Productivity

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In an op-ed piece in this month’s SD Times, I make the argument that software development productivity tools have evolved over the years to become more mainstream. I make the case that while some developers shun tools, in reality they take for granted the tools they are using today that were not available 10 years or so ago, or were not that mature. For example today we use some tools without even thinking such as: SCM, build management, standards enforcement, ORM and UI components. Tools today save a team a tremendous amount of time and are the missing link in the software development process. You can get...

For the past two years our Silverlight and WPF teams have been aggressively adding new controls to both XAML suites. Offering more than 70 controls for Silverlight and WPF in total, we concentrated our efforts in the last month on strengthening other aspects of the suites: delivering unmatched performance, enhancing and polishing RadControls themes and providing new and highly advanced features, especially for the data visualization controls. Get a glimpse of what’s hot in the upcoming Q1 2010 release!  Utilizing the concepts of UI and Data virtualization into the data-centric controls, Telerik provides real-time performance even when the controls are using millions...

"Reports! We need reports!" ... This is something that's probably heard often in a lot of companies. Well, I am happy to tell you that Telerik Reporting is up to the challenge of providing these reports. Telerik Reporting is an intuitive, easy to use, .NET reporting solution that can easily meet the needs of your company. If you are new to Telerik Reporting and are looking for a good place to start learning about it, you've found it. Over the past few weeks, we've been spending some time putting together several videos explaining the many features included with Telerik Reporting. Here they are... enjoy! Working ...

After working a bit with the Silverlight Report Viewer for Telerik Reporting, it seemed only natural to write a quick post to explain how exactly the Reporting WCF Service (located here in the help file) works and how to quickly and easily get started with it. To start with, why do we need a WCF service for Telerik Reporting?  The answer is that we added a Silverlight Report viewer not too long ago, and in order to get information to a Silverlight client application you need to either use a javascript bridge through the webpage hosting the XAP, which is a slightly clunky...