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  • Release

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q1 2010 Introduces New Visual Designer

    Q1 2010 will be a milestone release for our enterprise-grade ORM. With it we will introduce the new Visual Designer for OpenAccess ORM. The designer will give developers the ability to map their databases on a specially designed graphical surface as well as perform modifications to the mapping process and the domain model. Some of the features included in the designer are: The DSL Designer – This is a specialized visual editor that visualizes the mapped classes and their relationships. You will be able to easily interact with them with simple point-and-click actions. The designer will also offer a contextual menu...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Software Productivity Tools-> The Missing Link?

    In an op-ed piece in this month’s SD Times, I make the argument that software development productivity tools have evolved over the years to become more mainstream. I make the case that while some developers shun tools, in reality they take for granted the tools they are using today that were not available 10 years or so ago, or were not that mature. For example today we use some tools without even thinking such as: SCM, build management, standards enforcement, ORM and UI components. Tools today save a team a tremendous amount of time and are the missing link in the software development process. You can get...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Official Release is Just Around the Corner

    The Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC continue to march triumphantly towards their v1 in the Q1 2010 release. Thanks to your valuable feedback during the past few months, we were able to shape our roadmap and produce the next batch of UI extensions: TreeView, Calendar, DatePicker and a set of 4 Input components - NumericTextBox, CurrencyTextBox, PercentTextBox and IntegerTextBox. All of them are lightweight, semantically rendered, embracing the ASP.NET MVC principles and designed to deliver maximum performance to your MVC applications. The flagship component, Grid for ASP.NET MVC, matures more and more with its latest enhancements. You can now achieve multi-level grouping,...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    WinForms RadGridView vNext will feature new hierarchy modes and performance improvements!

    During the past year, we received many suggestions for new features and bug fixes for RadGridView for WinForms. After analyzing them we realized that we should do a major refactoring of both the data layer and the UI of our grid control. Then we set an ambitious goal -- to refactor the control and implement the most wanted features. This is obviously a massive task and the new grid control will not be part of Q1, but it is coming up afterwards as beta, and will be officially available for Q2 2010. This will give us enough time to test all...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Successful Agile Seminar in Pune, India->Seminar Materials Download

    We had a great Agile seminar yesterday in Pune, India. You can download the seminar slides here. A special thanks to Telerik, the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture and the team from e-Zest for planning such a successful event. Usually as the speaker I get all the glory, so here is the photo of me with the folks who made it happen, they deserve the glory: Technorati Tags: Agile,Pune
    May 27, 2021 1 min read