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    Win $500 for your Silverlight application

    If you have a Silverlight application built with RadControls for Silverlight and you don’t mind winning a $500 Amazon gift certificate, check out our Silverlight contest. The rules are very simple: Have or build an application, using RadControls for Silverlight (trial version including) Describe the project challenges, both technical and non-technical List the incorporated controls and most useful features Describe the technical aspects of the integration Submit your screenshots and description to Telerik The top 3 contestants that are chosen by the community will each receive one...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Using The WCF REST Starter Kit and REST Collections with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard

    Developers have been using the REST specification for some time. If you are using Microsoft tools, ADO.NET Data Services aka Astoria is a very popular way to work with REST data. What you may not know is that Astoria works on top of WCF and you can write your own REST services outside of the Astoria model using WCF. WCF 3.5 SP1 gives us quite a few hooks to build our own RESTful services, however, it still takes a lot of manual wiring up by the developer. By now you all should know that I hate plumbing code. Microsoft introduced the WCF REST Starter Kit, a set of WCF extensions...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
  • Productivity

    Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development

    digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,9ae550ca-3c3d-4c14-b047-4b7568dd9c94.aspx";digg_title = "Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; I have written a white paper for the Microsoft Oslo team that is available on MSDN here. The paper is titled: “Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development” and shows how you can use the new M language to model databases, browse that model in Quadrant, and tap into the power of the Oslo Repository. The paper shows how the model you make is mapped to TSQL and to SQL Server objects, including Tables and Views. It is pretty cool to see the following M type and its M values and how they will map to a TSQL script to create a People table and INSERT INTO statements for...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
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    Vote for Telerik products

    Telerik made it to the final of this year’s Community Choice Awards organized by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. The awards will recognize the best products and services in the industry by a community vote. Participants have the chance to win a bunch of cool prizes provided by Windows IT Pro magazine like a $250 gift card or one of 30 Windows IT Pro T-shirts. We have been nominated in the following 5 categories: Best Business Intelligence & Reporting Product Best Development Tool Best SharePoint Product Best Free...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #2- Astoria

    digg_url = "http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,fa997be0-5dfb-4a79-b7bc-6f2f782b9493.aspx";digg_title = "Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #2- Astoria";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; The following video shows how to use the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard with ADO.NET Data Services. The video is done by .NET Ninja in training Peter Bahaa and uses more or less the same code I showed yesterday on my blog. Enjoy!   Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard Part II- Astoria from Stephen Forte on Vimeo.
    May 27, 2021 1 min read