With the 2010 Q2 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced a lot of new features, including forward mapping capabilities for the visual designer. This makes the life much easier when it comes to defining a domain model which contains classes in a hierarchy. Until now it was only possible to use the vertical strategy for mapping a class hierarchy but in Q2 we have enabled the flat strategy as well. Any combination of flat and vertical mapping is also supported. This leaves the horizontal strategy as the last one to be supported, probably later this year. Now let's see how those things...

One of the key advantages of Telerik Automated Testing Tools is the ease of use. We have done our best to implement products that make automated functional testing really easy. Everyone can start recording tests after watching just a couple of quick videos. To demonstrate the intuitive interface and the ease of use of Telerik WebUI Test Studio we have produced a cool new Interactive Video Tour. The video tour helps you learn how to work with the QA Edition in no time. The videos actually replicate the tool's UI in a great detail and allow you to get to know the product ...

When TeamPulse is installed there are a number of components that are set up and configured on your server. One of those components is the TeamPulse Integration Service which is installed as a Windows service. The job of this service is to analyze your projects for best practices and to generate content that is to be used in the RSS feeds. The RTM version of TeamPulse was released with an issue regarding the TeamPulse Integration Service default account that I will help you work around (this will be resolved in the next release). Currently this service is configured to use ...

The RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX courseware has just received a fresh update and now includes updates and new additions spread across all ASP.NET AJAX components. You can find the renewed PDF version of the tutorial and the zip download containing the AJAX courseware projects on this page (under the group 'Learning RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX"). Happy programming!

Last month Scott Guthrie announced a new ASP.NET View Engine called Razor. Then Microsoft released the beta of a new product called WebMatrix which was utilizing it. It also employed a new web framework called ASP.NET Web Pages. Then yours truly made a few attempts to use Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC in a WebMatrix page. The end result was promising. I waited for official Razor support in ASP.NET MVC 3. Then Scott “Almighty” Guthrie announced the first preview of ASP.NET MVC 3 which includes Razor support. This week I started to see how to improve Telerik’s Razor story… This blog post shows the end result.   Telerik...