Telerik blogs
  • Web

    Google Chrome & Safari 5 Execution Support

    I am pleased to announce that WebUI Test Studio now has execution support for Google Chrome and Safari 5! You can now record once, and playback across even more browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.  Our Q3 release is available to download today, come see what has the QA community buzzing. See Google Chrome Test Execution in Action on Telerik TV.  
    November 12, 2010
  • Web

    The World of Model–View–ViewModel - through my eyes.

    The Big UI Problem Since the User Interface came on the scene of software development, it is constantly one of the biggest problems. It is really hard to design the architecture of the User Interfaces, User Interactions and deal with all the logic around, all the different states and behaviors. It is not an easy task also to separate the UI logic from the other layers of the architecture. On the other hand, even if you develop the whole application, you should start to think about how to automatically test the UI (unit tests, components tests, integration tests…), how to maintain it in a way...
  • Web

    RadMediaPlayer true FullScreen support

    Telerik's official Q3 2010 release just came public introducing many improvements and new features. One of them is RadMediaPlayer's full screen support. Prior to Q3 2010 release developers had to implement additional logic to provide full screen support for their apps using RadMediaPlayer. With the new release users can experience true full screen apps without any custom code. Full screen support is build inside the media player but can be easily customized by using the IsFullScreenProperty or attaching a handler to the FullScreenChanged event. In addition, two new properties are available which you can use to customize whether the video controls panel and...
    November 12, 2010
  • Release

    Q3 2010 brings more slickness, performance and new controls to RadControls for Silverlight/WPF

    Q3 2010 brings more slickness, better performance and new controls to RadControls for Silverlight/WPF to allow you develop your most interactive and richest Line Of Business applications. The latest major release includes new powerful data visualization controls, Data Virtualization for data-bound controls, supercharged RichTexBox and the most feature-rich and innovative ScheduleView control for WPF. RadSparklines Sparklines are intense, simple, word-sized graphics that bring context and history to numbers. Adding sparklines to the numbers in any report shows patterns and trends for those numbers, making the report much more useful for the end-user.   RadBulletGraph The BulletGraph is extremely useful in dashboards, or just any report, because it...
    November 12, 2010
  • Release

    Expression Descriptors in Q3 2010 for WPF & Silverlight

    Another four months have gone by and another awesome release of RadControls has arrived! One of the exciting new features in this release are the so-called 'Expression Descriptors'. Previously, whenever our clients wanted to filter data but needed even more control than our good old FilterDescriptor could provide, they had to subclass it and override some of its methods. Even though that approach works, it is tedious and cumbersome. And, as much as LINQ Expressions rock, having to manually generate expression trees by hand... yuck! The new FilterDescriptor<T> allows you to directly plug a predicate that determines which items are filtered. You...
    November 11, 2010
  • Web

    Google Chrome & Safari 5 Execution Support

    I am pleased to announce that WebUI Test Studio now has execution support for Google Chrome and Safari 5! You can now record once, and playback across even more browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.  Our Q3 release is available to download today, come see what has the QA community buzzing. See Google Chrome Test Execution in Action on Telerik TV.  
    November 12, 2010
  • Web

    The World of Model&ndash;View&ndash;ViewModel - through my eyes.

    The Big UI Problem Since the User Interface came on the scene of software development, it is constantly one of the biggest problems. It is really hard to design the architecture of the User Interfaces, User Interactions and deal with all the logic around, all the different states and behaviors. It is not an easy task also to separate the UI logic from the other layers of the architecture. On the other hand, even if you develop the whole application, you should start to think about how to automatically test the UI (unit tests, components tests, integration tests…), how to maintain it in a way...
  • Web

    RadMediaPlayer true FullScreen support

    Telerik's official Q3 2010 release just came public introducing many improvements and new features. One of them is RadMediaPlayer's full screen support. Prior to Q3 2010 release developers had to implement additional logic to provide full screen support for their apps using RadMediaPlayer. With the new release users can experience true full screen apps without any custom code. Full screen support is build inside the media player but can be easily customized by using the IsFullScreenProperty or attaching a handler to the FullScreenChanged event. In addition, two new properties are available which you can use to customize whether the video controls panel and...
    November 12, 2010
  • Release

    Q3 2010 brings more slickness, performance and new controls to RadControls for Silverlight/WPF

    Q3 2010 brings more slickness, better performance and new controls to RadControls for Silverlight/WPF to allow you develop your most interactive and richest Line Of Business applications. The latest major release includes new powerful data visualization controls, Data Virtualization for data-bound controls, supercharged RichTexBox and the most feature-rich and innovative ScheduleView control for WPF. RadSparklines Sparklines are intense, simple, word-sized graphics that bring context and history to numbers. Adding sparklines to the numbers in any report shows patterns and trends for those numbers, making the report much more useful for the end-user.   RadBulletGraph The BulletGraph is extremely useful in dashboards, or just any report, because it...
    November 12, 2010
  • Release

    Expression Descriptors in Q3 2010 for WPF & Silverlight

    Another four months have gone by and another awesome release of RadControls has arrived! One of the exciting new features in this release are the so-called 'Expression Descriptors'. Previously, whenever our clients wanted to filter data but needed even more control than our good old FilterDescriptor could provide, they had to subclass it and override some of its methods. Even though that approach works, it is tedious and cumbersome. And, as much as LINQ Expressions rock, having to manually generate expression trees by hand... yuck! The new FilterDescriptor<T> allows you to directly plug a predicate that determines which items are filtered. You...
    November 11, 2010