Source Code and Redistribution
telerik is pleased to announce the availability of r.a.d.controls Q3 2006. With this milestone release
telerik solidifies its position as the leading vendor of ASP.NET UI components and makes theist debut in the desktop
development realm realm with its first CTP of r.a.d.controls for WinForms.
r.a.d.controls for WinForms CTP
Built upon a unique architecture, telerik r.a.d.controls for WinForms follows telerik's tradition of innovation
and brings exciting new capabilities to the desktop development world.
With the new telerik WinForms suite developers can create outstanding NET 2.0 apps that have unmatched interactivity and can take the
user experience to a new level. Inspired by WPF and web technologies, the Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF) introduces CSS-like
theming for easy styling of UIs, support for animations and effects to enhance the interactivity of the application and a Visual Theme Builder
which allows even non-developers to create amazing interfaces. A distinctive feature of the framework is that it offers excellent performance
and developers are no longer forced to choose between advanced UIs and responsiveness .
The current CTP of r.a.d.controls for WinForms includes 6 UI controls: r.a.d.ribbonbar, r.a.d.docking,
r.a.d.menustrip, r.a.d.tabstrip, r.a.d.toolstrip and r.a.d.combobox. The suite comes together with several sample applications with advanced
UIs to provide a good showcase how to create and style interfaces with r.a.d.controls for WinForms. "You can treat the
CTP as a playground where you can experiment with our concepts and explore the new things we are bringing to the market." - says Vassil
Terziev, telerik CEO. "Even though the release will be CTP, we will provide a developer license to all r.a.d.controls for
ASP.NET Subscription holders by the end of the week so that clients can use the telerik WinForms controls in production." Additional
information about the WinForms roadmap and the new controls that will be added to the suite with the official release will be available in mid-
October 2006.
r.a.d.controls for ASP.NET Q3 2006
Coming
also as part of the Q3 2006 volume, the new release of r.a.d.controls for ASP.NET sets new standards for stability and
performance of ASP.NET controls.
"Throughout the years telerik has maintained an extremely aggressive release roadmap and gradually the
r.a.d.controls suite has grown to be the most comprehensive toolset for professional ASP.NET development. Quantity is important, however,
we've never forgotten that what makes a suite exceptional is quality"- says Atanas Korchev, General Product Manager, r.a.d.controls for
ASP.NET. "For the Q3 2006 update we've spent a lot of time to polish all aspects of the product offering and further advance the developer
experience and productivity - design-time improvements, bugfixes, optimizations, significantly richer documentation for most of the controls. I
am most pleased with the prpgress we've made on the WYSIWYG design time support for VS 2005, including AutoFormat preview dialog. This
new functionality allows for codeless property mapping and codeless databinding to all ASP.NET 2.0 declarative datasources -
(AccessDataSource, ObjectDataSource,
SqlDataSource, SiteMapDataSource, XmlDataSource)"
In addition to the improvements covering the whole suite, telerik ra.d.controls for ASP.NET Q3
adds a brand new splitter control and introduces some key updates of the grid, treeview, panelbar, combo and ajax controls.
r.a.d.splitter, the newest member of the ASP.NET UI controls family, represents a content manager for creating versatile UI layouts
which users can effectively manage just like in desktop applications. Some of the features of r.a.d.splitter include: resize modes,
expand/collapse with sliding panes as well as support for loading of external content.
Key Product Updates
The long-awaited r.a.d.grid 4.0 offers brand new virtual scrolling capabilities and support for self-referencing
hierarchy. The self-referencing hierarchy allows you to build multiple levels of hierarchy from a single table in the grid source by specifying
relations inside the same table. r.a.d.grid v 4.0 now offers a completely codeless experience ?from codeless AJAX support to
codeless databinding, interface styling and customizing through an enhanced smart tag.
The 밡o-code?approach is a key benefit of r.a.d.ajax 1.5. The telerik team improved the
design-time experience to make it even easier for customers to AJAX-ify their apps in the Visual Studio.NET design-time. Telerik뭩 codeless
framework for AJAX development was also enhanced to provide support for web services and you can easily consume remote data with AJAX
requests.
SEO Optimization with Telerik Navigational Controls
In the Q3 2006
release telerik has continued its quest to deliver navigation controls with highly efficient semantic rendering and strong
SEO support.
Following the very successful r.a.d.tabstrip and r.a.d.menu releases, r.a.d.panelbar is also using list items rather
than tables or DIVs to help cutting the HTML output with more than 70%.
밡avigation components are a must for a huge percent of web applications, and unfortunately most of the time they are a reason for
performance slowdowns?뻮ays Atanas Korchev. ?STRONG>telerik navigation controls are optimized for extremely small footprint
which makes them the trusted choice of professional ASP.NET developers: they are lightweight, they offer rich client-side capabilities and they
run flawlessly on all modern browsers running on Windows, Linux and Mac. The telerik navigation controls bring
another great benefit to the table - they can help you optimize your site SEO-wise. If you have precious info that needs to be indexed by
Google and the only way to reach it is through postback ?says Atanas - then it won뭪 be indexed. With out tools you can easily just create a
sitemap of your site, bind a menu, with NavigateUrl per item set to the respective page, and that will do the trick. Our products will take care of
the rest and
your content will be indexed [and highly valued] by Google.
Source Code and Redistribution:
Discover the full potential of telerik r.a.d.controls for WinForms here:
http://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/overview.aspx
To see the new r.a.d.splitter in action, take a look at the online demos:
http://www.telerik.com/r.a.d.splitter
To find out more about AJAX and telerik framework for codeless AJAX development ?r.a.d.ajax, please visit:
http://www.telerik.com/radajax
To find out more about telerik navigation controls and how you can reduce loading time, take a detailed look at each one of them
at:
http://www.telerik.com/r.a.d.controls
To experience the r.a.d.controls magic please visit the online demos:
http://www.telerik.com/r.a.d.controls
About telerik:
telerik is one of the trend-setters in the development of User Interface components for .Net and add-ons for
Microsoft SharePoint. Our name is most often associated with constant innovation, meticulous support, and the most aggressive release
schedule on the market.
