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  • 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...
  • Release

    Stay Tuned - See What’s Coming to Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Next Version

    Some of you, who’ve read one of my previous blog posts, already have an idea what’s coming to Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2012. Now I am happy to tell you that we have the full list of all new controls and interesting features published and accessible through our public roadmap. The page has a brand new design and is easy to find it through the site navigation (Yeeey). Take your time to check it out here. Then don’t forget to share your feedback or ask questions by leaving a comment below. You know it’s valuable.  What’s next? Wait for the beta, which...
    April 24, 2012
  • Release

    Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Ninjas, the Q1 2012 service pack is here!

    Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2012 SP1 is already available for download! Upgrade your projects now to leverage the newest improvements and get your issues fixed. I will try to summarize for you the most significant improvements in a minute.  Before that though I just want to tell you we are proud to see less open bugs in our PITS and logs. Yeah, we are almost running out of issues. No kidding, it’s a fact – we have components which don’t have a single reported issue opened like ListBox, AsyncUpload, TagCloud, XmlHttpPanel, TreeView. I hope you find the issues you reported addressed. Improvements You Shouldn’t...
    April 12, 2012