Telerik blogs
  • Productivity

    Using Telerik’s New LINQ Implementation with SQL Azure

    With the Q1 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM, Telerik released a brand new LINQ Implementation and supporting Visual Entity Designer. I have shown in this blog how to connect to SQL Server, MySQL, and how to use the new LINQ with RIA Services. Today I will show you how to connect to SQL Azure. To get started, we have to create a new Telerik Domain Model in the server (ASP.NET) project. We’ll create a new Domain Model by right clicking on the server project and selecting “Add” and choosing the Telerik Domain Model from the menu. In the dialog presented by OpenAccess select the database you...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Q2’10 Pre-Release Series: the XAML Suites Add New Controls, RichTextBox for Silverlight, New Transparent Theme and more

    The spotlight of the Q2 2010 release for RadControls for Silverlight falls on the officially introduced RadRichTextBox for Silverlight, allowing 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. As one of the most demanded features from the Telerik developer community during the preview release, import and export of Html, Docx, and Xaml are already included in the control.  The Q2 2010 release stays faithful to Telerik’s tradition of releasing the same controls for RadControls for Silverlight and WPF, allowing for...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Registration for Q2 2010 Webinar Week now open!

    With the Q2 2010 release coming out in just a couple of weeks, it is time for us to announce that the registration for the “What’s New Webinar Week” is now open. For the ones who don’t know about this Telerik tradition, the “What’s New Webinar Week” is held the week after the release and is aimed at allowing you to get to know all about the major new features Telerik is shipping in the new release. You can find the topics of the five webinars and links to their registration pages below. Mon, Jul 19, 11 am EST: What’s...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    Q2'10 Pre-Release Series: Telerik JustMock’s Official Release is Just Around the Corner

    Back in April we introduced a new developer productivity tool called JustMock. Its purpose is to help developers write better unit tests and save time testing their code. The tool spurred a lot of interest and many people were eager to test the beta. This helped us greatly improve the tools functionality and feature set. Q2 2010 is going to be a milestone release for JustMock as we are officially introducing its commercial version. The new version is going to include many new features as well as offer a more robust and swift performance. One of the new features coming with...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • People

    Transparency and Software Teams

    A few months ago I wrote to you about why teams succeed. I talked about the “high bandwidth” team that stressed communication and collaboration. While I believe that communication and collaboration are the keys to success of any team, I always felt that there was another important component to the equation. I visited a large retail global customer here in Hong Kong today. They are working on a large application for their product development group using Silverlight 4.0 and have teams in the United States, India, and Hong Kong. We were talking first about their use of Telerik tools and then the conversation moved on to teams and process....
    May 27, 2021 5 min read