With the latest release of TeamPulse, we now offer the ability to significantly update the look and feel for the Ideas & Feedback Portal.  This will allow you to brand the portal to seamlessly blend in with your own product branding, providing a more consistent user experience.  The team has created two different mechanisms for customization.  Based on customer feedback, the development team has created a new page that allows basic and advanced changes. This post will cover the basic customizations. The Default Portal Look and Feel For reference, here is the default, “out of the box” portal.  (Don’t ...

Performing simple string equality tests is often not enough when application user convenience is key. Often only a fragment of a string is known to the user, or many of them. Sometimes there is a need to search for a fragment in multiple columns. Which options does OpenAccess and LINQ provide to perform string matching? Into which SQL is the LINQ expression translated? Let’s use a simple class model for this post: a Person with a FirstName, a LastName and a NickName. Let’s assume parameters with the name simpleParam (string) and manyParam (ICollection<string>). String equality comparison Using the standard Equals method translates directly into...

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadZipLibrary for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at the RadHTMLPlaceholder and RadBreadCrumb Controls. 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...

Last week I wrote about communication struggles at startups and small companies. Since Telerik is the largest company I’ve ever worked for, I’ve asked my sister, Caroline Forte, to write a guest blog post. Caroline has worked at large companies for a long time and is also responsible for several aspects of corporate communications in her current role. Take it away sis: I’ve worked in communications at a large company for longer than I’d like to publically admit. During that time I have supported many different facets of the business, yet the communication challenges seem to be very consistent. No matter how much information you try to provide there are...

Nothing says .NET Ninja more than creating beautiful applications from beautiful code, with optimum performance and memory management. Other Telerik products help you create beautiful code, but Telerik JustTrace will hone it to a razor edge. There are many exciting changes coming in Q2 2012, and the first step along that path is JustTrace Q1 2012 Service Pack 1. Open the Most Expensive Path The life of an application can be considered a journey, but getting from point A to point B may go down many paths. A new option in JustTrace’s performance profiler snapshots takes you to the most expensive path taken...