Visual Event is a little tool I found. When I say that I "found" it - I literal discovered it after Google-ing "detect javascript events" or something to that effect. Neither Telerik nor I personally have any affiliation with the Visual Event product or its makers. Anyway the tool will help you determine what javascript events are associated with a particular control. Javascript events are a crucial part of UI automation. Good understanding of how and when they are employed in your app can save you a lot of trouble. 90% of the time switching your step to ...

I have been frustrated by Intellisense acting up when working on WinJS Windows Store applications.  Figure 1 is just an example of the quirky behavior that I’ve been experiencing: Image 1 Fortunately, the fix is extremely easy, and I picked it up from Adam Freeman’s book on Apress “Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with HTML5 and Javascript” Add references in your JavaScript files to ui.js and base.js.  You can do this by dragging the files from your solution explorer.  They are located by expanding Windows Library for JavaScript 1.0, and then the “js”  folder.  Make sure you include the triple swack at...

The Telerik Control Panel introduced a new and efficient way to install and update Telerik products. The Q3 2012 release makes it easier than ever to keep your Telerik products up-to-date with notifications and more customization. If you are unfamiliar with the Telerik Control Panel, you can learn more about its standard features and how it enhances the Telerik Experience in Introducing the Telerik Control Panel. When you open the Control Panel to update your products for the Q3 release, this screen appears. The updater updates itself, and it brings features to make your Telerik experience that much better. Options Abound After installing the update,...

In our previous blog posts on the JustCode Formatter, we’ve showed you what it is and how it works. If you haven’t read those yet, please see our post on "Introducing the Formatter" and "Comparing the JustCode Formatter to the Visual Studio Formatter". One of our design goals was to make sure the Formatter is much more customizable than Visual Studio’s, and in this post, we will show you how easy it is to customize it. What are the Code Style settings? When you utilize JustCode’s refactorings, expand code templates, format and/or clean your code, or make other changes to your code, JustCode...

I am happy to be part of the organizing committee for the Agile Tour in Hong Kong on December 1st. I also convinced Telerik to send me 30kg of Tee-shirts for attendees of the event. Details are below, register today, space is limited (only about 30 seats left)! EventBrite Link to register: http://agiletour2012hongkong.eventbrite.com AGILE TOUR 2012 COMING TO HONG KONG DECEMBER 1, 2012 Welcome all, Agile Tour is finally coming to Hong Kong! We organize a full day with international and local expert speakers on a variety of Agile topics: Title : How to suck less with distributed teams Speaker : Emerson Mills Abstract: We all know that distributed teams suck. (...