In Case You Missed It, Part VIII

It has been more than a year since I last provided an update in the ICYMI series, but now more than ever it’s time to make sure you haven’t missed some important news. As a reminder, ICYMI posts are designed to highlight some of the important posts that are flying by on the very active Telerik Blogs that you might have missed. With all of the recent Telerik and Microsoft announcements, there are more than a few great posts to share that you shouldn’t miss, but here’s the most important you definitely must read:

• Riding Waves
  Telerik CEO talks about recent changes and announcements
• A New Native Silverlight 4 Rich Text Editor Coming Up
  The Telerik Silverlight Team previews our brand new (and crazy powerful) Silverlight editor
• 30 Seconds from File|New to a new CRUD Silverlight application
  Stephen Forte shows you the power of Telerik’s new OpenAccess ORM visual designer combined with the Data Services Wizard for quickly creating Silverlight CRUD apps
• Mock. Just Mock. JustMock.
  Hristo Kosev talks about the newest Telerik developer tool: JustMock
• Telerik Releases the Data Service Wizard
  Stephen Forte talks about the official release of our OpenAccess Data Services Wizard
• A Brand-new Automated Testing Tool Result of Telerik and AoT Merger
  Testing Tools Team talks about the new WebUI Test Studio editions and features
• Our plans for ASP.NET AJAX and SharePoint 2010
  ASP.NET Team talks about plans to update Editor web part and introduce new Grid WP

New products. New releases. It’s all great Telerik reading. With an average of 50 posts per month over the last 12 months, the Telerik Blogs are a great resource for what’s new with Telerik products. Subscribe today and don’t miss the next round of important news!

In Case You Missed It: Part VII

Has it really been since August that I last brought you an ICYMI update? If you haven't been following the Telerik Blogs in the mean time, you've missed a lot. The Telerik Blogs are really active now with many of the guys and gals on the RadControl product teams regularly posting very helpful and insightful technical blog posts. In fact, the blogs are so active nowadays that it can be difficult to keep-up with all of the information flowing across the lines! Fortunately, we've got a new blog layout coming soon and some new features that should make it easier to track the content relevant to your job. Until that goes live, here are some great posts from just the last few months that you should check out:

• Showing RadToolTip on RadInput input error - posted today by yours truly. Complete example with code of how to have great data validation feedback on your page.
• Getting Started with ADO.NET Data Services and Telerik Open Access: Part 1 - very cool post showing you how to use Astoria with Telerik OpenAccess ORM
• RadMessageBox for WinForms - want prettier message boxes in your WinForms app? Check out this post about the new control in RadControls for WinForms Q3 2008
• Optimize your ASP.NET data entry validation - Vladimir Enchev shows you the performance gains of using RadInputManager over the standard ASP.NET validators
• How To: Export grid to PDF file and show the result using RadWindow - cool code example showing you how to provide a good user experience when exporting grid data to PDFs
• Easily persist RadTabStrip Selected Tab using client-side API - get familiar with the RadTabStrip client-side API in this post I created after using the code in a real world website
• RadTips: ExportToPDF Button for RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX - Kevin Babcock shows you how you can add an ExportToPDF button to RadEditor (includes code and video)
• Using Report parameters to sort by column - the Telerik Reporting team brings you a quick tip for sorting report data at run-time

And that's just the tip of the iceburg...or tip of the great mountain of content as it may be on the Telerik Blogs. Remember that I post most of my technical posts on the Telerik Blogs (and not here), so be sure to add the Telerik Blogs to your feed readers and enjoy some great content during your daily blog reading!

In Case You Missed It: Part VI

My how time flies. I haven't delivered an ICYMI post in nearly five months, so if you haven't been actively following the Telerik.com blogs or my other various blogs, you've missed a ton of very good information. Obviously, there's too much to cover if I go all the way back to March and start highlighting important posts, so instead I'll highlight some of the better posts you may have missed in the last couple of months. With a big Q release and two new product lines recently coming from Telerik, there's been plenty of very interesting posts. The highlights:

• dotNetRegister: An Intro - my introduction to a big new reference app I'm working on
• How To: RadGrid hierarchy from object hierarchy- straight from Grid master Vladimir Enchev. If you use RadGrid, you definitely want to start following his blog.
• A new product from Telerik?! Oh, what could it be?- the guessing begins!
• RadTreeView for ASP.NET AJAX load on demand modes - why so many?- Atanas Korchev, product team lead, tells you why
• Silverlight Mobile Roadmap Refresher- I remind when we're supposed to see SL mobile
• Potluck Programming (or UWWFY)- it's going to be big
• RadControls for WinForms gaining more speed- Nikolay shows you how to optimize theme performance
• RadControls and ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview- see how Telerik is planning to use new features announced for ASP.NET AJAX
• Accessibility and RadEditor- the product team shows you the accessibility features of RadEditor

There are so many more great posts I could highlight, but that should be enough for now. Enjoy the new reading and add these blogs to your RSS lists so you don't miss important news in the future!

In case you missed it: Part V

To wrap up this busy week of blogging and welcome the weekend, I've decided to bring you another fine blended edition of "ICYMI." It's been a few months since the last installment, so there's definitely a lot you've missed if you haven't been following the Telerik.com blogs, my "official" ASP.NET blog, or some of the other "big" .NET blogs out there. Fortunately, I've been following all of them for you and I have prepared a short list of links that represents the best of the best content for your weekend reading enjoyment. Usually, I only highlight things you may have missed from the Telerik.com blogs, but with today's big release of new Silverlight 2.0 details, I decided to throw a few extra sources in for fun. And without further delay, the links:

• The definitive UI component metaphor - from one of my other blogs. A fun post if you've been try to explain UI components to "non-technical" people.
  
• First Look at Silverlight 2 - huge post from ScottGu today detailing a lot of what's coming in Silverlight 2 at Mix in a couple of weeks. This post links to about 10 other posts he just posted, too, on the topic of Silverlight 2.
• Telerik licensing demystified - from our CEO. Good post explaining how Telerik licensing works
• Integrated support for Load-On-Demand from Web Services in RadControls “Prometheus” - long post title, but good technical look at the new web service bindings in RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
  
• Squeezing the last millisecond from the page load time - a good post covering the use of RadScriptManager and RadStyleSheetManager
• Have a safe trip from WinForms to WPF - a quick post talking about the expected migration path for applications using RadControls for WinForms to RadControls for WPF

Enjoy the links and the weekend!

In case you missed it: part IV

Time has been flying by at an unbelievable pace during the final "Q" release cycle this year, and lost in time's wake are a couple of "ICYMI" updates. To refresh your memory, these updates bring you highlights from the blog posts over on Telerik.com that you may have missed due to your RSS gluttony (I know, I feed too much, too). Many people contribute to the Telerik Blogs and there some excellent posts, full of information, that you shouldn't miss. So without further delay, here are some standout posts from the Telerik blogs from the last couple of months:

• 5 years of Telerik, new office - by Co-CEO Vassil Terziev
• Visual Studio 2008 RTM is here and we have plenty of new things in RadControls for ASP.NET - title is not short, but good info for early VS 2008 adopters
• Telerik wins "Best Employer" 2007 award - more details on our recent recognition
• 21 new RadGrid videos available - link to new support videos for RadGrid. I highlight this post for those of you who didn't know we have tons of support videos online.
• ClickOnce and the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit - helpful info on deploying CAB applications
• On dynamically creating user controls - a very informative post on how to properly create controls from code
• How wrong custom ViewState handling may harm more than help - an interesting look at potential problems caused by custom ViewState handling
  

Until next time, enjoy the reading and don't forget to subscribe to the Telerik blogs feed.

In case you missed it: part III

Keeping with my general pace of delivering a new installment in this series about once a month, it is high time I brought your attention to some great blog posts on the Telerik blogs...(wait for it)...in case you missed it (well, in case you missed them, in this case, but that wouldn't match the series title). The blogs have been busy with new faces and great installments from long time writers, so if you haven't subscribed yet, you should. Without further delay, here are some of the great posts from the last month:

• Ultimate .NET Credit Card Utility - a brief post talking about a new article I recently added to the Code Project.
• How to: Create RadRotator Programmatically- a detailed how-to on creating RadRotators with templates programmatically
• Online Help Skin- a sneak preview of the new skin coming to the Telerik Online Documentation
• ASP.NET Web Control Performance Test in Selenium- Telerik's masters of QA show you how to use Selenium to run performance tests on web controls
• Q2 Skinning- the RadControl default embedded skins are changing in Q2 and this post gives you a preview of the new look
• ASP.NET AJAX Tips & Tricks- this brief post shows you some tricks for optimizing ASP.NET AJAX updates

And that's just a small sample of the content on the Telerik blogs right now. There have been almost 20 new posts in August and many more that weren't highlighted in July. So if you're looking for something interesting to read today, you've got plenty of great material to pick from.