One of the major goals web developers have when building web applications is performance. In general there are three areas that can be improved to achieve better overall performance: the server-side generation of the requested page, the time it takes for the page and all of its web resources to be downloaded by the browser and the performance of the rendered page in the browser. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX have been, are, and will continue to be Telerik's promise for easily building great ASP.NET web applications, which are both beautiful and performant. There was however a small area where the tools lacked behind -...

Hey fellow Ninjas, Q1 2012 Webinar Week is quickly approaching! This is just a reminder that the first event of the webinar series starts in less than 10 days, so if you haven’t registered yet, be sure to book your seat right away. With the first release of 2012, Telerik will provide yet another set of high-quality updates to tools that help you sharpen your .NET skills. An official launch of JustDecompile, the wildly popular .NET decompiler, a bunch of new betas for the XAML developers and a brand new End-User Report Designer now included in the Telerik Reporting Suite, are only...

Telerik’s Q1 webinars are coming up very soon! You can see webinars on all Telerik products and find out the latest and greatest about them. I’ll be hosting the Test Studio webinar on 20 Feb from 11AM-12PM, Eastern US time. I’ll be walking through the changes from our November service pack release, and I’ll also show off some of the features Test Studio has to help you create more maintainable functional tests. You can find registration details at the Telerik Webinars page. I hope to see you there! About the author Jim Holmes Jim Holmes has around 25 years ...

  As many of you probably know already, we are going to release Q1 a month earlier this year (in mid-February). As the release date is approaching we are proud to show you the improvements in the product we have developed in the last several months. Following your feedback and advices, we have dedicated this version mostly to usability and optimization of the time you spend working with large Domain Models.   Batch Operations Dialog We have acknowledged that if you have hundreds of domain classes or tables with plenty of columns, modifying your model can sometimes become a boring and lengthy task. In...

At a single glance. That’s what it should take to know when something isn’t right on your projects. Knowing that something is wrong with your project should be as easy as glancing at a visual indicator. You shouldn’t have to interpret anything. You shouldn’t have to be an expert in metrics or project analysis. You should easily be able to tell that something isn’t right … with a single glance. Monitor and control systems have been around since the dawn of innovation. We see these types of systems all over industry – simple and intuitive displays representing the health of ...