The Imagine Cup is a worldwide software design student competition sponsored by Microsoft. Students are given a theme at the beginning of the school year and form teams in their university to build a project that is they can bring to market. The competition is about business viability as much as using the latest super cool technology. So students have to be the right blend of entrepreneur and geek. The competition has students compete in regional competitions and then have to win the right to represent their country in the worldwide finals. Last year the winner was “Team Hermes” from Ireland and they went on to start a business...

Yup, get ready for a load of exciting new features that will be shipped with the next major release (R2 2012) of Test Studio coming to you mid-September: Keeping up with the latest and greatest from Microsoft You’re testing in an ever-changing world, and you need tools that can keep up. Test Studio is committed to staying on the forefront of technology, be it on the web, desktop, or mobile device. Windows 8 is just around the corner, and there are a bevy of new technologies that are bundled with it. Test Studio will have full Recording and Execution support ...

You may have already seen it, but just in case – take a look at our new HTML5 charting control that was introduced with the Q2 2012 release of Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls. Its online demos are the perfect starting point. One may wonder what the benefits of having the new Chart over the current one are. This blog post will explain the main differences between them so that you can choose the one that fits your scenario better. First and foremost – the new RadHtmlChart renders entirely on the client through JavaScript. This is its most important performance benefit – the server no longer...

If you find yourself faced with an issue relating to Kendo UI, we're here to help. In fact, did you know that we have an awesome support ticketing system? In this blog post, I'll show you how to use it. Our team prides itself on having a...

This week’s topic on XAMLflix is the RadColorEditorXAMLflix is produced by Telerik and designed to teach you how to get the most out of our new and our existing controls in Telerik’s XAML Suite for Silverlight and WPF.  We have a new video every Tuesday and Thursday and a new tutorial every Wednesday. Because the Telerik Silverlight and WPF controls share a common codebase and API, you only have to learn how to use them once! In today’s videos we show how to work with RadColorBar in Silverlight, but the downloadable code demonstrates clearly that the same code works perfectly in...