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  • Productivity Reporting

    Connecting Telerik Reporting to SQL Azure via ADO.NET

     Download SqlAzure.AdoNet (C# VS2010) - 149KB Microsoft SQL Azure is a relational database service that allows you to host your SQL Server based database in the cloud. Since cloud computing is gaining a lot of popularity recently, we decided to demonstrate how to connect and consume an existing SQL Azure database with Telerik Reporting. There are three basic methods for connecting Telerik Reporting to a SQL Azure database: Using ADO.NET and the SqlDataSource component. Using Telerik Open Access and the OpenAccessDataSource component. Using Microsoft Entity Framework and the EntityDataSource component. In this blog post we will cover how to connect Telerik Reporting to SQL Azure via ADO.NET. The other two methods will be discussed in subsequent blog posts of the same series. For...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Publishing Command Line Runner Results to WebUI Scheduling Server

    As you know, with the official Q3 2010 release of WebUI Test Studio, you can easily create a scheduling server for test execution. What you may not know is that you also have the ability to publish test list results from a command line execution directly to your scheduling server - here's what you need to do: The first step is to configure a scheduling server if you have not yet done so. Next, be sure to connect your project to your scheduling server (QA Edition Only) Now just set the appropriate arguments on the AoT Runner Set the ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Telerik Data Services Wizard Updates

    If you are creating OData or WCF services in your application and have been using the Telerik Data Services Wizard, things just got a whole lot easier. As I have shown before, you can go from File|New to a new CRUD application in 30 seconds using the wizard. With the Q3 release last month, Telerik gives you more control over the wizard and its output. Some of the new features are: the ability to isolate your service in its own project, the ability to select which CRUD methods gets created for each entity, and Silverlight data validation. Let’s take a look. When you run the wizard, on its first...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Convert an Existing LINQ to SQL Model to Telerik OpenAccess in 30 Seconds

    If you are currently invested in LINQ to SQL and want to upgrade to Telerik OpenAccess ORM, with the new OpenAccess Q3 release you can do this quite easily. There is a new wizard included with OpenAccess that will automatically convert your LINQ to SQL classes to Telerik LINQ classes. Let’s take a look. I’ll start with a simple project that has a simple LINQ to SQL model in it: Northwind.dbml. It is mapped to the Northwind database tables. I created a simple web form that has a GridView on it. I decided that I would try to stump the wizard by writing a complex LINQ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Did you miss the Agile Testing Webinar?

    Thanks to all those to attended Wednesday's Automated Testing in the Agile Environment webinar. If you missed the presentation you can catch it 24/7 on Telerik TV. Since we had some great questions asked during the session, I thought I would share them with the community! Q: Can't automated test execution take a long time as well? Is that just a time/project management issue? A: Sure depending on the number of tests and the complexity of the tests, they can take time as well - of course tests can be run during off hours and dispersed across multiple test ...
    December 03, 2010 2 min read