With Q3 2010 release the WebForms team adds one more to the family of demos built to show you best practices with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. Let me introduce you the "Rent a Car" sample application: http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/carrental/ Take a look at and download it to see how to implement new functional features around RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and how easy is to integrate them with Telerik OpenAccess ORM. Those of you who are familiar with our skins will notice that the skin used is not a built-in. The goal was to see the custom skinning approach with our controls. In our previous...

The latest release of Silverlight - ver.4 was released earlier this year. For me this was the first Silverlight release that was stable and mature enough so that I could recommend to anyone building business applications to use it broadly. Now, six months later, we can see that the Silverlight adoption is very high and that there are a lot of great tools built with it. Regardless of all the recent comments and mostly speculations about the future of Silverlight I believe that this will be the primary MS platform for building applications for Windows and Mac in years to come. At MIX this year, the Silverlight platform was also introduced to...

A frequent request we've heard from the testing community is to include the ability to rename test steps. I am pleased to report that the Q3 release of WebUI Test Studio now includes this functionality. Simply hover-over a step, click the pencil icon and edit away! Changes made to step descriptions will also be reflected in the Storyboard and Storyboard Export feature.    Tune into Telerik TV to see a video of Test Step Descriptions in action!

Graphical user interfaces are rife with popups and messages springing from every direction in order to notify users of important information. The Windows Phone 7 experience is no different and RadWindow is here to provide this functionality. Currently the toolkit for windows phone development provides a Popup control out of the box, so why bother writing a window from scratch? The main reason is that the stock popup is not hardware accelerated, that is, animations on UI elements displayed on it are executed on the UI thread, it doesn’t matter if the animation is a simple double animation, if you...

Say you want to take a quick glimpse of OpenAccess. Up to this point you had to download the trial version, then look at some articles and then at some more, maybe download an example, find some blogs, where is the documentation? With the Q3 release of OpenAccess we are introducing a solution – The OpenAccess SDK . This simple application will quickly become your favorite resource for all things OpenAccess. It will give you quick access to featured resource, videos, release notes, community blogs and of course a rich set of comprehensive examples providing real-life solutions to everyday problems. Now let’s have a...