Dear all,
I'm pleased to inform you that we have just shipped our first public beta for the RadControls for WPF control suite. The beta contains three controls: RadGridView, RadCarousel and RadCalendar, and a lot more are scheduled to join those three in the near future.
The distribution should be available in your Client.net account if you are a registered customer. Download it, play with it, and give us all the feedback you got. And of course, visit us next week at Microsoft TechEd 2008--I'd love to have a chat and show off some of our WPF and Silverlight goodness.
Oh, and one last thing--don't forget to read through the release notes below.
Thanks,
Hristo Deshev
The Telerik WPF Team
RadControls for WPF Beta 1
RadGridView Features
- Powerful data binding
- Truly lookless and completely stylable controls.
- Rich built-in and themes.
- Remarkably flexible hierarchy model
- In-place data editing and built-in data validation
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Powerful data binding
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Rich customization of UI layout
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Data organization: grouping, sorting
RadCarousel Features
- RadCarouselPanel - can both host standalone controls and
be used in conjunction with any WPF items control like a ListBox or a
ListView to spice up its appearance.
- UI virtualization -
to optimally utilize system resources, the RadCarouselPanel will only
display UI elements for the currently visible items when used in an
items control.
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RadCarousel - a fully functional data bound control taking full
advantage of the performant LINQ-based Telerik data engine.
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Selection and current item support that enable data binding scenarios from XAML only.
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Slick animations - with RadCarousel any numeric property can be animated, thus creating exciting user experience.
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Data items presentation can be autogenerated thus allowing you to
quickly display your business objects inside your application.
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Rich item customization through styles, templates, and animations.
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Scroll support: intelligently detect when placed in a scrollable
container and automatically navigates when the user uses the scroll
bars or the mouse wheel.
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Custom animation paths support - any path can be used for item
movement. This allows designers to create the best path for the
situation at hand in Expression Blend.
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Flexible control points specification mechanism tightly integrated with
visual effects like scaling, opacity, skew transforms.
RadCalendar Features
- Date selection
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Culture awareness
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Different views
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Navigation
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Customization
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Multiple selection
Known Issues
- Some scrolling performance issues when using grouping
- The sample data sets have not been optimized for size and that causes large initial download for the sample XBAP application
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The Grouping/Aggregates example load a large data sets and is prohibitively slow when run as XBAP.
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High CPU load when using layered windows (Window.AllowsTransparency=True or Window.WindowStyle=None) in your app. This is a Windows/Microsoft .NET issue that will be addressed in .NET 3.5 SP1