I cannot hide my excitement form the fact that even though RadControls for Windows Phone are still in a CTP stage, there are already a bunch of apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace, that are built with the suite. The application I’m showing you today is called HealthCaddy – your buddy if you are tracking health data points such as blood glucose, blood pressure and weight readings daily as part of your health and fitness goals. The main reading entry screen displays a quick snapshot of four most recent entries. Double-tap the graph and you’ll get to a full-screen version of the...

2011 lays new challenges in front of us as we set high our goals. Now that our offering is mature and rich, we will focus on further increasing the developer productivity. We will work hard on improving usability and performance, while continue adding tools and controls to enable our customers achieve any business goal with minimum efforts.  You can check the full RoadMaps for Q1 2011 at:  RadControls for Silverlight RoadMap  RadControls for WPF...

In a recent blog post, Joel Semeniuk talked about something he called “Best Practice Debt” – referring to the ever increasing amount of work your team will need to consider as you put off following best practices. The TeamPulse team has realized this as well, as this was one of the reasons we added Best Practice Analysis to TeamPulse early in the product release cycle. We found that even with our own teams, we needed to have an experienced and detailed oriented person look over our project looking for things that “smell bad” –sometimes even a great team doesn’t ...

If you are planning to be near Bay Area tomorrow, January 5th, make sure to stop by the Microsoft Silicon Valley Center Building 1 for a session on testing and debugging Silverlight applications with Telerik automated testing tools. The presentation is 2 hours long and will start at 6:45pm. The session will focus on best practices for testing Silverlight applications. Telerik WebUI Test Studio will be utilized to demonstrate the techniques and integration into Visual Studio 2010. Attendees will learn how to control the browser and automate standard HTML, MVC, JavaScript, AJAX and Silverlight elements; use built-in validations to prove that the...

Although Rossen has stated almost all of the things in his introductory blog post about RadDomainDataSource I wanted to create a separate blog entry which answers the most important question that you might be asking: “Why Telerik have developed their own version of a domain data source component?” Here is the answer: We felt your pain We have received numerous forum posts and support tickets stating that you want a codeless approach to data-binding that supports most common data operations without the need for any custom code. During the times when RadDomainDataSource was not available you will have to write hundreds of lines of code in...