DataViewer

As promised last week I will publish some screenshots of the redesigned DataViewer with this post. The lead photo shows the Dashboard, which is available to admins to see the current status of different projects.

With yesterday's release of Telerik Q2.2011 component suite we also updated the DataViewer. Beneath the new RadPropertyGrid which makes editing configuration much easier, Telerik shipped a completely new theme. Being called MetroUI, it replicates the Windows Phone 7 design guidelines. It embraces typography and uses plain colors instead of the Apple-ish chrome and gradient stuff. I must say that it is really useful to point the end user to the data.

Beginning this January I started working on a data visualization application using Microsoft's Silverlight. I had a strong start in January where I accomplished to create the basic framework of the site but struggled in February and March, where my main-job took much time. The last month I was able to create concepts for navigation, view-models and the ribbon toolbar. Now we are working on the integration of data, which is provided by WCF services and brought to life by Silverlight.