Telerik’s second major release for 2011 brings a bunch of exciting new functionalities, improvements to existing features, and many performance optimizations for JustCode, Telerik’s unobtrusive Visual Studio plug-in.   Some of the highlights include new additions and improvements to JustCode’s Code Navigation and Search features, new and improved Formatter (wrapping, new line and space formatters), several new Quick Fixes/Quick Hints, as well as new Refactorings, Code Generation features and Code Cleaning Steps, among others.   Let’s have a look at some of these highlights.   JustCode’s innovative Code Navigation and Search has traditionally been a very strong asset of the product that we continuously get praise for. This...

Along with the thrilling new products and functionality that Q2 brought to Telerik’s tool collection, the second major release for this year also introduced a few new features and updates to our SharePoint Acceleration Kit which you’ll find quite handy and worth exploring: Much speedier data-binding to SharePoint lists was achieved by completely revising our SharePoint web part data-binding functionality – it’s now leveraging the Dynamic LINQ library and the SharePoint Collaborative Markup Language thus offering great performance optimizations. Client-side data-binding for SharePoint lists and Excel files within your SharePoint doc libraries: now you can easily bind your Grid to data existing...

We are excited to announce the availability of Q2 2011 – yet another great release full of new controls, improvements and…pleasant surprises. This time the surprise is big! Yes, that’s right, the title of this article does not lie, we are more than happy to introduce RadRichTextBox for WinForms. It comes on top of what we have scheduled for Q2 2011 and we hope that it will fit nicely in your applications. Currently, RadRichTextBox for WinForms is in Beta stage and supports the following features: Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike-through Built-in fonts and font sizes Text color and background Bullet and numbered lists Paragraph...

One category of  frequent support questions that we receive is regarding the ADO.NET driver version used to communicate with the database. Various problems related to resolving the appropriate driver are reported and it can be a cause of considerable frustration to the user. Beginning with the Q2 2011 version we have taken quite a big step towards eliminating these problems. This blog post talk about what's changed and what this means for the user. Prior to the Q2 2011 release the Telerik OpenAccess ORM product shipped, amongst the various assemblies, the 'Telerik.OpenAccess.Adonet2' assembly which had the ADO.NET specific implementation to obtain...

This major release of the market-leading controls for LOB applications adds 8 new controls, 2 new Dashboard demos and a modern Metro theme built from the ground-up to accommodate all the best practices in Metro UI applications.  Among the new controls included in this release you can find Persistence Framework, ImageEditor, DataServiceDataSource, BreadCrumb, PropertyGrid, RibbonView, ZipLibrary, TreeMap and PivotMap.  In addition to what we announced for the Beta release you will find TreeMap and PivotMap control as well as a brand new ZipLibrary framework. The TreeMap and PivotMap controls can be used to visualize large amounts of hierarchically organized data. TreeMaps have been used to successfully visualize various kinds of...