Developers (yours truly included) often hate it when there is a need to deal with an external tool to accomplish a simple task. The upgrade process of RadControls seems such a task – you need to start a browser, open the Telerik website, login to your account, navigate to the Downloads section, download the installer and run it. Even more - if you want to keep updated you need to either check your RSS reader or e-mail, or refresh the Downloads page when you’re eagerly waiting for a new version.   One of the new features in the RadControls for ASP.NET...

In many cases our customers that use Telerik OpenAccess ORM face the need to rapidly change the source table from which they are displaying data. For example you can have a RadGrid filled with customers on the start of your application and whenever a certain customer is selected you can change the displayed data in the grid with the Orders for the given customer (note that in such case the data will be taken from two different tables – Customers and Orders). But do you need two datasource controls to do this? The simple answer is NO. You can achieve this...

With our upcoming Q3 2009 release you can use RadCompression (part of Telerik.Web.UI.dll) to compress your RIA services: Without compression: With compression: Check the numbers :) Enjoy! [Download]...

The references in the object model and the references in the database schema can be defined in several ways. The definitions are following different idioms and it is not straight forward how a mapping can be defined. In the database schema you have the foreign key reference; in the object model you have single references, collections and dictionaries. Let’s look at a simple schema in the database, the Persons table has a foreign key reference to the Addresses table. There are now 3 ways to map this in OpenAccess. 1. You can map it to a reference field which is the...

Just a month after releasing the quite popular Telerik TFS Tools (built by Imaginet Resources with RadControls for WPF), a fresh new update of the TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard is waiting for you to be downloaded! Beta 2 of the TFS tools ships numerous enhancements and optimizations, as well as new functionality: Iteration Planning Tool. This planning interface lets you take work items directly from the product backlog and schedule them into future iterations. What’s more, the Iteration Planner also takes into account the capacity limitations of these iterations. Choose work items from your Product Backlog, add...