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  • Mobile

    RadControls For Windows Phone: Using RadPickerBox

    RadDatePicker and RadTimePicker have a lot of basic common functionality. One of the components that provide some of this common functionality is RadPickerBox. It is a very basic control designed to provide an easy way for users to display some content, just like ContentControl :
    November 04, 2010
  • Release

    Q3’10 Pre-Release Series: Telerik Reporting pushes for interactive reports, extends OLAP support

    As on-line analytical processing (OLAP) continues to gather more speed, businesses are demanding more flexible and interactive ways to visualize and analyze information. The latest version of Telerik’s .NET tool for report creation and publishing addresses these business needs by being better suited for examining large amounts of data. It extends its built-in data source support to OLAP cubes and adds drill down support to allow business users to consume the information in the report in an easy and interactive manner. It also adopts the latest developments in the Silverlight platform by offering native Silverlight printing capabilities. Support for SQL Analysis Services Cube Q3...
    November 03, 2010
  • Web

    Website Enhancements - Changes in Your Account Section

    It’s been almost a year since we first introduced the first changes in “Your Account” section. The rapid expansion of Telerik’s product portfolio required new product management tools and logic. That led to a “Your Account” section consisting of four separate areas for the four product divisions. It was not easy to use and maintain. Now we are happy to introduce to you the new and improved “Your Account” section with better navigation and logic. Thanks to your valuable feedback, excessive research and hard work we managed to put all your registered products in one place so you can easily manage...
    November 03, 2010
  • People

    Countdown to TechEd Europe

    TechEd Europe 2010 is taking place in Berlin next week. So we are busy getting the latest and greatest bits together and install them on our demo machines. Since the last TechEd 12 months ago we have introduced quite new products such as the Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, JustCode, WebUI TestStudio, TeamPulse, JustMock - not to mention adding support for the latest Microsoft technologies like .NET 4, VS2010 or Silverlight 4 for all our Developer Productivity products or introducing a Visual Designer for OpenAccess. You will also have the chance to see the new Sitefinity 4 Web CMS. Fresh from our labs, we will present our brand...
    November 03, 2010
  • Mobile

    RadDateSelector for Windows Phone 7 – Loaded within a standard in-browser Silverlight application.

    Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 is version 3.7 hence a WP7 control should be easily used within a standard Silverlight 4 application. But that’s in theory. The major differences between these two worlds are the so called “Manipulation” events. Each UIElement in WP7’s Silverlight is “enabled” with the following routed events: ManipulationStarted ManipulationDelta ManipulationCompleted  Generally this sequence of events encapsulates one or more touch gestures in a transaction block. The event arguments carry all the information needed to determine what the gesture is and what effect to generate. And of course RadControl for WP7 use these events extensively in order to provide consistent and rich...
    November 02, 2010
  • Release

    TelerikSPRadGrid Web Part for SharePoint 2010’s Improvements

    With SharePoint 2010’s popularity on the rise, TelerikSPRadGrid Web Part has also gained a major boost in terms of nice features and functionality. Our SP 2010 grid web part has been extended with a new structure-and-data designer that makes it possible to display and manipulate a hierarchy of data coming from tables lying on SQL Server databases and SharePoint lists. Thus, the TelerikSPRadGrid Web Part now provides at the hand of developers a complete solution when it comes to operate with data supplied from the two most popular data storages used with SharePoint 2010. And here is how to take advantage of...
    November 02, 2010
  • Release

    Q3’2010 Pre-Release Blog Series: RichTextBox for Silverlight Adds Powerful New Features

    To continue revealing bits and pieces of the upcoming Q3 2010 release, we will now introduce you to what Telerik has planned for one of the major controls in the Silverlight suite – the RichTextBox. Although officially released just a few months ago, the control offers cool features, such as Microsoft Word-like text editing and formatting, export and import support for numerous formats, support for embedding Silverlight UI elements and many more. With the final release for 2010, the RichTextBox gets richer with highly-requested features, such as table support, spellcheck and export to pdf. Starting Q3 2010, your users will have...
    November 01, 2010
  • Mobile

    Windows Phone 7 performance - emulator vs physical device

    Part I - App loading time There are a lot of speculations about how different is the execution speed of a Silverlight application when it runs in the WindowsPhone7 emulator and when it runs on the device. Now that we have the RTM devices, we can measure the actual difference! I've prepared 3 very simple WP7 applications: App1 (download). Application that just loads an empty phone application page. App2 (download). Application that loads a phone application page that contains a Pivot control with 2 items, and App3 (download). Application that loads a phone application page that contains a Panorama control with 2 items. I'm measuring the Application initial load time - in this case this is the time between creation...
    November 01, 2010
  • Productivity

    Syncing projects with TFS created with the TeamPulse template

    The 2010 Q3 beta release adds some great new Team Foundation Server synchronization abilities to TeamPulse.  However, as this is the first release of the sync feature, there are some limitations.  One of the limitations is that the beta only supports synchronizing TeamPulse and TFS projects created with equivalent templates (see table and screenshots below).  This post intends to provide a workaround for synchronizing TeamPulse projects created with the “TeamPulse” template.
    October 30, 2010
  • Mobile

    RadLoopingPanel – a look inside (or why Telerik’s RadDatePicker is the fastest date picker tool for Windows Phone 7)

    Everything in Windows Phone 7 is Content and Motion. Both of these key Metro parts are combined with a blazing fast performance and unmatched responsiveness throughout the entire OS. Same must be true for all custom applications – no room for performance compromises. And that is why one of the major focuses of the entire development process of RadControls for WP7 is performance. We are even ready to delay some features for a next release for the sake of being feather-light and as fast as possible. As I explained in this blog post, from the very beginning we tried to reuse the...
    October 29, 2010