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Editor's note

Todd Anglin

It's my great honor and privilege to once again introduce you to another HUGE Telerik developer tools release! Today marks the official Q1 2011 release and it is packed with improvements that solidify Telerik's position as an end-to-end provider of tools for software development. I know that your time is valuable and your inbox is full, but I encourage to spend a few minutes reviewing all of the various news items in this month's newsletter because odds are that there are improvements in Q1 2011 that can make your developer life easier.

With our Q3 2010 release, I challenged you to try at least one product from the Telerik Ultimate Collection that you had never tried before. For Q1 2011, I have a new challenge. Download and install Telerik JustCode, our Visual Studio productivity plug-in. In Q1 2011, JustCode adds an integrated decompiling feature. Directly from Visual Studio, without running a separate program, you can now easily browse the source for any assembly just as easily as you would navigate to the definition of your own types. It's amazing! Take the challenge. Try JustCode and tell me about your experience (anglin@telerik.com).

The Q1 2011 release also marks the official introduction of RadControls for Windows Phone, a brand new visual designer for OpenAccess ORM, and new controls like the RadRichTextBox for WPF and RadRibbonBar for ASP.NET AJAX. There is so much news with this release- like the $99 introductory price for our Windows Phone tools and new SQL Server support in OpenAccess Free Edition- that I can't even fit the highlights in this short intro. Visit my blog for an expanded look at the Q1 2011 highlights and register today for the Q1 2011 What's New webinars happening next week to help you fully take advantage of Q1 bits. Have fun with Q1!

Todd Anglin, Chief Evangelist
@toddanglin

In this issue

RadControls for Windows Phone on Sale RadControls for Silverlight Faster Than Ever
RadControls for WPF introduce MS Word-like Editing Telerik Reporting’s New Allies: PowerPoint, Word & Excel 2007+
Coded UI Testing Comes to Telerik Windows Forms OpenAccess ORM Gets a Usability Overhaul
JustCode Adds Decompiling Feature Enhanced ASP.NET AJAX Mobile Devices Support
New ASP.NET MVC Upload, Splitter and Slider Extensions TeamPulse R1 2011 Online Beta Now Available
SharePoint Kit CTP is here OpenAccess ORM Free Edition Gets SQL Server Support

News & Updates

Windows Phone 7

RadControls for Windows Phone on Sale

To celebrate the official release of RadControls for Windows Phone, we have a special limited offer. You can buy the suite for $99/$149 (without and with subscription). Among the highlights are: the fastest ListBox, RadGauge and RadAmination components.

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Silvelight

RadControls for Silverlight Faster Than Ever

The new RadDomainDataSource control simplifies WCF RIA Services and contributes for speedier server-side data operations. Check out how RadGridView scrolls 1 billion of records without any performance hits. A bunch of new controls are also available.

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WPF

RadControls for WPF introduce MS Word-like Editing

A brand new RichTextBox is the highlight of the release. The control offers advanced features such as Word-like Bookmarks and Hyperlinks, a Visual Studio Design Time Wizard and more. Four more controls ship with the release.

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Reporting

Telerik Reporting’s New Allies: PowerPoint, Word & Excel 2007+

With Q1 Telerik Reporting can export its reports to editable 2007 & 2010 Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel documents, as well as to all document suites that support Office Open XML standard. Start analyzing, sharing and presenting your data today!

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WinForms

Coded UI Testing Comes to Telerik Windows Forms

You can now create and run Coded UI tests with RadControls for WinForms and Visual Studio 2010! As of Q1 the Telerik WinForms controls are compliant with the latest Microsoft Active Accessibility and UI automation standards, becoming the 1st third party suite to be compliant with MSAA.

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ORM

OpenAccess ORM Gets a Usability Overhaul

The design-time wizards and tools of OpenAccess got a major usability overhaul in Q1, making the designer not only slicker, but more powerful. Associations, database and model updates, data validation, and project upgrades are now faster and more intuitively than ever.

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JustCode

JustCode Adds Decompiling Feature

True to our commitment to act upon your feedback, we’ve added decompiling to JustCode to enable you to recover lost source code and explore and analyze compiled .NET assemblies without ever leaving Visual Studio. Other new enhancements to JustCode include Code Cleaning, Code Style Sharing and a Safe Delete refactoring.

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AJAX

Enhanced ASP.NET AJAX Mobile Devices Support

Apart from delivering IE9 RTM compliance and support for touch and drag gestures for all Telerik ASP.NET AJAX controls, Q1 2011 also ships two new web parts for SharePoint 2010, ListView and Scheduler, two new controls, RibbonBar and MonthYearPicker, and, of course, plenty of new features added to the existing controls.

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MVC

New ASP.NET MVC Upload, Splitter and Slider Extensions

Q1 2011 has arrived to deliver three new ASP.NET MVC Extensions, Upload, Splitter and Slider, as well as some great features for the Grid and Editor components. In this release you will also find fixes and improvements across the entire suite and IE9 RTM compliance for all Extensions.

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TeamPulse

TeamPulse R1 2011 Online Beta Now Available

We are happy to announce that you can now try the Beta of the next version of our project management tool TeamPulse online. It features the new module for Bug, Issues and Risk management, as well as the My Perspective view that gives users a single dashboard for tracking and managing their work. Among the new things is also the ability to capture important feedback and feature requests.

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Sharepoint

SharePoint Kit CTP is here

A mere six months after they began leveraging TeamPulse’s robust planning, tracking, and productivity tools the development team of McConnell Dowell, a world-renowned engineering giant, began to see tangible results. With substantial increases in their efficiency and effectiveness, the team was able to halve its development cycle, generating significant cost-savings.

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ORM free

OpenAccess ORM Free Edition Gets SQL Server Support

The users of the free version of OpenAccess ORM will no longer be restrained to use the product only with free databases! Telerik OpenAccess ORM Free Edition (previously OpenAccess Express) now comes with full databases support for the commercial version of Microsoft SQL Server.

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