We all know that today LINQ is the most popular and easy way for processing data in the .NET community. In fact you can use almost all data sources you might think of: plain objects, XML or relational databases. While we have been offering an extensive LINQ support for months now, and we are continuously improving it, I don’t think it received the credit it deserves. So we decided to foster the awareness of our community towards the great LINQ support we provide with the Telerik OpenAccess ORM tool. Ok, easier said than done. What approach should we take with this one? A...

Falafel Software have once again helped us produce a new thorough, extensive and FREE courseware, this time for RadControls for WinForms. This is the fifth courseware Falafel has written for Telerik, the previous ones being on ASP.NET and ASP.NET Ajax, Telerik Reporting and Sitefinity. This 650 page hands-on training material will be of great help to individuals, teams, and the community as a whole, and will assist everyone in quickly learning the power of RadControls and experiencing their true value. The courseware covers all Telerik Windows Forms controls in a step-by-step fashion. Every chapter comes with lab exercises, tips, tricks and "gotchas" that...

A common request in our support is to display a combo box, containing all values of a specific Enum. This is fairly easy with RadComboBox for Silverlight - all you need to do is to fill its ItemsSource collection with the Enum values. The best way to do this is to create a view model for the Enum: using System; using System.Collections; using System.Linq; using System.Reflection; namespace SilverlightApplication1 { public class EnumModel { private Type enumType; public IEnumerable Values { get; private set; } [TypeConverter(typeof(TypeTypeConverter))] ...

UPDATE: A hands-on demo added at the end of this post! No installation necessary.   We are happy to announce the release of the long waited Beta version of our new RadDock control. We have been overwhelmed with work for the last few weeks, but we are more than thrilled by the result. We managed to add an abundance of new features compared to the old DockingManger control, in addition to covering most of the functionality that existed in the previous DockingManager.   For starters, RadDock has much simpler object model and better API. The object structure mirrors the control tree that...

I am happy to share that RadScheduler for WinForms gets some cool new improvements for Q2 2009. Our Roadmap does not reveal much, but here is a quick preview of what we have been working on.   When we started developing the Telerik WinForms scheduler we knew that we could make the data binding process much simpler than the ongoing implementation. Not that this is hard to do currently, no. We simply had some ideas how to make it better, and even codeless, so that you do not have to spend much time on this task. In the new version you will be...