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  • Productivity

    Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services: Part I

    With the Q1 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM, Telerik released a brand new LINQ Implementation and supporting Visual Entity Designer. With the upcoming Q2 release next month, we will introduce full WCF RIA Services support. If you want to get started now you can wire up the services yourself pretty easily. Let’s take a look at how to get your feet wet with RIA Services and Telerik’s LINQ implementation. Before you get started, you will need a few things installed: Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight 4 WCF RIA Services for Visual Studio 2010 Northwind sample database Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q1 Service Pack 1 or higher Getting Started: The Easy Stuff Let’s create a new Silverlight...
    June 17, 2010
  • Release

    What's new with TeamPulse?

    It’s been two full months since we announced TeamPulse to the world!  Since the launch of our first public beta, the TeamPulse team has been extremely busy consuming the amazing feedback we’ve received from all of our private and public beta customers.  Combined with our original plans for the product, the feedback that we’ve received has really helped to re-shape the product, as well as help focus our approach, resulting in a product that we believe will provide our customers with even more value. If you don’t know much about TeamPulse, you should check out some of our videos online...
    June 16, 2010
  • Release

    Q2 2010 Beta of RadControls for WinForms is live

    We are most excited to announce the availability of the much awaited Q2 2010 Beta of RadControls for WinForms (version 2010.2.10.0610). This beta is a major milestone for the entire suite because it adds several brand new controls to your toolbox as well as gives you completely re-designed, optimized and feature-rich RadGridView. We put a lot of efforts in meeting the expectations of our users and we are positive that you will find all the new features worthy. Here is a brief overview of Beta's highlights: RadGridView We have reworked both the UI layer and the data layer, which advances the control to a new...
  • People

    Recap from TechEd 2010 - Day 3

    Yesterday I mentioned Telerik was nominated for 3 Best-of-TechEd award. As you might have read on our CEO blog, late last night Telerik was awarded Best of TechEd award in Components and Middleware category. Coming on heels of CodeProject award for the best Silverlight suite I wrote about yesterday, this was certainly nice recognition of the work we have put in all of our component suites.  And…..it was worth a celebration     It was also a fun day for Telerik fans. TechEd-ers who wore Telerik t-shirt on Monday were awarded with a nice (and educational from what I hear) trip to Louisiana swamps....
  • Release

    Q2 2010 Beta of Telerik XAML controls is here

    I am proud to announce the immediate availability of our Q2 2010 Preview (Beta, version 2010.2 609) release. It contains the new controls, features and tools we plan to officially announce in July. This Beta version of RadControls for Silverlight contains only natively built assemblies on Silverlight 4 as our major new controls and features will be built only on Silverlight 4 from now on. We also included assemblies built against WPF 4 in this Beta release and they are available under the Beta download files along with the installation of our WPF 3.5 controls. RadControls for Silverlight - Download Trial Version and over...
  • People

    Telerik wins “Best of TechEd” award in the “Components and Middleware” category

      Wow, this is a big achievement and we are extremely proud of it. This is perhaps the culmination, in terms of public recognition, of several years of intense R&D and the result of our “Best of breed” strategy. While many vendors focus on breadth, our goal has always been to be the leaders – from the smallest component to the complete experience of using a suite that spans over the whole .NET stack. Thanks to all customers for the endless support and patience. We couldn’t have done it without you. As usual, we can only promise that this award will not...
  • Release

    Introducing Cell Selection for RadGridView for Silverlight/WPF

    Great news! Cell selection will be among the new features that we are going to introduce with Q2 2010. I guess many of you have been waiting for this feature for quite some time now and the wait is almost over.  You can give this new feature a try by downloading the beta version of RadControls for WPF/Silverlight Q2 2010. Let me guide you through the new API. We have added a new property called SelectionUnit which specifies what units are selected when you are interacting with the grid. Currently the SelectionUnit enumeration has two possible values – Cell or FullRow. FullRow represents the...
    June 10, 2010
  • People

    Telerik Wins Best of TechEd!

    Telerik won the “Best of TechEd” award in the “Best Components and Middleware” category last night at TechEd in New Orleans, LA. Our premium collection was judged as the most innovative and best value over all the other vendors. All 200+ of the Telerik employees around the world feel honored and those of us here of course took time to celebrate on Bourbon street. Now we’re back to work and hope to live up to our customers high expectations. (If you are still at TechEd, swing by the booth and take a look at the award, we are here until 3pm today when the Expo closes.) Thanks again to...
    June 10, 2010
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadReminder for WinForms brings Outlook interfaces to your application

    The Q2 2010 release introduces a brand new RadReminder component. Its purpose is to enable users to track different objects and their events. The architecture is pretty simple and intuitive and allows any IRemindObject implementation to be monitored by a RadReminder instance. The component comes with a built-in dialog that displays all the currently tracked objects in a grid and enables you to visually snooze or dismiss an item. The dialog is completely customizable and localizable and gives you the ability to modify each object’s display text and icon. Built-in reminder dialog Dialog’s display routine raises several events, allowing you to cancel...
  • Release

    The All-New RadDesktopAlert for WinForms

    An important part of the new stuff that is coming with Q2 2010 is the brand new RadDesktopAlert component. As a part of the WinForms suite, it fully supports the Telerik Presentation Framework which means it can be flexibly styled in the Visual Style Builder, as well as flawlessly integrated in any type of Windows Forms based applications. This component comes with a bunch of predefined themes, in fact all that we ship out of the box, and with a convenient API that allows for different modifications according to the requirements of a specific application context. One of the key features that...