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  • Web

    A Facebook Style MultiSelect

    This latest release of Kendo UI includes another very common UI component made famous by Facebook: The Multi Select. At it's most basic level, the MultiSelect is an enhancement on the standard HTML <select> element. It allows the user to pick multiple items, each of which are represented by an autonomous element within the select.
    April 11, 2013 5 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Plugging in with JustDecompile

    The new JustDecompile makes it easier than ever to find and load plugins.
    April 10, 2013 2 min read
  • Release

    Learn How Telerik’s 3 New ASP.NET AJAX Skins Differ from All We’ve Released in the Past

    Read on for a deeper insight in our newest skins to see the direction we are taking. Is HTML5 and CSS3 the path you want us to walk? Go comment and let us know!
    April 09, 2013 4 min read
  • Release

    Silverlight and WPF Controls Q1 2013 SP1 are here

    Last week we shipped our Q1 2013 SP1 official release for RadControls for WPF and RadControls for Silverlight. As always we put our efforts in adding a lot of new features and remove the small glitches across all controls . I will list here the most exciting ones and you can check all details in our thorough release notes here for WPF and here for Silverlight:
    April 09, 2013 6 min read
  • Productivity

    Working With Visual Studio: A Familiar Environment

    As I mentioned in my last post's closing, Test Studio's plugin for Visual Studio lets developers and coding testers work right in an environment they’re familiar and comfortable with. You’ve undoubtedly customized Visual Studio to fit your particular needs: display settings, window behavior and layout, and any number of other plugins and productivity tools such as Telerik’s JustCode. Working with Test Studio inside of Visual Studio leaves you the ability to pull in other tools easily through NuGet. Do you prefer using NUnit or MbUnit for their powerful Assert and fluent interfaces? Go right ahead! (Note that you can also ...
    April 08, 2013 2 min read
  • Mobile

    Find That Data in Conference Buddy! Conditional Column Color in RadDataGrid for Win 8

    RadDataGrid is a highly flexible and very powerful tool. In this post we look at how to set the color of a cell within a column conditionally -- if a condition is true, make the column entry red, otherwise, white.
    April 08, 2013 2 min read
  • Productivity

    3 Key Ingredients for a Successful PMO

    Though most organizations now have some form of formal project management office (PMO), there is still no guarantee of project success or even PMO success. Indeed, a 2012 report from PM Solutions indicated that 87% of surveyed organizations have a project management office in place compared to only 47% in a similar study performed in 2000. Yet PMI reported in a study that as many as 68% of all projects fail to some degree. And as for PMOs, I have personally worked in or lead PMOs for four different organizations. One company experienced utter PMO failure…twice…another kept turning over their ...
    April 08, 2013 3 min read
  • Mobile

    Diving Into Icenium Graphite - Part 1 of 3

    As a new user of Icenium, you probably want to start writing some code and developing the next great hybrid mobile application. Luckily for you, there are two IDE options that ship as part of Icenium: Graphite and Mist. While Mist is a lightweight HTML5-based IDE (run from your browser), Graphite is a full desktop application usable by Windows and Mac (via Parallels or VMWare).
    April 06, 2013 10 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Working With Visual Studio: Developers and Functional Testing

    Developers working on functional testing don’t have to be focused solely on coding tasks. They should also able to work with any of the tasks around creating, editing, and maintaining automated UI testing. Test Studio’s plugin gives developers (and coding testers!) the ability to work seamlessly with functional tests directly within Visual Studio. Working inside Visual Studio leaves team members with complete access to the critical features that make Test Studio Standalone so useful: Recorder: Record and update tests. Use the DOM explorer to craft custom find logic to ensure your tests make the best use of locators specific to your ...
    April 05, 2013 2 min read