Telerik continues helping you deliver more than expected “Hello, world!” I decided to start my post with these magic words to present you the latest addition to the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX product line: Visual Studio Extensions – the product that makes the development of WebSite/WebApplication with Telerik RadControls faster and easier. A programmer’s very first application is at the distance of starting the IDE and typing the magic words. Creating a RadControls web application is now at a few clicks distance as well. The Visual Studio Extensions aids the Visual Studio Web development from two perspectives – web configuration and...

Last week I hosted a live webinar featuring the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. If you missed it, I discussed some of the client-side features of the RadControls. Specifically, I demonstrated how to take control of the functionality of your controls on the client to build better, more performant web applications. In addition, I discussed client-side data binding with web services as well as how you can get started using jQuery with the RadControls. If you’d weren’t able to make it on Thursday, or if you would like to review the content a second time, you can check it out now on...

The 5th annual Atlanta Code Camp will take place this Saturday, March 14 at the Georgia Gwinnett College.  The event is free to attend and they still have space.  I have the pleasure of presenting a regular session (Discovering C# 3.0 and LINQ) as well as giving a product demonstration of Telerik's WPF and Silverlight controls during lunch.  If you are in the area and are interested in attending you are asked to register http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=136331.  This event will feature a number of great speakers on topics ranging from Architecture to .NET Framework Fundamentals.  Don't miss out!...

With Q1 2009 Telerik will introduce the first set of major improvements to OpenAccess ORM that are part of the aggressive 2009 roadmap. The first major enhancement in this release is the improved LINQ support, which has been validated with the Microsoft 101 LINQ Samples. This will give you more control and make data access even easier. Another highlight is the implementation of stored procedures for read and write operations. This will allow developers to reuse existing SQL code. Under higher security requirements the stored procedures can be used for all insert, update and delete operations to inject additional checks in the...

Yesterday we launched a new, significantly updated version of our 'Purchases and Downloads' pages. We listened to your feedback and we made a lot of improvements. The ambiguously named 'Purchases and Downloads' section is gone. Now we have just a 'Downloads' page, as well as a 'Billing History' page, both accessible straight from the main 'Your Account' section. What was wrong with the old version? The page consisted of a list of expandable panels for each product. The panels were slow to expand. Each panel used to have 4 tabs. The first tab didn't contain a lot of useful information, since most people...