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  • Productivity Testing

    WebUI Test Studio and Sitefinity

    The folks from Telerik Sitefinity team just blogged about testing the Sitefinity modules with WebUI Test Studio. There are several important facts I’d like to point you to: - You can automate the testing of all the elements on the page in any ASP.NET Web application with WebUI Test Studio. Sitefinity CMS is an excellent example as its modules often contain quite complex pages. - Although we often highlight the RadControls Translators we add as the third component of the test studio, the product is not limited to testing of RadControls-based applications at all. For example such small but ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Running WebUI Test Studio tests with MSTest and MSBuild

    Introduction Let’s start with a few words about MSTest and MSBuild. MSTest is a software unit testing framework developed by Microsoft. With MSTest you can manage and run unit tests from within the Visual Studio IDE, as well as externally, from the command line. MSBuild is a Microsoft build platform typically used in conjunction with Visual Studio. MSBuild version 2.0 is part of .NET Framework 2.0 and works together with Visual Studio 2005. Version 3.5 of MSBuild, which is bundled together with .NET 3.5 (and Visual Studio 2008), allows .NET projects to be built for either 2.0, 3.0 or ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Replay: OpenAccess ORM Advanced Topics Webinar

    Yesterday I delivered a webinar which covered some advanced OpenAccess ORM topics. If you missed it, the webinar was recorded and is now available on Telerik TV for your viewing pleasure. For this webinar, I discussed the mechanisms available in OpenAccess to allow developers to implement object-oriented principles such as inheritance and polymorphism. I also demonstrated how to use transactions to manage operations on your persistent data and how to optimize database queries using FetchPlans and FetchGroups. Click here to watch “OpenAccess ORM Advanced Topics” on Telerik TV! If you need a more introductory guide before diving into these topics, don’t forget to check out...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Connecting the Dots: ADO.NET Data Services and Telerik Reporting

    ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria) is one of the new technologies released as part of v3.5 SP1 of the .NET Framework. If you haven’t tried this new addition to the framework, I highly suggest you give it a spin. It’s very cool and allows you to quickly and easily set up RESTful WCF services with which your application can interact with the database. If you’re interested in learning more, MSDN has several great resources to help you get started. One of the cool things about Telerik is that the developers are always mindful of building products that can be easily integrated with existing and future...
    May 27, 2021 9 min read
  • Productivity

    A Recipe For Perfect Software

    Although developers have been creating software for decades now it’s still fashionable, isn’t it? By “perfect software” I don’t mean zero bug-bounce only, but the brilliant feature-rich software that customers want to buy and be satisfied with throughout the years! What’s the secret, you wonder? Let me first explain where the problem comes from. I believe it’s really simple. When you develop software for someone out there, a red line appears between you, the developer and them, the users. Your mission becomes their satisfaction. You keep working upon customer requests with a vision from your side of the barrier. There ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read