Release

The day has finally arrived! Kendo UI v1 is now, as I type, officially available on KendoUI.com. This marks the end of the official Kendo UI beta and begins the next phase of Kendo UI's life as an official, commercially available product. To fully understand today's release,...

It has been an exciting day today as we completed the Q3 2011 Windows Phone 7 Webinar. As always, all of our webinars are available for viewing on tv.telerik.com. So far, the following webinars are available for viewing: What's New in Windows Phone 7 What's New in Silverlight and WPF Recorded Webinar What's New in ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC Overview video of What’s New in Q3 2011 (All Products) Some of the new controls covered in the Windows Phone 7 presentation are: BulletGraph ContextMenu AutoCompleteBox ToggleSwitch MessageBox SlideView The Source Code to the presentation is also available to download now. We have several other great webinars lined up that you may...

In case anyone in the audience has been sleeping for the past couple of weeks, we're smack in the middle of the annual Webinar Week for the Telerik Q3 2011 release. It's now 11:03AM EST on Tuesday, meaning you've already gotten to see the kick-off, data, phone, and Xaml webinars and are probably watching Ajax/MVC right now - but in case you missed any of these you're in luck.  All of our recorded content makes its way up to Tv.Telerik.com for your viewing pleasure, so head on over here in case you missed the live What's new in Xaml webinar yesterday to see everything that's...

I have provided technical support for RadScheduler since its inception and I can say that it is truly like an iceberg - the more you dive in knowing the control the more you come to appreciate its power, richness of features, potential for customization and flexibility. But what good is something if you don't know that it exists? For the Q3 2011 release, we have made a thorough review of the RadScheduler demos and realized that they show only a fraction of RadScheduler's potential. So, we have updated some old demos and added a few new ones. We will continue this practice in the future...

With the Q3 2011 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced three connection pool types which are explained in this blog post. In this blog post we will have a look at the connection pooling behavior of the Oracle driver and what setting to be used when we want to use Telerik OpenAccess ORM with Oracle databases.   Which setting for Oracle and why? When we want to use Oracle as our backend, it is advisable to use the connection pool type Open Access Connection Pool with OpenAccess Connection Management or the Ado Connection Pool setting. When using one of the two settings, we...