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    It’s Been A Long Run

    [Cross posted from .NET Musings]  I worked my first paying job involving computers in 1984.  After a degree in computer science from the school of engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, I started quite the run as a computer consultant.  My first jobs involved building custom computers and networks and programming the computers!  I’ve had a fabulous career as a consultant, and worked with a lot of fantastic people.  But I realized a while ago that I wanted to be something else when I grow up.  I just had no idea what that was.  In 1995, I started as a volunteer for...
    September 07, 2010 4 min read
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    Bookvar goes open source

    It is a great pleasure for me to share an exciting news with you. As of today we are opening the source code of Bookvar mind mapping tool. You can find the source on Codeplex right next to other open source initiatives of ours, like Telerik MVC Extensions and CAB Enabling Kit for WinForms. A few caveats about the source code There are a few things that you need to know about the source code: Most of the code was written when we were quite new to WPF and we were pioneering all those concepts. Looking back at that time I realize there are things that...
    August 31, 2010 1 min read
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    Join Telerik at StarWest and Get $400 off Your Registration Fee

    After the success Telerik pulled off at this year’s StarEast conference where our automated testing tools were officially introduced, now we are getting ready to attend and sponsor this fall’s premier software testing conference – StarWest, which will take place in San Diego, September 26 –October 1. The event is a great way to get a glimpse of the newest technologies and tools on the market, while networking with industry experts and QA peers. Make sure to stop by our booth #9-10 in the Sapphire “A” Ballroom to chat with the Telerik crew and learn all the cool new features WebUI Test Studio...
    August 24, 2010 1 min read
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    The Telerik Eastern Canada User Group Tour is Coming...

    Hey everyone! Taking a quick break from the updates to the HR Recruiting application to share some information on the Telerik Eastern Canada User Group Tour that is coming up in September.  What is the TECUGT (wow, that is one pretty acronym), you might be asking?  Well, to put it simply... So not only do you have the opportunity to pick up your RadControls for Silverlight from any stop in TechDays Canada, but I'm also going to be making two trips to eastern Canada in September to present some fresh new Silverlight talks to a user group (hopefully) near you.  So if...
    August 18, 2010 3 min read
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    Tips on working with large models : Code Generation

    Say you have a large model with more than 500 mapped tables. Surely you will notice how the designer becomes a little unresponsive on saving. There is a simple explanation for this. By default OpenAccess generates a file per class. Every time you perform a save on the document code generation of all files is performed. This is basically generating content for each and every file, comparing this content with the one from the old file if available, and based on that writing it to the file system. And let’s of course not forget that we should also take into account the...
    August 18, 2010 1 min read