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As our second official release for the year is out, I would like to share with you the regular portion of visual updates for the ASP.NET AJAX suite. In Q2 2010 we continued to improve cross-control consistency. Polishing the overall look & feel and introducing subtle, but value-adding visual features were of major importance among all UX related tasks.   Rounded corners, shadows, consistent buttons, icons ... let's see what you are getting with Q2 2010: RadFileExplorer The FileExplorer control has undergone thorough appearance review. Here is a list of the visual improvements: Wrapper – border color is changed to fit the skin-specific...

The Q2 2010 release of Telerik Reporting introduces two new data source components that are aimed at improving the integration with business applications utilizing the ADO.NET Entity Framework or the OpenAccess ORM. (You can see the new data source components in action in the free webinar tomorrow, Tuesday , Jul 20, 11 am EST. Just register for What’s New in Telerik Reporting and RadControls for WinForms. During the live event attendees will also have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection, valued at $1999). Prior to the Q2 2010 Telerik Reporting release, the only option for connecting a report to an existing entity model...

With the Q2 2010 release, RadTileView supports two major new features: Animation optimization By setting the IsAnimationOptimized property to True, you can turn on the animation optimization. This optimization should be used only when necessary i.e. in scenarios where the visual tree of the TileViewItem is quite large and the animations do not run smooth. Scrolling of the minimized items  If the sum of the minimized heights/widths of all minimized TileViewItems exceeds the available space, RadTileView will show a ScrollBar allowing you to scroll the minimized items.   This article will show you how to put a GridSplitter between the maximized item and the minimized item and...

At Telerik we take great pride in having the most comprehensible component suites on the market. We always strive to make our components easier and more pleasant to work with. When we first released the Visual Studio Extensions, we made a commitment to make being successful with our components as easy as possible. Here are some of my favorite new features: Keeping up to date In the past we offered a possibility to upgrade your existing projects using the latest versions available through our website. In addition to that functionality, we now let you check for new versions whenever you are...

Yesterday Telerik released the Q2 version of OpenAccess ORM as well as the rest of the product line. Yesterday (Part I) I showed you the menus, Data Service Wizard, and new XAML templates. Today I will show you round tripping. Next week I will talk about RIA Services and model first. OpenAccess Q2’s new LINQ implementation and Visual Designer introduces database round tripping.  Now you can make changes in your model and persist them to your database table. (You always had the ability to make a database schema change and refresh your model.) Let’s see this feature in action. The Model Schema Explorer gives you a view of your mapped entities. If...