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digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,bb9d49fd-982f-433b-9617-547de01a7978.aspx";digg_title = "Using Telerik OpenAccess with Visual Studio 2010 Beta2";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Just a few weeks ago Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 Beta2. Last week Telerik put its Q3 release live into production. One of the cool new Q3 features is that OpenAccess now works seamlessly with Visual Studio 2010. That means you can target .NET 3.5 or .NET 4.0 using either Visual Studio 2008 (.NET 3.5) or Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0). I will do a quick demo with Visual Studio 2010, SQL Azure, and OpenAccess. With OpenAccess Q3 installed, I fired up Visual Studio 2010 and started a console project targeting .NET 4.0 While the project will target the .NET 4.0 Framework, we have to do one small thing to make...

I’m happy to announce that after all the efforts of the ArtOfTest and Telerik teams during the last several months the product is now ready for you to enjoy! WebUI Test Studio v2.0 (Beta) is out with the Q3 2009 release and the final v2.0 is expected in December. WebAii Framework First of all, our advanced Click & Play automation solution is now upgraded with the latest WebAii Testing Framework! This means that all the additions we worked on and released till now in the automation framework are finally available in WebUI Test Studio as well. For all interested ...

digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,d5967a42-df98-4c12-9604-d788928f4b41.aspx";digg_title = "Using WCF with SQL Azure and Telerik OpenAccess";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; Microsoft’s SQL Azure database offering has great 3rd party support. This week Telerik is releasing its Q3 version of its entire product line and the OpenAccess ORM will have more robust and native support for SQL Azure over what is currently available. I will expand on the example I did last week on connecting to SQL Azure by showing how to work with OpenAccess entities via WCF in a Silverlight application. The fist thing that you have to do is create a project for your data access layer and connect to SQL Azure. I started a new class library and used the Enable Project to use ORM wizard. This is where you...

No doubt StackOverflow.com became a great resource for software developers. As a tester though, I’ve been looking for a good Q&A tester oriented alternative for a long time now. That’s why I really enjoyed the news about Testing.StackExchange site availability. It actually shares the same successful technology as Stack Overflow and has the potential to become as helpful as its brother is. Although it’s still new, I’ve already found some great experts in the software testing field not only signed-in but actively contributing. Credits go to Mr. Justin Hunter who announced the site several weeks ago. Thanks also to Alan ...

digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,b4b60e8a-953b-4cc6-b517-2b30ca985a42.aspx";digg_title = "Connecting to SQL Azure with Telerik OpenAccess";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; With the official release of SQL Azure less than three weeks away, we are starting to see mainstream vendor support for SQL Azure. Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM is no exception. With the Q3 release of OpenAccess next week, OpenAccess will have full support for SQL Azure, going further than the basic support available today that I demonstrated on my blog last month. Full wizard support, forward and reverse mapping, and of course data services support via the Telerik Data Services Wizard. Let’s take a look at the basics here. Getting Started To get up and running and show the mapping and LINQ support, I will open Visual Studio 2008 (or 2010) and create a simple Console...