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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Q3 release for WebUI Test Studio (coming in few weeks) is jam packed with tons of new features. Many of these features are direct result of customer’s feedback. In Q3 we added Chrome support, test run scheduling, visual debugging and logical steps in the test explorer in addition to many more enhancements. For more details on these new features, please refer to the pre-release blog post here and make sure to sign-up for our Q3 release week webinar here. One of the other features that might not be visible to the eye in Q3 is our enhanced extensibility support ...
Since I can now officially talk about the secret behind the Telerik Vendor session at DevConnections 2010 in Las Vegas next week... yes, the "unannounced extras" will be licenses for our Windows Phone 7 controls! That's right, by being one of the first 50 people to the Telerik session on Tuesday night (first in the list below), you get a free license for RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for Windows Phone 7. The demo that I'll be presenting will cover using the RadControls for Silverlight suite as well as the just-today-announced RadControls for Windows Phone CTP, so you can see the latest...
With Q3 2010 OpenAccess ORM will introduce some much requested, by the community, features and offer a new and innovative way for developers to get started and learn how to use the tool faster. Here are some of the highlights: Spatial types
After Q3 2010 users will be able to use spatial types, such as the geography type, in their projects and map to data that is stored in the form of coordinates and topology.
LINQ 2 SQL Converter
The new version of OpenAccess ORM will also let people easily convert old LINQ 2 SQL projects to OpenAccess ones and take advantage of the...
Our third official release for the year 2010 will come with a major visual improvement for RadColorPicker for ASP.NET AJAX. While we focused on adding new functionality to the control the past few releases, we decided it was time for a thorough appearance review.
Without further ado, here is the comparison between the old the new look (click to open in a new page):
Apart from the polishing of the overall look & feel, we “rounded” corners for all palettes and added shadows for the popup palettes. Another major difference is the order of colors in the Default preset palette. I know...