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  • Productivity

    Improve Team Dynamics with the xView People Status Dashboard

    In my last blog post, I introduced you to our new HTML 5 based xView extension to TeamPulse and specifically wrote about the Project Status view. In this post, I’ll go into further detail about the People Status view. People Status xView The goal of this xView is to give high-level work information about all of the people using TeamPulse and to assist in identifying people who may require help. As with the Project Status view, we wanted this view to allow people to focus on the most important information in a single glance. If people don’t require help, ...
    February 17, 2012 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    New & Updated Videos for Working With Visual Studio and Test Studio Express!

    I’ve just updated our video on debugging tests in Visual Studio to show off the most current version of Test Studio. Have a look at this short video to get an overview of working with debugging in coded steps/tests. You’ll see the object explorer, Intellitrace, and a reminder about how cool the Immediate Window is when you’re exploring your code through the debugger! I also posted a brand-new video showing how to work with Test Lists inside Visual Studio. This short video shows you how to set up test lists to deal with Test Studio tests. You’ll see a ...
    February 15, 2012 1 min read
  • Productivity

    At a Single Glance - Interpreting and Acting Upon Agile Project Metrics

    At a single glance. That’s what it should take to know when something isn’t right on your projects. Knowing that something is wrong with your project should be as easy as glancing at a visual indicator. You shouldn’t have to interpret anything. You shouldn’t have to be an expert in metrics or project analysis. You should easily be able to tell that something isn’t right … with a single glance. Monitor and control systems have been around since the dawn of innovation. We see these types of systems all over industry – simple and intuitive displays representing the health of ...
    February 09, 2012 5 min read
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM – ASP.NET Web Forms Video Tutorials

    Besides the currently trending MVC framework, the traditional Web Forms are widely used for web applications development, so probably many of you are already familiar with them. OpenAccess ORM is an excellent choice for your Data Access Layer in such situation, as it is easy to integrate in just a few steps. We have already explained those steps in our new ASP.NET Development Guide, but we figured a visual representation of the same will be a faster and more pleasant way of learning what you need to know.   We have created two separate videos: for developing a Web Site using a Model First approach...
    February 08, 2012 1 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Reset PageNumber per Report Group

    Download Telerik_Reporting_Reset_PageNumber_per_Group (C#) - 4.72 KB In Telerik Reporting, the PageNumber object can only be used in the page header and page footer sections. It contains the current page number and its value is increased with one for every new page. In some scenarios, it is useful to alter the page number based on a condition and the most frequent scenario being asked is resetting the PageNumber after each group. The powerful expression engine of Telerik Reporting allows you to accomplish this easily with the help of page aggregates and tiny bit of code. Basically the idea is to check what is the last group on a page and if it...
    February 07, 2012 2 min read