Telerik Reporting SP2 released

All you Telerik Reporting developers out there, don't miss Telerik's latest Reporting update. Released late last week, the second service pack for Reporting Q2 2008 is mostly a maintenance build. If you have been having any of the problems described in the release notes, download this update from your Client.net account and update away. If not, you may want to wait for the Q3 release that is only about a month away. That release will pack many new features, including support for cross-tab reports.

Still haven't tried Telerik Reporting? What are you waiting for?! If you have a Telerik Subscription license, you've got this in your toolbox and I think you'll be impressed with how far we've advanced our reporting solution in the last year.

Q2 2008 comming next week

We've been building-up to this release for a while now- well, about 3 months, really- and it's time to prepare for the big event. The 2nd major Telerik release for 2008 will ship next week, and with it will come exciting new improvements, controls, and suites! Q2 2008 will not only bring many new features to the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and WinForms, but it will also officially introduce two new RadControl suites: RadControls for WPF and RadControls for Silverlight (though the Silverlight release will be "beta" until the plug-in is finalized). With so much in this release, it's easy to miss some of the important details. So while you wait for the big day, I've prepared a list of essential posts (both from this blog and the Telerik.com blogs) that you can read to get all the details you need to prepare for Q2:

RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX

• Q2 2008 Futures now live (RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX)
• New features in RadComboBox, RadTreeView, RadUpload and RadScheduler
• What's new in RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX in Q2 2008
• Q2 ASP.NET Skinning
  

RadControls for WinForms & Telerik Reporting

• Q2 2008 Road Maps updated for WinForms, Reporting
• Design your RadCarousel with just drag & drop in Q2
  

RadControls for WPF & Silverlight

• RadControls for WPF Beta 2 released
• Telerik RadControls for Silverlight 2 CTP released
• RadWindow for Silverlight
• Optimizing the load size for Telerik Silverlight controls
• RadControls for WPF and Silverlight
• Announcing RadChart for WPF

Enjoy the posts and keep your RSS readers (or your browsers, for those not in to the "reader thing") locked-in here for the latest updates as Q2 draws near!

Another Telerik Reporting RadWebinar scheduled

Back by popular demand, Falafel has decided to offer another repeat of the Telerik Reporting RadWebinar. The third production of this webinar will be held on Tuesday, July 22nd at the "normal" time and place- 9:30 AM PST on GoToWebinar. I've already well covered the details of the Telerik Reporting RadWebinar in previous posts, so I won't rehash them here. If you're interested in some relatively cheap ($99) live Telerik Reporting training, sign-up for this new session now and enjoy the training expertise from Falafel. Also, don't forget to sign-up for the RadGrid training going down on July 29th- seats are going fast!

Q2 2008 road maps updated for WinForms, Reporting

As you are probably aware, we are quickly approaching Telerik's second major release for the year. Scheduled to drop in late July, Q2 2008 is mere weeks away, and as the release draws near, it's time to start looking at the goods we've been working on for the last 3 months. To get get things started, we've just updated the public road maps for the RadControls for WinForms and Telerik Reporting. While a little later than we normally like to publish these details, the road maps do shed some interesting light on what you can expect to find in the Q2 release for these two products. Here are the highlights:

RadControls for WinForms

• New! Multi-column RadComboboxes
• New! RadApplicationMenu for RadRibbonBar
• RadGridView: Support for multi-column headers
  
• RadGridView: Improved Export To Excel (performance improvements)
• RadMenu: Refactored for huge performance improvements
• RadCarousel: Incredible new Visual Studio designer
• RadCarousel: Support for auto-looping items

Telerik Reporting

• New! Cross tab report support
• New! Bar code report items
• New! Checkbox report items
• New! Telerik Reporting Project Upgrade Wizard
  
• Improved Ajax integration in WebViewer
• Improve Crystal Reports conversion engine

Clearly, we've been busy! To see all the details, visit the Telerik Reporting and RadControls for WinForms road maps and then watch for the release soon. We'll be updating the ASP.NET road map later this week, so stay tuned for a primer on what you can expect to find in ASP.NET's Q2 release.

Reminder: 2nd RadWebinar on Telerik Reporting today

It's not too late to sign-up for the 2nd RadWebinar on Telerik Reporting! If you attended the first showing of this content, this is nothing new, so you probably don't need to attend again. Everyone else interested in Telerik Reporting definitely should. The course is taught by Fafafel, relative experts on the Telerik tools, and it includes complete PDF courseware as part of the $99 class fee. Class gets started at 9:30 AM PST today, so sign-up now!

Watch for the announcement of a new RadWebinar later this week.

RadWebinars: Telerik Reporting (2nd chance)

If you missed the first RadWebinar on Telerik Reporting and have been mourning the missed opportunity for bargain live training on Telerik's reporting tool, fret not. You've been given a second chance. The training experts (and Telerik super-partners) at Falafel are running a second Telerik Reporting training session next week. For those of you that missed the original introduction of RadWebinars during TechEd, here are the essential details:

• Live online training (not self-paced videos)
• Interactive sessions (you can ask questions and get answers)
• Easy access (All you need is a PC and phone)
• Complete PDF courseware included (120+ pages)
• Just $99

To attend the July 1st (one week from today) Telerik Reporting training, reserve your seat now before they're all gone. The first Reporting training session was a big success, so we expect demand for these webinar seats to remain strong. And these training sessions are not available for download after the event. The interactive training is a key part of this learning resource, so to get the training you must attend the live event.

Watch for more RadWebinars covering different Telerik tools in the near future and don't miss your (2nd) opportunity to get Reporting training next week!

Telerik Reporting Challenge open, Win a $1000

A couple of weeks ago Telerik started a brand new challenge focused on Telerik Reporting. In this challenge, we're simply asking that you send us a short 1 - 2 page case study outlining how you've used Telerik Reporting to handle your reporting needs. We're very interested to see how different people are using Telerik Reporting to create innovative and elegant solutions in the .NET community, so now is your chance to show-off your Reporting skills. And the best part of the challenge is that everybody is a winner! No, really. Everybody.

Here's how the prizes work: You submit a short case study telling us how you use Telerik Reporting with a few screenshots. Assuming you meet the requirements (which you should if you spend any real amount of effort on this task), you'll be able to select one of three prizes:

• A free 1-year extension of your Telerik Reporting subscription license
• A free additional Telerik Reporting license (for you or a friend)
• A $300 coupon towards any Telerik purchase!

Easy enough, but it gets better. After the deadline for accepting new case studies closes, all approved case studies will be featured on Telerik.com where the community will vote on which case study is the best. The case study that gets the most community votes will win the big $1000 Amazon Gift Card.

So get cracking on those case studies. Even if you haven't used Telerik Reporting yet, download the trial, implement a solution, and send us a case study. You've got until July to create and sumbit a case study, so you have some time to come-up with a great idea and submit it. Make it innovative enough, and you may just have a nice little summer bonus waiting for you.

Submit your case studies now

Reporting Q3 2007 SP1 available

In a small oversight in yesterday's SP1 announcements, I failed to note that the Reporting SP1 is also available for download. Reporting's first service pack has actually been available since Monday and it is equally packed-full of updates for the rapidly maturing product. It delivers about 20 fixes for various things from wizard bugs to Excel output to general report rendering. It also ships with a handful of new features, like better font support in PDF exports and enhanced documentation. All in all, a great update worth download and installing. Read the full release notes and then download your copy from your Client.net accounts.