Telerik & Visual Studio 11 Beta: State of Affairs

by Telerik Marketing Blog | Comments 14

For those of you who are already playing with the Beta version of Visual Studio 11, we have some exciting updates, as well as a bit of a roadmap to share. We have been (and will continue) working very closely with Microsoft to make sure all of our products support the beta.  I am happy to report that most of our products are compatible with the beta and can be downloaded today:

 UI Components:

 Data:

 Visual Studio Productivity Plug-ins:

 Sitefinity:

Sitefinity Thunder. You probably haven’t heard of this one as it is brand new and coming out with our Sitefinity 5 release. It is a new plug-in for Visual Studio which will allow developers to create and maintain themes, widgets, and dynamic modules in the Visual Studio environment. Sitefinity Thunder will also connect to any of your websites and modify them on the go.

.NET Framework 4.5:

JustDecompile - While it is a standalone tool, it still deserves a mention as it is compatible with .NET Framework 4.5 which goes hand in hand with the Visual Studio 11 Beta.

For the rest of the tools (RadControls for Silverlight / WPF, Telerik JustCode) we have a few kinks to work out with the Visual Studio team. Thanks to our friends at Microsoft VSIP Program, we are in close touch with engineers at Microsoft to make these available to you ASAP. Currently we are targeting compativility with our Service Pack 1 in the Q1 2012 timefrmame, roughly mid-to-late March. Lastly, our controls for Windows Phone will be compatible as soon as Visual Studio Beta supports Windows Phone as one of the target platforms.  

Until then, for all of you who like to live on the edge, you can grab Visual Studio 11 Beta here. Stay tuned to our blogs for future updates on VS11 Beta, and final version, compatibility.

 

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Vassil Petev

Vassil Petev

has been helping Telerik become the top .NET company it is today since early 2003. During this adventure, he has been involved in technical support and sales, in building the renowned Telerik support team, in the creation of the Public Issue Tracker, and in project-managing the Reporting and WinForms product lines. Today he works with the brightest marketing folks to promote the ever-growing DevCraft portfolio. He loves the great outdoors, yachting, house music, DJing, and skiing.

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14 Comments

Aaron
The problem is, trying to update all your telerik installs is a major hassle. I LOVE telerik controls, they make my websites so much better with so little work, ... but what telerik really needs at this point is some sort of unified installer - similar to Steam for games - that would let you download/install/uninstall/update all your telerik packages from one location. PLEASE, pretty please with whipped cream and a cherry on top??
Harry
When will we see the Visual Studio 11 Telerik extensions?
And yes, as Aaron mentioned, Telerik has to improvide the installation process. Why not provide a NUGET for customers. NUGET is so powerful and makes it easy to install and update packages...
Robert McLaws
+1 for a customer-authenticated NuGet feed.
Eric Macarez
+1 for a customer-authenticated NuGet feed.
Soernt
+1 for a customer-authenticated NuGet feed.
Ben Hayat
Hi;
It's great to hear how quickly the team is catching up to the VS11. I'm more interested to hear a roadmap from ASP.Net Ajax team for the support of the new features in ASP.Net 4.5 particularly in the new databinding and datamodel introduced in 4.5. Looks like some of the telerik controls like the Grid needs to be updated to take advantage of these new features.
This the area that I would like to hear more what the plan is so we can plan our move to VS11 & .Net 4.5 accordingly.
Thanks!
..Ben
Brandon
Are we able to add the asp.net controls to the toolbox manually, or will there be an update like with winforms for VS11 support. Also, what is the roadmap for openaccess domain model support?
Andrey

Hi all,

Going straight to your questions:

@Aaron, I am happy to let you know we already have a "unified installer" in the works. It should pretty much cover the cases you pointed out (install/update all of your Telerik products with a few clicks).

@Ben, Brandon the ASP.NET AJAX team just created a blog post about their Visual Studio 11 support. You can check it out here:
http://blogs.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/posts/12-03-05/telerik-s-asp-net-ajax-controls-support-visual-studio-11-beta-from-day-one.aspx

@Harry,Robert,Eric,Soernt about formal NuGet support - the main reason we are still in the "figuring things out" phase is the fact our VSExtensions are currently covering the same scenarios NuGet would, plus a lot of advanced ones (specific to our components).

We would most certainly appreciate it if you guys shared some details (possibly in our forums) around how you think our components should work in NuGet. Which components you would want to use? In case those components are comprised of multiple assemblies, how do you think they should be packaged in terms of NuGet packages?

All the best,
Andrey
The Telerik Team

OpenAccess ORM Team
Hi Brandon, we will start working on VS11 support in the upcoming weeks. If all goes well, we may be able to provide support for SP2 of OpenAccess ORM, due next month.
VS 11 proto
I'm working on a project that we are testing with RadControl for Silverlight. We just updated to VS 11. After reinstalling Terelik stuff twice, I only could see the Reporting controls in the Toolbox. I thought I did something wrong.

 

Then I came here to discover that they are not supported yet. It would have been nice if the installer told me that. But more importantly, do yall know when they will be available?
Evan
Right now VS11 has an issue with toolbox registration that ourselves and multiple other vendors are working with Microsoft on. My colleague Michael posted about this and a quick fix for it the other day, which you can find here:
http://blogs.telerik.com/michaelcrump/posts/12-03-13/telerik-xaml-controls-and-the-vs11-beta-release.aspx
In short, the controls do work, but toolbox registration for components is buggy, so you'll need to manually add items to the toolbox using the old fashioned "Choose Items" method.  We are hoping Microsoft has this resolved for the RC.
Ron Montecalvo
I have downloaded the latest release so far for the ASP.Net version 2012.1 411 (Apr 11, 2012) but I do not see any extensions being loaded for Visual Studio 11.  I am running off a Windows 7 machine, is Windows 8 a requirement for this to work?  I do not see any other builds I can download aside of the one I specified.
Iana Tsolova
Ron, is this the first RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX version you are installing on your machine since you have VS 11? In any case, try to open the Extensions Manager and check if the AJAX extensions are enabled.
Ian
+1 for a customer-authenticated NuGet feed.

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