Q1 2010 is live!

As promised in yesterday’s webinar, the Q1 2010 release is now live! We’ve been saying it all along, but I’ll say it again: this is a huge release. The Telerik Premium Collection is completely updated- that’s 8 releases all available today. For a complete overview of what’s new, you can use the above video, you can attend this week’s Webinar Week, or you can read-up on Telerik.com. If you’re in a super hurry, here’s a quick summary of what’s new in Q1 2010:

• All products support Visual Studio 2010 RC & .NET 4 RC (native builds)
• ASP.NET AJAX
• 2 new controls: RadFilter, RadAsyncUpload
• JavaScript IntelliSense support
• jQuery upgraded to 1.4.2 + more jQuery internally (animations, reduced code)
• NEW audio CAPTCHAs
• NEW import/export RTF in RadEditor
• NEW filter context menu in RadGrid & rating column
• NEW drag-drop support in RadListView
• NEW visual cue for non-visible appointments in RadScheduler
• Silverlight
• Optimized XAML (details)
• Huge performance gains via UI and Data Virtualization + Container Recycling
• VS 2010 designer support
• NEW RadTransition (CTP)
• NEW built-in paging UI in RadGridView
• NEW data sampling, smart labels, zooming & scrolling, Scatter chart in RadChart
• NEW multi-touch support + improved UI/features in RadMap
• THEME optimization/facelift (breaking change)
• WPF
• (Shared code-base with SL – All optimizations carry over + new features)
• 3 new controls: RadBook, RadMap, RadTransition
• WinForms
• VS 2010 RC support (client profile support coming with VS2010 RTM)
• NEW VisualStyleBuilder for WinForms (it’s like Blend for WinForms)
• NEW Visual Studio Extensions for WinForms
• NEW Timeline view in RadScheduler
• ASP.NET MVC
• Official v1 release; Commercial license now available
• New Telerik Extensions Installer (support for MVC 1.0 and 2.0)
• jQuery upgraded to 1.4.2
• 4 new Extensions: Calendar, DatePicker, Treeview, NumericTextBox
• NEW grid features: Editing, Grouping, Localization, Toolbar, Templates
• Integration with Telerik Visual Style Builder
• Reporting
• Full VS 2010 RC support (including .NET 4 client profile)
• 2 new codeless data source components: SqlDataSource & ObjectDataSource
• NEW data processing engine (improved power, reduced memory footprint)
• ORM
• VS 2010 RC support
• NEW Visual Designer for creating/maintaining mappings
• NEW VS dialogs: Mapping Details Editor, Schema Explorer, Entity Diagram Explorer
• SUPPPORT added for VistaDB
• JustCode
• Official v1 release; Commercial license now available
• VS 2010 RC support
• Major improvements in performance & memory footprint
• NEW quick fixes & refactorings
• NEW code color identifiers
• NEW “type assistance” (auto bracket/brace/paren/etc. complete)

Phew! That’s a lot of updates. And that’s not everything we’ve been working on over the last few months (believe it or not). You may have noticed that there is no mention of WebUI Test Studio, Sitefinity, or our TFS tools here. Make sure you’re following us on Twitter to get updates about those products in about 5 weeks. There will even be a few surprises!

In the mean time, download and enjoy Q1 2010! Lot’s more on the new stuff this week on Telerik TV and the Telerik Blogs.