Release

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...

We are excited to announce the availability of Q3 2011. This release clearly stated that the Windows Forms technology still has its place in the software development world. With the introduction of RadPanorama and the full-multi touch support, we are ready to take your Windows Forms applications to the next level. RadPanorama In the set of new features and improvements you will also find: Kinetic scrolling for RadTreeView, RadGridView, RadPropertyGrid and RadListControl. MSAA and Right-to-left support for RadListView and RadPropertyGrid. One new theme – Telerik Metro Blue. Superscript, subscript and tables support for RadRichTextBox. Major performance improvements in RadTreeView. Four new columns for RadGridView: Color, Browse, Hyperlink and...

If you’re like me and you enjoy reading developer controls documentation (who doesn’t?), you may have noticed a new addition to the online documentation today for both RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a new effort we are launching alongside the Q3 2011 release – Telerik Patterns & Practices: Our first series for Telerik P&P is in direct response to a customer request, specifically for advice on how to handle an Event-to-Command scenario within their Silverlight application. Since there are more than a few ways to handle that we figured it would be...

Introduction JustDecompile is a new, free developer productivity tool designed to enable easy .NET assembly browsing and decompiling. In the past it has only worked with .NET assemblies, but today it also works with Silverlight XAP files. I’m going to walk you through a sample of using this functionality. Lets get started Head over to Telerik.com and click on the Download Beta button. After everything is downloaded and installed then you will see a new icon on your desktop called Telerik JustDecompile. Go ahead and double click it to open JustDecompile. Your screen should look like the following: ...