We are now in the middle between the Beta release of the Q2.2010 and the official one which will be available for download very soon. For the ones that missed the beta release - see the silverlight samples online. One of the major tasks for my team was to optimize the way the Rad Upload component for Silverlight is working. We separated our work in two main directions - improve the performance of the control and take advantage of the Silverlight4 features. The most requested feature from Silverlight 4 was to integrate the drag and drop support from the file system into the Rad Upload. Now...

So, the first day of CodeStock 2010 is finally coming to a close. It has certainly been an eventful day filled with great sessions, and an exciting Keynote. I started out my day by attending Effective User Interface Design by John Kellar. In this session, I learned about the different things you should take into account when interacting with your customers, designing the applications they want to use. Following this, I spent some time learning about ASP.NET MVC in Dave Giard's session, Building Your First ASP.Net MVC Application. This session was prior to my own session (my very first session ever), Creating an Extensible Photo Application with MEF, so ...

Automated testing can be broken into two parts from a process perspective.  First, there is the creation of the test in which you record all of your actions and verifications for a particular scenario.  Second, you execute your test on a frequent basis in order to find regressions in your application.  In this blog I will demonstrate a simple option for scheduling your tests for execution using a built in feature of Windows. For WebUI Test Studio users that do not want to use Team Foundation Server to schedule test list executions there is a great alternative already built into ...

Today Mozilla released FireFox 3.6.4, and in the new version plugins are isolated in their own process.  As such,  the VS debugger attaches to “firefox.exe” instead of the new process FireFox creates named “plugin-container.exe” when you start debugging a silverlight application.  There are 2 fairly easy fixes.   Fix 1 Manually attach the visual studio debugger to “plugin-container.exe”   Fix 2  This involves changing Firefox’s config, and really should only be done to ease silverlight debugging until a proper fix is released. Type "about:config" into FF's address bar Accept the warning (if applicable) Search for the entry "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll" Change its value from "true" to "false" (double-click)...

The default behavior of the WebAii Testing Framework (and WebUI Test Studio respectively) searching for the application visual elements is to timeout after a certain period of time if the element is not found. [TestMethod()] public void TelerikComSLTest1() { // Enable Silverlight testing Manager.Settings.EnableSilverlight = true; // Launch an instance of the browser Manager.LaunchNewBrowser(); // Navigate to : 'http://www.telerik.com/' ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("http://www.telerik.com/"); SilverlightApp app = this.ActiveBrowser.SilverlightApps()[0]; Image titleImage = app.Find.ByName<Image>("Title"); // will timeout if the image name is changed // Wait for visible 'TitleImage' titleImage.Wait.ForVisible(); // do whatever else is needed ...