It is our pleasure to bring you the Q3 BETA of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. We are introducing three new controls: RadListView, RadRating and RadSiteMap as well as many other improvements throughout the whole suite. Full details on the new release are available in the Beta Forum as well as Telerik Labs. Check the online demos and download the Beta from your account (or free trial). Enjoy and let us know of your feedback!

In today’s post we are going to discuss a topic which is known to be fairly complex in most cases but it is relevantly easy to be achieved with Telerik OpenAccess ORM. Let us consider the following scenario: your company decides to move your data access from one database server to another.  So you have your database in a MSSQL Server instance  and want to migrate to MySql. The schema is the same on both servers but the data resides inside  the MSSQL Server instance. What follows is the easiest way to move all the data from the MSSQL server database to...

Recent question that popped up from an user was how to create a table, where the table grows horizontally instead of vertically. This is easy as one, two, three when using our Table report item. I start off using the crosstab item as initial template for this task. As the table would be growing "in columns" instead of "in rows", we do not need a row group so we delete it. Then bind the crosstab to a sample business object making sure we've added as many static rows as we need. Next step in order to show all the data, we need to make sure that...

I’ve made small example on how to load on demand RadGridView hierarchy child data using MVVM and RIA service:     Using partial classes you can extend very easily generated code with desired load on demand logic: public partial class Customer { bool ordersLoaded = false; public IEnumerable<Order> CustomerOrders { get { ...

The Q3 2009 release comes packed with goodies and we hope you'll enjoy the new additions to your toolbox. And it's fast too. For starters, a number of micro-optimizations on the client-side has resulted in less boilerplate code. But the big breakthrough comes on the server-side where you can expect improvements of up to 30%, depending on your scenario. So, how did we manage to do it? By deleting code, of course. Well, not just any code, but a reflection-intensive piece that was seeing a lot of use. Just don't spend too much time Reflecting. (Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/welshbaloney/) The code in question is crucial...