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  • Web

    A Tip to Play with RadControls for Silverlight Themes

    There are several built-in themes in RadControls for Silverlight that I’m sure the SL developers are pretty interested in. You can easily see how the themed controls look like after building a simple Silverlight application and setting any of the predefined themes. You shouldn’t miss the themes demo that allows applying a theme of the controls by a single button click. I’d like to give you another tip and at the same time to share something from the Telerik Silverlight kitchen. The tip gives you a chance to get quickly all the controls themed in a complex application containing tens ...
    December 23, 2008 2 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Don'ts in Software Testing

    Sounds like a book title, doesn’t it? No, I haven’t written a book on software testing. I’m on my way though, I just need fifteen or twenty years of Alan Page’s, Ken Johnston’s and BJ Rollisson’s experience and I’m ready to go with a new testing bible like the just announced “How We Test Software at Microsoft®”. Check out Alan’s and BJ’s posts on the subject here and here. I’m sure the authors, who lead the Microsoft testing division of about 8000 testers, have a lot to share, but I was also happy to see the post ...
    December 08, 2008 4 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Training courseware for ASP.NET AJAX

    Among all the big announcements we had over the past couple of weeks you might have missed that we now have a brand new 800-page training courseware for ASP.NET AJAX. This is a step-by-step tutorial that covers all RadControls from the very basics to the more advanced topics. The learning guide includes tons of how-to’s, tips and tricks, code samples and a real-life online exam application (called ActiveSkill) that you can build as you cover the chapters.   The courseware is available to everyone for free download from our website: PDF (51MB) PDF with all code samples and Visual ...
    November 17, 2008 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    The UI Automation Support Highest Requirements – UIA Verify Tool Update with Preconditions Failure

    Overall, we got quite good impression from the UIA Verify tool, I wrote about last week. Yet, there is an issue that provoked me to download the source and modify the tool behavior. As a tester, I believe the automated tests should pass only when you get the full test running through all the actions and verifications. The original UIA Verify though marks as passed all the tests which preconditions are not met. That doesn’t help much if you need to verify all the scenarios pass successfully, does it? I’ve modified the source so now the failed preconditions cause test ...
    November 08, 2008 1 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    UI Automation Support in RadControls for Silverlight Q3 2008

    The new release of RadControls for Microsoft Silverlight is out with a couple of new controls and tons of improvements in the old components. In case you’ve missed, the new demos are uploaded and available here. You may need to delete your browser cache if you still don’t see the new cool home page:     Along with the other improvements, the UI Automation support in Silverlight controls suite is greatly enhanced. Now the following components (I’ve ordered them alphabetically) officially support UI Automation: - ComboBox/ComboBoxItem - Expander - Menu/MenuItem - NumericUpDown - PanelBar/PanelBarItem - ProgressBar - Slider...
    November 08, 2008 1 min read