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  • Productivity

    How to Enhance Projects Using MSBuild on a Machine Without Telerik OpenAccess ORM Installed

    Sometimes we need to  build Telerik OpenAccess ORM enhanced projects on a machine that has no installation of the OpenAccess product. There are cases that even require that there is no such installation done on the machines like build servers or other machines that handle the build process. On the other hand when Telerik OpenAccess ORM is installed, the project enhancement is automatically done from our Visual Studio integration add-in. The MSBuild integration can be used as an alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio integration and is useful while using the command-line build environment. It is targeted for serving build...
    July 08, 2009 2 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Welcome the Free Test Automation Solution for RadControls

    I’m happy to announce that a FREE test automation solution is now officially part of the Telerik portfolio. I’ll summarize here some of its fundamentals as well as how to get started with the WebAii Testing Framework. First of all, it’s an extension of WebAii, the ArtOfTest’s free Web testing automation library. During the past years the framework was greatly extended and its user base/popularity grew tremendously. Now it serves as the very base of advanced test automation solutions such as ArtOfTest’s Automation Design Canvas and its Telerik brother – WebUI Test Studio. Many QAs and developers ...
    July 06, 2009 4 min read
  • Productivity

    Object Scope lifecycle management in web scenarios

    The stateless nature of the Http protocol brings quite a deal of concerns about the handling of the IObjectScope in a web application. Few questions usually arise when dealing with entity containers (like the DataContext in Linq to SQL or the IObjectScope in Telerik OpenAccess ORM): where to initialize the scope, where to dispose it, how to integrate with the Page’s lifecycle, etc.. In this post we share our views on the best-practices approaches that secure safe and consistent use of the IObjectScope in web scenarios. The desired result of the used patterns is to have one object scope, initialized on...
    July 02, 2009 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Partial Trust and Telerik OpenAccess ORM

    First let us apologize on the behalf of the whole team that we didn’t share this great feature of our product earlier. We will try to shed more light with this post. So what is with the partial trust? Why it is such a dramatic problem for a lot of applications? Let us define what the impediments are to every real application out there that runs in partial trust: Overview of Partial Trust Most common security mechanisms give rights to users based on their logon credentials (usually a password) and restrict resources...
    July 01, 2009 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM and Ado.Net Data Services Example Refreshed part III

    After we prepared our data service it is time to put some client UI into it. We will use 2 grids and a context menu. To start with, add a SilverLight application in your solution:
    June 30, 2009 5 min read