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This article is relevant to entity models that utilize the deprecated Visual Studio integration of Telerik Data Access. The current documentation of the Data Access framework is available here.

The Samples Kit contains three sections - Getting Started, Samples and Community.

Getting Started

The Getting Started section shows the Release Notes for the current version of Telerik Data Access. For example, on the image below it is showing release notes for Q1 2013. You can see Featured Videos for Telerik Data Access. When you click a video, it will take you directly to tv.telerik.com, so you can watch that video in the browser. Also you can see Featured Resources, which shows important topics regarding Telerik Data Access.

Samples

The most important section on the main screen is the Samples tab. From here, you can browse all available examples. For more information, please refer to the Samples topic.

Community

The final tab, which is Community, has Rss Feeds and Resources tabs. The Rss Feeds tab provides quick links to specific Telerik blogs.

And the Resources tab provides links to things you might need when you work with Telerik Data Access:

• Blogs
• Forums
• Support
• Telerik TV
• Documentation and tutorials
• System Requirements
• Supported Databases

See also:

• Samples
• Running Samples For the First Time
• Running Samples With Additional Requirements