Say you have a large model with more than 500 mapped tables. Surely you will notice how the designer becomes a little unresponsive on saving. There is a simple explanation for this. By default OpenAccess generates a file per class. Every time you perform a save on the document code generation of all files is performed. This is basically generating content for each and every file, comparing this content with the one from the old file if available, and based on that writing it to the file system. And let’s of course not forget that we should also take into account the...

At the end of my previous blog post I mentioned that with Q2 2010 release we are starting to pay more attention to custom skinning of our controls. Along with the visual improvements we will be releasing additional scenario-specific and optimized themes. Here you can see screenshots of the custom skins for RadSlider - the first control we started to play with.   You can try or download the skins from our online demos. There is also a skinning tutorial which will guide you through the process of creating custom skin. Transparency! Following our hot Silverlight Transparent theme model, we are now considering the design of...

The Q2 2010 SP1 release of Telerik RadControls for Silverlight/WPF is available for download under your accounts. All resources have been accordingly updated. Online demos: Check RadControls for Silverlight or WPF demos You can check the Release Notes for a list of all the fixes and improvements we managed to include in this release: RadControls for Silverlight Release Notes RadControls for WPF Release Notes Downloads: RadControls for Silverlight Downloads RadControls for WPF...

Within the next few weeks, we intend to publish a series of posts that will introduce you to the new Search Enhancements that we have been working on intensively during the past month. Being part of our overall Site Search Improvements program we would first like to present to you the Autocomplete functionality.   The new feature is already turned on for all the search fields on our website and we hope it really helps you get the needed search results faster and much more accurate.

Right after the anticipated Q2 SP1 is out, let me introduce some of the features that make Telerik RadRichTextBox proudly prefixed by rad and rich. Since a picture is worth a thousand words here are some six thousand words for you :) Zoom in/out: Click here for online demo. Integration with RadBook: Click here for online demo. Actually the new documents presentation controls allow even scenarios such as this one: …but we will need your help with more real-world stories about this one. New properties- "Xaml", "Html", "Text" allow binding in Xaml, enabling MVVM scenarios, easier usage with databases, RIA services, DataForms...