We have just release the second service pack for Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. You can download the open source version from here. Registered users can download it from their client.net accounts. You can check the release the notes here. What’s new The most notable change is that we upgraded to jquery 1.4. The benefits from using the latest jquery installment are quite a lot – performance improvements, lots of new features etc. We also hosted jQuery on Telerik CDN. However this upgrade comes at a price. Be warned that this change will break your existing web site if you are using jquery-1.3.2 and...

When I originally announced JustCode in an earlier post, I described its solution wide analysis feature as "it’s like having a compiler running all the time with the only difference being that it runs much faster." This is, of course, only true to an extent but as this is the major feature of JustCode I’ve decided to write a separate blog post describing, in detail, just how this feature can help you. I’ve also decided to split this blog post into several parts covering each of the different platforms support by JustCode as the solution wide analysis works differently depending on the...

We now have a brand new, including over 1000 pages, free training courseware for RadControls for Silverlight. It provides tons of tips and tricks, how-to's, code samples (in XAML and both in C# and VB). All these structured in a step-by-step manner and covering most of the available RadControls for Silverlight. This training material will help you quickly get up to speed with Silverlight and will discuss some of the issues in common with all RadControls such as binding or theming, working with RIA Services (also WCF and ADO.NET), working with Expression Blend, etc.    The courseware is available to everyone...

Very often it is necessary to work simultaneously with more than one database. In such cases it is recommended that each database is mapped to a separate class model residing in its own assembly. The object scopes that handle the persistent objects should be obtained from an instance of the Database class which represents particular database on the server. To make this process easier Telerik OpenAccess ORM generates a helper class named ObjectScopeProvider. How to benefit from this class will be described later in this post. To explain practically how to configure the Visual Studio projects, consider the case of having...

Telerik is proud to announce that the Data Services Wizard beta was released today. If you have used the wizard while it was a Telerik Labs project, you will notice a ton of new features and improvements. If you are new to the wizard, now may be a good time to give it a try and give us your feedback. The Data Service Wizard works with Telerik OpenAccess Q3 or higher and Visual Studio 2008. Our next beta, due in February, will support Visual Studio 2010 and WCF 4.0. The wizard will create a service layer for you using “Astoria” 1.0, the latest version of “Astoria”, WCF, or the WCF...