Silence speaks volumes. While there is coverage ad nauseum about what Microsoft did say at today's opening keynote and following sessions, there is much less attention on what's not being said. True, there is another keynote scheduled for tomorrow, and presumably many additional topics will be covered (like tooling and ALM), but certain important topics are conspicuously absent from the Day 1 conversations. The Missing Topics Silverlight and WPF? It's clear after today that Metro style XAML apps are Microsoft's vision of the future, but what does that mean for the future of Silverlight and WPF? Of course, SL and...

In my previous post I went into detail about how TFS process templates affect the sync process and in this post I’ll give some pointers on how to make the TFS sync experience in TeamPulse even better by explaining some of the finer points and also show you how to make sync work faster. You can test the TFS sync by downloading the TeamPulse trial and installing it on your machine. Using a TFS query to speed up sync If you have a big project, as we do, the sync process can take a while. The part that takes the ...

When a keynote is being streamed live to the interwebs, there's really little point in live blogging. Back when I first started Telerik Watch, live streaming events were very rare, so live blogs made more sense. That said, if you're like me, sometimes you don't have time to suffer through a 90 minute event just to catch the few bits of interesting news. What you really want is a summary that tells you everything you need to know to capture the overall jist and important news in a few short minutes. Thus, this post. Rather than bring you blow-by-blow typed updates as the...

One of the tasty new features of the new “Mango” update of the Windows Phone developer tools is the presence of System.Reflection.Emit. This allows us, developers, to do some nice tricks to boost the overall app performance in corner cases. As some of you may be familiar with our RadChart for Windows Phone API, there are two types of DataPoint bindings, allowing you to MVVM-bind the chart:  PropertyNameDataPointBinding GenericDataPointBinding<T, TResult>  As the name hints, the first type of binding uses the name of a property in order to retrieve the corresponding value, while the second one uses a generic Func<T, TResult> delegate to get...

We have a special virtual room running today as part of the broader EuroStar virtual conference series. Telerik’s virtual conference room gives folks interested in automated testing a spot to come and see demos and ask questions of our team. We’re also raffling off a license for Test Studio – all you’ll need to do is go download a trial copy of Test Studio and install it. Let the folks in the virtual conference room know what e-mail address you used to register Test Studio and you’ll be entered in the raffle! Come stop by our virtual booth and say ...