I’ll be speaking in Sydney on Tuesday March 15th on building your own Agile methodology.  As usual, Joel will be joining me. The Agile Buffet Table: Implementing your own Agile Process  with Microsoft ALM Tools New to Agile? Having challenges implementing an agile process in your organization? Have you been using Scrum, but need to bend the rules to make it work in your organization? Can’t get the business to “buy-in”? Come and learn about implementing an agile process in your organization. You'll look at the “buffet table” of agile processes and procedures and learn how to properly decide “what to eat.”  We’ll start by defining XP, Scrum, Kanban...

It is our pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the new product line that joins the broad Telerik portfolio - Telerik SharePoint Acceleration Kit (SAK).   + =                             Leveraging the industry-leading Telerik AJAX and Silverlight components and hassle-free SharePoint 2010 web parts which expose codeless point-and-click configuration, implementing high-performing and interactive SharePoint applications is no-brainer with Telerik SAK either for developers, business users or managers. Connecting to your SharePoint data (either SP Lists, SQL or Excel files) and visualizing it using standards compliant, semantically rendered and accessible UI has never been easier using the ready-to-deploy web parts stacked in the Telerik...

Following the Telerik AJAX Product Support Lifecycle model (which closely resembles the Microsoft one), the time has come to retire the .NET 2.0 support for our AJAX controls. This will happen officially with the Q1 2011 release of the suite, slated in a couple of weeks, meaning that you will no longer receive .NET 2.0 versions of the Telerik AJAX assemblies, projects or VS 2005 integration as part of the installation packs. With this step the .NET 2 versions of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX available in previous releases will enter their extended (paid) support phase as shown in the diagram from...

As some of you may have already seen in our roadmap, we are about to release a brand new AJAX RadRibbonBar control with Q1 2011. In fact, we released a Q1 2011 beta with a preview of this control and live demos almost a week ago. I will describe here what the control looks like, does and will do in the final release. Some forewords,or the importance of the KISS principle We all know that Microsoft's Ribbon control is quite complex and requires its rendering to be flexible to allow execution of its resizing features and overall presentation. This is the reason...

Q1 2011 will be a major milestone release for Telerik Open Access ORM, your .NET data programming and SQL expert. The new release will bring serious design-time improvements which will help you to work with data in an easier and more intuitive manner. A new fully featured project upgrade tool will allow you to upgrade even more classic projects to the new OpenAccess context API. The code-only developers will embrace the updated Fluent Mapping API, which exposes over 90% of OpenAccess' functionality. Finally, a project converter from Entity Framework will allow you to switch to Telerik OpenAccess in a few...