Telerik blogs
  • Desktop WPF

    Brand New WPF Website & XAML Support Lifecycle Updates

    In anticipation of the brand new Q1 2012 release, we were hard at work behind the scenes ensuring that the forthcoming releases of the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF were chock full of new goodies for all the developers out there.  But we've also been working on a few other little gems, including a brand new website as well as an update to our support lifecycle and approach to developing the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF.  Read on for more... WPF - Streamlined Content and a Metro Makeover One of the huge efforts we have been hard at...
    February 24, 2012
  • Productivity

    JustCode and Jasmine (BDD JavaScript testing framework) play together

    With every new release of JustCode we at Telerik are committed to providing you with the best tool for writing better, faster and error free code with ease. That of course includes testing it. With the latest and greatest version of JustCode we added support for two of the widely and most commonly used JavaScript testing frameworks out there - Jasmine and QUnit. In this post we will cover the support for Jasmine BDD JavaScript tests in JustCode. Industry first Jasmine support Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing your JavaScript code. For more information and details about the framework please visit Jasmine official site....
    February 24, 2012
  • People

    What to do when team members go dark, aka the problem with “Fine”

    We’ve all heard it in our personal relationships, whether it’s a partner, parent, or child. You ask a question, and the dreaded answer comes – “Fine”.What’s wrong with that answer, you ask?
    February 24, 2012
  • Web

    XAMLflix continues with RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF.

    Hello everyone and welcome back to the XAMLflix! We hope you enjoyed the marathon that ended yesterday with DataBars. In today’s episode we will take a look at RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF. Also, don’t forget that you can get caught up at any time by visiting our XAMLflix page or read below for a short introduction. What is XAMLflix? In case you missed the previous episodes, 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...
    February 23, 2012
  • Productivity

    Dealing With Setup Actions and Baseline Datasets

    Many tests need some form of setup action or data before you get rolling in to the test. In a good functional test you want that setup action abstracted away from the UI—having your browser run around creating setup data is slow and brittle! For example, a test retrieving a user from a system shouldn’t first drive the system around to create that user. The action of creating the user for the real portion of the test should fall to some sort of a backing API. That API might call a web service, stored procedure, or even a command line utility. ...
    February 23, 2012
  • Desktop WPF

    Brand New WPF Website & XAML Support Lifecycle Updates

    In anticipation of the brand new Q1 2012 release, we were hard at work behind the scenes ensuring that the forthcoming releases of the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF were chock full of new goodies for all the developers out there.  But we've also been working on a few other little gems, including a brand new website as well as an update to our support lifecycle and approach to developing the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF.  Read on for more... WPF - Streamlined Content and a Metro Makeover One of the huge efforts we have been hard at...
    February 24, 2012
  • Productivity

    JustCode and Jasmine (BDD JavaScript testing framework) play together

    With every new release of JustCode we at Telerik are committed to providing you with the best tool for writing better, faster and error free code with ease. That of course includes testing it. With the latest and greatest version of JustCode we added support for two of the widely and most commonly used JavaScript testing frameworks out there - Jasmine and QUnit. In this post we will cover the support for Jasmine BDD JavaScript tests in JustCode. Industry first Jasmine support Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing your JavaScript code. For more information and details about the framework please visit Jasmine official site....
    February 24, 2012
  • People

    What to do when team members go dark, aka the problem with “Fine”

    We’ve all heard it in our personal relationships, whether it’s a partner, parent, or child. You ask a question, and the dreaded answer comes – “Fine”.What’s wrong with that answer, you ask?
    February 24, 2012
  • Web

    XAMLflix continues with RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF.

    Hello everyone and welcome back to the XAMLflix! We hope you enjoyed the marathon that ended yesterday with DataBars. In today’s episode we will take a look at RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF. Also, don’t forget that you can get caught up at any time by visiting our XAMLflix page or read below for a short introduction. What is XAMLflix? In case you missed the previous episodes, 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...
    February 23, 2012
  • Productivity

    Dealing With Setup Actions and Baseline Datasets

    Many tests need some form of setup action or data before you get rolling in to the test. In a good functional test you want that setup action abstracted away from the UI—having your browser run around creating setup data is slow and brittle! For example, a test retrieving a user from a system shouldn’t first drive the system around to create that user. The action of creating the user for the real portion of the test should fall to some sort of a backing API. That API might call a web service, stored procedure, or even a command line utility. ...
    February 23, 2012