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Productivity
Visual Studio Tip: Debugging Hints
Tracking down those pesky flaws in a piece of code is, in my humble opinion, the most challenging part of software development. Thankfully we have a top-notch debugger built into Visual Studio. Unfortunately, the debugger is one of the features of Visual Studio that I am the least proficient with. I know how to set a breakpoint and take a look at the values of my local variables when that breakpoint is reached, but beyond that I'm pretty much clue-less. Well, I was lucky enough to attend John Cunningham's talk at PDC last week and learned quite a few valuable tips that enhanced...November 08, 2008 -
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 -
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 -
Productivity Testing
Testing RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax with Watir – How easy it is
Today was my first attempt at writing tests for RadControls with Watir and was surprised how easy it is. I found over the internet a good article on how to test ASP.NET applications using Watir and also referred to the Hristo Deshev’s blog post about Automating Complex JavaScript-rich Controls with Watir. If you use the approach described in it and create a watir_telerik_extensions.rb file, you will be able to create tests very quickly. See below a few tests about RadMenu, RadComboBox and RadTreeView which I have created in minutes: 1. This is a RadComboBox test which opens the drop down ...November 08, 2008 -
Web
IE7 user agent bug
Did you know that if your user agent string is more than 260 characters in length then your user agent string suddenly and almost magically becomes “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)”. I've just realized that I have exactly the same problem: Be extra careful!...November 07, 2008 -
Release
The new telerik.com is LIVE! And it runs on Sitefinity!
Even though we did not consciously schedule our Q3 release to occur during the US presidential election week, we now see the similarities between the election and our release. Just as the election is of historical significance to the US people, so too is our Q3 release for us. We managed to push our biggest release in time filled with major improvements and new additions and refinements across all existing product lines, an official release of our Silverlight controls, 3 major new controls for WPF (gauge, chart and scheduler) and, last but not least, the first release of our newly acquired OpenAccess ORM product. But...November 07, 2008 -
People
Only the Cool People Subscribe to Us!
3/4 of the Telerik Evangelism crew (Todd, Gabe, & John) In case you missed Todd's announcement, Telerik welcomed two new evangelists back in September. Many of you have met (or maybe already knew) John and Gabe at the many conferences we've been attending lately. Last month we were at DevReach in Bulgaria and PDC in Los Angeles, and next week we'll be at DevConnections in Las Vegas. During PDC Todd recorded a nice introduction video for all of us in an episode of Telerik Watch Minute (I'm the goofy guy in the Howdy shirt). But whether you've met John and Gabe or not, how many of you...November 07, 2008 -
Release
The New Telerik.com
For the past several months, we've been rebuilding & redesigning the Telerik.com web site. Our existing web site had served us very well, but it was beginning to show some age. We were anxious to utilize some of the newer techniques & technologies available to us and, in the end, hopefully offer a better experience to our customers. Telerik.com is a big a web site and rebuilding it wasn't a trivial task. Not only does Telerik.com get a lot of traffic, but it also contains a TON of content (product information, demos, support articles, forum posts, etc.). To support this task we needed a...November 06, 2008 -
Release
ASP.NET Ajax Controls and jQuery
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by Iana Tsolova
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Web ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET AJAX
ASP.NET Ajax Controls in ASP.NET MVC
The Q3 2008 release is now out and I am glad to inform you that RadScriptManager provides support for ASP.NET MVC view and master pages. What this means is that RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax can be used in ASP.NET MVC. We have tested with the ASP.NET MVC Beta 1 release. .csharpcode { overflow:auto; } .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, Monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; } Using RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax in ASP.NET MVC View Pages 1. Add an instance of RadScriptManager to your view page (or master page). Make sure the required HTTP handlers are properly registered (can be done from the smart tag in design time). 2. Add a control to your view page or master page. The following...November 06, 2008
by Iana Tsolova
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