In Q1 2011, Telerik OpenAccess ORM introduced a flexible type conversion system. This type conversion system allows developers to instruct OpenAccess on how to map types that it may not support out of the box. This feature makes it possible for OpenAccess to work with built in UDTs, such as SQL Spatial and XML, as well as any custom UDTs developers create. What is a User Defined Type? SQL Server 2005 introduced user-defined types (UDTs). UDTs extend the SQL type system by allowing you to store objects and custom data structures in a SQL Server database. UDTs can contain multiple data types...

As Kendo UI continues to grow in popularity, the Kendo UI community is also quickly growing. And with that growing community come some very good technical questions about Kendo UI. To help give more visibility to some of these questions happening in the active Kendo UI...

Hello Everyone! My name is Michael Crump, and I am the newest member of the XAML Evangelist team. I will be spreading the word about Telerik’s WP7, WPF and Silverlight controls. I will also be covering other great Telerik products . I will be writing blog post, creating video content, attending conferences and answering questions relating to Telerik’s great line of products. Even more importantly, I will be spending a lot of time working with the community and helping my fellow developer. Last week was the //Build/ conference in Anaheim, California. A lot of questions and concerns popped up all over the internet concerning...

Telerik JustCode Q3 2011 is just around the corner, but we’re not waiting to bring you new features and enhancements for your favorite productivity tool. Telerik JustCode Q2 2011 Service Pack has been launched with a dazzling array of features and enhancements to make development fast and fun. Microsoft’s BUILD conference just ended, promising a shift in the way we approach Windows development. One thing is for certain: it will be easier than ever before to write responsive software. With the new asynchronous features in C# and VB.NET, you can create high throughput ASP.NET MVC applications without breaking a sweat. JustCode fully...

Today was my first day back in the office for my job at Telerik and I decided that I would try an experiment. I would use only my Windows 8 tablet that I received at the Build conference last week for both my work and play. I put away my Lenovo laptop (for work) and my iPad (for reading in bed) and decided I would use only the tablet for the next few days. The tablet came with a Bluetooth keyboard and dock, so I put that together and started to play around.   The first thing that I realized is that the traditional Windows “Start” menu is gone, completely replaced by...