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Telerik WebUI Test Studio Developer Edition comes with the powerful WebAii Framework which helps you easily automate AJAX and Silverlight applications. You can benefit from rich API, LINQ support, browser abstraction, and of course special wrappers for Telerik RadControls. Integration with various unit testing frameworks such as VS Unit testing, NUnit, MbUnit and XUnit is also available. Join us for this week's webinar on Telerik WebAii Testing Framework Coding Practices. The webinar is brought to you by our partners at Falafel Software. Wednesday, October 27th 9:00AM - 10:30AM PDT Register Now Read More on Telerik Automated Testing Tools

Due to the rising popularity of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) e.g. Silverlight applications, the developers get more dependent on services for coordinating application logic between the middle tier and the presentation tier and the logical question raises how to use an already working WCF RIA Service as a datasource for Telerik Report. This is very useful if you want to enable the exact same business data access logic for clients other than Silverlight. For example to a WPF, WinForms or WebForms application. Thus we have made some tests locally and decided to share our observations in this post. Prerequisites: We will examine the WCF...

I don’t think that there is any disagreement that agile methods, stemming from the Agile Manifesto, have changed the way we build software and have lead to profoundly greater successful projects and balanced teams. Agile methods help teams and business bring into focus what is valuable and helps reduce waste by embracing high bandwidth team collaboration, continuous feedback processes, and ever evolving and emergent requirements and designs. A term you are going to see more and more of is “Application Lifecycle Management” (ALM). In fact, Microsoft has rebranded its entire Visual Studio Team System division to be Microsoft ALM. ...

With the release of TeamPulse 2010 Q3 Beta, TeamPulse now supports TFS 2010 Work Item Synchronization! This blog post is meant to give you an overview of the Beta features related to Sync. How to add a TFS Server for Sync with TeamPulse The first step is to give TeamPulse the information it needs to communicate with your TFS Server. This is all done on the Manage Sync Servers screen in TeamPulse. You can access that screen via the Ribbon button located on the Project tab. On that screen, use the Add Server Button. Once added to TeamPulse, the TFS ...

As you might or might not know for some time now we have been working on a tool that would make migrating from Linq2Sql to Telerik OpenAccess a breeze. Yesterday (the 13th of October) we released an internal build including a beta version of the new Telerik OpenAccess Linq to SQL converter. In a few simple steps I would like to explain both how to use the tool and the capabilities and important considerations you should know about. First of all for the purpose of demonstrating the converter, we will use this simple LINQ to SQL model : The model contains the following items...