I have provided technical support for RadScheduler since its inception and I can say that it is truly like an iceberg - the more you dive in knowing the control the more you come to appreciate its power, richness of features, potential for customization and flexibility. But what good is something if you don't know that it exists? For the Q3 2011 release, we have made a thorough review of the RadScheduler demos and realized that they show only a fraction of RadScheduler's potential. So, we have updated some old demos and added a few new ones. We will continue this practice in the future...

Just a few short weeks ago, Telerik was a proud sponsor for 2011 ‘Agile Testing Days’ event in Potsdam, Germany. This event brought together agile testers from all over Europe to converse and learn in an intimate setting. Jim Holmes and Daniel Levy were there to guide the European agile testing community through many of the recent advancements that have been made in our automated functional and performance testing software, Test Studio.  Those who dropped by the Telerik booth were treated to in-depth product demos and some amazing ‘SWAG’ including our new testing t-shirts featuring a soon-to-be-named character. While the event has...

With the Q3 2011 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced three connection pool types which are explained in this blog post. In this blog post we will have a look at the connection pooling behavior of the Oracle driver and what setting to be used when we want to use Telerik OpenAccess ORM with Oracle databases.   Which setting for Oracle and why? When we want to use Oracle as our backend, it is advisable to use the connection pool type Open Access Connection Pool with OpenAccess Connection Management or the Ado Connection Pool setting. When using one of the two settings, we...

We are proud to introduce the newest member of the Telerik XAML family - the Color Editor. With its powerful color selection mechanism, the Color Editor allows an intuitive way of picking your desired color. The Color Editor provides support for few of the major color modes - RGB, HSV, HLS and CMYK. In addition, the Color Editor allows you to edit each individual channel of the above mentioned color models. Let's begin with the most basic declaration of the Color Editor in XAML. <telerik:RadColorEditor Height="220" Width="400" /> By changing the value in the color mode drop-down you can control which color model is currently active. As mentioned...

Unlike the Webinar Weeks from the last few releases, this time we're doing things a little differently. With more than 12 products to talk about, we needed a new format that would let us cover more topics in fewer days, so with Q3 2011 there will be multiple webinars today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. The full schedule for the week looks like this: Date Time Topic Monday, Nov 28 9:30 AM Kick-off, Webinar Week Overview 11:00 AM Silverlight & WPF 12:30 PM Data Tools Tuesday, Nov 29 9:30 AM Windows Phone 11:00 AM AJAX & MVC 12:30 PM Tools for Better Code 2:00 PM Test Studio Wednesday, Nov 30 9:30 AM Preparing for Windows 8 11:00 AM Putting It All Together 12:30 PM Sitefinity 4 Thursday, Dec 1 11:00 AM Kendo UI Launch...