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  • People

    Wrapping up the Telerik Eastern Canada User Group Tour

    Hey everyone! Now that I'm all back and settled in the Boston metro area, it's time to make some resources available to people who attended and for anyone interested in a little bit of Silverlight goodness. First though I've got a tiny side-note as far as the presentations.  Originally in this post I mentioned that we offered three different Silverlight talks to the user groups, but as it turns out nobody picked this one: Building a Unified Experience – Developing with Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 In this session, we will get look into development on both the full Silverlight platform and on Windows Phone...
    September 21, 2010
  • 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
  • Web

    Getting Started With LightSwitch and OpenAccess

    Over the next few blogs we will look at working with LightSwitch and OpenAccess, but first i would like to lay a little ground work. :) What is LightSwitch? LightSwitch is a new Microsoft tool enabling developers, and power users, to create multi-tier applications, quickly and easily.  Those of you familiar with Microsoft Access will find it gives you even more power to create application that are easy to maintain, and easy to distribute. Since the applications made with LightSwitch are Silverlight based, they are easily deployed in browser (3-tier), out of browser(3-tier), or directly to the desktop(2-tier).  What Do I Need? To get...
    September 21, 2010
  • Release

    A New Book on Telerik RadControls and a Special Offer

    A great new book called “Pro Telerik ASP.NET and Silverlight Controls” was recently released by Apress. As the name suggests it is aimed at .NET developers working with Telerik’s ASP.NET and Silverlight controls. The author, Jose Rolando Guay Paz, has been a professional developer for more than 15 years and is currently involved in the development of web application using ASP.NET and Silverlight. He has significant experience in the field and was among the first developers to build commercial apps in .NET in Central America. The book provides a complete guide on how to increase your productivity when developing software by...
    September 20, 2010
  • People

    Telerik @ Basta 2010

    Telerik is proud to be a Silver Sponsor at Basta 2010 in Mainz, Germany taking place this week. The main conference and exhibition lasts from Tuesday, 21st to Thursday, 23rd. Come by and see all our products brought to you by our divisions Developer Productivity, Team Productivity, Automated Testing and Web Content Management. Our engineers will demonstrate our tools and answer your questions. Furthermore you can join ORM product manager Jan Blessenohl in two sessions on Wednesday, the 22nd: 8:30 am: LINQ-generated SQL: Boon or bane? Learn more about how ORM tools like Entity Framework, OpenAccess and others generate SQL and how different...
    September 20, 2010
  • Release

    TeamPulse Q2 Service Pack 1 Is Here

    The TeamPulse team is very excited to announce the availability of our first service pack! The service pack has taken us a little longer than we had hoped to produce; however, we’re positive it was worth it.  Here is a summary of some of the changes introduced by the Service Pack. Deleting a Project This feature is somewhat self-explanatory – we now give you the ability to delete your projects.  This is a permanent operation and the only way to undo this operation is by restoring your TeamPulse database.
    September 19, 2010
  • People

    Telerik at TechEd Brazil – Wrap Up

    For the first time Telerik attended and exhibited at the Brazilian edition of TechEd 2010 which took place September 13 -15 at the Expo Center Norte, Sao Paulo. The biggest event in the country for Microsoft technologies gathered more than 2000 developers and IT professionals. Our .NET ninja t-shirts gained huge popularity at this event too -  most of them were gone by the end of the first day.  There was huge interest towards Telerik and its products and the booth was buzzing with people all the time.     Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth! We look forward to seeing...
    September 16, 2010
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Output Caching and Telerik Extensions for MVC

    When we pushed out Telerik TV, we ran into an interesting style issue.  We were using output caching on our index page to save the server a little work.  However, sometimes when a user navigated to tv.telerik.com/home it would look like this: This problem would only manifest itself on the production server, and shockingly there were no errors! By looking at the source of the page we quickly realized that neither the StyleSheetRegistrar, nor the ScriptRegistrar were outputting anything at all.  This made it clear that the Render method on the StyleSheetRegistrar / ScriptRegistrar was not firing, or something was causing them...
    September 16, 2010
  • Web

    5+ Ways to Reduce your .Xap Size

    Being Silverlight developer means that we are also kind of web developers. From this point of view, we also have to think about the web traffic that our applications generate. We need to reduce it as much as possible. So basically we need to reduce the size of the application's output - the .xap file. In this post I'll try to summarize the five ways to reduce the size of a xap that I've shared today with Sofia's Silverlight User Group. Understanding the Xap In order to reduce the size of a xap file, we should first be aware of its structure. Basically it can contain only 4 things: AppManifest.xaml -...
    September 15, 2010
  • People

    Attend StarWest 2010 Testing Conference for Free

    You won’t be able to make it to San Diego for this fall’s top testing event? No worries! For the first time this year the StarWest organizers will be also building up a virtual event which will take place on Wednesday, September 29. The online conference is completely FREE. You will be able to watch 7 hours of presentations streamed live from the conference, learn what’s coming in Q3 for our automated testing tools, and network with your peers. What’s more, Chris Eyhorn, Executive VP of Telerik Automated Testing Division, will be delivering a session on “Automated testing in the Agile...
    September 13, 2010