Telerik blogs
  • Productivity

    Using Telerik’s new LINQ Implementation Part I: Automatic Styles

    Last week Telerik released a service pack for OpenAccess Q1. The service pack fixes a few issues with Telerik’s new LINQ implementation working under Visual Studio 2010. In addition, the service pack shipped the Data Services Wizard; the Data Service Wizard is no longer a separate install. You can use the Data Service Wizard with traditional OpenAccess classes or the new LINQ implementation. Today I will show show you a new feature of the wizard: automatically creating a styled Silverlight application from your domain model. Future blog posts will show how to use RIA Services as well as SQL Azure. To get started open up Visual Studio 2010 and create...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Agile and OData at TechEd North America 2010

    Looking forward to heading to New Orleans this weekend and doing an all day Agile pre-con on Sunday with Joel Semeniuk. There is still space to sign up, here is the info to look for: PRC07 | The Agile Methodology Demystified: Implementing Agile in Your Organization Track: Development Practices Wednesday afternoon I will also be presenting a breakout session on OData:. Below is the official write-up, however, I will be showing first how to build an OData service (first via Astoria or *.Data Services, and then with other methods such as SQL Azure, etc) and then how to consume the service via several different technologies including ASP.NET, Silverlight,...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • People

    TechEd New Orleans and 2 free passes for DevLink Nashville

    In roughly two weeks we will converge at TechEd New Orleans – arguably the biggest developer event worldwide. With Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 out the door, it will be very interesting to see if Microsoft will have any developer news for us – I am betting there will be some. Telerik will be at TechEd in full force, both speaking and exhibiting. You will be able to find us at our usual `shiny black booth``.   If you attended DevConnections Las Vegas, then you are familiar with the kind of show we put up at conferences – here are...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    Telerik OpenAccess SP1 Available

    Telerik has released Service Pack 1 of OpenAccess ORM, available now for download. There are a lot of new features (and of course bug fixes) but the three most important are: The new LINQ implementation works fully with Visual Studio 2010 The Data Services Wizard is now fully integrated with the product, no separate install A beta of RIA Services support I will be doing a blog post on each of these in the coming weeks (expect some delays with TechEd US in the way.) One more thing to mention is that the Data Services Wizard now generates a Silverlight client and will give you the ability to automatically style...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • People

    Listen to me speak about TechEd India, Visual Studio 2010, and Karaoke on Microsoft Talk

    I had a nice chat with Abhishek Baxi and Manan on Microsoft Talk about: TechEd 2010 India, the Visual Studio 2010 Launch, Telerik, the MVP program, and Karaoke. I also spoke about my love for the IPL, Indian food, Punjabi music, rides in a tuk-tuk, hailstorms, and Bengaluru traffic as well. Listen here.
    March 22, 2023 1 min read