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  • Productivity Testing

    Announcing WebUI Test Studio: Test Automation Has Never Been So Easy

    I’m excited to announce publicly that from Q1 2009 the Telerik portfolio will be extended with the WebUI Test Studio product. Powered by ArtOfTest, the new test automation solution reduces to minimum the efforts needed to test your Web Applications regardless complexity and structure. In order to make the life of developers and QAs working with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX even easier, the tool also extends the Automation Design Canvas codeless recording solution to operate over the RadControls Web Apps. Read more on the product home page.   Why is it so easy? The environment is well-known – ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Reporting 101 Webinar

    I recently hosted a Reporting 101 webinar where I gave an hour-long overview of Telerik’s Reporting tool. For those of you who missed it, and for those who would like to see it again, it is now available on Telerik TV for your viewing pleasure. Click here to view the Reporting 101 webinar on Telerik TV If you are interested in more advanced Telerik Reporting topics, stay tuned as I will be bringing you another Reporting webinar on Thursday, February 26th. The topic will be announced this week, so keep an eye on my blog or Telerik.com for more details. For those of...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Forward Mapping with OpenAccess and MySQL

    Those of us who develop with the .NET Framework have probably connected to a Microsoft SQL Server database at one time or another. If you’re using v3.5 of the Framework, you’ve probably even used the new LINQ to SQL object relational mapper to hook your web forms up to your database for easy data display and manipulation. But what happens if you aren’t using SQL Server? What if you want the same functionality – and ease of use – that LINQ to SQL provides, but need to use a different database technology? Enter OpenAccess. Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM supports many of the most popular...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Productivity

    OpenAccess, WCF, and a RadGrid (Oh My!)

    I’ve been working on a project that uses OpenAccess ORM as the persistence layer between my app and the database. Since the app is going to be used on both web and client platforms I wanted to add a services layer to serve up the data. Turns out it’s pretty easy to do. So I’ll walk you through a quick demo of how to hook OpenAccess up to WCF services and then consume the data with a RadGrid. Set up the project structure First, create a class library project called Data to hold the data access code. This is where you’ll use OpenAccess to...
    May 27, 2021 14 min read
  • Productivity

    New version of Telerik Trainer

    I am very excited to share with you a preview of the new version of Telerik Trainer! Download it here For those of you unfamiliar with Telerik Trainer, this is a tool that leverages the latest technologies to combine video training with hands on coding and self-paced tutorials. It's beyond a video player - the application binds video with synchronized highlights, topical table of contents navigation, and a code launching feature that opens code files in Visual Studio and automatically navigates to the relevant file and line number. Check here for more info on Telerik Trainer. Together with our ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read