[Cross posted from Telerik Watch]

Smell that? That's a freshly baked release from Telerik that's just about ready to "officially" launch. The Q2 2009 release is one of the biggest releases in Telerik's history, again delivering simultaneous updates to all 7 Telerik product lines at one time. An update of this scale is bound to have lots new and interesting stuff, and we can't wait to put it in your hands so you can start playing with it. The official launch of Q2 2009 is Monday, July 6th, and to help you jump-off with the new bits and ...

We saved the cherry of the Q2 2009 release for a final highlight of our pre-release teaser – a mysterious new product is to appear in Telerik’s portfolio in a matter of days. The new addition pays tribute to Telerik’s community and its incessant support for our products and services – the tool is absolutely free, no strings attached! (While with Q2 it will be released as Beta version, with its official launch later during the quarter it will *remain free*).

 

The product is designed to address web developers’ urge to create perfected applications. It will be ...

In this blog post I will try to explain how CSS z-index works and a how to avoid a few common mistakes. First of all the z-index is used to control the z-order of positioned HTML elements. Simply put it controls the stacking order of HTML elements. To set it set the "z-index" CSS attribute of your element to some integer value.

 

Z-index works only for positioned elements

Positioned elements are elements whose "position" CSS attribute is set to "relative", "absolute" or "fixed". The default "position" is "static" which means that by default setting z-index has no effect.

Z-index ...

The stateless nature of the Http protocol brings quite a deal of concerns about the handling of the IObjectScope in a web application. Few questions usually arise when dealing with entity containers (like the DataContext in Linq to SQL or the IObjectScope in Telerik OpenAccess ORM): where to initialize the scope, where to dispose it, how to integrate with the Page’s lifecycle, etc.. In this post we share our views on the best-practices approaches that secure safe and consistent use of the IObjectScope in web scenarios.

The desired result of the used patterns is to have one object scope, initialized ...

First let us apologize on the behalf of the whole team that we didn’t share this great feature of our product earlier. We will try to shed more light with this post. So what is with the partial trust? Why it is such a dramatic problem for a lot of applications? Let us define what the impediments are to every real application out there that runs in partial trust:

Overview of Partial Trust

Most common security mechanisms give rights to users based on their logon credentials (usually a password) and restrict resources such as directories and files that the users ...

Calling all Telerik enthusiasts who would like to win a FREE pass to PDC 2009 in LA and dinner with our Chief Evangelist, Todd Anglin! Good news! Telerik is sponsoring the INETA & CVC Component Code Challenge: Building .NET Applications with Reusable Components. Check out the details below…

The Challenge:

Build an application utilizing any of Telerik’s components or tools (ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Winforms, WPF, Reporting, or OpenAccess ORM). Be sure to choose at least one other approved vendor to use in your application – you must use at least two ...

After we prepared our data service it is time to put some client UI into it. We will use 2 grids and a context menu.

To start with, add a SilverLight application in your solution:

In the process of adding you will have to setup where the SilverLight will be hosted:

This is also doable from the settings of the web project: invoke the context menu on your web site project then go to Property Pages > SilverLight Applications > New… and add/setup the SilverLight project.

After we successfully have made the setup, we can start enhancing our SilverLight application. ...

In line with our aggressive plans to deliver the most advanced ORM product for .NET, the new updated version of Telerik OpenAccess ORM brings a bunch of new features and enhancements.

With Q2, Telerik OpenAccess ORM will introduce full support for Views, which wraps up all three database supported features – Views, Stored Procedures and Tables. Views will be supported for all databases except Advantage Database Server while Stored Procedures will work with three more databases besides Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 – Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and MySQL. You can read this blog post for more info ...

The upcoming Q2 2009 release of RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax is now built with Visual Studio 2008. As most of you know Visual Studio 2008 supports multi-targeting and we decided to exploit that feature in order to improve our productivity. Here are the main reasons of preferring Visual Studio 2008 over Visual Studio 2005:

1. The IDE provides better development experience.
2. C# 3.0 provides lots of features which do not require .NET 3.5. To name a few:
• object initializers
• using the new "var" keyword
• anonymous types
• auto properties
3. Improved compilation time.
4. Seamless change of configurations - we can easily change ...

We are excited to announce the launch of Telerik Labs, your official gateway to the newest products and projects coming out of our product teams. There you will find valuable info on the latest innovations we are up to, read about new opportunities from emerging technologies, have access to interesting demos and samples as well as future additions to the company’s product portfolio. You will be able to download, explore and give feedback, helping us improve our products.

The main idea of Telerik Labs is to add an additional layer of transparency and give you an inside look at ...