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  • Release

    New features introduced in Telerik Reporting Q3 2007

    For the past month we worked hard and spent countless hours on designing and developing the new...
    January 08, 2008
  • Release

    The New RadPanelBar for WinForms

    About a year ago my team leader asked me to write a control which mimics the behavior of Telerik RadPanelBar for ASP.NET. I had just finished the development of RadToolStrip so I though “Hmm, a panelbar for WinForms. It shouldn’t be too big of a deal. There is no dragging of toolStripItems, there are no floating forms, the add/remove should be easy to do, etc. But it turned out that it was a bit harder to do than I anticipated. Several issues popped up shortly after the Q1 2007 release, mostly related to performance and to controls being hosted in the panelbar. So...
    January 05, 2008
  • People

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

    It may be a bit late for the "Merry Christmas" part, but as people say it's better late than never. Hopefully all of you reading my blog have spent the holiday with your families and not in front of the PC and my best wishes are coming at the right time:)I wish you all (customers, non-customers, colleagues, partners, friends, competition) a great Year 2008. I hope that it will bring all of us joy, happiness and, above all, good health!Wish you all a wonderful New Year's Eve celebration and a very successful Year...
    December 27, 2007
  • Release

    New online resources for the past two weeks (12/03/2007 - 12/16/2007)

    Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET/WinForms controls and Telerik Reporting:ASP.NETRadGrid Classic and RadGrid PrometheusCode library entries: Group by month:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bbccad.aspxSet focus on filter textbox after filtering:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-bbcmdg.aspx RadChart Classic and RadChart PrometheusOnline examples: Numerical axis:http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/Chart/Examples/Functionality/NumericalAxis/DefaultCS.aspxhttp://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Chart/Examples/Functionality/NumericalAxis/DefaultCS.aspxDrill-down chart:http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/Chart/Examples/Functionality/DrillDown/DefaultCS.aspxhttp://www.telerik.com/DEMOS/ASPNET/Prometheus/Chart/Examples/Functionality/DrillDown/DefaultCS.aspx
    December 21, 2007
  • Desktop WinForms

    Re-engineering RadGridView for WinForms (part II)

    As promised, I am following up with the second part of the work we have done on RadGridView during the past release. If you have read the first part, you would remember that our goal was to provide a stable, fast and usable GridView product which has to live up to Telerik’s high standards. In  Re-engineering RadGridView for WinForms (part I) I talked about: Improvements to the UI and element painting in the Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF), which raised RadGridView’s painting speed with some 30-60%, depending on the scenario the grid is used in;  Performance improvements in the data layer, which had an astonishing...
    December 20, 2007
  • Release

    RadControls “Prometheus”: Beta, Futures, what’s the deal?

    With the pending update of RadControls "Prometheus" for ASP.NET quite a few customers have asked us whether it is safe to use Prometheus controls in production when the suite has a Beta tag. Before I answer the question, I’d like to add some background on what RadControls "Prometheus" is. RadControls “Prometheus” is the next generation of our ASP.NET product line. It’s built on top of ASP.NET AJAX and provides the richest, most powerful and fastest toolset for delivering rich ASP.NET applications. It has all of the benefits of the existing suite plus incredible performance improvements, great integration between all elements of the UI package and adds some amazing new components. This begs the question - if...
    December 18, 2007
  • Desktop WinForms

    Re-engineering RadGridView for WinForms (part I)

    Shortly after the release of Q2 2007 SP1 in October we have started re-factoring RadGridView for WinForms. Our aim was to provide our clients with a stable, performing and usable product - tasks of great importance both to our customers, and to us being the supporting party. Last week we released the beta of RadControls for WinForms Q3 2007, which includes our newest controls, but it does not give much details on our progress with vNEXT of RadGridView. So I decided to provide you with an update of the current standing of our RadGridView for WinForms control and our future...
    December 15, 2007
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Another portion of 33 RadGrid videos for you to enjoy

    If I have to summarize this post in four words, they would be: Falafel did it again. Sometimes I think that these guys work even during their spare time to prove their efficiency and professional attitude once again. Anyway, one more support videos package was just published on the Telerik site, special gratitude to Noel Rice for the involvement. If you are interested in learning more about RadGrid and how to customize it in various scenarios, now is the time to broaden your knowledge and increase your grid coding skills. Do not wait any longer and visit this link:http://www.telerik.com/support/videos.aspxStephenNote: Stand by for more RadControls videos which are...
    December 13, 2007
  • Release

    RadControls for Silverlight 2.0 World Premier Webcast

    Join Telerik Chief Technical Evangelist Todd Anglin as he introduces you to Telerik's brand new suite of components for Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0. This is the first time the RadControls for Silverlight 2.0 have ever been shown in public, so don't miss your opportunity to be among the first to see what Telerik is doing in the Silverlight space.  Anyone considering Silverlight development in 2008 should attend this event to learn how leading .NET UI component vendor Telerik is going to make it easy to develop professional applications on this brand new framework with very little code. The webcast will be on Friday, December...
    December 12, 2007
  • Release

    New online resources for the past four weeks (11/05/2007 - 12/02/2007)

    Below is a summary of the new online resources available for our ASP.NET controls:RadGrid Code library entries: Individual filtering (with dropdown lists) and sorting for sub-columns in RadGrid template column:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-khebd.aspx Filtering and sorting for GridButtonColumn:http://www.telerik.com/community/code-library/submission/b311D-baghhh.aspx RadComboBoxKnowledge base articles: RadComboBox changes width/height:http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/article/b454K-mgh-b454T-bmc-b454c-bmc.aspx 
    December 07, 2007