A month after the successful JustCode Q1 release we are ready with a new wave of improvements – Q1 2011 SP1. You can download it directly from Visual Studio through the JustCode Auto Updates or get it from telerik.com. Highlights for the Service Pack: Performance optimizations – startup performance, solution load performance, memory consumption, etc.; New Generate ToString() feature; A ton of other fixes and improvements (more info in the full release notes). As always for the service pack we focused on fixing reported issues. Additionally we were able to squeeze in some nice improvements that should make your just-coding experience a better one. In the same time...

  I’m happy to announce that with the Q1 2011 SP1 release RadTileView will have yet another new and amazing feature – selection. This will allow you to mark, group or highlight your TileViewItems with a single click. The TileView selection supports three modes: Single – this is the default selection mode and it is the simplest one as well. In this mode you select/deselect an item by a single left mouse button click and you can’t have more that one selected item. Multiple – this is similar to the Single mode, the only difference is that you can select more that one item. Extended – this...

It’s been an exciting day at the Great Indian Developer Conference, here in Bengaluru. We are really glad that our new Indian friends seemed to love our .NET Ninja baseball caps. Below you can see pictures of them wearing the Ninja hats at the opening keynote. Then came our drawing for a free laptop and licenses. And trust me this part was exciting. We had so many people that at some point I got a bit scared that the booth could tip over :-). A big thanks to all who came and congratulations to the winners. Check out the pictures, as...

So here it is, the first post about what is coming in the forthcoming R1 2011 Test Studio release. You can now set test steps to execute against specific browsers and even specific versions of those browsers. To run a test only against Internet Explorer 9, simply select the test step, adjust the 'RunAgainst' property to 'InternetExplorerOnly', then set the 'RunsAgainstVersion' property to '9' and lastly 'RunsAgainstVersionCompare' to 'Equals'. That's all there is to it - the step will now be executed when you playback in IE9, however it will be ...

Last week (MIX 2011), Microsoft released the second Visual Studio Async CTP and I’ve decided to give it a try and implement one of my blog posts related to our Silverlight Data Virtualization with WCF RIA Services. To do this I’ve made two extension methods for DomainContext: LoadAsync<T>() and CountAsync<T>(). The first method will return the entities from a EntityQuery<T> and the second will return asynchronously count for the specified query.   And here is the result:   As you can see the only hardcoded value here is LoadSize for the virtual collection and everything else is retrieved and applied asynchronously using...