Hi Telerik support,

We have been evaluating your WPF controls on and off over the last year or so with a view to putting together a large app that would use a large number of them. I have to say that as of the last update we are on the verge of throwing in the towel in frustration at incessant changes to interfaces, class depreciations and general usage changes to the controls.
From a quick search in this forum:
May 2007, in answer to exactly the same complaint:

Well, sorry, but as far as I can see you have introduced breaking changes on pretty much every single release.
I had assumed when we first started the trial that the product line was young and thus the interfaces might take a little time to settle down, but the changes show no sign of settling down over a year later (and 4 years after your comment!) and require our code to be rewritten, often in non-trivial ways. 

1. Solutions to relatively simple problems often rely on overriding templates which then get radically changed
2. Properties become 'read only' - presumably the thinking is that this softens the blow. It does not.
3. Properties get renamed (I can live with this one so long as it's just a rename and semantics not changed as well)
4. Class depreciated. Not much fun if you were overriding these or using the events.
5. etc.

We all appreciate the need for change, but there are limits and there has to be a balance between functionality and interface stability. I think there has been plenty of time to get much of this right by now, surely?
How does everyone else justify additional code fix/rewrite and QA time to the business every time they need to upgrade the telerik controls to fix a bug or implement a new feature released in the telerik control set? Am I to assume that we cannot upgrade the telerik controls without major rewrites of our code?

You guys have a great product and I hope you take this as constructive criticism but you have more competitors now than ever and I actually want to go on and purchase from you; but we are reviewing competitors again because you are giving us no choice. Given your statement before and what we have seen since I hope you can offer something more concrete than 'general policy' statements.

I would love to hear what telerik and other forum users feel about this.

Hi,
telerik radchart dynamic filter(on parameter passing) when silverlight button click.
please give me the help.

Thanks in advance...

Hi, Somebody help me please.I am stuck with this. <script type="text/javascript">         function openPrompt() {             radprompt("please enter the file name", CallBackFn);                    }         function CallBackFn(arg) {             document.getElementById("<%=hdnField1.ClientID%>").value = arg;         }              </script> I have specified onClientClick="openPrompt()" in the button control.But this directly executes the serverside code.but it should execute server side code only after i enter the file name and click ok.please help. Thanks.

I need a C# WPF programmer who is familiar with Rad controls for WPF to do various user controls. I have more work than I can handle and I am running out of time to complete application. Please help. If you are interested please contact me @ chris@northkeysystems.com .

Will pay top dollar for well qualified motivated individual and if work is good I will keep you busy.

When will the rest of the Q2 2011 videos be posted?

Hi Telerik Team,
We are using Radajaxmanger in one page and set EnableHistory="true" in scriptmanager and in radajaxmanager.But some times back button is not working.Please give me a solution for it.We are using IE:8

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What was the name/e-mail of the speaker of today's (July 18th/2011) webinar "What's new Q2 Overview & Data Tools"?

Faster items render above the slower items, however they're actually behind the slower items when you try to hit them

...if that makes sense...

Like if I have a dollar coming down (enters the game first), and it's about to fall out of the pane, and a $20 starts to fall really fast and overlaps the $1 on the way down.  If I hit that with a star on the overlap it registers $1, not the visible (closer z-index) $20....and it's almost impossible to throw a second to get both

Just FYI :)

One of the frustrations I have with the support forum is that there is no place for developers who need to use Oracle DBMS as the Data Source for various telerik components.  What I would like to see is a forum where questions on using telerik controls with Oracle are posed and answered.  Occasionally, there will be a question answered by a community member in another forum but these are few and far between and typically are very basic in nature.  As much as I like telerik products, I would like to see a forum for those of us who are trying to develop fairly complex applications (web or win) to be able to post questions on using any telerik control with Oracle. 
As an example, I developed a web application using an Access database as a developement data source, however when I converted the application to use an Oracle datasource, my more complex pages ceased to work, even after doing all the typical conversion of Access SQL to Oracle SQL.  I have been pulling my hair out (and I don't have much left to pull out ;->) trying to determine if it is my RadMultipage control or the imbedded RadGrids or the SQLDataSource statements that is causing the page to hang up. I would just like to have one place to post Telerik-Oracle questions.  (Getting off soapbox now!)   Thank you for your consideration of this.

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