The 2010 Q1 Service Pack adds an important solution to a common problem in automating Silverlight applications – ChildWindow and Popups automation support.

The Problem

Automating popups has always been a challenge for the UI automation tools. In Silverlight it’s even more complicated because the popup controls are not part of the SL Visual Tree. WebUI Test Studio could not access those elements in the visual tree and we couldn’t automate them.

The Solution

With the 2010 Q1 SP release we add a new assembly (Telerik.WebUI.PopupTracker available in the installation Bin folder) to serve as popup tracker. Those who ...

Service Pack 1 of WebUI Test Studio 2010 Q1 is now available in the Telerik client accounts. The official update includes some cool new features, important bug fixes and a lot of improvements. We recommend it to everyone interested in automation of HTML and Silverlight applications!

As always the new release enhancements concern all the Automated Testing Tools. Let me highlight some of the important additions.

TestExplorer: Run To Selected Step

This feature has been requested quite a lot so we have now added it with the Service Pack. To use it just:

- Select a step in ...

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I started the series of blog posts on the new QA Edition of WebUI Test Studio 2010 with the Test List Management. In the current article I’m describing the Test Results Management and Analysis capabilities of the brand-new standalone tool.

The Result View

The test list execution in the QA Edition produces the objects we call Run Results. One can review and manage those results in the Results View:

 

The Results View in the Standalone represents the run results via RadScheduler. Once you execute your test list we switch to the Results View adding the new result into ...

So I've been spending some time lately learning to use one of the powerful new features of .NET 4.0, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). Using MEF, I thought it would be neat to create an application that allows you to dynamically load Telerik Reports from an assembly without having to recompile your application. Here is how I set it up.

Contracts

When setting this application up, I wanted to be able to define contracts on my reports so that I could import them into a ReportManager class when the application starts up. However, I didn't want my report objects to be ...

 

So, over the weekend I attended ALT.NET Houston Open Spaces 2010. I wasn't too sure what to expect since I had never been to this type of event before, but I must say, I was pleasantly surprised.

Starting on Friday, I attended a free half-day workshop about "Advanced WPF" hosted by Jonathan Birkholz. This five hour workshop went over everything from the basics of WPF, to dependency properties, to making "designable" applications. This workshop successfully cleared up many questions I had about building WPF applications. After the workshop, I unfortunately had to leave a little bit early, but ...