Release

Mark your calendars! Next week is the official Q3 Webinar week and we have set up 11 webinars covering the complete Telerik developer portfolio (and then some). We will once again be giving away some Ultimate Collection licenses, so make sure to register for the webinars that interest you the most, and multiply your chances of winning. On Monday we will start off with an overview of Q3 2011, followed by the XAML webinar, and will finish off with What's New in Q3 2011 for Data Tools. In it, we will take a dive into all the great new features the Telerik Reporting and...

There is nothing more exciting than working on developing a new product for months and months, publishing a hugely popular beta, and then finally reaching the big "v1" official release. Kendo UI's road from idea to release has been more than a year in the making, but...

We are proud to announce the official release of Telerik JustCode Q3 2011. This release contains many features that we have launched over the past few months in internal builds, including Razor and CSS support, Visual Studio 11 support, a key mappings window, and many new refactorings! Razor and CSS JustCode brings blazing fast code analysis, quick fixes, code navigation, refactorings, and formatting to Razor and CSS. Much of this has been covered in the previous article, but razor formatting has been vastly improved in this release. In addition, we have added a new visual aid that did not escape the notice...

With the Q3 2011 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced three connection pool type settings. The OpenAccess Connection Pool, OpenAccess Connection Pool with OpenAccess Connection Management and the ADO Connection Pool. This blog post will show how these types can be used and when it makes sense to make use of them.     OpenAccess Connection Pool   With the type set to OpenAccess Connection pool, Telerik OpenAccess ORM will handle the connection pooling internally. Therefore a set of ADO connections is created that are maintained by the product. All settings for the connection pooling behavior can be configured via the settings dialog or...

In Q2 2011 we introduced the Profiling and Tuning advisor, which makes it easier than ever for developers using OpenAccess ORM to see what is going on behind the scenes.  In this release we are happy to expand on the profiler by introducing improved UI features, and a new Metrics view.  The new view makes it easy for developers, and system administrators, to keep an eye on the health of an application.  It displays metrics like committed transactions, rollbacks, connection pool health, and second level cache health.  All of these metrics can be displayed with almost no performance impact on the application due...