May 2010

Editor's Note

It's hard to believe that we've reached the midpoint for 2010! The first-half of the year has been full of announcements and new products from Telerik, including official releases of JustCode, Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, and WebUI Test Studio QA Edition, and previews of TeamPulse, JustMock, and Sitefinity 4.0. Fortunately, there is still much more to come!

How do you keep-up with these new products and keep your learning sharp? Telerik provides one of the most comprehensive collections of learning resources, from blogs and documentation to videos, webinars, forums, code library examples, and online demos. We're constantly working on improving our learning resources, and along those lines we'll soon launch the new Telerik TV. You can check-out a beta preview now. In fact, why not watch this quick video that provides an overview of Telerik's many learning resources?

And I can't leave without mentioning TechEd New Orleans. Telerik will be at TechEd in full force, both speaking and exhibiting. Come visit the shiny Telerik booth and be the first to see previews of our rapidly approaching Q2 2010 release!

@toddanglin
Chief Evangelist

Q2 2010 Public Road Maps Updated

Are you interested where Telerik products are going in Q2 2010? Check out the public roadmap links below for a complete preview of what we're cooking for the next major release.

Developer Productivity

RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
RadControls for Silverlight
RadControls for WinForms
RadControls for WPF
Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC
Telerik Reporting
Telerik OpenAccess ORM
Telerik JustCode

Team Productivity

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Q1 2010 Service Packs Available

The Telerik Q1 2010 Service Packs are now available, with improvements and enhancements for Telerik's XAML controls, RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, RadControls for WinForms, Telerik Reporting, JustCode, WebUI Test Studio and Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. Highlights include:

New WPF report viewer in Telerik Reporting
Silverlight ChildWindow / Popup support added to WebUI Test Studio
Run To Step support added to WebUI Test Studio
Full Visual Studio 2010 support for Telerik OpenAccess ORM

Detailed release notes for all service packs are available on Telerik.com:

RadControls for Silverlight Service Pack 1
RadControls for WPF Service Pack 1
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2
RadControls for WinForms Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2
Telerik Reporting Service Pack 1
Telerik OpenAccess ORM Service Pack 1
Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2
WebUI Test Studio 2010.1 Service Pack 1
Telerik JustCode Service Pack 1

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RadControls for Silverlight 4 Officially Released

RadControls for Silverlight 4 were officially released last month together with brand new online demos built on Silverlight 4. Joining the suite in this release is the new RichTextBox CTP, which features rich text formatting, various layouts and views with stunning performance, allowing you to easily integrate Microsoft Word-like editing in your Silverlight application. Check-out live RichTextBox demos in the new online demos application.

Also, if you are using Silverlight 4, don't miss Telerik Evangelist Ross Wozniak's video "Building a Real World Application with RadControls for Silverlight 4".

TFS Tools Updated for 2010: Work Item Manager and Project Dashboard Beta 3

A fresh update of the Telerik TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard is now available for download! Beta 3 of the TFS tools ships numerous enhancements and optimizations, as well as new support for TFS 2010. These tools now support different link types, project collections, query folders, and other TFS 2010 features that are not available in TFS 2008. The TFS Project Dashboard has also been updated to work with Visual Studio 2010 process templates. To use Project Dashboard Beta 3, you must install TeamExplorer 2010. Once done, you will still be able to access your 2008 project without issue.

If you have never downloaded Work Item Manager or Project Dashboard and you're using TFS to management work items, what are you waiting for?! The tools are provided for free to the TFS community and are easy to download, install, and start using today.
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Case Study: Helping a Business Improve Productivity and Cut Development Time

GSG Associates, Inc. chose Telerik Reporting for creating a web-based interface that would help them visualize and analyze their growing business data with reports that were easy for all end-users to understand. Telerik Reporting saved the company 75% of the development time by providing most of the features they needed out-of-the-box. Telerik's reporting solution gave users the ability to access reports from a single location and view them in a standardized format.Recently GSG Associates, Inc. won first place in Telerik's Reporting Contest for their versatile solution.

Watch the video case study

Telerik Events Update

Upcoming Events

NT Conference Slovenia
Telerik will sponsor and take part in the NT Conference from May 24 to 27 in Porotoz, Slovenia.

Visitors will have the chance to join our two presentations - "Telerik Sitefinity CMS - Content Management Revisited" and "Silverlight control development: tips & tricks".
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Teched North America
Telerik will be a Silver Sponsor and exhibitor at the Microsoft TechEd North America conference which takes place June 7-10 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA.
Visitors will have the chance to see presentations of the new products TeamPulse and WebUI Test Studio 2010. They can also listen to Stephen Forte, Chief Strategy Officer, Telerik and Joel Semeniuk, Chief Executive Officer, Imaginet Resources, talk about what makes Scrum and Kanban unique as well as how they can work together to produce stunning team results.
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Dotnetpro Powerday, Germany
Telerik will take part in the dotnetpro.powerday conference which will take place June 22nd at the Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel in Munich.
OpenAccess Team Lead Jan Blessenohl will speak about OpenAccess in Silverlight applications and demonstrate what to consider when it comes to change tracking and transporting data between the database and the Silverlight frontend.
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WebUI Test Studio Live Demo
Join us for a quick 30 minute demo to get you started with WebUI Test Studio. This live session will provide you with an overview of the product capabilities and will show you how to create automated tests in less than 15 minutes. What's more, you'll get answers to all the product questions you might have!
Register now for free

Past Events

DevConnections, Visual Studio 2010 Launch, Las Vegas
Telerik was a proud Sponsor and Partner of the Visual Studio 2010 Global Launch which took place simultaneously on April 12, 2010 in five cities worldwide – Las Vegas, London, Kuala Lumpur, Bangalore and Beijing. The Telerik team was present as an exhibitor and supporter at the Las Vegas and Bangalore events.
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Win a JustMock license

Don't miss your chance to win one of the remaining 200 free JustMock licenses. JustMock is Telerik's newest developer productivity tool that helps developers create better unit tests and save development time while improving software quality.

All you have to do to win is:

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WebUI Test Studio Online Training Classes in June and July

Falafel Software is starting a series of online training sessions focused on Telerik automated testing tools. Learn WebUI Test Studio Developer Edition from the ground up in this instructor-led course that provides students with the skills required to test applications built with the latest web technologies. Learn how to control the browser and automate standard HTML, JavaScript, AJAX and Silverlight elements.

View the course outline and check out the new courseware. Available training dates: