Pro Telerik ASP.NET and Silverlight Controls: Master Telerik Controls for Advanced ASP.NET and Silverlight Projects

This book provides a complete guide to implementing Telerik’s range of ASP.NET and Silverlight controls. Telerik controls are invaluable for ASP.NET and Silverlight developers because they provide a vast array of rich controls targeted for the presentation layer of web applications. Telerik offers you solutions for the reports, grids, charts, and text-editing controls that you need but don’t want to build from scratch yourself—the options are endless for increasing the functionality of any of your web solutions.

What you’ll learn

• Understand how to integrate the standard Telerik controls into any ASP.NET or Silverlight solution to increase productivity and usability.
• Incorporate the Telerik extensions for ASP.NET MVC.
• Learn to implement Telerik Open Access and ORM for all your data access requirements.
• Understand the new functionality provided by the WebAii Testing Framework.
• Work with the full API to master using the entire suite of controls.

About the Author

Originally from Guatemala, Central America, José has a vast experience in the field of software development. He started working in 1995 while still obtaining his Engineering in Computer Science and Systems degree from the University Of San Carlos Of Guatemala. One of his professors recruited him as a developer for a big coffee company to develop internal applications created in Oracle technology with character based terminals. After little over a year and a half he moved to a multinational company dedicated to water systems where he developed most of the internal systems, still in use today, for accounting, sales, production and others, using what was at the time one of the newest and most promising technologies, Oracle Developer/2000. After almost 3 years in that company he then was hired for a much bigger challenge, a job as an Oracle DBA for one of the biggest Oracle installations of its time, the Guatemalan government agency in charge of tax collection.

Finding that position good, but too sedentary, José changed jobs again and went to a completely different environment working for a company developing web software using Microsoft technologies. Microsoft's tools allowed him to leverage his potential and a new era in his professional career was launched. Among the first in Central America to build commercial applications for the .NET Platform, his journey in the web development arena started by developing software for web banking systems in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras along with other types of applications for other industries. Since then he has been heavily involved in different activities such as his participation in the creation of the Guatemala .NET Developer User Group and then the creation of the "Comunidad de Desarrolladores .NET de Cobán" in the north of Guatemala.

José currently holds a position in INETA Latin America as the Delegate for Carebean and Central America. He was a regular speaker at Microsoft's events in Guatemala until 2009 when a job opportunity with CSW Solutions moved him to Chicago, IL where he currently lives with his family. He's a Microsoft Certified Developer and a Microsoft Certified SQL Server Specialist. He has been working with Telerik controls for more than two years now and he has developed a well respected reputation for getting the job done applying the best practices for ASP.NET and Telerik implementations.