Productivity

In a few days, VS11 Beta will be revealed. This release is big for Microsoft, not only from a technological standpoint, but also from the experience it will give developers. The new UI is so substantial, that there is a dedicated post on it in the Visual Studio Blogs: (source) When Microsoft revealed the first ribbon interface back in 2007, there were some speculations that this interface may make it into Visual Studio 2010. Obviously, this did not happen for an logical reason - the ribbon interface is slick, visual, easy to use, but requires more screen estate, and in some cases...

An object relational mapper is about developer productivity, about the ability to quickly and easily make changes to your model, about integrated change tracking, caching and moving to other databases easily. It is also about speed. In this blog post I will try to explain the most common questions about OpenAccess in regards to performance and how you can improve it. The OpenAccessContext When using OpenAccess you always start with a type that derives from OpenAccessContext. Creating an instance of that type is a lightweight operation, typically in the order of a dictionary lookup. Then you execute your first LINQ query, and...

Or, in the vernacular, “Dude! Where are my .CHMs?” In order to streamline the Test Studio installers, we’re no longer delivering the Telerik Testing Framework standalone help files bundled in with the download. Instead of a 100MB or larger download, we’re at 52MB – that’s a really nice improvement! This only impacts teams that are working directly with the Testing Framework or are leveraging coded steps or tests within Test Studio Standalone or Express. In those cases you’ll still be able to find the complete API reference straight from the Online User Guide section of the Help tab: Click there ...

With every new release of JustCode we at Telerik are committed to providing you with the best tool for writing better, faster and error free code with ease. That of course includes testing it. With the latest and greatest version of JustCode we added support for two of the widely and most commonly used JavaScript testing frameworks out there - Jasmine and QUnit. In this post we will cover the support for Jasmine BDD JavaScript tests in JustCode. Industry first Jasmine support Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing your JavaScript code. For more information and details about the framework please visit Jasmine official site....

Many tests need some form of setup action or data before you get rolling in to the test. In a good functional test you want that setup action abstracted away from the UI—having your browser run around creating setup data is slow and brittle! For example, a test retrieving a user from a system shouldn’t first drive the system around to create that user. The action of creating the user for the real portion of the test should fall to some sort of a backing API. That API might call a web service, stored procedure, or even a command line utility. ...