Telerik blogs
  • Productivity

    Building a Data Warehouse Part I: When to build your data warehouse

    [repost from Stephen Forte`s Blog] Most developers are scared of “Business Intelligence” or BI. Most think that BI consists of cubes, pivot/drill down apps, and analytical decision support systems. While those are very typical outcomes of a BI effort, many people forget about the first step, the data warehouse. Typically this is what happens with a BI effort. A system is built, usually a system that deals with transactions. We call this an OLTP or on-line transaction processing system. Some time passes and reports are bolted on and some business analysts build some pivot tables from “raw dumps” of data. As the system grows, reports start to slow...
    September 21, 2010 3 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Dynamic Data update

    This is just another update of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX control integration with DynamicData. What's updated: New BinaryImage FieldTemplate - uses RadBinaryImage in view mode and RadAsyncUpload in edit mode. Updated RadGrid support for Dynamic Data - implements IDataBoundControl interface You can download latest bits from...
    July 29, 2010 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Using LinqPad with Telerik OpenAccess ORM

    LinqPad is a nice and popular query analyzer made to test LINQ queries: whether it is Linq To Sql, Linq to Objects or some other flavor, you will be able to play in a nice way with it. Sadly it does not support Telerik OpenAccess ORM out of the box. However we never said it is impossible – you just have to put some more pressure to it. So, the first step is of course to deploy Telerik OpenAccess ORM and LinqPad on your machine. Then do the following: a) Open LinqPad and press F4 to bring up the Advanced Query...
    July 23, 2009 2 min read
  • Productivity

    LINQ 101 Examples with Telerik OpenAccess ORM

    We all know that today LINQ is the most popular and easy way for processing data in the .NET community. In fact you can use almost all data sources you might think of: plain objects, XML or relational databases. While we have been offering an extensive LINQ support for months now, and we are continuously improving it, I don’t think it received the credit it deserves. So we decided to foster the awareness of our community towards the great LINQ support we provide with the Telerik OpenAccess ORM tool. Ok, easier said than done. What approach should we take with this one? A...
    June 16, 2009 2 min read
  • Release

    Yet another update of RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax DynamicData support

    ASP.NET Dynamic Data has just gone official with the SP1 release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. We have just released updated version of our Dynamic Data bits which is tested against the official release and has few minor improvements (such as implementation of the DataControl property). Get it from here....
    August 13, 2008 1 min read