Here’s an exciting initiative that our marketing folks just announced: if you sign up for a TeamPulse hosted trial before July 31, 2011 you will enter a raffle for a chance to win an iPad 2 16GB. Yes, it’s as easy as that. You get a chance to explore the cool new R1 2011 features and win a prize at the same time. The winner will be announced on August 7th on our TeamPulse blog and via our Twitter account as well as receive a personal email from our team. So hurry up and sign up now, it ...

Quite some time ago we touched upon the details of the caches maintained by Telerik OpenAccess ORM in the these 2 blog posts – First Level Cache, Second Level Cache.  In this post we will provide some more information about the ‘Query result cache’ which is held as a part of the 2nd Level Cache.   What is the Query Results Cache ? When you execute a LINQ query to fetch some objects from the database there are quite a few things that take place in the background before you actually get back the result. Let’s list some basic actions that are...

We were expecting TechEd in Atlanta will be a blast, and Day 1 proves it. The new shiny Telerik booth was overwhelmed by hundreds of developers who wanted to talk to us (thank you for stopping by booth #409!), and check what Telerik has in the store for them this year.   Official Unveiling of Two New Developer Tools for Decompiling (free) and Profiling We officially unveiled two new products during TechEd (see interview of Todd Anglin by Michael Desmond in Visual Studio Magazine here): JustDecompile -- a free decompiling productivity tool designed to enable easy .NET assembly browsing and decompiling; JustTrace -- a developer tool, which enables you...

At TechEd North America 2011 yesterday, we officially announced the Beta launch of JustDecompile – a powerful .NET decompiler, which we are committed to keeping free, forever, for everyone. Since the pre-launch two weeks ago, when we unveiled the very first Beta version, we have witnessed enormous interest in JustDecompile as the community has acclaimed Telerik for stepping up and providing a free .NET decompiler to fill a very conspicuous market gap. Naturally, with enormous interest, come a lot of questions, too. Thus, due to popular demand, we have organized a Twitter chat to get all of your questions answered. Join the...

If you (like me) were a heavy Reflector user you will probably like the tool that I’m going to share with you today. It is a very simple WPF application that allows you to migrate your existing Reflector's list to their JustDecompile equivalents. Usage is pretty straight forward. You just™ point the app to your Reflector’s installation folder and it will take care of the rest. You can download the tool here. Any feedback: bugs and feature requests is more than welcome. Let's finish with a rhyme: Let the force of a freely decompiled source guide you in your course. ...