Latest release pioneers ORM support for
SQL Azure, introduces industry-first Silverlight advances, and delivers
upgrades across full Telerik product line
Waltham, MA, November 4, 2009
– Telerik, a leading vendor of
development tools and user interface components for .NET, today unveiled its Q3
2009 release lineup, showcasing a number of industry-first additions to three
popular Telerik products, including full ORM support for SQL Azure, and the
introduction of a native report viewer and automated UI testing solution for
Microsoft Silverlight. The company’s last release of 2009 also debuts new
technologies and enhancements for its RadControls UI components, Reporting,
ORM, Web Testing solutions and UI Extensions for ASP.NET MVC.
“Innovation is the key driving force in
our industry; Telerik’s goal with this release is to give developers unfettered
access to the latest technologies available today,” said Vassil Terziev,
Telerik CEO. “The technology landscape is evolving with furious speed – borders
are diffusing and paradigms are shifting at all levels of software development.
Telerik’s mandate is to be a fundamental resource for developers in this
rapidly changing environment by always delivering more than expected.”
Industry-leading innovation is
incorporated into Telerik’s enterprise-grade object-relational mapper,
OpenAccess ORM. With this latest release, OpenAccess is the only ORM fully
supporting Microsoft’s cloud-based SQL Azure database. Developers can map to
cloud-hosted databases the same way they do with local databases, such as SQL
Server; OpenAccess also supports Model First and Schema First mapping to SQL
Azure databases. An interactive online demo site featuring rich media tutorials
and contextual content designed to assist developers in mastering the features
of Telerik’s ground-breaking and time-saving ORM has been launched in
conjunction with this release.
With the Q3 2009 release comes the
industry’s first native Silverlight report viewer. Incorporated into the
Telerik Reporting tool, the viewer allows users to easily integrate reports
into any Rich Internet Application developed with Silverlight. With reports
rendered in XAML, the product also now offers support for report exporting to
Microsoft’s XPS document format. Additionally, the Q3 release adds Document Map
functionality for all report viewers, enabling swift, effortless navigation by
displaying report data in a tree-like table of contents.
This release also pioneers the first
codeless Silverlight UI testing automation solution, in the upgraded WebUI Test
Studio. The product’s UI object model gives users the ability to build test
automation for the entire range of UI elements available in Silverlight.
Furthermore, Telerik custom-developed translators for RadControls for
Silverlight expose necessary test actions and verifications in WebUI Test
Studio, facilitating quick and easy building of tests against Telerik controls.
Telerik’s Q3 release is also pivotal
for its industry leading ASP.NET UI components, with the introduction of the
Extensions for ASP.NET MVC beta. Four new Extensions built on the popular
jQuery JavaScript library and closely matching the styling and features found
in RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX have been added in this release, including a
powerful MVC Grid. The new Extensions are distributed under the open source
GPLv2 license and a commercial license that includes support is also available.
Simultaneously, the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite has expanded with three
new controls and Visual Studio Extensions that now provide a convenient
Automatic Upgrade Wizard.
With Q3 2009, enhancements and upgrades
have been deployed across Telerik’s full range of products, as well:
- Telerik’s Silverlight and WPF
suites feature 14 new controls,
providing better support for complex business scenarios
- New Visual Studio Extensions for
RadControls for Silverlight now assist developers in automating the
creation, upgrading, and configuration of Telerik Silverlight projects
- RadControls
for WinForms delivers significant performance optimizations across all
controls, improving application loading times and minimizing memory
footprint
Pricing
Pricing of the Telerik Premium Collection
for .NET, including all suites, Reporting, OpenAccess ORM and Extensions for
ASP.NET MVC, is $1,299 per developer seat. The license comes with priority
support, guaranteeing 24-hour response time, as well as full C# source code,
redistribution rights, and free updates to the latest products for one year.
All tools in the collection work without license keys and can be freely
deployed on an unlimited number of development, testing, and production
servers. A step-by-step self-paced tutorial and a robust library of code
samples are provided to accelerate learning.
All component suites and tools are also
available individually at Telerik.com.
About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX,
Silverlight, WinForms
and WPF
controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM
and .NET
CMS solutions. Building on its expertise in interface
development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build
applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity.
Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day
to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on
time.
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