RadControls for Silverlight Beta Revealed – Download Now

Telerik have released its RadControls for Silverlight Beta product.

Telerik components suite for Silverlight received another boost with the official release of RadControls for Silverlight Beta. RadControls for Silverlight Beta includes five components, namely 5 fundamental building blocks (Button, Image, Media, Label, CustomElement) and 3 composite controls (MediaPlayer, StripLayoutPanel and Cube).

Developers can use Telerik Silverlight controls in their own projects and get acquainted with the notion of control-based development originally missing in the Silverlight 1.0 framework. All RadControls are fully customizable through themes. We ship several predefined themes for each control and provide the option to further customize them with Microsoft Expression Blend. RadControls for Silverlight require no JavaScript and XAML coding.

Silverlight Beta is distributed with free developer license to all community members who have a valid Telerik Client.net account.

Download Beta and let us know of your feedback!

Integrating RadControls into SharePoint 2007

Latest information from Telerik regarding its RadContols suite and integration into SharePoint 2007 and WSSv3.

The market leading RadControls for ASP.NET bring unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity to your SharePoint 2007 projects. Now you can easily incorporate all Telerik ASP.NET UI products into Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. The integration is a straight-forward process and we supply several resources to help you along the way. The whitepaper is specially created by Andrew Connell, MVP Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, visit Andrew Connell’s website

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Although these resources refer to RadMenu, other controls in the Telerik RadControls suite follow the same deployment model and requirements. While the demonstration site used in the resources is a MOSS 2007 Publishing site, these same steps apply to all WSS v3 based sites, including sites created using the Team Site or Blank Site site template.

More information is available at www.telerik.com/sharepoint

BDC Meta Man

I just found this useful tool BDC Meta Man for managing metadata for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Business Data Catalog (BDC).

BDC Meta Man provides the ability to create Application Definitions for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) Business Data Catalog (BDC) without writing a line of code.

The BDC Meta Man is offered in three different versions, Developer, Professional and Corporate. For a comparison of the different versions, see this document. Developer is free, doesn’t expire and gives one activation, Professional is $US1200.00, doesn’t expire and gives one activation, Corporate is $US12,000, doesn’t expire and gives unlimited activations.