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    Tweet to Win a Ten Year Anniversary SWAG Pack and Ultimate Collection License

    In honor of celebrating Telerik’s ten year anniversary, the community team is giving out one ten year anniversary SWAG Pack and Ultimate Collection license every Friday during the month of July! Want in on this celebration? All you have to do is answer our Friday morning twitter question asked between 9-10am EST in July using hash tag #telerik10year to be entered each week. The winner will be randomly selected on each Friday in July at 3pm EST. Be sure to follow @Telerik so you don’t miss it! Wondering what a ten year anniversary SWAG Pack includes?  Well, it includes all sorts of cool limited...
  • Release

    OpenAccess ORM - Another Free Tool in the Telerik’s Awesome Arsenal!

    Since we would like the most people in the development world to benefit from OpenAccess ORM, Telerik is now offering OpenAccess ORM free of charge beyond Microsoft databases and to all database platforms it supports, such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.  After the remarkable success of JustDecompile, Telerik’s free .NET decompiler, we wanted to give you yet another tool to help you increase your productivity and save yourself tons of coding and testing time. After Q2 2012 DevTools’ release, we packed OpenAccess ORM Free Edition with all the features and benefits included in the previously distributed commercial edition. Download the latest...
  • People

    Are you in Amsterdam? Stop by booth #30 for a chance to win a license for our new Windows 8 suite

    If you are a developer who uses Microsoft technologies then you probably know that TechEd Europe 2012 is happening right now in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Telerik is there and we are giving away the greatest prize for any .NET developer – a FREE license for our new Windows 8 suite. Currently more than 900 people have visited our booth and there have been some really interesting discussions about Telerik, Win8, XAML, HTML5, and Microsoft’s latest technologies. The feedback for Telerik’s latest product lines has been tremendously positive so far, which really motivates us to continue to provide you guys with...
  • Productivity

    Getting Started with JustCode Webinar

    Telerik JustCode includes many features beyond what is offered in a vanilla installation of Visual Studio. More importantly, it gives you these features without interfering with the way you code. The latest edition includes a Getting Started Wizard to help you learn the basic features of JustCode. Even so, any extremely powerful tool deserves a good walk-through. On Tuesday, July 3rd, join the Getting Started with JustCode Webinar, where I will do just that. Attend this webinar to discover awesome features you can use immediately and how JustCode makes your work day easier. Along the way, I will show you a few...
    June 29, 2012
  • Mobile

    HTML5 Forms Support in Kendo UI Mobile

    HTML forms are used to collect data from the user through a series of input and selection elements. Prior to HTML5, the elements and input types defined for user input facilite general purpose scenarios. However, a number of challenges remain - specifically as it relates to...
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Easily Add Industry-standard Barcodes to Your ASP.NET AJAX Application with RadBarcode

    Barcodes are everywhere. They are printed on retail products for easier identification. They are used for encoding numbers and keys for all kinds of tickets for concerts, shows and movies. They are even used to track your luggage with a baggage tag in the airport. Most of these uses are out of our industry, but barcodes are getting more and more popularity on the web as well. What is more, they are easy to use, because they are scalable with smartphones.  A common scenario is when you show a barcode with some data in your site, and your clients are...
    June 28, 2012
  • Desktop WPF

    XAMLflix Video Tutorial: RadExpressionEditor for Silverlight and WPF

    This week on XAMLflix we take a look at the RadExpressionEditor. XAMLflix are our video tutorials designed to teach you everything you need to know to get started with and to learn about the features of Telerik’s RadControls for Silverlight and WPF.  We release a new XAMLflix video every Tuesday and Thursday and a XAMLflix written and searchable PDF tutorial every Wednesday. Notice that you only have to learn how to use the RadExpressionEditor once because the Silverlight and WPF controls share a common code base and API. RadExpressionEditor allows you to embed an expression editor into your program which in turn allows your users...
  • People

    Quality Software Development Webinar 19 July

    Have you had problems building the software your customer expects, with a level of quality you’re all proud of? Join me, Phil Japikse, and Chris Eargle on 19 July at 12:00pm EDT for a three hour webinar to help you learn how to avoid wasting time writing things that aren’t needed or wanted, to shorten the feedback loop, improve your project and increase your transparency. You’ll see how to use TeamPulse to start capturing customer ideas and bring them in to your project as great, clear requirements (or stories!). You’ll discover how Test Driven Development, especially with Telerik’s great toolset, ...
    June 28, 2012
  • Release

    Your Questions Answered - Q & A From the Q2 2012 What's New Webinar

    So last week I hosted the "What's New in Q2 2012 for ASP.NET AJAX and MVC" webinar. Throughout the entire show you, the attendees, had full access to asking me questions - and boy did you ask questions! I managed to summarize the questions in to the most common ones, or group certain ones in to a more generic question to cover multiple questions at the same time. Below you will find all of these aggregated questions, with some hopefully decent answers from yours truly ;) As always, if you do not see your exact question chances are it is...
  • Desktop WPF

    XAMLflix Tutorial: RadBulletGraph For Silverlight and WPF

    Every Wednesday we publish a new XAMLflix Tutorial.  This is a searchable PDF file with all the contents, information, code and screen shots corresponding to one of our video tutorials.  This week: RadBulletGraph RadBulletGraph provides you with a quick overview of your data. It offers an easy way to see how a particular value looks, compared to a second value.  In this week’s tutorial you’ll find: Getting Started With Bullet Graphs Customizing Bullet Graphs Integrating Bullet Graphs with RadGridView In Getting Started with Bullet Graphs we create two projects, one with a HorizontalBulletGraph and one with a VerticalBulletGraph.  We add Qualitative Ranges to our graph providing...