Hello Everyone! My name is Michael Crump, and I am the newest member of the XAML Evangelist team. I will be spreading the word about Telerik’s WP7, WPF and Silverlight controls. I will also be covering other great Telerik products . I will be writing blog post, creating video content, attending conferences and answering questions relating to Telerik’s great line of products. Even more importantly, I will be spending a lot of time working with the community and helping my fellow developer. Last week was the //Build/ conference in Anaheim, California. A lot of questions and concerns popped up all over the internet concerning...

Telerik JustCode Q3 2011 is just around the corner, but we’re not waiting to bring you new features and enhancements for your favorite productivity tool. Telerik JustCode Q2 2011 Service Pack has been launched with a dazzling array of features and enhancements to make development fast and fun. Microsoft’s BUILD conference just ended, promising a shift in the way we approach Windows development. One thing is for certain: it will be easier than ever before to write responsive software. With the new asynchronous features in C# and VB.NET, you can create high throughput ASP.NET MVC applications without breaking a sweat. JustCode fully...

Today was my first day back in the office for my job at Telerik and I decided that I would try an experiment. I would use only my Windows 8 tablet that I received at the Build conference last week for both my work and play. I put away my Lenovo laptop (for work) and my iPad (for reading in bed) and decided I would use only the tablet for the next few days. The tablet came with a Bluetooth keyboard and dock, so I put that together and started to play around.   The first thing that I realized is that the traditional Windows “Start” menu is gone, completely replaced by...

The unit test runner in Telerik JustCode has supported five different unit testing frameworks: MSTest, xUnit, NUnit 2.5, MSPec, and MbUnit 2.4. MbUnit 3 is significantly different than prior iterations by having a different underlying engine: the Gallio Test Automation Platform. The newly released service pack for JustCode supports this framework, allowing you to take advantage of its many features. You can get started with MbUnit 3 with the assemblies provided by JustCode or downloading and installing the latest Gallio package. Afterwards, create a class library and add references to the Gallio and MbUnit assemblies. These can be found in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Telerik\JustCode\Libraries\Extensions or the GAC...

On 12.09.2011 we released the so anticipated OpenAccess ORM internal build 2011.02.0908 that contained a few very important improvements and fixes for our customers: - Support for SQL Azure 11.x. After OpenAccess ORM Q2 2011 was released supporting the 10.5.x version of SQL Azure, Microsoft had started updating the SQL Azure data centers to use a new version (11.x) based on the Denali codebase. Some details for this update can be found in Richard Mitchell’s blog post as well as how it can affect third party tools in the MSDN Blogs. With the internal build we have introduced support for the latest version of SQL Azure,...