We have announced the Q2 release last week and as usual we are hosting online events to present the new features throughout all Telerik product lines. The webinar for Telerik WebUI Test Studio is tomorrow (Friday, July 23rd) @ 11AM EDT.  Register now - the webinar is not only free but also during the live event attendees will have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection license (valued at $1999) We are excited about all the great new features we have introduced in WebUI Test Studio. We will be glad to show you all the cool demos and get ...

As solutions get more complicated every day so does the domain model. Navigating in the designer can become quite frustrating if you have a rather large database with 100+ tables. There is however a light at the end of the tunnel.  There are a few often overlooked features of the designer that can make your life easier when dealing with large models.  First of all you should get familiar with search bar on top of the Model Explorer and the Schema Explorer. It is the easiest way to find a class or a table by its name. So what do you do...

Personas are fictitious characters created to represent the different user types of a system. Personas will help you visualize the people behind the keyboard using the features of the software your team is creating. You will can describe exactly how personas use your software by describing the interaction in a story. When defining software requirements in the context of a persona (complete with a picture, a name, and a rich description of a personas goals, objectives, constraints, and day to day realities) teams can better define how to approach the design of the features the persona interacts with. TeamPulse provides ...

[Cross-posted from TelerikWatch.com] Sometimes people use the saying “Everyone’s a winner,” when in fact everyone is not a winner. If you join us tomorrow for the JustCode, JustMock and OpenAccess ORM webinar, though, you will be a winner! Everyone is truly a winner tomorrow because everyone that attends the Q2 2010 What’s New webinar will get free licenses for both JustCode and JustMock, Telerik’s powerful Visual Studio productivity tools. That’s $500 worth of software just for attending the live webinar event! To get your complimentary licenses, register now for the webinar, and then join us tomorrow, July 22nd at 11:00 AM Eastern. You must attend the...

In this blog post we will introduce the new intuitive and powerful Fetch Optimization API. Users familiar with the LINQ to SQL data load options will feel very comfortable with our API. If you don’t have a clue what this is all about, here we will give an overview of the basic concepts behind the usage of fetch strategies. In short, fetch strategies help you optimize your retrieval of objects from the database. They allow you to specify properties in a persistent object that are retrieved together whenever you invoke a call to the persistent object. Let’s consider the following example...