In past releases, we included an example in our SDK that showed customers how to work with Dynamic Data projects when using OpenAccess ORM.  The process was not as straightforward as we would have liked, but it worked.  In this release we are excited to announce that we have greatly simplified this process by adding wizards, and a new provider, allowing OpenAccess ORM to work directly with .Net 4.0 Dynamic Data Web Applications, and Web Sites. Getting Started To use this new functionality, the first thing you need to do is build a Telerik OpenAccess ORM domain model. Once the domain...

Mark your calendars! Next week is the official Q3 Webinar week and we have set up 11 webinars covering the complete Telerik developer portfolio (and then some). We will once again be giving away some Ultimate Collection licenses, so make sure to register for the webinars that interest you the most, and multiply your chances of winning. On Monday we will start off with an overview of Q3 2011, followed by the XAML webinar, and will finish off with What's New in Q3 2011 for Data Tools. In it, we will take a dive into all the great new features the Telerik Reporting and...

There is nothing more exciting than working on developing a new product for months and months, publishing a hugely popular beta, and then finally reaching the big "v1" official release. Kendo UI's road from idea to release has been more than a year in the making, but...

Naming and organization is critical in keeping software systems maintainable as you move forward, especially with larger systems or systems with longer lifespans. You’ll find yourself spending large amounts of time stumbling around unclear, tangled source code if you don’t take care with how you lay out your classes, namespaces, and projects. We should take the same exact care with our tests as the systems we’re delivering to our customers, because test code IS production code. Careful naming and layout of your tests is every bit as important as the system itself—and perhaps even a bit more since we ...

Telerik has won multiple honors for this year’s Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards! Test Studio won top honors in the Software Testing and Quality Assurance category, and I’m proud to say that a number of other great Telerik products got top nod as well, including: Best Collaboration, Project Management, and Agile Solutions – Telerik TeamPulse Best Component Suite: Web – RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Best Mobile Development Tools – RadControls for Windows Phone JustCode, OpenAccess, SiteFinity, and Telerik Reporting all got Merit awards, as did a number of our other controls. Thanks very much to our loyal customers ...