2011 release is the OpenAccess Profiler. In Q1 2011 we introduced a new Metrics API, and the profiler...
    July 13, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik controls for Windows Phone - Q2 2011 Official

    Trend-Setting Tools for Amazing Mobile Apps – RadControls for Windows Phone now feature 22 native controls for building first class mobile applications. This release marks launch of three new controls: RadChart RadChart is the fastest chart control for WP7 available on the market, with an intuitive and easy-to-use public API. Read more about the performance test that we run. Super-fast loading and real-time updates, excellent drawing capabilities and pixel-perfectness are some of the features you can enjoy. The control’s intuitive object model and public API allow complex charts to be easily setup either in XAML or code-behind. The control ships with more than 20 chart...
    July 13, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik Q2 2011 ASP.NET AJAX/MVC release

    The Q2'11 Telerik Developer Tools release has finally arrived! Welcome the new components and features are integrated into our AJAX and MVC suites and announced a couple of weeks ago: AJAX Q2'11 Beta | MVC Q2'11 Beta But wait, that is not all...there is more :) We put a few hidden gems up our sleeve to get you even more thrilled when you get your hands on the fresh downloads. Wanna know what they are? Read below to find out. MVC Line Chart The brand new MVC chart introduces support for line series in addition to its...
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Skins organization in RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX

    The Q2 2011 release of the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX brings in two novelties in regard to the skins organization: New skins assembly is introduced (Telerik.Web.UI.Skins) The “skins chooser” is reworked and is much more friendly   What is Default Skin?   The default skin is declared in the web.config file of the project. This is the global site-wide skin to be used by the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. However it can be overwritten by each control via its Skin property or by the whole page by using the RadSkinManager.   What is Telerik.Web.UI.Skins?   The Telerik.Web.UI.Skins is an assembly that contains some new skins. The old skins...
  • Release

    Introducing RadDataServiceDataSource for WPF and Silverlight

    It is my pleasure to present you the newest member of the constantly growing family of XAML controls. RadDataServiceDataSource provides seamless integration between an user interface and data coming from a WCF Data Service. The WCF Data Services technology enables the creation and consumption of OData services for the web. If you want to learn more about the relationship between the two, you may read the whitepaper WCF Data Services and OData At-a-Glance. With this new control, you can retrieve, shape and edit data using declarative XAML syntax only. RadDataServiceDataSource provides extensive code-behind API for more advanced scenarios. The QueryableDataServiceCollectionView<T> class, which is internally used...