Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadDragAndDrop for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadTreeView and RadDocking. What is XAMLflix you might ask? Well, it is Telerik’s way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Telerik’s XAML suite. Each and every Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control. Since our Silverlight and WPF share a common codebase and API, you only have to learn how to use these controls once! You can simply copy and...

It’s no secret. I’m a LESS fan. A BIG fan. If you’re not familiar with LESS, it’s an elegant CSS pre-processor that imbues the CSS syntax you already know with the kind of super powers you wish your styling language had out-of-the-box. Variables. Operations. Hierarchal rules. Mix-ins. LESS...

Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) is one of the top developer events in India. This year it attracted over 2500 developers over 4 days of the event (April 17 – 20th). The conference has been hosted for over 5 years and continues to draw top notch companies as participants including Nokia, Microsoft, Google, RedHat, BlackBerry, VMWare, IBM, ThoughtWorks. At Telerik, the thing that makes us deliver more than expected, is our passion in technology. Telerik participated at the event with an objective of sharing our passion with the Indian Developers. This in-depth engagement was not only limited to hosting a booth but extended...

UPDATED: I goofed and listed Quality Center as an option for pushing bug reports to—but we only integrate bugs with TeamPulse and Team Foundation Server. As much as I love them, automated tests (be they functional, integration, or unit) aren’t the end-all-be-all for your testing approach. Exploratory testing, particularly for any system of any consequence, is a critical part of your overall “Deliver Great Stuff!” strategy. Getting your team freed up from repetitive regression testing empowers them to put their brains to use as they poke around the corners of your system. Exploratory testing gives you tremendous value as your ...

I recently started reacquainting myself with the Telerik MVC Extensions, and it seems I had forgotten just how awesome they are! I want to talk about a few of the less known features I find really awesome in the extensions. VS Extensions Telerik’s MVC extensions come with built in Visual Studio extensions to make project creation, and configuration, a snap.  In addition, the extensions include a variety of project templates to help start new projects: