In this podcast episode I sit down with Ted Neward, Jessica Kerr, and Glenn Block at the CodeMash conference in Sandusky Ohio. The conversation starts with a discussion on Test Driven Development, then moves on to Behavior Driven Development and various other methods to shorten the feedback loop. Not only between a developer and their code, but also between the business, the development team, and the user. Additional resources: Bug Tracking in TeamPulse About the guests: Ted Neward Ted is an Architectural Consultant with Neudesic, LLC. He lives out of a suitcase, travels with four laptops, eight mobile devices, ...

Today we are going to present one of the new additions to our Windows Phone Controls Suite: RadImageButton. This control inherits from the native Button, so it has all of its properties and events that you are familiar with. What RadImageButton actually does is to allow you to place an image or a set of images that change when the button gets tapped or disabled.   The RadImageButton can easily become a ToggleButton by setting its ButtonBehavior property to ToggleButton. Another cool feature is provided by the ButtonShape property. Changing its value to Ellipse will make the button similar to the buttons that are used in the ApplicationBar. Now...

RadControls for Windows Phone Q2 2012 came with a few new controls and one of them is RadTextBox. This is an extended TextBox which provides: Header Watermark Validation ActionButton ClearButton The control inherits from the native TextBox so it is easy to port into existing projects. The Clear and Action Buttons’ visibility can be controlled with the properties ClearButtonVisibility and ActionButtonVisibility respectively. The clear button’s function is to clear all the current input in the text box. It is visible only when there is some input because if the field is empty, such a button is not of much use. The ActionButton doesn’t have a predefined action. You have absolute...

Join us next Friday, June 29th at 10:00 AM EDT for a comprehensive demo of the official version of the standalone Report Designer and find out how easy it is to empower your users with creating, editing and sharing ad-hoc reports. The webinar will go through a real-world scenario of creating reports, embedding them in your application(s), and distributing them within your organization. We will also cover the newly added support for sub-reports, navigation actions (such as drill-down and drill-through), and report sources. Register below and bring your questions with you. We’ll try to address them during the webinar! Register today, and...

It’s been a couple of days since Q2 2012 and the new addition to the release – the Metro Design Templates. To give you a better idea of what you can achieve with the templates and to make it easier for you to choose what's right for you, we have prepared an application that is showing all of the templates that we have so far. You can download it from the marketplace.       The templates are divided in 3 categories: Content Views, Pages and Building Blocks. As their names imply, the Content Views provide different views or ways to show the content...