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    Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Best of TechEd 2011 Finalist

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM has been selected as a Best of TechEd North America 2011 finalist in the Database Development category -- congratulations to the OpenAccess team! Their hard work is paying off, especially after the well-accepted usability revamp of the Visual Designer. There is one final vital step before the winners are selected from the finalists' pool, and it is an interview which will be conducted by the editorial judging panel during TechEd. We hope to grab this one -- it is highly deserved. If you plan to visit TechEd North America in Atlanta in May, stop by the Telerik booth and ask for an...
    April 29, 2011
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    OpenAccess ORM Q2 2011 Will Feature a Profiler, Check Out the Roadmap

    Todd Anglin's blog on how to trust the SQL an ORM tool produces stirred quite a bit of attention from the community, which also pushed us to action. As a result, we are happy to announce very exciting news on the next version of Telerik OpenAccess ORM, due this summer. Telerik OpenAccess Q2 2011 will come with a built-in Profiler, which will open the "black box" of its operations and will give you an insight on how to optimize its behavior. This tool will also provide great assistance to developers who have decided to not use an ORM tool on the premise...
    April 27, 2011
  • Productivity

    Integrating Telerik OpenAccess ORM Spatial Data with RadMap

    You read that right!  In Q3 2010 OpenAccess ORM introduced new SQL Spatial Type support.  Which is awesome for those of us that love playing with spatial data :)  I started playing around with the new OA spatial support, and decided what better way to to demonstrate the capabilities than to output the data on to a map?  This blog covers how I accomplished this task :)   First We Need Spatial Data Some of you may already have spatial data sitting in a SQL Server DB, but if not never fear!   You can use the great Shp2Sql utility, made by Morten Nielsen, to import a...
    January 14, 2011
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    Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q1 2010 SP2 Is Now Available

    We are very happy to announce the availability of Service Pack 2 for Telerik OpenAccess ORM. After a month of hard work we managed to address many of the reported problems and to deliver lots of major enhancements. You can find a detailed list of the fixes, by following this link. Download the new bits from your client accounts and let us know your feedback.
    June 25, 2010
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    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...
    March 04, 2010