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  • Productivity

    Agile, ALM, and Telerik Tools

    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. ...
    October 19, 2010 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Team Foundation Server (TFS) Sync in TeamPulse 2010 Q3 Beta

    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 ...
    October 19, 2010 6 min read
  • Productivity

    Converting L2S Model to OpenAccess Domain Model

    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...
    October 14, 2010 6 min read
  • Productivity

    How to raise event for a mocked call.

    Recently, while i was working with a support issue, I found this interesting piece of test code that i would like to share here. This is actually written by Stefan Lieser (clean code developer from Germany forwarded to me by Jan from Telerik Germany).
    October 06, 2010 2 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Displaying Incremental DateTime Values in the X-Axis of RadChart

    One of RadChart’s most powerful features is its support for DataBinding. This means that as long as you correctly format your data source, you shouldn’t have to write any backend code to support the generation of the chart. Using a data source with a control as powerful and complex as the RadChart can unfortunately be somewhat confusing. In this post, I’ll shed some light on one of the scenarios you are sure to come across, displaying incremental DateTime values from a data source in the X-Axis of RadChart. Setting Up the Data Source RadChart does not work directly with DateTime ...
    October 05, 2010 2 min read