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How To: Telerik Silverlight components in Microsoft LightSwitch Beta 2
Have you seen Microsoft LightSwitch ? If not you should try it! This is definitely a simpler way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. While the built-in interface (standard Microsoft Silverlight components) can be used as a start when creating applications you will definitely need custom screens depending on your business scenario and I’ve decided to show you can easily integrate Telerik RadControls for Silverlight in Microsoft LightSwitch Beta 2.April 07, 2011 -
Productivity
Just* Do It
April 2011 is the month of “Just*”. Telerik is going to host three deep dive webinars on the Just suite of products. Join Josh Holt for the JustCode webinar on April 13 for an hour dedicated to showing you all the awesome ways that JustCode can make your development a breeze. Josh will be joining myself on April 20th as we we take you through an hour of mocking with JustMock, starting with the features in the Free Edition and culminating with the full version. Lastly, join Chris Eargle for JustOneMoreThing on April 27th. I could tell you more, but I’m not allowed to! ...April 07, 2011
by Phil Japikse
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Release
Q2 2011 Telerik AJAX and MVC Roadmaps
A couple of weeks after the official Q1 2011 bits were out, there were people who started to ask: "Hey, what about your future plans for web development? I am impatient to know what you guys will be cooking for the summer release..". Well, with no further delay I am presenting you our AJAX and MVC Q2 2011 plans to feed your curiosity :) Telerik AJAX controls Q2 2011 Roadmap http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/whats-new/roadmap.aspx Focal points: Two new controls - image editor and web alert 4 new skins (Transparent + 3 Office2010 variations) Mobile and accessibility improvements HTML5 file API support for AsyncUpload, HTML5 input types rendering...April 07, 2011 -
Productivity
Escaping from the “How Long?” time trap
If it is true that time is money and, once lost, can never be found again, it should be no surprise that the “work smarter, not harder” mantra has become the drumbeat that agile developers must march to. One pillar of project estimation is having a solid grasp of how long will a given task take, and how long to complete the entire project. Even for those who have a strong grasp of this concept, delivering truly accurate estimates can become a frustrating, time-consuming process that results in projections that are far off the mark. Why? Because falling prey to ...April 07, 2011 -
Release
Guess What’s Cooking in Our Windows Phone 7 Lab
We’ll be announcing a brand new Windows Phone 7 control at this year MIX event. Our WP7 Team Lead Valio Stoychev will be there to personally show you a demo and hear your feedback. Make sure to stop by our booth to chat with him and see the demo. In the meantime you have a chance to win one of 20 free licenses for RadControls for Windows Phone. All you need to do is guess which is the new component we’ll be demoing at MIX. Leave your prediction and e-mail address on this page. We’ll draw the lucky ones among all...April 06, 2011 -
Release
A ton of new features have just landed in RadRichTextBox for Silverlight/WPF with 2011.Q1
The latest release – Q1 2011 brought some great enhancements to the Silverlight RadRichTextBox and its new WPF counterpart. The newly introduced functionality spans from capabilities for editing rich text – multilevel lists and extended table support, to additional formatting options – incorporating annotations in the document with hyperlinks that navigate to them, and inserting comments at different positions in the document. The customization and extensibility, which the RichTextBox takes pride in, have also made a step forward with its - as of now - localizable UI and the possibilities to overwrite the existing key-bindings used for triggering commands. In addition, the list of supported...April 06, 2011
by Iva Toteva
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Desktop WinForms
Make Your Telerik WinForms-enabled Applications Start Instantly
RadControls for WinForms is a very well structured package of controls, with an excellent balance between performance and features. Still, firing up an application built with Telerik Windows Forms may take a few seconds – time that end-users prefer to get rid of, if possible. So, here is a nice trick which makes your RadControls-enabled application run instantly on the client. This solution is common for large applications such as the Open Office suite. The idea here is to load some application resources (in our case - the whole application) when the Windows starts. When the end-user starts the application,...April 05, 2011 -
People
SQL Saturday Hawaii Recap
SQL Saturday 72 (Honolulu) was a great success! This event had three tracks – one for SQL (of course), one for .NET and one for more general topics. Chris Eargle (@kodefuguru) and I came from the mainland and presented (between the two of us) 7 topics. This was my first time in Hawaii, and it was great. Although I could only stay for 48 hours (I think I spent more time in planes than I did in the Islands), everyone I met was extremely friendly. The attendees at the event were very engaging, asked a ton of great questions, and followed...April 05, 2011
by Phil Japikse
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People
Telerik Insiders Are Out
For you community dwellers, this may not be new news – but we are very excited to officially publicize our Telerik Insiders Program: a speaker’s bureau for the community run by Telerik. The Insiders Program is comprised of 14 (thus far) passionate and influential speakers conducting a variety of sessions at community events and user groups. Check out their profiles and abstracts here and our FAQ page for detailed information. Even more exciting news - we’ve expanded this program into the European and Australian markets! (Check out today's Press Release for details) There we will continue our commitment to supporting the local developer community, with upcoming sessions at events...by Emily HallApril 04, 2011 -
Web
How To Create A Population Pyramid with RadChart for Silverlight
A population pyramid, also called an age structure diagram as defined by Wikipedia is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a human population (typically that of a country or region of the world). It typically consists of two back-to-back bar graphs, with the population plotted on the X axis and age on the Y axis, one showing the number of males and one showing females in a particular population in five-year age. Although there are different types of population pyramids this blog post will demonstrate how to create such pyramid using the RadChart’s Horizontal Bar type....April 04, 2011
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