Hi everybody, My name is Jan Blessenohl and I am working on the new Telerik object relational mapper named OpenAccess ORM. In the next posts I would like to guide you through the first steps with OpenAccess. This post is about reverse engineering. The following posts will use this feature to build running applications. - OpenAccess comes with 2 possible ways to generate the persistent model: Forwad Mapping: Write the persistent classes first and let then OpenAccess generate the database schema. Reverse Engineering: Design the database schema first, let OpenAccess read it and then create all the classes for you. This step by step...

Hi everyone, My name is Velin Angelov. I am a member of Telerik's Charting team and here I am going to write about a feature of the RadChart for WPF which you might find useful while having fun with it. RadChart for WPF was shipped with the 2008.Q3 release and one feature all of the charts have in common is being animated. From this point on there are three options: You are absolutely happy (as you probably will) with the default animation settings provided by RadChart. In this case you simply keep on coding. You totally disagree with the way RadChart is animated and...

Seems I’ve gotten my 15 minutes of fame after all (more like 5). During PDC’08 Todd and I had the chance to meet with Adam Kinney from Microsoft and talk about one of the coolest new telerik products – the WPF Charts and Gauges. The video is now up on Channel 9 and can be accessed here. In the mean while we pulled off our first release and the charts and gauges are now a part of the WPF controls suite. You can see them in all their splendor here. If you are excited about the charts as we are – share...

    In “First Look at Silverlight 2” Scott Gu showed how easy is to change the visual appearance of a Silverlight application using the standard features of the Silverlight Grid control: While reading the blog, it occurred to me that it would be very easy to achieve similar effects with RadGridView for WinForms. With the latest version of RadGridView you can change the row layout using different view definitions in a very simplistic and easy way:     Using parts and ideas from Scott’s article, I compiled a small application that gets a list of article from digg.com via web services and shows them in RadGridView...

Hi guys! We suppose that you have already downloaded our Q3 version (released last week) and you're enjoying the new rendering engine. For those of you who missed what's new, I'll list it here once again: Official release of the Project Upgrade Wizard - no more upgrade hassles. Our Upgrade Wizard would take care of that for you. New Report Rendering Engine, offering:   Excellent rendering performance The new rendering engine optimizes the usage of system resources (memory consumption and processor loads) during data processing and ...