The hardest part of adopting Agile methodologies is getting started. In this presentation Joel Semeniuk, Executive VP of Telerik's Agile Project Management Division, focuses on the hardest parts of getting started. You will learn what the most common problems for teams getting started with Agile are and how to deal with those. Some of the areas discussed are planning, productivity, and requirements gathering.

This blog post will show you, how to use the new lower level ADO API to execute stored procedures that are returning out parameters, return values and multiple result sets. In this example we will use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as backend which supports combining all of these features.   The Setup We create a new Console Application project. Next we add a reverse engineered Domain Model based on the Northwind database. Let’s add a stored procedures to the database which will cover all our requested features. 1: CREATE PROCEDURE SPCombinedFeatures @InParameter INTEGER, @OutParameter INTEGER OUTPUT 2: AS 3: SET @OutParameter = ( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [Categories]) ...

During my first-ever webinar with Telerik this week I spoke briefly about learning how to keep your tests maintainable. This is something near and dear to my heart – I’ve been on a number of projects where we’ve had to suffer through test suites which became ever more brittle as time went on. Brittle tests break frequently due to unrelated changes in the system’s workflow, UI, or business rules. Of course, tests should fail when something directly relating to the test is broken—that’s why we have the tests!—but one change to a web page unrelated to the specific area you’re ...

For those of you that attended the What’s New for Desktop Developers in Q2 2011 Release Webinar, thank you for attending!  For those that didn’t get to attend (or for those of you that want to go back through it since it was jam packed with information), the recording worked perfectly, and I will be posting it to Telerik TV in the next 48 hours!  Several people attending the webinar asked for the source code for my project that I created to demo the features as well as the powerpoint slides, and you can get them both here (slide deck, code...