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  • People

    Become a Visual Studio 11 Master Detective – A Look into the Page Inspector

    Last week I mentioned my top five Visual Studio 11 designer improvements for ASP.NET development which took a look at some new goodies for us ASP.NET devs in VS11. One of these items, the Page Inspector, did get a bit of a spotlight but I think a paragraph or two cannot contain the sheer awesomeness that is this tool. Now I can hear some of you asking “What is this Page Inspector, and what makes it so special?” Well, let me tell you :) The Page Inspector found in VS11 brings in some of the most useful features within our favorite modern browser’s...
    April 05, 2012 7 min read
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Using the Telerik Extensions in ASP.NET MVC4 Today - A First Look

    It’s an exciting time to be an ASP.NET developer, especially with the upcoming ASP.NET 4.5 and MVC4 releases, and I know a lot of you are wondering how the Telerik Extensions ASP.NET MVC will work with ASP.NET MVC4. While we do not have official builds against MVC4 today, we will be providing these once the platform finally comes out of beta. For those of you curious as to whether or not it works in the current beta, I can tell you that it does! Actually, I’ll do one better: I’ll show you! :) For the Love of Beta For this demo I’m...
    March 09, 2012 5 min read
  • Release

    All Questions Answered – A Follow-up to the Q1 2012 What’s New Webinar

    The “What’s New in ASP.NET” webinar was last week, and during the event you guys kept a pretty steady flow of questions coming in – which I like! Unfortunately due to time constraints I was not able to cover all of the questions live. However, I wanted to follow up with a blog post with all of the questions answered in written form. So, below you’ll find all of the answers to said questions that were asked during the webinar. Keep in mind that your exact question might not be in here, but that’s because I aggregated similar questions and...
    March 01, 2012 13 min read
  • Release

    Cascading comboboxes and more charting features in the Telerik MVC Q1 2012 release

    The Q1 2012 Telerik DevTools release is out the door! Following the MVC Extensions Q1'12 Beta announcement, I would like to tersely sketch what the additions in the official release are (or the omissions I inadvertently made in my previous post). Either way, here they are. Cascading comboboxes This has been one of the top voted features for the combobox in our public issue tracker, and we heard you! This release gives you built-in cascading comboboxes support by specifying the id of the related combo via the CascadeTo combo attribute. Once you make a selection in the first combo, the second...
    February 16, 2012 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM – MVC Video Tutorials

    We believe that the fastest way to learn how to use an OpenAccess model in your ASP.NET MVC 3 application is to watch a video tutorial. Therefore we have prepared some videos, guiding your OpenAccess ORM integration in an MVC project step by step.   Of course, there are different approaches to that based on your needs and personal preferences – you might want to use the strong capabilities of our Visual Designer Database-First scenario to create your Domain Model or you can map everything using our Fluent Mapping API. In any case, each of the dedicated video series will guide you through the...
    February 07, 2012 1 min read