Productivity

At Raleigh Code Camp, I had an unfortunately familiar conversation with another developer. Me: How often do you profile your application for performance or memory issues? Him: I don’t. Me: Really? How do you know if your app has any issues? Him: Because I write good code.

In an earlier post I introduced the initial wire-frame design for an application that I’ll be creating from scratch in XAML and C#, tentatively named Conference Buddy. As noted in that article, Phil Japikse will be creating the same application in HTML/JavaScript and Michael Crump will be creating the companion application for Windows Phone 8. As we think about and design (and re-design), we’ve switched over to a Telerik AppMockPage1show case application named AppMock , available in the Windows Store.

Hi everyone! So the initial cycle of four workshops just ended! A big "THANK YOU" to all who attended. In the span of four weeks we covered four topics: How to Record a Login Test How to automate HTML popups How to automate HTML frames How to extend Test Studio (i.e. Test Studio plugins) Did you miss any of those "How to's ? Not to worry - we have them up on Telerik TV so you can check them out right here. These videos were recorded live during the actual workshops sessions.  Personally, I'm happy with the way the ...

Visual Studio received a facelift in 2012, and our tools changed to match its look and feel. It wasn't without some controversy, but there’s nearly universal agreement that the new theming support is cool. If you haven’t experienced it yet, install the Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor. It’s from Microsoft, and it’s free. We modified JustCode well before the official release of Visual Studio 2012 to support the new theming capabilities. Since you use Visual Studio for your development environment, we want to ensure our tools integrate for a seamless experience.

Our brand new SP release (2012.R2 SP1) has just been made available on our website. Go ahead and download it from your Telerik account if you haven't done so already. It introduces a lot of improvements and fixes to the product to make your user experience better. Here's the full list in case you're interested. One of the new things we've introduced really stands out (when you consider this is not a major release). It's something that has been heavily requested by our customers. Can you guess what it is? (hint: refer to the title of this blog post). That's right! You ...