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    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...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    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...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Release

    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...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    New goodies in the Q2 Release of Telerik OpenAccess : Part I

    Today Telerik released the Q2 version of OpenAccess ORM as well as the rest of the product line. I’ll take you on a short tour of some of the new ORM features. Today I will show you the menus, Data Service Wizard, and new XAML templates. Tomorrow (Part II) I will show you round tripping and model first. The new LINQ Implementation and Visual Designer that we introduced in Q1 has taken over. The first thing that you will realize is that the new LINQ domain model is the default way to interact with OpenAccess as shown by the menu below. (Don’t worry if you still interact with the older OpenAccess classes...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    The WebUI Test Studio Q2 2010 Release is Available for Download!

    The new major version of Telerik automated testing tools is now available for download from the client accounts. The Q2 2010 release improves the Silverlight automation support adding features like: · Silverlight Out-of-Browser automation · ChildWindow and popup automation solution · Virtualized controls handling · Enhancements in the Silverlight controls wrappers and translators and many more! With this release we also introduce numerous valuable features like: · Image verification with options to refine the comparison area and add tolerance · Exporting the test storyboard in order to generate documentation from the automated tests · Connect to an existing browser instance...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    Jump Start Q2 2010 Learning!

    We have created 60+ videos to help you hit the ground running with the Q2 2010 release.  We have many more videos on the way so you better start watching now to keep up! :)  WebUI Test Studio WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Manual Test Steps WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Image Verification WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Getting Started With Test Lists WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Getting Started With AJAX WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Export Storyboard To HTML WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Continue Recording From Step WebUI Test Studio - Q2 - Connect To Existing Browser Instance WebUI...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    JustCode Q2 2010 available for download.

    About a month ago we released JustCode Q2 Beta and you can check this post to get more information about what we've managed to include in the Beta version. Since then we've managed to add quite a few improvements and extra features which you may find useful: We've improved a lot the unit test runner, fixed the reported issues and added support for NUnit and MbUnit. We've added a new feature which we called "Visual aids". When this feature is turned on and when you place the cursor inside the code editor you'll see a small rectangle whenever JustCode has available commands...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Release

    Downloaded a new version? What’s that?

    Some of you already noticed new versions of RadControls are available on the Telerik website and were able to download them to their machines. There is nothing to worry about – it is just the official Q2 2010 release coming out: we are in the final release phase and the official news are about to come in an hour or so.   In other words, having the VSExtensions added to your IDE not only eases the RadControls project creation/configuration/upgrade, but from time to time can give you an hour or two heads-up with the newly expected release.   If you just can’t wait for the new releases (like...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    The Q2 2010 release for Telerik ASP.NET AJAX and MVC is here

    The Q2 2010 official bits of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC BETA has just dropped under the 'Downloads' section of the Telerik registered users accounts. Share the joy and spread the word   Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2010 release In addition to the new RadTagCloud control, major features for RadEditor, RadGrid, RadRotator, RadScheduler, etc. and Sharepoint 2010 integration outlined here, we added: Carousel mode for RadRotator and integration with pager Save/load setting and filter on blur for RadFilter Improved RadEditor design-time Header and footer templates for RadListBox To gather each and every detail for the Q2 2010 release, explore the resources below: What's new Release notes Online demos Documentation   Telerik ASP.NET MVC Q2...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read