Just coming back from Mainz, Germany where Basta 2009 took place this week. It was a great conference where Telerik provided Silver Sponsorship and very nice lanyards to the approximately 700 attendees. Stephen Forte enjoyed speaking at a German conference for the first time. Check out his post about how to write a WCF service and then call it from Silverlight asynchronously. Telerik OpenAccess ORM expert Jan Blessenohl also gave a presentation on ORM and RIA Services. You can see a photo from our booth on the evening before the show - as usual Telerik was early and well prepared. Many professional developers stopped...

As most of you probably know, OQL was the main object-oriented query language that was supported by Telerik OpenAcess ORM before Linq was introduced in .NET. Even though Linq is now the de facto standard for querying data, support for OQL is still there and I would state that it still is pretty convenient to use in some scenarios. We will use this post to share some tips on querying data using the Object Query Language. Consider the following query: IQueryResult projection = scope.GetOqlQuery("SELECT pr.ProductName, cat.CategoryName " + "FROM CategoryExtent AS cat,cat.Products AS pr").Execute();  This query makes...

As some of you may already know the Q2 release of RadGridView for WPF ships with a brand new “data engine” entirely based on LINQ. This means that all data operations including sorting, filtering, grouping, aggregating and paging will be pushed down to the IQueryProvider when RadGridView is bound to an IQueryable. For example if you are using LinqToSql, LinqToEntities or OpenAccess ORM all gird operations are executed on the SQL server using the magic of LINQ providers. Staying on the cutting edge I decide to try out PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) and enable RadGridView to execute its data operations on all available CPU cores. PLINQ...

  It has been several months since we have started actively using the Visual Studio Extensions to make the life of Telerik customers easier. We have been regularly introducing enhancements in the extensions and we’d love to hear your feedback on how helpful these are. Please take this survey to help us drive our efforts in the right direction. (500 Telerik points will be added to your account!) For those of you who have been using RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and have not tried the features of the VS extensions package please do so now: Read More or Watch a ...

digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,8d9a457e-c203-43d0-bedd-27336578c997.aspx";digg_title = "O# or The Fall Conference Speaking Schedule";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Every fall, the kids go back to school, the weather gets cooler, Munich kicks off its annual Oktoberfest festival, and the fall conference season heats up. It seems that I always miss Oktoberfest. I had friends who lived in Munich earlier this decade and each year my trips to Mt. Everest got in the way. Now that Telerik has a Munich office, I got to go to Oktoberfest (O#) with geeks. I can see the eyes rolling by the non-technical readers of this blog (basically my Mom is the only non-technical person who reads this blog), however, geeks can drink a lot, judging by how I had to...