Yesterday Telerik released the Q2 version of OpenAccess ORM as well as the rest of the product line. Yesterday (Part I) I showed you the menus, Data Service Wizard, and new XAML templates. Today I will show you round tripping. Next week I will talk about RIA Services and model first. OpenAccess Q2’s new LINQ implementation and Visual Designer introduces database round tripping.  Now you can make changes in your model and persist them to your database table. (You always had the ability to make a database schema change and refresh your model.) Let’s see this feature in action. The Model Schema Explorer gives you a view of your mapped entities. If...

The Q2 release is finally here and I am excited to talk about some of the changes in one of the newer controls in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Suite – the RadAsyncUpload. If you browse the live demos, you may not notice any differences immediately, but that’s simply because most of the changes are under the hood. Let’s have a look… First the most important new feature, seen above – Multiple file selection! RadAsyncUpload now allows users to select multiple files at once in the File Selection dialog which is very handy in scenarios where uploading a large number of...

Hello RadChart fans everywhere! With the introduction of Silverlight 4 just a couple of months ago a lot of our customers are asking if they can use the cool RIA controls with RadChart without writing any C# or VB code at all. With MVVM pattern getting so popular with Silverlight developers it is all about the XAML these days. Without further ado let’s answer the question:   The short answer is: Yes! The long answer: Yes, and it’s a total breeze! Just take a look at some code: Code...

What is Assembly Minifier If you still don’t know what it is: You should first read my previous post, where I announced the first Beta version of the tool You can watch the “Introduction to Assembly Minifier” video, kindly provided by Todd Anglin and Telerik TV You can read “why Silverlight application size matters” (the xap file) and how Assembly Minifier helps you reduce the XAP file size - by Todd Anglin. Read more… You can go to http://minifier.telerik.com/,  get your reduced Silverlight assemblies, build your application's XAP file with the new assemblies and significantly improve your application performance and downloading experience   What is New in the Q2 2010...

RadControls for Silverlight/WPF are here with 7 brand new major controls, tool for minifying the assemblies’ size and truly transparent theme for even easier styling of your applications. The suite now offers true MS Word-like content editing experience thanks to the new RichTextBox control.  New Controls RichTextBox The RichTextBox control is currently available only as part of our Silverlight offering. The control allows you to bring true MS Word-like content editing experience to your end-users. The new control offers rich text editing and formatting capabilities as well as out-of-browser support and printing, import and export of Html, Docx, and Xaml and many more. The newly introduced...