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Download SqlAzure.OpenAccess (C# VS2010) - 163KB In the previous blog post from the series we discussed how to connect Telerik Reporting to a SQL Azure database using ADO.NET with the help of the SqlDataSource component. Now we will demonstrate how to accomplish the same task with Open Access ORM utilizing the OpenAccessDataSource component. For the sake of this example we assume an existing SQL Azure account with the Adventure Works sample database already installed. Let’s start with a new Open Access domain model – the Open Access ORM Data Wizard starts. Choose Microsoft SQL Azure as a backend for the database connection and specify the connection string to your SQL Azure database as shown in the screenshot below: Choose the following tables...

[Cross posted from .NET Musings] Technorati Tags: mocking,.NET,Testing,TDD,BDD,JustMock,Telerik Today Telerik launched a free edition of it’s commercial mocking tool, JustMock Free Edition.  The commercial version of JustMock has been out now for a while, and brings incredible power to the table, such as mocking sealed and static classes, non-public members and types, as well as many more features.  For more information on the commercial version of JustMock, see  http://www.telerik.com/products/mocking.aspx. I do a lot of testing.  I am addicted to TDD/BDD, and can’t live without a mocking tool. The new (or “greenfield”) code that I develop is based on interfaces, SOLID, etc., and I don’t always...

We are pleased to announce the release of our QA Automation Software's official service pack release. This release contains enhancements and updates to our official Q3 release. Updated areas include Licensing, HTML Automation, Silverlight Automation, Command Line Execution, Execution Engine, Test Scheduling, Test Explorer, DOM Explorer, Data Binding, RadControl for ASP.NET AJAX & Silverlight Wrapper and much more, click here to see the detailed release notes. Login to your Telerik account and navigate to the Automated Testing section to get your update today.

Telerik, being the pioneer in supporting emerging technologies, not only provides native direct connectivity to the OData protocol in its UI products, but also offers several systems which expose their data using the OData protocol. The Open Data Protocol is a data exchange protocol by Microsoft that enables data transactions to be carried over standard web protocols (HTTP, Atom, and JSON) for querying and updating data. OData is being used to expose and access information from a variety of sources, including but not limited to relational databases, file systems, content management systems, and traditional web sites. The Telerik's OData support extends...

Often times, you’ll need to store data from your application in XML files. Well, what if you want to report on this data… it’s not in a database, so how do you do it? I’m happy to say that you can easily report on XML data through the use of the ObjectDataSource component provided with Telerik Reporting. In this blog entry, we’ll take a look at how this can be accomplished. Working with XML Data For this example, I’ve generated some XML data in advance using this helpful data generation website. <Accounts>      <Account>         ...