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Q2 2011 OpenAccess Released!
The team has been hard at work, as always, to bring some really neat new features to Telerik OpenAccess ORM for Q2 2011. You can check out the release notes to see the full list of new features, but make sure to sign up for the release webinar to see all these new features in action! For now, we will take a quick look at a few features available in the new bits. Profiler and Tuning Advisor One of the most anticipated features in the Q2 2011 release is the OpenAccess Profiler. In Q1 2011 we introduced a new Metrics API, and the profiler...July 13, 2011 4 min read -
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Telerik controls for Windows Phone - Q2 2011 Official
Trend-Setting Tools for Amazing Mobile Apps – RadControls for Windows Phone now feature 22 native controls for building first class mobile applications. This release marks launch of three new controls: RadChart RadChart is the fastest chart control for WP7 available on the market, with an intuitive and easy-to-use public API. Read more about the performance test that we run. Super-fast loading and real-time updates, excellent drawing capabilities and pixel-perfectness are some of the features you can enjoy. The control’s intuitive object model and public API allow complex charts to be easily setup either in XAML or code-behind. The control ships with more than 20 chart... -
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Telerik Q2 2011 ASP.NET AJAX/MVC release
The Q2'11 Telerik Developer Tools release has finally arrived! Welcome the new components and features are integrated into our AJAX and MVC suites and announced a couple of weeks ago: AJAX Q2'11 Beta | MVC Q2'11 Beta But wait, that is not all...there is more :) We put a few hidden gems up our sleeve to get you even more thrilled when you get your hands on the fresh downloads. Wanna know what they are? Read below to find out. MVC Line Chart The brand new MVC chart introduces support for line series in addition to its... -
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Skins organization in RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
The Q2 2011 release of the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX brings in two novelties in regard to the skins organization: New skins assembly is introduced (Telerik.Web.UI.Skins) The “skins chooser” is reworked and is much more friendly What is Default Skin? The default skin is declared in the web.config file of the project. This is the global site-wide skin to be used by the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. However it can be overwritten by each control via its Skin property or by the whole page by using the RadSkinManager. What is Telerik.Web.UI.Skins? The Telerik.Web.UI.Skins is an assembly that contains some new skins. The old skins... -
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Introducing RadDataServiceDataSource for WPF and Silverlight
It is my pleasure to present you the newest member of the constantly growing family of XAML controls. RadDataServiceDataSource provides seamless integration between an user interface and data coming from a WCF Data Service. The WCF Data Services technology enables the creation and consumption of OData services for the web. If you want to learn more about the relationship between the two, you may read the whitepaper WCF Data Services and OData At-a-Glance. With this new control, you can retrieve, shape and edit data using declarative XAML syntax only. RadDataServiceDataSource provides extensive code-behind API for more advanced scenarios. The QueryableDataServiceCollectionView<T> class, which is internally used... -
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Improved Upgrade Wizard
When creating our Visual Studio Extensions, accelerating development with our components has been the number one goal. One of the VS Extensions’ core components is the Upgrade Wizard. The task it was designed to fulfill is making the mundane job of updating your projects faster and easier. As the Upgrade Wizard has been in the wild for quite some time now, we’ve received a lot of feedback from customers using our various products. Even though it has been doing a pretty good job, there is always room for improvement. The two most popular feature requests were: Add support for upgrading Class Library... -
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Telerik Q2 2011 ASP.NET AJAX/MVC release
The Q2'11 Telerik Developer Tools release has finally arrived! Welcome the new components and features are integrated into our AJAX and MVC suites and announced a couple of weeks ago: AJAX Q2'11 Beta | MVC Q2'11 Beta But wait, that is not all...there is more :) We put a few hidden gems up our sleeve to get you even more thrilled when you get your hands on the fresh downloads. Wanna know what they are? Read below to find out. MVC Line Chart The brand new MVC chart introduces support for line series in addition to its... -
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The new RadRibbonView and why you should use it instead of the old RadRibbonBar
With the Q2 release of the RadControls for Silverlight and WPF we are announcing the new RadRibbonView control. It is an easy-to-use implementation of the Microsoft Office 2010 “ribbon” UI, which will allow to codelessly organize all the functionality of your application into a single compact toolbar control. But all of you that are already familiar with our RadControls for Silverlight and WPF will say: “But what happened with the RadRibbonBar? Isn’t it the same and why we need a new one?” So in this blog post I will try to list the most significant improvements in the new control compared... -
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Toolbox Grouping with Telerik RadControls
Introduced with the 2011 Q2 Release of the RadControls for AJAX, WinForms, WPF and Silverlight is the new Toolbox Grouping functionality. Controls in the toolbox will be delivered in multiple tabs, organized by type and role, right after installation. The users of the Toolbox Configurator wizard will also benefit from the improvement. For those who aren’t familiar, it can be found under the Visual Studio Telerik menu. Using the toolbox configurator will add the items in the toolbox organized in groups, although the old ‘one-tab’ look will still apply for previous releases. If you find it hard to keep... -
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Test Studio R1 2011 SP2 is here!
We are pleased to announce that Test Studio's R1 2011 SP2 (version 2011.1.712) release is now available to download! This service pack features over 70 updates in almost every area of the application. Updated areas include: HTML automation, XAML (Silverlight & WPF) automation, Browser Plug-Ins, Dialog Handling, Test Explorer, DOM Explorer, Team Pulse Integration, TFS (Team Foundation Server) Integration, Results Viewing, Reporting, and more! We have added some major (and I mean major) updates to our Find Expression Builder - its been completely reinvented combining the ease of use you have come to expect from Test Studio, with the ...July 13, 2011 2 min read
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