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Telerik OpenAccess ORM NuGet Packages for Code First Development
We have a lot of exciting new features available in the Q3 2011 release of OpenAccess ORM. Among my favorite additions are our awesome NuGet packages. These packages make it even easier to get started building a domain model using OpenAccess ORM’s fluent mapping, or code first, API. In this release we have added two NuGet packages to the NuGet repository. When these packages are added to a project, it will be configured automatically to work with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Free Edition. Let’s take a look at these great new additions to OpenAccess. The Packages The OpenAccess.CodeFirst package sets up the project for code... -
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The Most Efficient Way to Capture Customer Feedback in Microsoft TFS
How much time and money would it cost you to capture feedback from 100 external users in your Microsoft Team Foundation Server projects? In this post we will show you that there is a simple and cost-effective way to do that and it's called the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal. But first let's start with some background information for TFS. The Challenges of Capturing Feedback in TFS Access to TFS A lot of our customers use Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) as the heart of their development environment as TFS provides facilities to manage source control, manage automated builds, ... -
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Telerik's Q3'11 brings codeless OData binding support for the AJAX and scatter chart for the MVC suite
Following the Q3 2011 Beta previews of our AJAX and MVC components, I am happy to present you the official new major release of both bundles. Aside from the new functionality that has been instituted with the Beta packs, there a few more important spotlights that I would like to draw your attention to. MVC Scatter Chart In addition to the Pie chart which marked its debut with the Q3'11 MVC Beta release, we inaugurate the scatter/scatter line chart types as two more visualization options when you want to display your data in charting format. Here are a couple of screen shots for your... -
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Say Hello to RadOrgChart
With Q3 2011 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, a new data visualization control becomes part of the suite – RadOrgChart. As the name suggests, RadOrgChart’s purpose is to visualize hierarchical structures of organizations in a nice graphical chart. Here is a quick peek in the First Look demo (It’s pretty nice with the Transparent skin, isn’t it?): -
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Telerik's Q3'11 brings codeless OData binding support for the AJAX and scatter chart for the MVC suite
Following the Q3 2011 Beta previews of our AJAX and MVC components, I am happy to present you the official new major release of both bundles. Aside from the new functionality that has been instituted with the Beta packs, there a few more important spotlights that I would like to draw your attention to. MVC Scatter Chart In addition to the Pie chart which marked its debut with the Q3'11 MVC Beta release, we inaugurate the scatter/scatter line chart types as two more visualization options when you want to display your data in charting format. Here are a couple of screen shots for your... -
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Introducing a new WP7 control: RadAutoCompleteBox
One of the new controls that come in the Q3 2011 package is RadAutoCompleteBox: an extended TextBox control that provides a flexible infrastructure for displaying suggestions to the user as they type. Coming with a bunch of customization options, RadAutoCompleteBox implements two auto-complete strategies that cover the most common developer scenarios: Contains filtering mode StartsWith filtering mode Here is a screenshot of our new Auto Complete Box example in the Telerik Demos application: Both the Contains and StartsWith filtering strategies are implemented in a very performance oriented approach and are capable of handling large data sets by preserving the smooth and responsive UI experience. Besides all that, RadAutoCompleteBox... -
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RadContextMenu for WP7 - Q3 2011
The Q3 release is fast approaching and we are happy to announce that our control suite for Windows Phone will be updated with the addition of RadContextMenu. Our menu will provide a similar experience to the native OS context menu but will also provide a few extra goods that you won't find in other competitors. For example users will have an easy way of specifying which element should pop out when the context menu is set on a list box for example. The menu is set on the listbox itself, but the individual list box items will pop out when the... -
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RadControls for Windows Phone Q3 2011 – new SlideView, Auto-Complete plus more
Q3 2011 release is a major milestone for our RadControls for Windows Phone suite. We at Telerik are always doing our best trying to deliver more than expected. And Q3 2011 is not an exception. Along with all the great new stuff that made it for the Q3 2011 BETA, we added three fresh new controls for the official release, believing that our users will love them. These are: RadSlideView- BETA The control provides smooth and slick user experience that allows a sequence of user-defined content items to be viewed slide by slide. It may enter two different view modes – full screen, displaying... -
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New features in Q3 2011 – Stored Procedure Editor
In our previous blog regarding the new Telerik OpenAccess ORM features about to be released in Q3 2011, we have presented to you our OpenAccessLinqDataSource. We will continue by showing you our new product enhancement for using stored procedures in an easier and straightforward way. Supporting stored procedures is nothing new for OpenAccess ORM – you can already execute them through our ADO API. However, in order to do that you needed to instantiate the parameters or commands first and then call the appropriate method of OpenAccessContext. Naturally, in these cases the most common solution is to write an additional method for each stored procedure, encapsulating all... -
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Get Ready to Touch’n’Roll with RadControls for WinForms
In a world where the word ‘touch’ became something usual rather than something exceptional, we understand that you will surely need to take your Windows Forms application to the next level. With the introduction of the Touch API in Windows 7 and the touch oriented devices for Windows 8, Microsoft paved the road to the touch-friendly applications. We also decided to follow this path allowing you to create new or update your existing Windows Forms applications making them follow the latest UX touch trends. One step in this direction is the new RadPanorama control which we discussed in a previous blog. The second step which...
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