Telerik has won multiple honors for this year’s Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards! Test Studio won top honors in the Software Testing and Quality Assurance category, and I’m proud to say that a number of other great Telerik products got top nod as well, including: Best Collaboration, Project Management, and Agile Solutions – Telerik TeamPulse Best Component Suite: Web – RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Best Mobile Development Tools – RadControls for Windows Phone JustCode, OpenAccess, SiteFinity, and Telerik Reporting all got Merit awards, as did a number of our other controls. Thanks very much to our loyal customers ...

We are proud to announce the official release of Telerik JustCode Q3 2011. This release contains many features that we have launched over the past few months in internal builds, including Razor and CSS support, Visual Studio 11 support, a key mappings window, and many new refactorings! Razor and CSS JustCode brings blazing fast code analysis, quick fixes, code navigation, refactorings, and formatting to Razor and CSS. Much of this has been covered in the previous article, but razor formatting has been vastly improved in this release. In addition, we have added a new visual aid that did not escape the notice...

With the Q3 2011 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced three connection pool type settings. The OpenAccess Connection Pool, OpenAccess Connection Pool with OpenAccess Connection Management and the ADO Connection Pool. This blog post will show how these types can be used and when it makes sense to make use of them.     OpenAccess Connection Pool   With the type set to OpenAccess Connection pool, Telerik OpenAccess ORM will handle the connection pooling internally. Therefore a set of ADO connections is created that are maintained by the product. All settings for the connection pooling behavior can be configured via the settings dialog or...

Join us for the Q3 webinar on Test Studio on Tuesday, Nov 29th at 2pm Eastern. You can register at our GoToMeeting site. The webinar is titled “Functional and Performance Testing with Test Studio” however, I’ll also be covering the great enhancements to Test Studio just released as part of our Service Pack 1 update. Come join us! About the author Jim Holmes Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools" and Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. He's a blogger and evangelist for Telerik’s Test Studio, an awesome set ...

In Q2 2011 we introduced the Profiling and Tuning advisor, which makes it easier than ever for developers using OpenAccess ORM to see what is going on behind the scenes.  In this release we are happy to expand on the profiler by introducing improved UI features, and a new Metrics view.  The new view makes it easy for developers, and system administrators, to keep an eye on the health of an application.  It displays metrics like committed transactions, rollbacks, connection pool health, and second level cache health.  All of these metrics can be displayed with almost no performance impact on the application due...