Following the tradition of extending the accessibility support for our controls, we are glad to announce that, starting with the Q3 2011 Beta release, we have added keyboard support to Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX TreeList control as well. This enables the user to carry out most major operations of the control with a few handy shortcut keys. Some of the more important actions accessible through the keyboard are: Action Shortcut key focusing the control on the page Ctrl + Y single, multiple and range selection Ctrl/Shift + Space expand/collapse of items Left/Right arrow keys navigating the active row Up/Down arrow keys insert/update/delete operations Enter and Delete keys You can set the preferred keys and other...

We have a lot of exciting new features available in the Q3 2011 release of OpenAccess ORM.  Among my favorite additions are our awesome NuGet packages. These packages make it even easier to get started building a domain model using OpenAccess ORM’s fluent mapping, or code first, API. In this release we have added two NuGet packages to the NuGet repository. When these packages are added to a project, it will be configured automatically to work with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Free Edition.  Let’s take a look at these great new additions to OpenAccess. The Packages The OpenAccess.CodeFirst package sets up the project for code...

How much time and money would it cost you to capture feedback from 100 external users in your Microsoft Team Foundation Server projects? In this post we will show you that there is a simple and cost-effective way to do that and it's called the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal. But first let's start with some background information for TFS. The Challenges of Capturing Feedback in TFS Access to TFS  A lot of our customers use Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) as the heart of their development environment as TFS provides facilities to manage source control, manage automated builds, ...

Following the Q3 2011 Beta previews of our AJAX and MVC components, I am happy to present you the official new major release of both bundles. Aside from the new functionality that has been instituted with the Beta packs, there a few more important spotlights that I would like to draw your attention to. MVC Scatter Chart In addition to the Pie chart which marked its debut with the Q3'11 MVC Beta release, we inaugurate the scatter/scatter line chart types as two more visualization options when you want to display your data in charting format. Here are a couple of screen shots for your...

With Q3 2011 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, a new data visualization control becomes part of the suite – RadOrgChart. As the name suggests, RadOrgChart’s purpose is to visualize hierarchical structures of organizations in a nice graphical chart. Here is a quick peek in the First Look demo (It’s pretty nice with the Transparent skin, isn’t it?):