Release

The Q2 release is finally here and I am excited to talk about some of the changes in one of the newer controls in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Suite – the RadAsyncUpload. If you browse the live demos, you may not notice any differences immediately, but that’s simply because most of the changes are under the hood. Let’s have a look… First the most important new feature, seen above – Multiple file selection! RadAsyncUpload now allows users to select multiple files at once in the File Selection dialog which is very handy in scenarios where uploading a large number of...

What is Assembly Minifier If you still don’t know what it is: You should first read my previous post, where I announced the first Beta version of the tool You can watch the “Introduction to Assembly Minifier” video, kindly provided by Todd Anglin and Telerik TV You can read “why Silverlight application size matters” (the xap file) and how Assembly Minifier helps you reduce the XAP file size - by Todd Anglin. Read more… You can go to http://minifier.telerik.com/,  get your reduced Silverlight assemblies, build your application's XAP file with the new assemblies and significantly improve your application performance and downloading experience   What is New in the Q2 2010...

RadControls for Silverlight/WPF are here with 7 brand new major controls, tool for minifying the assemblies’ size and truly transparent theme for even easier styling of your applications. The suite now offers true MS Word-like content editing experience thanks to the new RichTextBox control.  New Controls RichTextBox The RichTextBox control is currently available only as part of our Silverlight offering. The control allows you to bring true MS Word-like content editing experience to your end-users. The new control offers rich text editing and formatting capabilities as well as out-of-browser support and printing, import and export of Html, Docx, and Xaml and many more. The newly introduced...

Today Telerik released the Q2 version of OpenAccess ORM as well as the rest of the product line. I’ll take you on a short tour of some of the new ORM features. Today I will show you the menus, Data Service Wizard, and new XAML templates. Tomorrow (Part II) I will show you round tripping and model first. The new LINQ Implementation and Visual Designer that we introduced in Q1 has taken over. The first thing that you will realize is that the new LINQ domain model is the default way to interact with OpenAccess as shown by the menu below. (Don’t worry if you still interact with the older OpenAccess classes...

About a month ago we released JustCode Q2 Beta and you can check this post to get more information about what we've managed to include in the Beta version. Since then we've managed to add quite a few improvements and extra features which you may find useful: We've improved a lot the unit test runner, fixed the reported issues and added support for NUnit and MbUnit. We've added a new feature which we called "Visual aids". When this feature is turned on and when you place the cursor inside the code editor you'll see a small rectangle whenever JustCode has available commands...