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    New Telerik ASP.NET MVC and AJAX drops

    Yesterday and today we shipped the official Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Q2 2010 and RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2010 SP1 releases. My colleague Atanas highlighted the new hot extensions and features added to the Telerik MVC components family in this blog post, so I will leave him the glory and the applause :) The fixes and minor enhancements in the AJAX suite can be found in the release notes here. You may also be interested in reviewing the updated versions of the AJAX demos and documentation at the usual locations. Stand by for the Q3 2010 Roadmaps for both product lines which will...
    August 26, 2010
  • Release

    Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Q2 2010 is official

    It’s a fact! The highly anticipated Q2 2010 release has just been pushed. As usual the online demos are at http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc. You can check your Telerik accounts for the download links. What’s new I’ve highlighted the new features and components in a previous blog post. Here are the things which have changed since then: Lots of new features for the editor: font name and size background and foreground color block formatting (paragraph, headings etc) smart indent and outdent predefined styles HTML snippets support for custom tools localization support Razor support – we may have to update it once the guys from Microsoft advance with the development… Fixes and performances optimizations. We have fixed all...
    August 25, 2010
  • People

    Join Telerik at StarWest and Get $400 off Your Registration Fee

    After the success Telerik pulled off at this year’s StarEast conference where our automated testing tools were officially introduced, now we are getting ready to attend and sponsor this fall’s premier software testing conference – StarWest, which will take place in San Diego, September 26 –October 1. The event is a great way to get a glimpse of the newest technologies and tools on the market, while networking with industry experts and QA peers. Make sure to stop by our booth #9-10 in the Sapphire “A” Ballroom to chat with the Telerik crew and learn all the cool new features WebUI Test Studio...
  • Web

    Website Search Enhancements - #2 Related Searches and Sorting

    Few days after our blog post about the autocomplete feature, we are now ready to unveil the mystery about two other features we asked you to guess. The first feature presents the new sorting functionality that we have added. Feel free to sort your search results by both Relevance and Date to get a better match of what you need to find on our website. The second feature we implemented shows a box at the bottom of every results page on our sites, where we have provided you with related searches. The suggestions are optimized so that the topmost is the most...
    August 19, 2010
  • People

    The Telerik Eastern Canada User Group Tour is Coming...

    Hey everyone! Taking a quick break from the updates to the HR Recruiting application to share some information on the Telerik Eastern Canada User Group Tour that is coming up in September.  What is the TECUGT (wow, that is one pretty acronym), you might be asking?  Well, to put it simply... So not only do you have the opportunity to pick up your RadControls for Silverlight from any stop in TechDays Canada, but I'm also going to be making two trips to eastern Canada in September to present some fresh new Silverlight talks to a user group (hopefully) near you.  So if...
    August 18, 2010
  • Web

    Brand new Silverlight LOB sample application by Telerik

    We uploaded a brand new sample application developed by our senior evangelist Evan Hutnick. “The Telerik Legal Dashboard demo application was built utilizing real requirements from our customers in order to provide a rich and interactive data display.  This application provides both a managerial view, in which you can slice and dice data with RadDataFilter and get instant results in both RadGridView and RadChart, as well as an executive overview with a dropdown to select pre-defined dashboard views to provide quick access to information with a rich display” says Evan. You can view the demo at: http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/legaldashboard/ It is also included in the...
  • People

    Tips on working with large models : Code Generation

    Say you have a large model with more than 500 mapped tables. Surely you will notice how the designer becomes a little unresponsive on saving. There is a simple explanation for this. By default OpenAccess generates a file per class. Every time you perform a save on the document code generation of all files is performed. This is basically generating content for each and every file, comparing this content with the one from the old file if available, and based on that writing it to the file system. And let’s of course not forget that we should also take into account the...
    August 18, 2010
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX – Custom Skins and Transparency!

    At the end of my previous blog post I mentioned that with Q2 2010 release we are starting to pay more attention to custom skinning of our controls. Along with the visual improvements we will be releasing additional scenario-specific and optimized themes. Here you can see screenshots of the custom skins for RadSlider - the first control we started to play with.   You can try or download the skins from our online demos. There is also a skinning tutorial which will guide you through the process of creating custom skin. Transparency! Following our hot Silverlight Transparent theme model, we are now considering the design of...
    August 17, 2010
  • Release

    Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF SP1 release is out

    The Q2 2010 SP1 release of Telerik RadControls for Silverlight/WPF is available for download under your accounts. All resources have been accordingly updated. Online demos: Check RadControls for Silverlight or WPF demos You can check the Release Notes for a list of all the fixes and improvements we managed to include in this release: RadControls for Silverlight Release Notes RadControls for WPF Release Notes Downloads: RadControls for Silverlight Downloads RadControls for WPF...
  • Web

    Website Search Enhancements - #1 The Autocompletion

    Within the next few weeks, we intend to publish a series of posts that will introduce you to the new Search Enhancements that we have been working on intensively during the past month. Being part of our overall Site Search Improvements program we would first like to present to you the Autocomplete functionality.   The new feature is already turned on for all the search fields on our website and we hope it really helps you get the needed search results faster and much more accurate.
    August 16, 2010