In this episode, I sit down with Microsoft MVP Lee Brandt to discuss the difficulties in communication and collaboration amongst project teams as well as with people outside of the project team. Lee offers some great ideas on why the problems arise and how to improve the communications gap.

Upgrading to a new version of Visual Studio can be a daunting task. Current solutions and tools need to be tested for appropriate support, and a late discovery that something isn’t working quite right can be disastrous. There is something you can be assured of… your Telerik Visual Studio Productivity Tools will continue to work as expected. In some cases, they will even work better. We began upgrading our tools the moment we had a beta in our hands so you would have one less thing to worry about. Don’t take my word for it: try JustCode, JustMock, or JustTrace with the...

Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2012 RTM is already a fact! We waited for it in great anticipation, just like you probably did. If you were with us in the recent years, you may have noticed that we always strive to ride the wave of the latest technologies, providing to you top-notch solutions on which you can rely for your applications. With the release of Visual Studio 2012 the situation is no different. I am proud to announce the full compatibility between the official version of Visual Studio 2012 and the RadControls for WinForms suite from day one. Toolbox, design-time support, form...

We are very proud to announce that once again Telerik is first to market, this time with a suite of controls for Windows 8 Metro programming that are 100% compatible with the release of Visual Studio 2012 and the release of Windows 8 RTM. What’s In RadControls For Metro? RadControls For Metro is a new suite of controls targeted directly at Windows 8 development, whether your language of choice is C#/XAML or Javascript/HTML5.  The suite includes a number of controls that are not in the Windows 8 Toolbox, along with a few controls that offer more powerful versions of standard controls. Each of...

It’s not every day you get to talk about the newest RTM release of Visual Studio, but once in a blue moon (OK, every two years or so ;)) you are lucky enough to be able to say “it’s finally here” to the latest iteration of the .NET developer’s favorite IDE. Much like your birthdays as a kid where you awoke with much glee and excitement to find some of your most requested toys (Power Rangers Megazoid anyone?) many of us arrive to our offices (or for those of you working from home, roll out of bed :D) and start...