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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...

We are proud to introduce the newest member of the Telerik XAML family - the Color Editor. With its powerful color selection mechanism, the Color Editor allows an intuitive way of picking your desired color. The Color Editor provides support for few of the major color modes - RGB, HSV, HLS and CMYK. In addition, the Color Editor allows you to edit each individual channel of the above mentioned color models. Let's begin with the most basic declaration of the Color Editor in XAML. <telerik:RadColorEditor Height="220" Width="400" /> By changing the value in the color mode drop-down you can control which color model is currently active. As mentioned...

Unlike the Webinar Weeks from the last few releases, this time we're doing things a little differently. With more than 12 products to talk about, we needed a new format that would let us cover more topics in fewer days, so with Q3 2011 there will be multiple webinars today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. The full schedule for the week looks like this: Date Time Topic Monday, Nov 28 9:30 AM Kick-off, Webinar Week Overview 11:00 AM Silverlight & WPF 12:30 PM Data Tools Tuesday, Nov 29 9:30 AM Windows Phone 11:00 AM AJAX & MVC 12:30 PM Tools for Better Code 2:00 PM Test Studio Wednesday, Nov 30 9:30 AM Preparing for Windows 8 11:00 AM Putting It All Together 12:30 PM Sitefinity 4 Thursday, Dec 1 11:00 AM Kendo UI Launch...

We are very proud to be the first (and still only) Windows Forms component suite to provide full multi-touch support and API. As discussed in the sneak peek blog Get Ready to Touch’n’Roll with RadControls for WinForms, the powerful touch API that our components expose allow you to handle the touch gestures that occur on the screen and take some actions depending on what your touch scenario is. Now that Q3 2011 is a fact, allow us to introduce the main aspects of the touch API. These aspects will allow you to unleash the power of windows forms under touch-enabled devices,...