Telerik blogs
  • People

    Vote for Telerik in the 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards

    Telerik made it to the final of 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards. The awards recognize the best products and services in the industry by a community vote. Telerik has been nominated in 15 categories: Add-In –Telerik JustCode Charting & Graphics Tool – Telerik RadChart for ASP.NET AJAX Component Set – Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Content Management System –Telerik Sitefinity CMS Grid –Telerik RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik RadGridView for Silverlight Navigation Control – Telerik RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX ...
    September 08, 2010
  • People

    It’s Been A Long Run

    [Cross posted from .NET Musings]  I worked my first paying job involving computers in 1984.  After a degree in computer science from the school of engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, I started quite the run as a computer consultant.  My first jobs involved building custom computers and networks and programming the computers!  I’ve had a fabulous career as a consultant, and worked with a lot of fantastic people.  But I realized a while ago that I wanted to be something else when I grow up.  I just had no idea what that was.  In 1995, I started as a volunteer for...
    September 07, 2010
  • Productivity

    JustCode Code Templates

    Template Basics JustCode templates are much like Visual Studio code snippets. They give you a chance to seamlessly generate a piece of code following a predefined structure. In the general case you just have to pick up the real content, i.e. the stuff that actually defines the logic of the code, from a set of possible choices that JustCode computes for you. All the boilerplate code is automatically generated for you. For example, here is how the C# built-in foreach code template  normally works out: Step 1 – Expand the template Step 2 – Choose a collection variable to iterate over   Notice how the type of e automatically changes from string to int   Step...
    September 06, 2010
  • Productivity Testing

    Silverlight 4 Update: Automate Your Popups Out-of-the-Box With WebUI Test Studio

    Have you heard the good news? Microsoft has just released a SL 4 update addressing some reported issues. Check Tim Heuer’s blog for details. This update is really important in regards to the Popups/ChildWindow automation. Until now the Telerik Automated Testing Tools required to track your popups manually which was inconvenient for some customers. With the latest official release of the product though and the new SL4 update this is no longer needed. Just upgrade the SL4 runtime on your machine and start automating those popups!   Enjoy! -Konstantin
    September 02, 2010
  • Mobile

    Building a Windows Phone 7 control from the ground up - Part Two - the “Date ListBox”

    The next interesting part of building a Windows Phone 7 DatePicker control is the Date ListBox. That is a ListBox which should meet the following requirements: Can display in a human readable manner one of the three Date components: Day, Month and Year Should be “Infinite” – as discussed in my previous post. Should use data virtualization (to be most efficient). As you can see our “Infinite ListBox” project now comes in hand. The last two of the upper requirements are already implemented and all we need to do is to implement a special VirtualizedDataItem<DateTime> that provides the needed information to bind to. For a...
    September 02, 2010
  • People

    Vote for Telerik in the 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards

    Telerik made it to the final of 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards. The awards recognize the best products and services in the industry by a community vote. Telerik has been nominated in 15 categories: Add-In –Telerik JustCode Charting & Graphics Tool – Telerik RadChart for ASP.NET AJAX Component Set – Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Content Management System –Telerik Sitefinity CMS Grid –Telerik RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik RadGridView for Silverlight Navigation Control – Telerik RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX ...
    September 08, 2010
  • People

    It’s Been A Long Run

    [Cross posted from .NET Musings]  I worked my first paying job involving computers in 1984.  After a degree in computer science from the school of engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, I started quite the run as a computer consultant.  My first jobs involved building custom computers and networks and programming the computers!  I’ve had a fabulous career as a consultant, and worked with a lot of fantastic people.  But I realized a while ago that I wanted to be something else when I grow up.  I just had no idea what that was.  In 1995, I started as a volunteer for...
    September 07, 2010
  • Productivity

    JustCode Code Templates

    Template Basics JustCode templates are much like Visual Studio code snippets. They give you a chance to seamlessly generate a piece of code following a predefined structure. In the general case you just have to pick up the real content, i.e. the stuff that actually defines the logic of the code, from a set of possible choices that JustCode computes for you. All the boilerplate code is automatically generated for you. For example, here is how the C# built-in foreach code template  normally works out: Step 1 – Expand the template Step 2 – Choose a collection variable to iterate over   Notice how the type of e automatically changes from string to int   Step...
    September 06, 2010
  • Productivity Testing

    Silverlight 4 Update: Automate Your Popups Out-of-the-Box With WebUI Test Studio

    Have you heard the good news? Microsoft has just released a SL 4 update addressing some reported issues. Check Tim Heuer’s blog for details. This update is really important in regards to the Popups/ChildWindow automation. Until now the Telerik Automated Testing Tools required to track your popups manually which was inconvenient for some customers. With the latest official release of the product though and the new SL4 update this is no longer needed. Just upgrade the SL4 runtime on your machine and start automating those popups!   Enjoy! -Konstantin
    September 02, 2010
  • Mobile

    Building a Windows Phone 7 control from the ground up - Part Two - the “Date ListBox”

    The next interesting part of building a Windows Phone 7 DatePicker control is the Date ListBox. That is a ListBox which should meet the following requirements: Can display in a human readable manner one of the three Date components: Day, Month and Year Should be “Infinite” – as discussed in my previous post. Should use data virtualization (to be most efficient). As you can see our “Infinite ListBox” project now comes in hand. The last two of the upper requirements are already implemented and all we need to do is to implement a special VirtualizedDataItem<DateTime> that provides the needed information to bind to. For a...
    September 02, 2010