As usual, the new volume comes full of surprises as well as new additions and major improvements to all product linesRadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms, and WPF, as well asTelerik Reporting and OpenAccess ORM. Whats more, with Q2 we are adding a brand new product to Teleriks portfolio a FREE web testing framework including wrappers for RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX/Silverlight.
In the upcoming weeks until the official Q2 2009, well be sharing with you the major highlights of the release one piece at a time. So, stay tuned and check regularly this blog post as well as www.telerik.com for regular updates. The countdown begins with a brief overview of the new Telerik Visual Style Builder.
Enjoy!
Making a custom skin has never been easier
Yes, this is not just a marketing speak. Some of you probably have already tasted the first preview of the Visual Style Builder the tool that allows you to visually modify the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX skins or design new ones with point-and-clicks. This tool eliminates the need to understand the front-end HTML and CSS structure of the RadControls to create custom skins. It gives you complete control over the elements of the RadControls skin and allows you to create your own custom skin in minutes.
The Visual Style Builder provides two basic modes for skin customization. Through the colorization mode you can easily color shift by simply sliding through the color spectrum. All of the colorization changes not only effect the CSS colors, but also the colors of the CSS sprite images.
Through the "fine-tune" mode of the Visual Style Builder, the RadControls skin elements can be further adjusted to fit in any web application. The graphical interface allows for edits of any skin detail - text fonts and sizes, margins and padding, background, any style property.
Currently the fine-tune option is available for four controls from the Telerik AJAX suite: RadGrid, RadCalendar,RadPanelBar and RadWindow. More controls will be added for the Q2 Release
Launch the Visual Style Builder