Release

We are proud to announce our December CTP of the Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard (formerly known as the WCF Services Wizard). The Data Services Wizard (DSW) allows you to easily create a CRUD data service layer for your application. The DSW does this by using a data access layer already built by OpenAccess and automatically generating the C# code for your endpoints. The types of endpoints you can create are: WCF Data Services (FKA Astoria and also FKA ADO. NET Data Services) Raw WCF endpoints WCF REST Collection endpoints WCF ATOMPub endpoints This version of the Data Service Wizard is very robust; we have made lots of changes based on your...

The official launch of WebUI Test Studio version 2.0 has been scheduled for Thursday, December 10. As you surely know, the new version features major upgrades, such as the industry-first in-depth Silverlight UI recording capabilities, completely revamped highlighting surface, as well as handy “gadgets” like 3-D element inspection, drag-n-drop wizard, new coverflow-like visual storyboard, and more. If you’d like to stay ahead of the curve in the field of web application testing, you should definitely get a seat in the joint webinar Todd Anglin (Telerik Chief Technical Evangelist) and Faris Sweis (ArtOfTest CTO and Product Architect) are organizing to get you acquainted...

One of the cool new features, that will make its way in the Q3 2009 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX service pack release, is the additional thumbnail option in the Image Manager dialog. When you select an image, that ends with a specific suffix (e.g. "_thumb"), and there is an image with the same name but without the suffix in the current folder, the image dialog will offer the ability to automatically create a link to the original and open it in a new browser window. Here is how this will look like:       We hope that this will provide a much quicker...

A very common concern in Telerik OpenAccess ORM (as well as almost every other ORM product on the market) is how the names of the classes that represent your database tables are formed. Basically the mechanism for generating such names follows a simple pattern – the database table name is in plural form and the class name in the model is in single form. However, in the past OpenAccess covered a really small area of all the rules present for singularizing a given word. As of Q3 2009 this is not an issue anymore. We have implemented a simple, yet powerful...

The Q3 2009 release is now in the past, but the newly introduced features are here to stay. Although the newly introduced JustCode productivity tool stirred quite a bit of excitement at PDC and in our forums, it cannot yet shade the native Silverlight support for reports created with Telerik Reporting. Telerik Reporting Silverlight Viewer Although there are several Silverlight viewer implementations out there, most notably for SQL Reporting Services, there is no reporting product that offers true native support for Silverlight. The Telerik Silverlight Report Viewer is designed to render Telerik Reports within Silverlight projects (see demos). The Silverlight viewer uses the same rendering...