Inspired by the automation of functional tests with WebAii, I decided to bring our JsUnit tests on the same level as the NUnit ones – in the continuous integration build. As it turns out, automation with the WebAii framework was really easy – just a few lines were sufficient to integrate the test runner.

Requirements

The build agent should have the following:

• Cassini.dll in the GAC
• installed WebAii framework (adds browser plug-ins to IE and Firefox which make their automation possible)
• the build service should run on an interactive port, under the user that performs the build ...

Great news, everyone! The latest update of WebUI Test Studio came out last night. And just like all Telerik products, our web testing solution now supports Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2! As always, Telerik is leveraging the latest Microsoft technologies to ensure we deliver leading-edge updates to you. Now you can enjoy all your Test Studio favorite features in VS 2010 as well – Automation Overlay Surface, Test, DOM, and Elements Explorer, and more.

We recommend the new official release as it is “the latest and greatest” of WebUI Test Studio! Besides support for Visual Studio 2010, the service ...

This past weekend, Todd Anglin, Gabe Sumner, Joshua Holt, Matthew Shoemate (my brother), and myself headed up to Dallas, TX to participate in the We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend. We Are Microsoft is a three day event that pairs development teams with different charities to develop applications for those charities. These application typically come in the form of new websites, modules for existing websites, etc. The charity we got paired with was We Help Ourselves.

We Help Ourselves is a charity organized a run by a wonderful group of people, including, in particular, Mike Gelhausen and Mary Elizabeth Parra. ...

Earlier this week while working on another blog entry, I ran into a unique situation involving the RadGridView. Basically, what I am doing is retrieving user status data from Facebook using the Facebook Developer Toolkit. The data is returned in a list of objects based on the Facebook API schema. These objects are of type user_status and contain the following:

uuid - long
status_id - long
time - long
source - string
message - string
comment_count - int

I basically wanted to take this list and bind it to the RadGridView showing only the message and the time for that message. This was pretty ...