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Back in Q2 2010 Telerik OpenAccess ORM introduced an Upgrade Tool which converted projects created with the old Reverse Mapping Wizard to use the Visual Designer. Well, Q1 2011 introduces a much improved second version of this useful tool. What are the improvements? Unlike the previous version that supported reverse-mapped projects only, the new Upgrade Tool can convert projects built upon Reverse and forward-mapped projects. And the best part of it is that, besides the Visual Designer, is that it utilizes the updated full-featured Q1 2011 Fluent Mapping API to achieve this. To upgrade your existing project and continue your development with the...

As the RadControls for Windows Phone 7 are now official we will regularly (each week) upload Latest Internal Builds that you can download from your accounts. These builds will include mainly fixes and minor improvements that are being requested through our support channel. This week’s internal build is now available for download. The release notes can be found...

Right after the official launch of the new major version of the FireFox browser (you can download it from here) I asked our web teams to test the Telerik AJAX and MVC components against the latest version of FireFox. And guess what? Both suites support FireFox 4 and no modifications are needed! This is an acknowledgement that you can develop sites with our Q1 2011 AJAX and MVC bundles and be content when running them in FireFox 4. Pretty convenient, yeah?

1st click, 2nd click and you are ready to go. These are the steps required to install any Telerik product as of the Q1 2011 release. The idea behind this change is to provide better user experience during installation. To achieve this we have minimized the steps that you have to perform when installing any Telerik product while at the same time we have left the same flexibility to customize what is installed. Let me introduce the new installation workflow: Step 1 On the first dialog you can read the license agreement of the product if you click the Read License Agreement button. By continuing...

I want to introduce you another cool feature for the RadTreeList which is available into the new Q1 2011 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. With the new version the RadTreeList provides functionality for displaying summaries/results from aggregates in the footer item. The type of this footer item is TreeListFooterItem. To enable this functionality merely set the ShowFooter property of the respective RadTreeList instance to true (its default value is false). The TreeListFooterItem is most commonly used to visualize calculations from aggregate functions within the scope of the current level: In order to specify how the aggregates will be evaluated, specify in every RadTreeList column which have the Aggregate property one of the option...