Today Telerik released the Q2 version of OpenAccess ORM as well as the rest of the product line. I’ll take you on a short tour of some of the new ORM features. Today I will show you the menus, Data Service Wizard, and new XAML templates. Tomorrow (Part II) I will show you round tripping and model first. The new LINQ Implementation and Visual Designer that we introduced in Q1 has taken over. The first thing that you will realize is that the new LINQ domain model is the default way to interact with OpenAccess as shown by the menu below. (Don’t worry if you still interact with the older OpenAccess classes...

The new major version of Telerik automated testing tools is now available for download from the client accounts. The Q2 2010 release improves the Silverlight automation support adding features like: · Silverlight Out-of-Browser automation · ChildWindow and popup automation solution · Virtualized controls handling · Enhancements in the Silverlight controls wrappers and translators and many more! With this release we also introduce numerous valuable features like: · Image verification with options to refine the comparison area and add tolerance · Exporting the test storyboard in order to generate documentation from the automated tests · Connect to an existing browser instance...

We have created 60+ videos to help you hit the ground running with the Q2 2010 release.  We have many more videos on the way so you better start watching now to keep up! :)  WebUI Test Studio WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Manual Test Steps WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Image Verification WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Getting Started With Test Lists WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Getting Started With AJAX WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Export Storyboard To HTML WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Continue Recording From Step WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Connect To Existing Browser Instance WebUI...

About a month ago we released JustCode Q2 Beta and you can check this post to get more information about what we've managed to include in the Beta version. Since then we've managed to add quite a few improvements and extra features which you may find useful: We've improved a lot the unit test runner, fixed the reported issues and added support for NUnit and MbUnit. We've added a new feature which we called "Visual aids". When this feature is turned on and when you place the cursor inside the code editor you'll see a small rectangle whenever JustCode has available commands...

Some of you already noticed new versions of RadControls are available on the Telerik website and were able to download them to their machines. There is nothing to worry about – it is just the official Q2 2010 release coming out: we are in the final release phase and the official news are about to come in an hour or so.   In other words, having the VSExtensions added to your IDE not only eases the RadControls project creation/configuration/upgrade, but from time to time can give you an hour or two heads-up with the newly expected release.   If you just can’t wait for the new releases (like...