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  • Productivity Testing

    What's New in Telerik WebUI Test Studio 2.0

    Don't worry if you have missed the chance to see the live webinar -- the recorded version is now available on Telerik TV. Also the Telerik Twitter and Facebook Contests are up and running -- get there for a chance to win a FREE license (worth $2,499) Tweet your favorite WebUI Test Studio 2.0 feature (make sure to use double tag #Telerik #WebUI and follow the official @Telerik) or post it on our Facebook wall (you should be a Telerik fan before doing so) and you might win a WebUI Test Studio license worth $2,499! The winners will be ...
    December 14, 2009 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    WebUI Test Studio v2.0 is officially released!

      The new major release of WebUI Test Studio is now officially live! You can get the bits from your Telerik account and enjoy the powerful AJAX and Silverlight test automation. Before I dig into the recent updates, I’d like to thank all involved from the ArtOfTest and Telerik teams for the great release! The numerous new features and tons of improvements made this dream come true – WebUI Test Studio v2.0 is a must-have tool for all of the Web automation addicted. I’d also like to say a big “Thanks” to all of you - our customers, who constantly ...
    December 11, 2009 3 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Programmatic Initialization of Report Parameter Values in Telerik Reporting Silverlight Viewer

    Usually one may control the report appearance and the data it displays through report parameters. The Silverlight report viewer, just like the other two, offers built-in user interface that enables end users to interact with the reports. Still there are cases when one may further need to control the report definition according to a custom logic that runs in the client application. However, since we have introduced the Silverlight Report Viewer the greatest challenge our clients have faced is that there is no direct access to the report definition in the Silverlight application.   To provide the ability to specify the parameter...
    December 07, 2009 2 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Using Telerik Report WCF Service (or how to display reports in RadBook)

    If you are following the Telerik Reporting product closely you may already know that with the 2009 Q3 release we entered the Silverlight game. The industry's first native Silverlight Report Viewer allows you to display Telerik Reports in your Silverlight application while having all goodies that the Windows Forms and Web viewers offer. The new member of the report viewers' family sports report parameters, the new document map, true printing and export to all available formats, including PDF, Image (TIFF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF), Microsoft Excel (XLS), Rich Text Format (RTF), HTML, CSV and the new XPS. And all this power wouldn't...
    December 03, 2009 2 min read
  • Productivity

    LINQ Tip of the week: LINQ and Fetch Plans

    Today’s post will discuss one of the most interesting topics in LINQ to OpenAccess ORM and that is of course the proper use of the Fetch Plans functionality. If someone still wonders why Fetch Plans are so interesting when we talk about LINQ the answer is simple – they can boost the performance of your queries in times! When one decides to use a fetch plan he/she always defines one or more fetch groups that are going to be used as part of it. Those fetch groups are containing only the fields that we want to select when we...
    December 02, 2009 3 min read