One of the cool new features, that will make its way in the Q3 2009 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX service pack release, is the additional thumbnail option in the Image Manager dialog. When you select an image, that ends with a specific suffix (e.g. "_thumb"), and there is an image with the same name but without the suffix in the current folder, the image dialog will offer the ability to automatically create a link to the original and open it in a new browser window. Here is how this will look like:       We hope that this will provide a much quicker...

A very common concern in Telerik OpenAccess ORM (as well as almost every other ORM product on the market) is how the names of the classes that represent your database tables are formed. Basically the mechanism for generating such names follows a simple pattern – the database table name is in plural form and the class name in the model is in single form. However, in the past OpenAccess covered a really small area of all the rules present for singularizing a given word. As of Q3 2009 this is not an issue anymore. We have implemented a simple, yet powerful...

In the first post we have described the ways to map a foreign key reference in the database to a reference, a collection or both in memory. This post continues the topic with the ways to map a join table. A join table is necessary if an m:n relationship has to be stored, but it also can contain the ordering inside a collection or the content of a dictionary. Let’s start with a simple join table in the database schema. Typically a join table contains two foreign key references, one to the left and one to the right table. 1) The natural way...

PDC was a true success for Telerik. Armed with over 300 .NET Ninja Stress balls and 1,000 t-shirts including our already popular Geekette and .NET Ninja designs as well as the new JustCode t-shirts we unveiled on Tuesday night, we left Los Angeles empty handed, thankfully. None of us wanted to lug anything back:) Our launch of the new product JustCode – a new solution-wide productivity add-in for VS - was a hit. We had a tremendous turn out for the unveiling announced by Stephen Forte and Todd Anglin while Atanas Korchev presented the demo. Following the announcement, we had...

The Q3 2009 release is now in the past, but the newly introduced features are here to stay. Although the newly introduced JustCode productivity tool stirred quite a bit of excitement at PDC and in our forums, it cannot yet shade the native Silverlight support for reports created with Telerik Reporting. Telerik Reporting Silverlight Viewer Although there are several Silverlight viewer implementations out there, most notably for SQL Reporting Services, there is no reporting product that offers true native support for Silverlight. The Telerik Silverlight Report Viewer is designed to render Telerik Reports within Silverlight projects (see demos). The Silverlight viewer uses the same rendering...