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    Integrating your Windows Phone unit tests with MSBuild #4: The WP7 Unit Test Application

    All of you that have been following my blog series about our automated approach for WP7 unit test execution may have noticed that the last couple of weeks I did not manage to publish since I mainly focused on the preparations around our upcoming Beta 1 release. Although a bit late, this blog comes together with a very solid and exciting version of RadControls for Windows Phone 7 that will bring to you a bunch of new controls and tools to play with so keep in touch to see what’s under the hood. With this blog I am going to introduce...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
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    Gauge components for Windows Phone beta

    The first beta release for our Windows Phone controls is here and along with the jump-list, super-fast list box, data engine and the mandatory controls polish we also managed to squeeze in some completely new gauge components.   The gauges for windows phone more closely resemble a miniature library of classes rather than single reusable components because there are so many properties to tweak. It makes no sense to try and encapsulate all of this flexibility in a single object with some properties. During the design-phase of the gauges a few questions popped up the most important of which is, of course, what exactly...
    February 04, 2011 2 min read
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    Integrating your Windows Phone unit tests with MSBuild #3: The dedicated Test Runner Task

    First of all, let me wish you a very happy and productive 2011! May the good Silverlight forces be with you and let’s hope that this year will be full of technology excitements and challenges! For the ones who haven’t followed me until now – this is the third installment of a blog post series focusing on an automation infrastructure for the execution of unit tests for Windows Phone 7 with MSBuild. This blog focuses on the MSBuild task, part of the unit test automation infrastructure, that installs the unit test application on the Windows Phone 7 emulator and runs the...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
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    Integrating your Windows Phone unit tests with MSBuild #2: Technical Overview

    Last week I started a blog post series that introduces our approach of automating the Windows Phone unit test execution on our build machines simply sharing the idea behind the automation infrastructure. I have also prepared a diagram that follows the automation process and have structured what I plan to share with you in the following weeks. Now, with the second post of the series I am going to make a more detailed technical overview of our infrastructure and give some reasons for choosing the discussed approach. The Dedicated Build Task and communication with the Windows Phone 7 emulator As already mentioned,...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
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    Going mobile – the UX perspective. Part 1 – be Metro

      We are proud that our controls are not only excellent development tools but they also excel in appearance, styling, great usability and overall user experience. This is a result of the united efforts of the whole team of our developers and us - the UX and UI designers here in Telerik. Our brand new RadControls for Windows Phone 7 and the all new Metro design guidelines bring so many new UX challenges that we thought it would be a good idea to share them with you and to hear your thoughts, which are of great value for us. This is the first...
    December 16, 2010 4 min read