Learn a little about new Developer Evangelist James Bender and how he'll be helping the community learn about the great Development Productive tools (JustMock, JustTrace, JustCode and JustDecompile) offered by Telerik
New Data Storage functionality - taking advantage of the SQLite database engine and providing developers with local relational database storage; Calendar for XAML and HTML; TokenInput for HTML and more.
One of the challenges when developing an application is to give visual indication while a long running process is occurring. In Silverlight this can be easily achieved using the RadBusyIndicator control. However, the UI thread sometimes gets frozen.
Add an implementation of IDataErrorInfo to your entities with a single checkbox! Use the interface to communicate the data validation results to the UI controls with minimum efforts.
I'm sure most of you can relate to that feeling you get when you learn about something that you're pretty sure everyone else already knows about. Something fundamental. I remember when I learned that I could test for nullable integers in C# by using hasValue. Or when I first learned that you could use array notation in JavaScript to dynamically access properties and methods. Sometimes we don't talk about these things. We sort of just look around to make sure no one was watching when we were the last to find out.