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Our engineering and testing crew has been hard at work to get the latest release of Test Studio out the door! Test Studio 2012 R2 SP1 is now ready for you to download and install! Our service packs generally focus on bug fixes and under-the-cover enhancements; however, this release has some really exciting new features. Two of my personal favorites are searching within a project or test, and Silverlight/WPF scrolling of elements via the UI. First off, search. Ease of navigation through a large test suite or test is a very tedious task. There’s also a discoverability issue if ...

Another year, another award! We consider the Community Choice awards the Oscars of our industry, as it is the people using the technology that recognize the industry’s best and brightest. To be recognized in 19 categories – ranging from charts and graphics tools to CMS, testing and more – is something we take great pride in. It is our mission to deliver more than expected and this recognition is a testament to the hard work our teams put in day in and day out, ensuring our customers are getting the best tools on the market to address their individual needs. Gold Best charting ...

Introduction Hello again! We recently released a brand new XAMLFlix episode on RadPivotGrid Beta and RadAutoCompleteBox. Both of these video series are dedicated to getting you up to speed quickly with our Telerik controls for WPF and Silverlight. So while you are playing with the new controls, we thought you might like a crash course on how you can use Coded UI Testing with RadControls for WPF. We will specifically be taking a look at RadGridView, as it is one of our most popular and requested controls to show this integration with. The video is hosted on Telerik ...

Every test suite of any significance will require you to have some form of coded steps. As awesome as Test Studio is, there are always going to be things you’ll have to do via code. Test oracles to check your database or file system would be one example. Backing APIs for setup and teardown actions would be another. Sometimes it’s just handy to have a breakpoint where you can pull up Visual Studio’s Immediate window and do live queries of the web page’s Document Object Model (web apps) or Visual Tree/XAML Tree (Silverlight or WPF applications). I’ve just uploaded a ...

I’ve been doing a lot of WinJS work recently, and I am an avid user of the JustCode Template functionality.  So, I thought I’d share my templates as I have them now, and will update this post as I update them or create more.  For more information on creating JustCode templates, please see this help content. For each template, I show my acronym in parenthesis.  For example, the first template’s acronym is “winjsfile”.  I also don’t show the results for every template, since some of them are obvious. Templates for New JavaScript File This template and the related templates following are used when I...