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    Visual Studio Extensions MVC3 support – part 1

    Earlier this week we released Q3 Service Pack 1 of the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. The release has a full support for ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM. A change we introduced is the new Visual Studio Project Templates for creating new Telerik MVC 3 project. Using these Project Templates you can create new MVC 3 project configured to use the Telerik Extensions for MVC in seconds with just a few clicks. The Project Templates for Telerik MVC project can be reached either from the File | New menu or from the Telerik | MVC UI Extensions menu.       The New Project dialog will be launched...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Integrating Telerik OpenAccess ORM Spatial Data with RadMap

    You read that right!  In Q3 2010 OpenAccess ORM introduced new SQL Spatial Type support.  Which is awesome for those of us that love playing with spatial data :)  I started playing around with the new OA spatial support, and decided what better way to to demonstrate the capabilities than to output the data on to a map?  This blog covers how I accomplished this task :)   First We Need Spatial Data Some of you may already have spatial data sitting in a SQL Server DB, but if not never fear!   You can use the great Shp2Sql utility, made by Morten Nielsen, to import a...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Resolving Compatibility Issue Between JustCode and MSpec

    [Cross posted from www.skimedic.com/blog] Telerik’s JustCode natively supports several test runners, including MSpec. This is great - the JustCode product team has taken on the responsibility to make sure the test runner works with the test frameworks, letting the framework developers focus on building even more awesome frameworks! Occasionally, this can cause an issue, though, as we just discovered here at CodeMash. The latest rev of MSpec introduced breaking changes in the JustCode test runner. While the team is hard at work updating the test runner to be compatible with the latest api, the work around is very simple. Simply change the Copy...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Personas Help Drive Requirements.. Really!

    Look familiar? Yup, that’s right – this is a UML Use Case Diagram. This particular, and rather over simplistic, one depicts a few different UML Actors associating with Use Cases.
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • Productivity

    Handling Schema Migrations

    If you have played around with the Fluent Mapping API you have most probably stumbled upon the issue of actually creating or migrating your database to the latest state. And while most tools suggest that schema operations should be performed during design time we give you the tools to either run them automatically or manually.  All you need to do in order to get your schema up to date is instantiate a context object and then access its schema handler. I have prepared a simple code snippet that makes sure every time I run my console application my database schema...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read