As the RadControls for Windows Phone 7 are now official we will regularly (each week) upload Latest Internal Builds that you can download from your accounts. These builds will include mainly fixes and minor improvements that are being requested through our support channel. This week’s internal build is now available for download. The release notes can be found...

Right after the official launch of the new major version of the FireFox browser (you can download it from here) I asked our web teams to test the Telerik AJAX and MVC components against the latest version of FireFox. And guess what? Both suites support FireFox 4 and no modifications are needed! This is an acknowledgement that you can develop sites with our Q1 2011 AJAX and MVC bundles and be content when running them in FireFox 4. Pretty convenient, yeah?

Often we end up in a situation where constructor call on the target type requires us to include  a config file in our test project or requires firing up some external process. To better illustrate this if we create an entity framework data container either new or from an existing database , we will likely to end up with an entry point class that requires either a valid connection string to be passed or if we expand the default constructor we might see this:   /// <summary> /// Initializes a new NorthwindEntities object using the connection string found in the 'NorthwindEntities' section of the application...

Now that Linq-to-SQL is not going to be developed any more, it seems developers are left with little choice as to what ORM to use for their next projects. The ADO.NET Entity Framework seems to have become the ORM of choice for most Microsoft developers, who want to address the impedance mismatch across various data representations, but although very good and quite powerful, it falls short on some important characteristics of modern-day development: Visual Mapper/Entity Designer with advanced capabilities; Lack of native support for databases different from SQL Server; Release cycle of 2-4 years; Advanced/dedicated technical support; No built-in caching layer; We are sure that code-first...