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    Visual Studio Extensions Q2 2010 Highlights

    At Telerik we take great pride in having the most comprehensible component suites on the market. We always strive to make our components easier and more pleasant to work with. When we first released the Visual Studio Extensions, we made a commitment to make being successful with our components as easy as possible. Here are some of my favorite new features: Keeping up to date In the past we offered a possibility to upgrade your existing projects using the latest versions available through our website. In addition to that functionality, we now let you check for new versions whenever you are...
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    TeamPulse Helps Your Team Follow Best Practices

    One of the features that has inspired the TeamPulse team over the years is Static Code Analysis. In Visual Studio 2010 (Premium and higher) you have the ability to have Visual Studio perform a check on your code to see how well your code conforms to different coding best practices. You can have Visual Studio check for how to best declare error handlers, or even making sure that you dispose of your objects before they go out of scope - it’s like having a fully automated code review without the need for anyone to actually review your code. What’s ...
    July 17, 2010
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    Maintaining page state with MEF

    Task-It Series This post is part of a series of blog posts and videos about the Task-It (task management) application that I have been building with Silverlight 4 and Telerik's RadControls for Silverlight 4. For a full index of these resources, please go here. One of the posts listed in the index provides a full source download for the application, and I will be referring to that source code in this post. The page state issue One of the great things about MEF is that it allows you to maintain state across pages. So basically, when a user spends some time on a page and makes some changes, then...
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    OpenAccess ORM Upgrade Model Tool

    As we all know Q1 introduced a complete new face of OpenAccess ORM. That of course brought some uncertainties between our older customers that had already built their projects based on models generated by the Reverse Mapping Wizard. Well in Q2 amongst all the other goodies, we are introducing a new Upgrade Model Tool which is targeted for older projects which are still in the phase of development. What is the idea behind it - basically it converts all of your persistent classes into one Entity Diagram where you can continue working with your domain model in this great Visual...
    July 16, 2010
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    New goodies in the Q2 Release of Telerik OpenAccess : Part II

    Yesterday Telerik released the Q2 version of OpenAccess ORM as well as the rest of the product line. Yesterday (Part I) I showed you the menus, Data Service Wizard, and new XAML templates. Today I will show you round tripping. Next week I will talk about RIA Services and model first. OpenAccess Q2’s new LINQ implementation and Visual Designer introduces database round tripping.  Now you can make changes in your model and persist them to your database table. (You always had the ability to make a database schema change and refresh your model.) Let’s see this feature in action. The Model Schema Explorer gives you a view of your mapped entities. If...
    July 16, 2010
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    RadAsyncUpload Q2 Improvements

    The Q2 release is finally here and I am excited to talk about some of the changes in one of the newer controls in the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Suite – the RadAsyncUpload. If you browse the live demos, you may not notice any differences immediately, but that’s simply because most of the changes are under the hood. Let’s have a look… First the most important new feature, seen above – Multiple file selection! RadAsyncUpload now allows users to select multiple files at once in the File Selection dialog which is very handy in scenarios where uploading a large number of...
    July 15, 2010
  • Web

    Silverlight: RadChart codeless binding to RIA Services DomainDataSource

    Hello RadChart fans everywhere! With the introduction of Silverlight 4 just a couple of months ago a lot of our customers are asking if they can use the cool RIA controls with RadChart without writing any C# or VB code at all. With MVVM pattern getting so popular with Silverlight developers it is all about the XAML these days. Without further ado let’s answer the question:   The short answer is: Yes! The long answer: Yes, and it’s a total breeze! Just take a look at some code: Code...
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    Telerik Assembly Minifier - official release

    What is Assembly Minifier If you still don’t know what it is: You should first read my previous post, where I announced the first Beta version of the tool You can watch the “Introduction to Assembly Minifier” video, kindly provided by Todd Anglin and Telerik TV You can read “why Silverlight application size matters” (the xap file) and how Assembly Minifier helps you reduce the XAP file size - by Todd Anglin. Read more… You can go to http://minifier.telerik.com/,  get your reduced Silverlight assemblies, build your application's XAP file with the new assemblies and significantly improve your application performance and downloading experience   What is New in the Q2 2010...
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    RadControls for Silverlight/WPF Q2 2010 Official Release

    RadControls for Silverlight/WPF are here with 7 brand new major controls, tool for minifying the assemblies’ size and truly transparent theme for even easier styling of your applications. The suite now offers true MS Word-like content editing experience thanks to the new RichTextBox control.  New Controls RichTextBox The RichTextBox control is currently available only as part of our Silverlight offering. The control allows you to bring true MS Word-like content editing experience to your end-users. The new control offers rich text editing and formatting capabilities as well as out-of-browser support and printing, import and export of Html, Docx, and Xaml and many more. The newly introduced...
  • Productivity

    Where are the OpenAccess menu entries gone?

    With the new visual designer the old wizards are now hidden and not immediately usable. The recommended way is to use the Doman Model. All new functionality is now reachable from the new OpenAccess menu:     The options menu entry is enabled if a solution is opened.   The old wizards are not deprecated and will not be removed in one of the next releases, but you have to specify on a solution level that you want to use them.   In your existing projects the upgrade to the new version can be done by using the ‘Check Settings’ wizard, which will replace the references to the old...
    July 15, 2010