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Next Productivity Leap: Telerik and Kendo UI 2026 Q1 Release Is Here

by Iva Borisova February 18, 2026 8 min read

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    Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 RTM is Live!

    That's right, SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 went live today. You can read about the highlights here, or just go download the service pack and check it out for yourself. WPF designer support in the IDE and WPF performance increases in the framework were big items delivered in this service pack. Also included is the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, and support for SQL Server 2008. This release comes on the heels of the release of SQL Server 2008 just a few days ago....
    August 11, 2008 1 min read
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    I'm back again, what comes next?

    Yeah, I know, it's been quite some time since my last post. The ideas keep coming though and I’ve just realized there is no better time for a QA to blog than ... the summer. Do you know why? Well, just because of the summer time! You know, devs are humans too and they also need to rest a bit. ;) I can at least stop bugging around for a while and post some nice, interesting content. I'm afraid the list of ideas for my future posts is already quite long. However, since I'd like to share the most fascinating ...
    August 07, 2008 2 min read
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    Visual Studio Tip: Starting the IDE Quickly & Other Quick Tips

    When you use a tool day-in and day-out you typically want it to be accessible as quickly as possible and to launch just the way you like it, with all your favorite bells and whistles ready to go. For those of us saving the world every day with our .NET applications, Visual Studio is no exception. So here are a couple of easy tips for fine-tuning Visual Studio to get you from the icon to the code just a little bit faster, as well as a few of my own preferred features and settings. Launch Tips 1. Get rid of the splash...
    July 28, 2008 3 min read
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    Visual Studio Tip: Creating and Consuming an Item Template

    These days there are a lot of cool ways for .NET developers to be more productive. From code generation to refactoring, there is never a shortage of plug-ins out there to help us in this goal. But let's not forget about the great tools and features already built into Visual Studio that we can use. One feature I have started using recently is the item template. Whether you know what an item template is or not, you use them in your every day development. Item templates are those pre-written files you add to your project whenever you need a new ASP.NET...
    July 21, 2008 4 min read
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    Visual Studio Tips & Tricks

    Being a professional developer requires that you invest some time in learning your tools. Working with .NET my tool of choice (not that there is a whole lot of choice) is Visual Studio.  It’s an excellent IDE that’s very customizable and can be extremely productive if you learn how to use it well. The best way to increase your productivity is to learn some keyboard shortcuts. Yes, the toolbars are all nice and pretty, but you can do pretty much absolutely everything with the keyboard. I even know some people who don't use any toolbars at all! In my opinion that's...
    by Vladimir Milev
    July 09, 2008 3 min read
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