Have you ever played the “Telephone Game”? The way it works is simple. Line everyone up, and say a phrase to the first person. That person (and each person in turn) repeats that phrase from memory to the next person in line. When the last person gets the phrase, he/she compares it to the original phrase. Almost every time, what comes out the other end is fairly mangled. Take the same group of people, and have them form a circle. Stand in the middle of the circle, and say the same phrase. Now have each of the people repeat the ...

Introduction Hello everyone, We wanted to thank you all for attending the Windows 8 Webinar yesterday. As we promised in the webinar all of the materials are now available for you to download and explore on your own. If you have any questions then feel free to leave a comment below. We’d also suggest that you download the RadControls for Metro if you haven’t already. For those that couldn’t attend, What is RadControls for Metro? RadControls for Metro is the toolset for building Metro apps that run on tablets and large screens no matter if you are coming from the XAML or HTML/JavaScript...

How many times have you installed freshly downloaded software and wondered where and how to really start using it? Yeah, we’ve experienced that a lot, too. Having that frustration in mind, we created the JustCode Getting Started Wizard. It’s the new non-obtrusive, quick introduction and setup tool, that shows you the main JustCode features together with two short configuration steps to help you start using JustCode right away.   The wizard will appear only once upon fresh installation of JustCode. You won’t see it anymore once you’ve gone through the setup process. You can also close it manually anytime and invoke it...

There has been a great deal of confusion about the differences between and among WinRT, Windows 8, Metro, Metro Applications and etc. [ Click on the image for full size ] While there is no reason to be absolutist or pedantic about these differences, if we are going to communicate effectively we need to understand the fundamental differences.  Thus, I offer the following simplifications to get us started… Windows 8 is an operating system, the successor to Windows 7.  There are numerous ways to create applications for Windows 8, and in fact there are now two classes of applications: Metro Style Applications...

We’ve added a nice enhancement to our data binding experience in the latest release of Test Studio. We’ve simplified configuring bindings in test steps by providing you menu selections of available data parameters to bind to the step. Setting up a data source remains the same: from the project menu, select Add from the Data Sources section. Select the type of data source you want – I’m using an Excel file for this example. You’ll need to browse to your file system and locate the data file you want. (If you’re using a Database source you’ll be prompted to enter ...