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  • Desktop WPF

    RadRating – the new Precision property

    With the upcoming release Q3 of RadControls for Silverlight and WPF the RadRating will come with a new feature – the Precision property. The Precision property have three predefined values: Item - you can rate with whole item (star) Half - you can rate with half item (star) Exact - you can rate with custom precision Examples Precision = Item (rate with whole item): <telerik:RadRating Precision="Item" ToolTipService.ToolTip="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=Value}" /> Precision = Half (rate with half item): <telerik:RadRating Precision="Half" ToolTipService.ToolTip="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=Value}" /> Precision = Exact (rate with custom precision): <telerik:RadRating Precision="Exact" ToolTipService.ToolTip="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self},...
    November 09, 2010
  • Web

    RadRibbonWindow for Silverlight OOB

    With the upcoming release of RadControls for Silverlight Q3 2010 we are announcing a new ribbon control – RadRibbonWindow. It will give the same opportunities as RadRibbonWindow for WPF, in order to have specialized window that is pre-configured with a RadRibbonBar to emulate MS Office UI and so that you don’t have to spend time setting up this first layer of the UI. It also comes with a set of minimize, maximize and close buttons so that you don’t have to add these yourself. An application that will use the new RadRibbonWindow should be configured to run in out-of-browser mode and...
    November 09, 2010
  • Release

    Two new features in Telerik TileView

    With the Q3 2010 release, RadTileView supports two new major features: Changing item's visibility Using the Visibility property of the TileViewItems you can now choose which items you see at any given moment. Dynamically setting item's position By setting the Position property of the TileViewItems you’ll now be able to customize the positions of your Restored or Minimized items. There are some important notes considering the position of an item: If there is a Maximized item it will always be on position zero and if you set another item to position zero it will automatically maximize. The position change swaps the items i.e. if you set item...
    November 09, 2010
  • People

    Win Great Prizes by Spreading the Word about RadControls for Windows Phone

    Now that the first community preview of RadControls for Windows Phone is a fact, we need your feedback to make the product better suited for your needs. Help us let more people know about RadControls for Windows Phone and participate in a drawing for 5 Windows Phones 7 and 2 Telerik Ultimate Collections. Every Thursday, starting November 4, someone who has referred his/her friends will win a free phone and at the end of the promotion two people will win a license for Telerik Ultimate Collection. Winners will be notified via e-mail and will be announced in this blog post. Congratulations to...
    November 08, 2010
  • Release

    Q3’10 Pre-Release Series: Release Webinars Week – Sign up and Learn What’s New in This Release!

    Telerik’s last major release for the year is due in just a few days. To help you get started with all the new product features and updates coming with the Q3 2010 release we have organized a whole week of webinars. Join us for the live webcasts starting on Monday, November 15th and you will have a chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection (worth $1999), a WebUI Test Studio Bundle ($2999) and a TeamPulse License for 10 users ($2490). Take a look at the schedule and book your seat now: What’s New in RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Extensions for MVC and...
    November 08, 2010
  • Productivity Testing

    Q3 2010 - Creating If...Else Statements with WebUI Test Studio

    WebUI Test Studio's Q3 release is just days away! With the upcoming release, you will have the ability to create conditional logic in your test automation without writing a single line of code. We have included  IF...ELSE statements, WHILE...LOOP statements, and the ability to LOOP a series of steps n number of times. In WebUI Test Studio QA Edition, all 3 Logical Test Step options can be accessed via the 'Add' Ribbon on the 'Record' tab as seen below. Now, let's take a closer look at the If...Else statement. When you first select the If...Else option you will notice 2 ...
    November 08, 2010
  • People

    Telerik @ TechEd Europe 2010

    Back in Berlin again after a year: more products, more people. It's almost impossible to keep up with all the new products, so we had basically to double our staff to make sure that attendees find an expert for each product: The week is starting smooth on the first day with some pre-conference sessions and the exhibition will officially open after lunch. Come by and say Hello to Christopher, Joel, Deyan, Nikolay, Teodor, Thomas and me. Steve will be around as well again ... And don't forget to join our raffle for two Ultimate Collections tonight at 7 pm during the reception. Let's get started...
    November 08, 2010
  • People

    Telerik’s Products Selected Best by Visual Studio Magazine Readers!

    A true measure of our products’ quality is the opinion of the people who use them day by day. That is why we would like to give a word of gratitude to you, our customers, for your positive recognition of Telerik’s products in the Visual Studio Magazine (VSM) Readers Choice Awards 2010. Telerik’s Web UI Test Studio, RadControls for Silverlight and Sitefinity CMS were ranked as a premier choice by the VSM audience in the categories Best QA & Testing Solution, Best Silverlight & RIA Development and Best Web Design & Development Tools. What’s more, we walked with a number of merits...
    November 04, 2010
  • Mobile

    Page Transitions for Windows Phone 7 Application

    Bring Motion to your Windows Phone 7 Application using the Telerik animation engine and page transition framework. I will not reveal a big secret if I say that the whole Metro UI guidelines are based on content and motion. But how can you bring motion to your applications? This is the question we asked ourselves back in the days when we started to work on our Rad Controls for Windows Phone 7. We are now happy that we released the first CTP version of the controls with support for Metro like animations and transitions. We built our own Animation and Transition engine from the ground up...
    November 04, 2010
  • Web

    Silverlight vs HTML5 - WTF?

    It has been a wild weekend for sure. A slew of important announcements at PDC, sudden withdrawal of all Silverlight sessions, Bob Muglia’s statement about Microsoft’s change in plans, the uptake from journalists, the community uproar... A comedy of errors was unfolding in the technology space while I was happily spending my weekend enjoying my kid’s birthday and not thinking about dev platforms. So, I come in the office today and my inbox is blinking like crazy, mails from a ton of people from inside the company and out and the common question is – what are you/we doing with Silverlight?...
    November 04, 2010