Telerik has announced the Q3 2008 release of its RadControls UI components and Report designer. Telerik registers significant growth in its developer tools portfolio by adding an enterprise-grade ORM product and a rich suite of components for Silverlight.

New products
Telerik presents RadControls for Silverlight - a set of components for next-generation line-of-business applications. The performance of the components is guaranteed by the use of data virtualization and Load on Demand mechanism, which results in performance gains. RadControls for Silverlight are fully stylable through Microsoft Expression Blend. Due to its interoperability with ASP.NET AJAX, they can be used to enhance existing web applications.

Another manifestation of Telerik's urge to offer complete developer solutions is the newly-acquired ORM product OpenAccess - an enterprise-grade tool. Supporting both forward and reverse mapping, it offers transparent persistence for your DAL and business objects. Advanced techniques like multi-level caching and fetch plans deliver performance optimizations.

RadControls for WPF
Q3 2008 release of RadControls for WPF concentrates on data visualization and interactivity by introducing completely stylable charting, gauge and scheduling controls. Through powerful rendering, data binding support and animations the new additions to the suite take data visualization to another level.

RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
The ASP.NET AJAX suite establishes its position as a mature toolset for building web applications.

One of the focal points is that RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX now can work in the new Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework. Due to the integration with the newly-acquired OpenAccess ORM, important data access capabilities were delivered to all databound controls.

RadControls for WinForms
The axis of the new release is the new RadScheduler control, which offers Outlook-style functionality with swift performance, simplified deployment and customization capabilities. Another addition to the Telerik WinForms suite is the ability to apply advanced Rich Text formatting to all products.

Telerik Reporting
Telerik Reporting delivers enhanced performance by introducing a completely new report rendering engine, which allows for speedy report generation, better allocation of server resources, and optimized report layout management.