Telerik blogs
  • Productivity

    My Perspective, What Happens After the Planning Meeting

    The Product Owner has the responsibility of the “what” so that the team can determine the “how”. It is a fine line that we often ride but never cross. I’ve always compared this to the strategy the military takes to fight wars. The entire team has the responsibility of winning the war, the product owner has the responsibility of determining the strategy but it’s the team’s duty to win each battle. To win battles, the cross-functional team has to fully understand the strategy in order to determine the best tactical approach. Without a clear understanding of what needs to be ...
  • Mobile

    Implementing Data Paging with RadDataBoundListBox and the OnDemandManual Data Virtualization Mode

    It is clear that a good data driven Windows Phone 7 application must have a smart approach of handling large amounts of data and keeping jagged scrolling and long lasting loading screens away from the end-users. There are a bunch of approaches which handle similar situations but recently I had a discussion with a developer using our controls which focused on implementing data paging as a way of coping with large amounts of data. During this discussion I came up with an idea to utilize the OnDemandManual data virtualization mode of our RadDataBoundListBox to implement a mechanism which loads pages of...
    June 10, 2011
  • People

    Where in the community world is Telerik this summer?

    Spring is always hopping with several overlapping events, but here at Telerik we are still hard at work through the hot summer months! Here are some exciting new updates on our community front to kick off the summer around the world! Two *New* Telerik Insiders: Stephen Bohlen and Esteban Garcia have joined our Insiders program as of last month. We are thrilled and honored they approached us regarding the program and given their expertise and passion in the Agile and .NET space, they are perfect matches. Thank you guys! Stephen is headed to Kansas City Developer Conference this June and he is conducting two user group...
    June 09, 2011
  • People

    Telerik at NDC2011- Highlights from Day 1

    Telerik is for the first time in Norway and is very happy to see so many fans and customers at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo. Day 1 was a busy and exciting day for the Telerik team who showed some of the coolest features of our testing and project management products as well as all our UI controls. We also met with our partners from Prewise who demonstrated how Telerik TeamPulse integrates with Eylean.   Even though we don’t get much sleep under the midnight sun we can’t wait to see all of you at our booth at Day 2.
  • Productivity

    2011 Brings More Free Database Providers for Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM

    Technorati Tags: Telerik,OpenAccess,ORM OpenAccess, Telerik’s Object Relational Mapper (ORM) recently added many more databases that are supported in the free version! The Free Edition now supports: Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005/2008 Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 MySQL 5.x Firebird Server 2.x Oracle Database 10g  Express Edition SQLLite PostgreSQL 8.4+ In a nutshell, all version of SQL Server except for SQL Azure. OpenAccess Free Edition provides powerful features that can really move you forward in your project.  Data Access code is like plumbing. Everyone needs it, but does being a plumber give you an advantage over your competitors?  Let Telerik...
    June 09, 2011
  • Productivity

    My Perspective, What Happens After the Planning Meeting

    The Product Owner has the responsibility of the “what” so that the team can determine the “how”. It is a fine line that we often ride but never cross. I’ve always compared this to the strategy the military takes to fight wars. The entire team has the responsibility of winning the war, the product owner has the responsibility of determining the strategy but it’s the team’s duty to win each battle. To win battles, the cross-functional team has to fully understand the strategy in order to determine the best tactical approach. Without a clear understanding of what needs to be ...
  • Mobile

    Implementing Data Paging with RadDataBoundListBox and the OnDemandManual Data Virtualization Mode

    It is clear that a good data driven Windows Phone 7 application must have a smart approach of handling large amounts of data and keeping jagged scrolling and long lasting loading screens away from the end-users. There are a bunch of approaches which handle similar situations but recently I had a discussion with a developer using our controls which focused on implementing data paging as a way of coping with large amounts of data. During this discussion I came up with an idea to utilize the OnDemandManual data virtualization mode of our RadDataBoundListBox to implement a mechanism which loads pages of...
    June 10, 2011
  • People

    Where in the community world is Telerik this summer?

    Spring is always hopping with several overlapping events, but here at Telerik we are still hard at work through the hot summer months! Here are some exciting new updates on our community front to kick off the summer around the world! Two *New* Telerik Insiders: Stephen Bohlen and Esteban Garcia have joined our Insiders program as of last month. We are thrilled and honored they approached us regarding the program and given their expertise and passion in the Agile and .NET space, they are perfect matches. Thank you guys! Stephen is headed to Kansas City Developer Conference this June and he is conducting two user group...
    June 09, 2011
  • People

    Telerik at NDC2011- Highlights from Day 1

    Telerik is for the first time in Norway and is very happy to see so many fans and customers at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo. Day 1 was a busy and exciting day for the Telerik team who showed some of the coolest features of our testing and project management products as well as all our UI controls. We also met with our partners from Prewise who demonstrated how Telerik TeamPulse integrates with Eylean.   Even though we don’t get much sleep under the midnight sun we can’t wait to see all of you at our booth at Day 2.
  • Productivity

    2011 Brings More Free Database Providers for Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM

    Technorati Tags: Telerik,OpenAccess,ORM OpenAccess, Telerik’s Object Relational Mapper (ORM) recently added many more databases that are supported in the free version! The Free Edition now supports: Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005/2008 Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 MySQL 5.x Firebird Server 2.x Oracle Database 10g  Express Edition SQLLite PostgreSQL 8.4+ In a nutshell, all version of SQL Server except for SQL Azure. OpenAccess Free Edition provides powerful features that can really move you forward in your project.  Data Access code is like plumbing. Everyone needs it, but does being a plumber give you an advantage over your competitors?  Let Telerik...
    June 09, 2011