What is Assembly Minifier If you still don’t know what it is: You should first read my previous post, where I announced the first Beta version of the tool You can watch the “Introduction to Assembly Minifier” video, kindly provided by Todd Anglin and Telerik TV You can read “why Silverlight application size matters” (the xap file) and how Assembly Minifier helps you reduce the XAP file size - by Todd Anglin. Read more… You can go to http://minifier.telerik.com/,  get your reduced Silverlight assemblies, build your application's XAP file with the new assemblies and significantly improve your application performance and downloading experience   What is New in the Q2 2010...

RadControls for Silverlight/WPF are here with 7 brand new major controls, tool for minifying the assemblies’ size and truly transparent theme for even easier styling of your applications. The suite now offers true MS Word-like content editing experience thanks to the new RichTextBox control.  New Controls RichTextBox The RichTextBox control is currently available only as part of our Silverlight offering. The control allows you to bring true MS Word-like content editing experience to your end-users. The new control offers rich text editing and formatting capabilities as well as out-of-browser support and printing, import and export of Html, Docx, and Xaml and many more. The newly introduced...

With the new visual designer the old wizards are now hidden and not immediately usable. The recommended way is to use the Doman Model. All new functionality is now reachable from the new OpenAccess menu:     The options menu entry is enabled if a solution is opened.   The old wizards are not deprecated and will not be removed in one of the next releases, but you have to specify on a solution level that you want to use them.   In your existing projects the upgrade to the new version can be done by using the ‘Check Settings’ wizard, which will replace the references to the old...

Today Telerik released the Q2 version of OpenAccess ORM as well as the rest of the product line. I’ll take you on a short tour of some of the new ORM features. Today I will show you the menus, Data Service Wizard, and new XAML templates. Tomorrow (Part II) I will show you round tripping and model first. The new LINQ Implementation and Visual Designer that we introduced in Q1 has taken over. The first thing that you will realize is that the new LINQ domain model is the default way to interact with OpenAccess as shown by the menu below. (Don’t worry if you still interact with the older OpenAccess classes...

The new major version of Telerik automated testing tools is now available for download from the client accounts. The Q2 2010 release improves the Silverlight automation support adding features like: · Silverlight Out-of-Browser automation · ChildWindow and popup automation solution · Virtualized controls handling · Enhancements in the Silverlight controls wrappers and translators and many more! With this release we also introduce numerous valuable features like: · Image verification with options to refine the comparison area and add tolerance · Exporting the test storyboard in order to generate documentation from the automated tests · Connect to an existing browser instance...