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Telerik updates Premium Collection

Q3 2009 release adds new controls for ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight and WPF.

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A selection of Telerik's grid, dashboard and reporting components.

Telerik Premium Collection for .NET allows you to rapidly build commercial-grade interfaces for web and desktop applications and meet the diverse functional, design, and usability requirements of your clients. ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight and robust WinForms & WPF controls, as well as a flexible reporting engine are there to help you quickly create .NET applications on budget and on time. Telerik Premium Collection for .NET also includes Telerik OpenAccess ORM which lets you simplify the data access plumbing in desktop and Web applications. The Subscription License comes with a Gold Support Package (up to 24h response time), full C# source code, redistribution rights and free updates for the latest products for one year. The tools work without license keys and can be freely deployed on an unlimited number of development, testing and production servers. A 580-page self-paced tutorial and hundreds of code samples are provided to accelerate your learning.

Updates in Q3 2009

ASP.NET AJAX new controls:

RadListView a brand new ASP.NET AJAX control that enable users to view and manage various data entries in a list.

• RadListView features include paging, sorting, and selection of items that allow you to navigate through the data or group it based on the end user preferences.
• Rich Data Editing - Telerik RadListView allows you to manage various data entries based on the controls you embed within its edit/insert templates. It supports automatic data editing operations (through ASP.NET 2.x/3.x data source controls) as well as manual editing.
• Predefined layouts - The template mechanism of Telerik RadListView allows you to model the look and feel of each of its elements in a completely custom manner. With RadListView, you can layout your data any way you like.
• Powerful Databinding - Telerik RadListView has built-in support for all ASP.NET 2.0 datasources, as well as .NET 3.5 (LinqDataSource, WebServices, Entity Framework).
• RadDataPager control to provide rich paging functionality

RadSitemap - Introducing a new lightweight and flexible control that displays the list of pages on a web site organized in hierarchical fashion

• Configuration - Users can customize the control appearance by choosing various configuration options (list or flow state, number of displayed columns, vertical or horizontal view)
• Semantic Rendering - RadSiteMap implements an efficient semantic rendering that uses lists for minimal HTML output and improved SEO performance.
• Templates - RadSiteMap gives you full control over the node markup. You can define per-level, per-node and global templates.

RadRating - Telerik RadRating is a flexible UI component that allows users to intuitively rate by selecting number of items from a predefined maximum number of items. The user can fully customize the control by configuring its orientation, rating precision, direction etc.

• Horizontal/Vertical Orientation, Direction - RadRating can be displayed horizontally or vertically on the page. You can also configure its direction to suit your needs or layout (right-to-left, top-to-bottom, and vice versa)
• You can choose the maximum number of items the user can rate from
• Selection Modes - In Single mode a single item is marked as selected and in Continuous mode all items, starting from the first one, are marked as selected.
• Rating Precision - the RadRating control enables users to select their rating value by setting the Precision property to Exact, Half, or Whole Item

Silverlight new controls:

RadMap - Visualize rich geographical information with Telerik Silverlight Map, zoom and pan smoothly to any corner of the earth.

• Map Sources  - With RadMap you can visualize rich geographical information from external geo imagery sources. Currently RadMap supports Bing Map Source and empty provider, other providers will be implemented for future versions of the control.
• Pan and Zoom - Telerik Silverlight Map supports panning and zooming through the mouse, the keyboard and the navigational controls.
• Navigation Controls - RadMap has 3 navigation controls which give your users more flexibility when using the control: navigation control, command bar for switching between the two views of the map and scale control.
• Information Layer  -The information layer allows you to add any FrameworkElements and MapShape objects on the map, setting their geographical coordinates.

RadOutlookBar - Telerik OutlookBar control for Silverlight lets you deliver Outlook’s navigational bar to your applications. You can take advantage of the data templates, icons, and the overflow menu.

RadTileView - Create flexible and interactive layouts for your rich web applications with the latest addition to RadControl for Silverlight - RadTileView. The control enables you to architect immersive user experiences with its configurable content "tiles", support for drag-and-drop rearrangement, and adjustable position of the minimized items. RadTileView comes with built-in item animations, which are also fully customizable to suit various scenarios.

RadRibbonBar - Telerik Silverlight RibbonBar is an easy-to-use implementation of the Microsoft Office 2007 “ribbon” UI, which allows you to codelessly organize the navigation functionality of your application into a single compact toolbar control. Its popup engine, dynamic resizing, built-in galleries and powerful customization capabilities, make the Silverlight RibbonBar your shortcut to creating powerful navigation systems.

RadButtons - Telerik RadControls for Silverlight noew feature stabdard Button, DropDownButton, RadioButton and SplitButton to allow you build complex forms and easily manage their input. All these buttons provide specific functionality that can be instrumental to achieving complete LOB applications. Telerik RadButtons for Silverlight also provide full Commands support.

WinForms
The main focus for the Q3 2009 release continues to be on optimizations in the overall performance and stability of the toolset, brisk and slicker theming, and improvements throughout major controls.

• Telerik Presentation Framework - Refactorred the RadElement life cycle, which decreases RadControls application’s load and dispose times by optimizing the loading and the disposing of the controls’ element trees. Depending on the controls used, an application/form will launch between 20% and 300% faster. The new RadElement life cycle eliminates the major disadvantages of the previous element tree’s “Lazy” loading mechanism, namely.
• New popup mechanism has been added on framework level (currently implemented in RadComboBox, RadMultiColumnComboBox, and RadRibbonBar). The popup solves all flickering issues (caused by unnecessary activation/deactivation) of the parent form when the popup is opened. It also provides support for fade-in and fade-out popup animations.
• RadMarkupEditor - RadMarkupEditor is a WYSIWYG editor which has been added on framework level to simplify the way users and developers edit text in HTML-like markup. The editor provides an intuitive and easy to use. A Ribbon interface and can be used both in design-time and at runtime. RadMarkupEditor is available for all Telerik WinForms controls which support HTML-like text formatting.
• RadComboBox and RadListBox - The new version of RadComboBox and its derivative – RadListBox – come with improved data binding through refactoring, which results in faster, more stable binding, support for large number of items, and memory footprint improvements.

WPF New Controls:

• RadButtons - Telerik RadControls for WPF now feature standard Button, DropDownButton, RadioButton and SplitButton to allow you build complex forms and easily manage their input. All these buttons provide specific functionality that can be instrumental to achieving complete LOB applications.
• RadDocking - RadDocking for WPF is a docking system like the one in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. You get the dockable ToolWindows, a hidden DockingManager control, and a designer to make creating attractive layouts easy.
• RadMenu - RadMenu is fully customizable, allowing you to create anything your imagination can conceive while keeping all advanced menu functionalities, such as: hierarchical databinding, rich programming model, boundary detection and many more.
• RadContextMenu - It’s easy to save space and provide additional commands or features with RadContextMenu. The control is fully customizable, allowing you to create anything your imagination can conceive, while keeping all advanced menu functionalities, such as: hierarchical databinding, rich programming model, boundary detection, and many more.
• RadOutlookBar - Telerik OutlookBar for WPF lets you deliver Outlook’s navigational bar to your applications. You can take advantage of the data templates, icons, and the overflow menu. You can also easily move the items from the main navigation bar containing the OutlookBar’s items to the minimized area and the overflow menu by simply dragging the horizontal splitter.
• RadTileView - Create flexible and interactive layouts for your rich web applications with the latest addition to RadControl for WPF - RadTileView. The control enables you to architect immersive user experiences with its configurable content "tiles", support for drag-and-drop rearrangement, and adjustable position of the minimized items. RadTileView comes with built-in item animations, which are also fully customizable to suit various scenarios.
• RadRibbonBar - Telerik WPF RibbonBar is an easy-to-use implementation of the Microsoft Office 2007 “ribbon” UI, which allows you to codelessly organize the navigation functionality of your application into a single compact toolbar control.

Reporting

• Silverlight Report viewer with True Printing Support
• WCF report service
• XPS/XAML rendering extension
• Document map
• Group explorer Tool Window
• Added ColumnNumber function (similar to RowNumber)
• Table: Add KeepTogether property/functionality
• Table: Allow merge body cells by rows

OpenAccess ORM

• Metadata API - OpenAccess provides an API to access all metadata information during runtime. This contains the complete database schema definition used. The entry point is at the database instance, you can reach it from the ObjectScope via scope.DataBase.MetaData. To find specific class/table/field/column information you can use Linq.
• Database level cache API - The OpenAccess database level (or second level) cache needs an API to check the cache content and to evict part of the cache. The API is available at the database instance and can be reached from the ObjectScope via scope.Database.Cache.
• Configuration support for SNAPSHOT transaction isolation - You can now specify SNAPSHOT in the backend configuration for systems where this is supported (e.g. MSSQL). Shared columns support - A column with a foreign key constraint in the database can be mapped to a simple type field like an integer but it can additionally be mapped to a reference type field like Person.Address. The data in the database is in this case always an integer. The ORM automatically translates the integer to a reference and vice versa. Therefore it is possible to map a single column in the database to two fields in the object model. One of the fields must be of simple type and needs to be of reference type.
• Performance enhancements for read access - Reading data is complex because lots of metadata and mapping related code has to be executed. The reduction of layers and memory consumption makes the read access faster.
• SQL Server Compact 3.5 Desktop Edition - OpenAccess can now work with the SQL Server Compact Edition on desktop and server operating systems. Because of the backend limitations in SQL statements like subselects and stored procedures not all OpenAccess functionality is supported.
• SQL Azure - OpenAccess can now work with the Sql Azure database. The database can be accessed from your local computer or from another machine in the cloud. All OpenAccess functionality including full design time support is provided.
• .NET connection string support - The definition of the database connection was OpenAccess specific. Now a normal .NET connection string can be used too. The enable project wizard can use and test those strings as well.
• Full artificial support - After having artificial fields support OpenAccess comes now with artificial types support. This also means that types can be defined on the fly and the database schema can be updated. The access to the artificial types is similar to the artificial fields.

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Telerik is one of the trend-setters in the development of User Interface components for .NET and add-ons for Microsoft SharePoint. The Telerik name is most often associated with constant innovation, meticulous support, and an aggressive release schedule. Telerik's flagship product, RadControls, is the most comprehensive toolset for .NET UI development. The suite enables developers to rapidly build visually stunning web and desktop interfaces with unmatched performance and interactivity. The Telerik mission is to exceed your expectations and help you "deliver more than expected".