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  • Productivity

    Is Your Code Slow and You Don’t Know Why? JustTrace Will Find the Bottleneck!

    A bottleneck is a condition where a large amount of your applications workflow flows through a single or limited number of components. Bottlenecks can be difficult to find in your code because on the surface nothing seems wrong or out of place and the application may appear to work fine in a development or test environment. However, problems related to bottlenecks can manifest as the application grows and gains more users. Issues related to unnecessary and unintended bottlenecks can grow quickly and without a profiler these types of issues can be difficult to locate. JustTrace's new bottleneck view will help you fine the bottlenecks in your code and enable you to make smart optimization decisions.
    August 22, 2013
  • Productivity

    3 Features You Should Use to Make the Adoption of TeamPulse Easier

    Introducing a new scrum project management software to the team is usually hard. It takes a lot of time for people to get used to it. A few teams can afford to wait for that. That means you won’t have to ask them to change their habits, and thus you could avoid any resistance to the tool’s adoption and any extra risk for the success of your projects. Telerik TeamPulse allows you to customize it the way you need data to be collected, presented and used. That’s why it provides you with the abilities to create custom fields, custom board ...
    August 21, 2013
  • People

    Telerik Positioned as “Visionary” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Test Studio

    If you aren’t familiar with Telerik Test Studio, now’s the time to get acquainted. The solution has just landed in the “Visionary” quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites. Gartner says the companies placed in the Visionary quadrant are those most likely to deliver disruptive innovation or to support new technologies in a particular part of the software quality process.  We’re excited about the Gartner report, and it’s a recognition that is hard-earned. Behind the scenes our software engineers and product managers exert significant effort to keep Telerik on the forefront of a rapidly changing ...
    August 21, 2013
  • Mobile

    Top 5 Reasons to Use Cloud Controls in your next Windows Phone 8 App

    Are you wondering what all the fuss is about with cloud controls? Should you use them? Well, we believe you should. Here are the top 5 reasons to use Cloud Controls in your next Windows Phone 8 app!
    August 21, 2013
  • Productivity Testing

    The Test Studio 2013 R1 Release Webinar is Live

    On August 15th, Steven Vore and myself presented the goals and new features of the latest release of Test Studio 2013 R1 in a comprehensive webinar.  We discussed why you should consider Test Studio, and called out the new features that will help you improve your testing practices. In particular, we gave demonstrations illustrating the following new or changed features: - New learning tools that will make you productive as quickly as possible, including an integrating getting started video and demo application. - Cross-browser record and playback.  In addition to being able to emulate traffic from different browsers ...
    August 21, 2013
  • Productivity Debugging

    Breakpoints in Fiddler

    Learn how to use the Fiddler breakpoint feature to enable manual tampering of HTTP requests and responses.
    August 21, 2013
  • Web

    Taming IE In The Name Of Web Standards

    Examining Google Analytics traffic to the kendoui.com homepage revealed some very interesting trends in what browsers and browser versions people are using. It also brings up some important quirks with IE that can cause a browser to use legacy rendering even when you have a later version of IE installed.
    August 21, 2013
  • Desktop WPF

    How to Export content from RadRichTextBox to a variety of formats in WPF or Silverlight

    The team is delighted to introduce Kunal Chowdhury as a guest blogger on the Telerik XAML blog. Kunal is a Microsoft MVP (Silverlight), a Telerik MVP, a CodeProject MVP & Mentor, speaker, author, a passionate blogger and a Software Engineer by profession. In this guest post, he talks about how to best integrate the export functionality of RadRichTextBox control in your XAML application.
    August 20, 2013
  • Productivity

    Adding Dynamic Data to apps with the SQLite Plugin

    If the words "database" or "SQL" strike fear into your heart, or even if you are somewhat comfortable in this realm, this is the blog post for you. Databases are the foundation of every data-driven app out there. And while you can certainly write an amazing app without knowing any SQL, I'm here to show you how you can simply and easily set up and manage a lightweight, but very powerful, database within your own hybrid mobile app using the Cordova SQLite plugin.
    August 20, 2013
  • Release

    TeamPulse R2 Is Here with Custom Fields & TFS Source Control Integration

    We are extremely happy to announce our second release for 2013 that introduces great customization and productivity capabilities to TeamPulse. Many of those features were requested by you, our customers.
    August 19, 2013