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Artificial fields, what are they good for? OpenAccess requires a persistent class model to work. This means that data not represented by a field in a persistent class cannot be stored or retrieved.  Sometimes you need to add new data to your application during runtime. With many other ORMs you have to add a field to your persistent class, recompile everything and update the database schema.  That is a little unhandy and looks like you always need a developer to do so. OpenAccess Artificial Fields can help you to add such new data definitions on the fly. You can specify...

[Cross posted from Telerik Watch] Smell that? That's a freshly baked release from Telerik that's just about ready to "officially" launch. The Q2 2009 release is one of the biggest releases in Telerik's history, again delivering simultaneous updates to all 7 Telerik product lines at one time. An update of this scale is bound to have lots new and interesting stuff, and we can't wait to put it in your hands so you can start playing with it. The official launch of Q2 2009 is Monday, July 6th, and to help you jump-off with the new bits and maximize your productivity...

The upcoming Q2 2009 release of RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax is now built with Visual Studio 2008. As most of you know Visual Studio 2008 supports multi-targeting and we decided to exploit that feature in order to improve our productivity. Here are the main reasons of preferring Visual Studio 2008 over Visual Studio 2005: The IDE provides better development experience. C# 3.0 provides lots of features which do not require .NET 3.5. To name a few: object initializers using the new "var" keyword anonymous types auto properties Improved compilation time. Seamless change of configurations - we can easily change the .NET framework version from the project settings. This however does...

RadFormDecorator might be one of the lesser-known controls in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite, yet it is a control that can eliminate much of the hassle and greatly reduce the time needed for completing the look and feel of a Web solution. What the control does is decorate elements that are usually rendered by the browser, such as buttons, checkboxes, radiobuttons, fieldsets, etc. It just so happens that this product can be used for free - as it is one of the goodies that Telerik provides for the whole ASP.NET community out there! As of Q2 2009, the RadFormDecorator will feature a new - faster and more flexible- rendering, as...

We have released a Beta of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2009! We are excited to offer 4 new controls, improvements to all other controls in the suite as well as a new installer. The new controls have been often requested by the community and they will come handy for a lot of people: RadListBox is a Telerik-quality full-scale listbox control with reordering, transfer, drag-and-drop, multiple selection, etc. RadCaptcha is a UI control that provides protection against automated form submission. RadXmlHttpPanel serves as a container for rapid content loading. You can update diverse content (rich content, user controls or just ...