In the beginning I used waterfall. There I said it. Looking back at the mid to late 1990s, I can’t believe how I ever got software developed at all! ;) I was first introduced to Agile methodologies ten years ago. When I was the CTO of Zagat, one of our board members gave me a copy of Kent Beck’s original Extreme Programming Explained. At the time Zagat was doing a modified version of waterfall that was more “agile”, meaning we were doing things quickly and responding to the needs of the business (this was the .COM boom you know!), however, we were not Aglie insofar as...

Telerik is heading to Australia to sponsor and take part in its first event there – Australia’s biggest SharePoint conference of the year, which is to take place March 8-9 in Hilton Hotel, Sydney. Excitement has seized the Telerik camp as we are to introduce our newly-launched SharePoint Acceleration Kit (read a blog post here) which leverages Telerik’s world-famous ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight components to offer stress-free SharePoint 2010 web parts ready to plug and play. If you are attending the show, make sure to stop by Telerik’s booth # 10 for an exclusive demo of the latest addition to the Telerik...

In addition to the fact that our next release focuses mostly on our accessibility and automated testing as described in this blog post, in our upcoming version we will include many bug fixes in all RadControls for WinForms, including a highly optimized version of RadTreeView. In this article however, we want to present a new interesting feature in RadGridView that you will surely find useful. A customer of ours requested a mixed hierarchy mode where he wanted to use a self-reference hierarchy AND the classic hierarchy mode together. The scenario that he described used a file explorer where the main level...

In case you missed the news about the recently introduced beta releases of the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC component suites, this blog post is coming just at the right time to set your expectations about the upcoming first major release for 2011. IE9 RC compliance and enhanced mobile devices support are the two major themes overarching the releases of the Telerik ASP.NET suites. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, for example, will ship an upgraded TouchScrollExtender and support for touch-and-drag gestures for all controls. Q3 2010 introduced Level A accessibility compliance for all Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC and now the...

The Beta 2 release of our Windows Phone controls is here, it brings a bag of improvements to the existing controls and one of these improvements is a design-time gallery for the gauges. The need for a design-time gallery arose when we were creating the examples in our QSF application. It turned out that creating a full gauge design was more tedious than it looked at first. The gauges have a lot of functionality to tweak and this directly translates to a lot of XAML. After the first two or three implemented designs we thought "Oh my, we have to do something about writing...