This week we will release new major feature for the RadRibbonBar – keyboard access. KeyTips provide keyboard access to every control in the Ribbon. They are activated by pressing the ALT key, following by the key for the button you want to activate. KeyTips are very well explained at the Microsoft’s fluent UI guidelines, you can read more about KeyTips on msdn… This feature is in the Required section from the Ribbon specification, but it’s nature and hard implementation details was preventing us from implementing it sooner. Currently this feature is the one with most votes in our PITS system, thus we considered it for...

The example will work with the latest internal build and the feature required will be released in the Silverlight4, 2010.Q2.SP1. The Full Source Code is here. A few months ago we noticed a lot of XAML code being copied around. It was supposed to enable validation in our controls. It is all about those red borders showing around controls like RadNumericUpDown, RadComboBox, RadDatePicker etc. So we have created the ValidationTooltip in the assembly Telerik.Windows.Controls, namespace Telerik.Windows.Controls.Chromes that was supposed to encapsulate these visuals keeping all the storyboards and templates at one place. This all happened in Silverlight 3. Now in Silverlight 4...

VS 2010 introduced a surprise for us – the deployment feature is disabled by default. Let me explain with this post how this hits everyone running coded tests and how to resolve the problem. Here is a common scenario one can hit the problem with: 1. Add and record a WebUI Test Studio test in Visual Studio 2010. 2. Convert a step to code. 3. Go to Test View and run the test – you may get an error similar to the following one:   As you may note VS looks for the .dll in the TestResults and it’s Out ...

The good thing about the code generation is that you can easily modify it to suite your needs. Today I will show you how to modify the code generation template so that it generates string properties that HtmlEncode and HtmlDecode the values in their respective setter and getter. The desired outcome will look like :  private string firstName;   public virtual string FirstName  {      get     {         return HttpContext.Current.Server.HtmlDecode(this.firstName);     }     set     {         this.firstName = HttpContext.Current.Server.HtmlEncode(value);     } } You can achieve this in a couple of steps. First we need to locate the T4 templates that OpenAccess uses. The C# templates are usually located under C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\OpenAccess ORM\dsl\CodeGenerationTemplates\CSharp. Note that it would...

We have announced the Q2 release last week and as usual we are hosting online events to present the new features throughout all Telerik product lines. The webinar for Telerik WebUI Test Studio is tomorrow (Friday, July 23rd) @ 11AM EDT.  Register now - the webinar is not only free but also during the live event attendees will have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection license (valued at $1999) We are excited about all the great new features we have introduced in WebUI Test Studio. We will be glad to show you all the cool demos and get ...