The Telerik Portfolio is Growing

   The Countdown to Q1 2009 Begins!

   Webinar Marathon during Q1 2009 Release Week

   Telerik Wins Best of Show Award!

   RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2009 Beta Available

   Sitefinity CMS v3.6 Just Released

   Telerik TV - Video Gateway to Telerik Resources

   On-Demand Training and Consulting by Falafel Software

   New Whitepapers on Telerik Products Available

   Tips and Tricks

The mystery has been revealed! As of Q1 2009, the Telerik portfolio will expand with a brand new product - WebUI Test Studio. We hope the addition of yet another powerful tool to the Telerik collection will facilitate your decision-making process when in need of a reliable one-stop-shop for all your .NET development needs.

Created in partnership with ArtOfTest, Telerik WebUI Test Studio is a modern tool for creating automated web UI tests that promises to bring an end to the era of tedious and complex web testing. The tool is designed specifically for modern web applications, which may use AJAX or even Silverlight (coming soon). There are plenty of tools and features specifically designed for web testing - browser abstraction, convenient DOM inspector, reuse of HTML elements, etc. Productivity and test maintenance are taken to another level as you can now record a test once and run it against all supported browsers (IE and Firefox, with Google Chrome and Safari for Windows coming soon).

Telerik WebUI - Test Studio uses a true point-and-click interface. Painful recording script files and consoles are replaced by the Automation Overlay Surface™, visual storyboards, etc. Whether you are a QA with moderate technical skills or a developer doing functional and unit testing, the new product will allow you to work productively and collaborate both in the Team System and Professional editions of Visual Studio.

And best of all - WebUI Test Studio comes with built-in translators for all of Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX controls. When recording a test, WebUI Test Studio will automatically recognize RadControls on a page and provide intelligent options to quickly validate the state of each control and its child elements. The translators abstract the internal specifics of the Telerik controls, so even if there is a change in their rendering, your tests will continue to run properly.

WebUI Test Studio finally makes web testing simple, accurate and affordable with the per machine license priced at $2499! Don't waste a minute and check out the wealth of resources and videos. The WebUI Test Studio is currently a public beta and it will be officially released with Q1, so we're eager to hear your feedback before the official release!

Download free Telerik WebUI Test Studio beta

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The countdown to Q1 - Telerik's first major release for 2009 is on!

As usual, the new volume comes full of surprises as well as new additions and major improvements to all product lines - RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms, and WPF, as well as Telerik Reporting and OpenAccess ORM. What's more, with Q1 we are adding a brand new product to Telerik's portfolio - WebUI Test Studio (powered by ArtOfTest), which will revolutionize the way automated web testing is done.
In the weeks leading to the Q1 2009 release, we'll be sharing with you the major highlights of the release - one piece at a time. So, stay tuned and regularly check the blog post dedicated to the release, as well as www.telerik.com for regular updates. The countdown begins with a brief overview of the new Telerik product - WebUI Test Studio.

See what's hot in the Q1 2009 release!

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The Q1 2009 release is fast approaching and to help make sure you don't miss any of the important changes coming in Q1, we've scheduled a special Webinar Week! During the Q1 2009 release week, there will be a new, live webcast everyday at 11am EST, March 9-13. (link to Events entry) Each session will be about 45-minutes long and will feature major highlights in the Q1 2009 release for one or two Telerik products.

Register now to save your spot and jumpstart your understanding of the new features in Q1. Here is the schedule for the special Webinar Week, along with registration links and more info on each webcast:


March 9, 11am EST:
"Getting Started with Sitefinity 3.6" with Gabe Sumner
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March 10, 11am EST:
"Introducing Telerik Q1 2009 and WebUI Test Studio" with Todd Anglin
Get a seat now!

March 11, 11am EST:
"What's New in RadControls for WinForms and WPF" with John Kellar
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March 12, 11am EST:
"What's New in RadControls for ASP.NET and Silverlight" with Todd Anglin
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March 13, 11am EST:
"What's New in Telerik Reporting and OpenAccess ORM" with Kevin Babcock
Get a seat now!

In case you can't make it to some of the presentations, recorded versions will be available shortly after the live event on Telerik TV. If you have any questions, please email us at webinars@telerik.com. Enjoy!

Alongside the Special Webinar Week, we'll continue our regular "Thursday @11" webcasts: the schedule of the upcoming session is regularly updated here, and an archive of recorded webinars is available at Telerik TV.

Check out recently uploaded webinars:
Telerik Reporting 101
Getting Started with RadGridView for WPF
Getting Started with RadControls for Silverlight

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It is our pleasure to announce that Telerik won "Best of Show" at the STC (Society for Technical Communication) Boston and Northern New England Chapters STACIES Awards Banquet for 2008-2009 Technical Art – Promotional and Informational Materials Design competition!

The winning art was the Telerik Inc Toolset Demo CD. Previously, Telerik received 6 certificates for Merit and Excellence in the 2008 Technical Art Competition of the STC. See all awarded entries.

The STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. This is an important distinction and a great honor for us because it comes from our fellow editors, designers, and other technical communicators. Congratulations to our designers!

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It is our pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Q1 2009 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX beta! The pre-release bits are now available for download and testing. Q1 2009 is the next major release of our ASP.NET AJAX components and it's packed with new and improved features.

Here are some of the highlights for the beta release:

• New RadFileExplorer control- ready-to-use file explorer control, built for high performance applications and supporting rich customization options. Features multiple selection and drag and drop out of the box. See Demos
• RadCompression - a new HttpModule that ships with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX designed to automatically compress your AJAX and Web Service responses
• Substantial Facelift for Default and Vista skins - due to breaking changes in certain scenarios, please, test your project before upgrading.
• New .NET 3.5 demos
• New WebMail Sample Application with source code
• RadScheduler - new client-side API and databinding to Webservices. See Demo
• RadGrid - new pager styles and filter templates

Read the full release notes and download the beta from your accounts today. As always, we highly appreciate your involvement, feedback and suggestions, so tell us what you think in the Telerik Forums.

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On February 6, Telerik officially released the eagerly awaited Sitefinity 3.6. Here are some of the really cool new enhancements included in Sitefinity 3.6:

• All templates are now embedded as resources in assemblies, which means that your templates will no longer be overridden with our new releases. There is a simple configuration file which allows you to map certain controls to use external templates.
• Completely reworked backend architecture – Creating new modules with Sitefinity has been tremendously simplified. We also made sure that Sitefinity is now 100% backwards compatible with modules you have already built.
• Dynamic page links – you can now safely reorder pages in your project's sitemap without running the risk of breaking any URLs.
• Support for .NET 3.5 framework ( .NET 2.0 will still be supported as well and it will be provided as a separate distribution)
• Hierarchical content categories are now supported to allow for better structuring of the website information.
• RadControls for AJAX has been replaced with the newest version – Q3 2008 SP1
• Images and Documents module now supports video libraries through RadMediaPlayer for Silverlight
• Data provider for Video Libraries using Amazon S3 for data storage and streaming

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If you haven't already done so, check out Telerik TV today. It is a gateway to all video resources that were previously scattered across Telerik websites. The videos are organized in a way that makes it easy to find answers to your problems or discover new tips and tricks as you browse video channels. You can choose to watch the latest or most popular videos on Telerik product lines, or simply browse the various Telerik TV channels - TelerikWatch Minute presented by our Chief Evangelist, Todd Anglin; RadTips - a focused set of feature-specific tips for different product lines; EdgeOfDev, focusing on interesting industry trends; and Telerik Real World - a virtual library of showcase videos dedicated to "real world" applications built with Telerik's development tools and components.

We hope you enjoy this video resource and find it helpful when exploring the Telerik portfolio. Your comments and suggestions are welcome!

Watch Telerik TV now!

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We have officially introduced on-demand training and consulting services through our valued partner Falafel Software - a leading training and consulting company with an expertise in Telerik tools. Whether you need a dedicated program to help your developers get up-to-speed with Telerik products, or require technical guidance on a project, Falafel Software is there to help. Open Classes, Online Training, and Telerik Consulting Express are just some of the new services that you can take advantage of.

Having produced hundreds of training videos and prepared numerous courseware materials for the Telerik products, Falafel Software has the extensive expertise you need for any project using the Telerik tools. In addition, the Falafel team has implemented Telerik's tools in many of their own consulting projects and amassed a great amount of experience using them to solve real-world problems.

Check-out the variety of on-demand services

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We are pleased to present several new whitepapers on Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, RadControls for WinForms, and Telerik WebUI Test Studio:

Client-Side Development Made Easy with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
In this whitepaper, Todd Anglin talks about how you can utilize JavaScript to deliver dynamic and responsive experiences without learning a whole new programming model or banging your head against the wall. With ASP.NET AJAX and the Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, you can quickly build web applications that leverage the power of the client without hurting your productivity, enabling you to easily deliver "top performance" web applications.

Read the whitepaper


From Concept to Complete with RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
Requirements take all shapes and forms, but ultimately they are your customer's description of what they want software to do. Turn those requirements into applications in record time with the help of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. In this whitepaper, Todd Anglin discusses some of the features built for the administration section of the Telerik TV portal and shows how the RadControls enable developers to go from concept to complete in less than a day.

Read the whitepaper


Building WPF-like Interfaces with RadControls for WinForms
With RadControls for WinForms, you can leverage all of your existing Windows Forms knowledge to build applications that deliver visually stunning experiences and previously impossible UI. This is an updated version of the whitepaper with new images to reflect some of the improvements added to the RadControls suite.

Read the whitepaper


Painless Automated WebUI Testing
Without automated web UI tests, teams with tight schedules are forced to hope their sites work after a release. So why doesn't everybody use automated web UI tests and avoid these risky releases? Simply put, they are too hard to create, too hard to maintain, and they deliver too little return on time invested. Meet a tool that's very cost-effective and extremely easy-to-use.

Read the whitepaper

See all whitepapers on RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
See all whitepapers on RadControls for WinForms
See all whitepapers on Telerik WEbUI Test Studio

More whitepapers on all Telerik products will be coming in the following weeks.

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RadTips: Episode 17
Repositioning the RadAjaxLoadingPanel for ASP.NET AJAX

RadTips, Episode 16
Manual Ajax Requests Using the RadAjax Client-Side API

RadTips: Episode 15
Introducing the RadInputManager for ASP.NET AJAX

RadTips, Episode 14
Using Declarative Client-Side Databinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 2

RadTips, Episode 13
Using Declarative Client-Side Databinding in the RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, Part 1

RadTips, Episode 12
Sharing Toolbars with the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX

RadTips: Episode 11
Customizing the Look of the RadAjaxLoadingPanel for ASP.NET AJAX

RadControls of WinForms
New Telerik Trainer Sessions

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