Telerik blogs
  • Release

    Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2012 Release is Here!

    I am happy to officially announce that the Q2 2012 release of Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX controls is out of our door and you can start using it in your applications immediately. Probably most of you have heard already the news from Telerik's press release. For the rest, hurry up and download a trial now or go to your account to get the licensed version. You can see what new features we have shipped with the Q2 2012 release by visiting our What's New page or by checking the release notes to get a better idea of what is fixed as well. I also would like to bring your...
    June 13, 2012
  • Mobile

    Design Templates for Windows Phone

    A mobile app will look better if you have a designer helping you, right? This one is a no brainer. Reality is that many Windows Phone developers don’t always have this luxury.  Matching the Metro design guidelines to the highest Metro standards can also be tricky sometimes.  To help you on this front, RadControls for Windows Phone introduces Metro Design templates for Windows Phone with this second release for the year. More than 20 page and content Metro design templates will make your app nicer and your job easier. On top of that you get a Visual Studio wizard helping you...
    June 11, 2012
  • Release

    See the early bits in action – Try Telerik’s AJAX Q2’12 Beta

    I am happy to share with you that the Q2 2012 Beta of Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls is here and you can try it right away. Just as the Q1 2012 SP1 was full of fixes, today’s Beta is full of new features and controls. Let’s have a quick trip. NEW CONTROLS Barcode – The control allows you to visualize barcodes for your products using the most popular standards. It’s really easy to use and configure. The resulting image is rendered as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) in the modern browsers where HTML5 allows embedding SVG in your web pages. In older browsers the output...
  • Productivity

    Localization of the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal

    With the 2012 R2 Release, localization of the Ideas and Feedback Portal is as easy as editing a text file!  Background Localization is the process of changing the text in an application to another language, or locale.  Well designed applications allow for changing the text that is displayed without having to branch the source code and recompile, and TeamPulse certainly falls into this category.  Built on Microsoft’s .NET Platform, TeamPulse takes full advantage of the localization features provided by the .NET Framework, allowing you to customize the Ideas and Feedback portal to the language that best meets your needs. Based on our customers’...
  • Productivity

    Why I Hate Unit Testing

    So you went to work for the cool company that wooed you with promises of cutting edge technologies and techniques. In the interview, they told you that they are agile and unit test everything. You may or may not have been in an agile environment before, but the important thing you are enthusiastic about joining a team that truly gets software development. You tested on your previous job, even using JustMock to write better tests. You promise you can be agile yourself and quickly adopt their practices. You’re immediately hired. Many of you have been there… maybe you’re there right now. It takes...