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    Coded UI Tests with WebUI Test Studio Q2 2009

    WebUI Test Studio joined the Q2 2009 release this week as well! Although the awaited major new features (such as Silverlight and the extended browsers support) will come with v2.0 in the Q3 release, I’d like to highlight some important changes we introduced.   WebUI Test Studio coded test steps Should you have tried our advanced test automation solution or at least watched the videos on Telerik TV, you have noticed its cool tools are designed to ease the life of the test creators helping them generate automated tests simply by mouse clicking. However, WebUI Test Studio also supports ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity

    How to Enhance Projects Using MSBuild on a Machine Without Telerik OpenAccess ORM Installed

    Sometimes we need to  build Telerik OpenAccess ORM enhanced projects on a machine that has no installation of the OpenAccess product. There are cases that even require that there is no such installation done on the machines like build servers or other machines that handle the build process. On the other hand when Telerik OpenAccess ORM is installed, the project enhancement is automatically done from our Visual Studio integration add-in. The MSBuild integration can be used as an alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio integration and is useful while using the command-line build environment. It is targeted for serving build...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Welcome the Free Test Automation Solution for RadControls

    I’m happy to announce that a FREE test automation solution is now officially part of the Telerik portfolio. I’ll summarize here some of its fundamentals as well as how to get started with the WebAii Testing Framework. First of all, it’s an extension of WebAii, the ArtOfTest’s free Web testing automation library. During the past years the framework was greatly extended and its user base/popularity grew tremendously. Now it serves as the very base of advanced test automation solutions such as ArtOfTest’s Automation Design Canvas and its Telerik brother – WebUI Test Studio. Many QAs and developers ...
    July 06, 2009 4 min read
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    Object Scope lifecycle management in web scenarios

    The stateless nature of the Http protocol brings quite a deal of concerns about the handling of the IObjectScope in a web application. Few questions usually arise when dealing with entity containers (like the DataContext in Linq to SQL or the IObjectScope in Telerik OpenAccess ORM): where to initialize the scope, where to dispose it, how to integrate with the Page’s lifecycle, etc.. In this post we share our views on the best-practices approaches that secure safe and consistent use of the IObjectScope in web scenarios. The desired result of the used patterns is to have one object scope, initialized on...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Partial Trust and Telerik OpenAccess ORM

    First let us apologize on the behalf of the whole team that we didn’t share this great feature of our product earlier. We will try to shed more light with this post. So what is with the partial trust? Why it is such a dramatic problem for a lot of applications? Let us define what the impediments are to every real application out there that runs in partial trust: Overview of Partial Trust Most common security mechanisms give rights to users based on their logon credentials (usually a password) and restrict resources...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read