In a previous blog post we have shared with you the upcoming release of a new feature of OpenAccess ORM, helpful for those of you doing RAD development in web environment – the OpenAccessLinqDataSource component. As Q3 is already live, you can try it out! Just drag the component from your Visual Studio toolbox, where you can find it under the Telerik.OpenAccess.Web category: To get you started and allow you to learn how to use OpenAccessLinqDataSource in no time, we have prepared a video for you on Telerik TV. Enjoy watching it and don’t forget to rate it - we value your feedback highly! If you like learning OpenAccess...

JustTrace is perhaps the friendliest profiler on the market, but you will find that JustTrace Q3 2011 is even further enhanced with polish and enhancements to the user experience to make this a must-have tool for better code. If you’re interested in the detailed improvements we’ve made to JustTrace this release, please take a look at the version notes. This article will focus on two new features: Compare Snapshots for Memory Profiler and Call Tree Navigation. Compare Snapshots Previous editions of JustTrace had the Compare Snapshots feature but were restricted to performance snapshots. This has now been expanded to include memory snapshots. Since drag and...

Day three of the premier testing conference in Europe has just started. This year the event takes place in Manchester, UK from 21st to 24th of November. Again, numerous smart testing folks flew in to take part in the conference – the program schedule abounds in names of software testing celebrities like Gojko Adzic, Michael Bolton, James Whittaker, Dorothy Graham, and many more. Running along with the conference session tracks there is the EuroSTAR Test Lab which provides a dedicated setup to help attendees get involved and do some real testing in a live test environment. There are real systems to...

With RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX we are committed to building great looking UI for you. Rich HTML, Javascript and CSS work together to provide a professional look and feel for your next generation applications. You can imagine there would be a solid amount of web resources our controls use to achieve that. Still, we keep the bag tidy and free the developer from deploying myriads of files on various development, testing and production environments. Everything is shipped neatly in a couple of assemblies you reference in your project.  How do we do that? We use embedded resources. In this blog post...

In my last post I talked about some ways to organize your tests to help keep things clear and discoverable. My pal Adam Goucher, one of the top Selenium folks around, took me to task me via mail (in a friendly way!) that tags and metadata are a critical part of organizing your tests. I agree, but with a subtle difference. Tags and other forms of metadata are great for helping you categorize your tests, but I think they come in to play more when you’re trying to execute your tests versus organize your tests on the file system. ...