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The AI-Forward Telerik & Kendo UI 2025 Q4 Release Is Here

by Iva Borisova November 19, 2025

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    Using The WCF REST Starter Kit and REST Collections with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard

    Developers have been using the REST specification for some time. If you are using Microsoft tools, ADO.NET Data Services aka Astoria is a very popular way to work with REST data. What you may not know is that Astoria works on top of WCF and you can write your own REST services outside of the Astoria model using WCF. WCF 3.5 SP1 gives us quite a few hooks to build our own RESTful services, however, it still takes a lot of manual wiring up by the developer. By now you all should know that I hate plumbing code. Microsoft introduced the WCF REST Starter Kit, a set of WCF extensions...
    by Steve Forte
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
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    Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development

    digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,9ae550ca-3c3d-4c14-b047-4b7568dd9c94.aspx";digg_title = "Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; I have written a white paper for the Microsoft Oslo team that is available on MSDN here. The paper is titled: “Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development” and shows how you can use the new M language to model databases, browse that model in Quadrant, and tap into the power of the Oslo Repository. The paper shows how the model you make is mapped to TSQL and to SQL Server objects, including Tables and Views. It is pretty cool to see the following M type and its M values and how they will map to a TSQL script to create a People table and INSERT INTO statements for...
    by Steve Forte
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Reporting: Using connectionStrings from configuration file

    We've been asked several times, what is the right way of using connection strings from the configuration file, so that Telerik Reports would work both in run time and design time. The answer can be found in this new Knowledge Base article: Using connectionStrings from configuration file It is worth mentioning that the Report and Data Source Wizards do this automatically when instructed to save the selected connection string in the config file. A working solution using the approach from the latter article can be found in our Visual Studio examples. Enjoy! ---------------- Steve...
    by Stefan Tsokev
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    LINQ Tip of the week: System.String support

    Welcome back for some more information about the Telerik OpenAccess ORM support for LINQ. Today we provide a brief list of the System.String properties and methods that are supported by our LINQ implementation. When any of the below listed methods are used in a LINQ query, Telerik OpenAccess ORM translates the method call to equivalent SQL which is then executed on the server. Please note that the table lists the MS SqlServer specific SQL translation.   Properties String.Length len (string_expression)   Methods String.CompareTo expression = expression String.Contains match_expression LIKE pattern String.EndsWith match_expression LIKE pattern String.Equals expression = expression String.IndexOf(String) CHARINDEX (expression1,expression2, –1) String.IndexOf(String,Int32) CHARINDEX (expression1,expression2, start_location) String.Insert CASE   WHEN( LEN(ISNULL(column_name,'')) = start_index) THEN ISNULL(column_name,'') + value ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    WebAii Testing Framework: From HTML to XAML and Back -- RadHtmlPlaceholder

      Along with the Service Pack of RadControls for Silverlight Q2 we released an update of the free test automation solution, the WebAii Testing Framework. There are additions, fixes and improvements in all the components including the core WebAii, WebAii RadControls for Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX. With this post I’d like to bring your attention to the latest addition to our Silverlight controls wrappers – the RadHtmlPlaceholder one. As you probably know, the control itself is a pretty useful component part of the RadControls for Silverlight suite.
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
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