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    Editing a XML From A Coded Step

    I got an interesting request from a customer today. It seems the app that the user intends to test has a user.config file associated with it. And here's what the user is looking to do in his own words: How do I create a test which modifies the user.config file before opening the application? Hopefully it will be interesting for you to see how I put this together. I did a bit of research and it went like this: 1) What's a user.config file? I figured I probably have one of these on my hard-drive. I did a Windows search ...
    September 14, 2012
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    Consuming LightSwitch OData services with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Telerik RadDataServiceDataSource

    With this post I will show you how to consume Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch OData services to enable server sorting, filtering, paging, etc. for your custom LightSwitch component.
    September 10, 2012
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    Back To Basics With HTML And CSS

    I have twins that are in the first grade. One of them came home from school the other day and had been given his “second grade” sight words because he’s already passed all of the first grade ones. Sight words are just a set...
    September 06, 2012
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    Create an Appointment Tracking App with RadDatePicker & RadTimePicker.

    We all have a variety of uses for collecting Date and Time information from a user. For example, tracking the time a patient arrives and departs from a hospital, to when a car was returned at a local car rental location to tracking expense reports. One of the controls that you may have found missing with Windows 8 XAML applications is the Date/Time Picker control. While the control exists for Windows 8 HTML Applications, it is very limited in its initial state. That is one of the reasons that Telerik has decided to make a more robust Date/Time Picker control and...
    September 05, 2012
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    Windows 8 Apps With HTML5 Published in Visual Studio Magazine (September 2012)

    I have a new cover story article published in print and online in Visual Studio Magazine today called, “Windows 8 Apps With HTML5”. If you're an experienced Web developer, you'll love the new Windows Store options to use HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3 to build an application that works in the Windows 8 UI. Here's a step-by-step guide to getting started. See below for more information and a link to the online article in case you don’t get a print copy. Article Introduction We now know that Windows 8 is coming on Oct. 26. That presents developers with a decision to make for building new Metro-style...
    September 04, 2012