We believe that the fastest way to learn how to use an OpenAccess model in your ASP.NET MVC 3 application is to watch a video tutorial. Therefore we have prepared some videos, guiding your OpenAccess ORM integration in an MVC project step by step.   Of course, there are different approaches to that based on your needs and personal preferences – you might want to use the strong capabilities of our Visual Designer Database-First scenario to create your Domain Model or you can map everything using our Fluent Mapping API. In any case, each of the dedicated video series will guide you through the...

Happy Monday, XAML lovers! For anyone who has been following along in the rumors space, things with Windows 8 are heating up and it looks like we may soon be seeing the "consumer preview", previously known as the Beta to us tech geeks. I for one welcome the proposed new Start button experience as well as anything else they manage to get into this next release (full disclosure, I was at Build and use that tablet almost as much as my work laptop... my iPad has become a glorified Kindle), especially if it has more developer goodness included. Getting...

The Q1 2012 beta release is out the door and we have some exciting new improvements to brag about. Among everything else is a feature long waited for - client-side databinding for RadListView. In a series of blog posts, I will try to introduce you to the specifics of the client-side databinding with RadListView and give you some insight into the new client capabilities that you can leverage to build performant data bound UI on the client. We will start with a brief introduction to HTML templates, binding expressions and databinding API, we'll go down to databinding to web services and various data sources and will finish off...

[Please download the attached project with full source code available.] Last week we released a Beta preview of Telerik RadControls for WindowsPhone. You can read more info on the 6 bright new components for Windows Phone here. RadDiagnostics was one of the released components which received a lot of attention from the Windows Phone developers. This component is sending rich crash reports when an ApplicationUnhandledException has occurred. Read more about RadDiagnostics in this detailed blog post. One of the features with which RadDiagnostics was created in mind is to allow developers to receive anonymous crash reports without user interaction. By default the control will display a message box...

The purpose of this post is two-fold: To let you know about our recent appearance on the popular WP Dev Podcast To talk about our position towards Kendo UI on Windows Phone Kendo UI on Windows Phone Dev Podcast I had the privilege of joining Ryan and Travis...