Release

For anyone who has been paying attention, Microsoft has announced a fair number of changes and new things for us to play with over the past few weeks, suspiciously all surrounding the PDC conference in LA.  One of the biggest announcements was the Silverlight 4 beta, which I know we're all anxiously playing with, but the other was the (much needed) overhaul to .Net RIA Services, which has been re-branded as WCF Ria Services. So what's in a new name?  Well a host of improvements, but our friend Brad Abrams covered that more than well in his Welcome to WCF RIA Services...

The updated installation and hotfix files have been uploaded to the users’ accounts. The release version is 2009.3.1208. You can find the download files under your accounts at: For Licensed users: http://www.telerik.com/account/downloads.aspx For Trial Users: http://www.telerik.com/account/free-trials.aspx The online examples have been updated and can be reviewed at: Silverlight Demos WPF Demos The Source Code now addresses the latest changes and it can also be downloaded from the licensed users’ accounts: RadControls for Silverlight Source Code RadControls for WPF Source Code The sample applications’ source code (MyTweets, MyAlbums, Astoria Demo and Telerik Sales Dashboard) is also available for download and has been built against the latest version. For full release notes please visit...

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...