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    SP1 of RadControls for WinForms Q2 2010 Released, Featuring Conversion Wizards

    Yesterday we released the first of series of Service Packs, following our outstanding Q2 2010 release. The first drop is for RadControls for WinForms, and features a fair amount of bug fixes. A noteworthy feature made it in Q2 2010 SP1 - and this is the ability to quickly switch from [now obsolete] RadPanelBar, RadTabStrip, RadComboBox, and RadListBox controls to their new counterparts: RadPageView and RadDropDownList and RadListControl. The idea is simple, and the transition process is quick, transparent and painless. Simply download and install RadControls for WinForms Q2 2010 SP1 and upgrade your application to use the latest version. Once you...
    August 10, 2010 2 min read
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    New Getting Started Videos for Telerik OpenAccess ORM

    With our latest release of OpenAccess ORM we launched two video series aimed at helping you get started with the product and the new Visual Designer. We also published a bunch of new videos demonstrating the new features introduced with Q2 2010. The videos will help you quickly start building your first OpenAccess ORM project without the need to read through any documentation: Getting started with the Visual Designer for OpenAccess ORM This video series will show you how to create working projects in minutes using the powerful features of the Visual Designer for OpenAccess ORM. After completing the series you will be...
    August 04, 2010 1 min read
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    TeamPulse is LIVE!!

    The TeamPulse team is excited to announce that our first official release of TeamPulse is now READY for general download. Here is a quick summary of the features for the Q2 2010 Release:1. Community and Standard Editions Fully functional Community Edition is free with a limitation of 5 users and 1 project Standard Edition is $249 USD per user 2. Requirements Story Management Persona Management 3. Planning: Project Release Scheduling Iteration Planning Work Decomposition
    July 27, 2010 1 min read
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    The new Telerik OpenAccess Schema Update wizard

    One of the new features of Telerik OpenAccess ORM Visual designer is the forward mapping wizard that can be used to update the database schema from the model. Yes it is true! With just few clicks you are able to generate and execute either a schema definition or schema update script that will alter you database schema. First you will need to open our Schema Update Wizard. You can do this by either right clicking in the schema explorer or in the model explorer: the command is named Update Database from Model… This will open the following page: On the first page you...
    July 26, 2010 3 min read
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    New Fetch Optimization API

    In this blog post we will introduce the new intuitive and powerful Fetch Optimization API. Users familiar with the LINQ to SQL data load options will feel very comfortable with our API. If you don’t have a clue what this is all about, here we will give an overview of the basic concepts behind the usage of fetch strategies. In short, fetch strategies help you optimize your retrieval of objects from the database. They allow you to specify properties in a persistent object that are retrieved together whenever you invoke a call to the persistent object. Let’s consider the following example...
    July 21, 2010 4 min read