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  • Productivity

    Kanban Boards and Microsoft TFS 2012 support in TeamPulse R5 2012

    We have just released our R5 2012 bits and let us tell you, TeamPulse has never been that Agile. R5 marks the release of the much requested Kanban boards, as well as some other great features like TFS 2012, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support. Let’s take a closer look at the new features. TeamPulse becomes more Agile than ever with Kanban! With this release TeamPulse introduces the new Kanban board functionality which allows users to visualize their development flow and gain better control over their flow of work. The Kanban boards leverage the already popular TeamPulse TaskBoard and ...
    February 27, 2025 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Migration to Telerik OpenAccess ORM is Now Easier Than Ever

    Have you reached a point in your application where you want to rewrite some portion of the code, change a public API or even switch to one of the third party components that are widely used today? It's very likely that you've bumped into this wall like most of the developers out there and you know that usually a comprehensive evaluation of the pros and cons of the switch is required to ensure the same improvement can't be achieved with some small tweaks in the existing solution. Either way, you might end up fighting with strange issues and spending tons of time...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Using Data Driven Find Logic

    Our R2 release of Test Studio 2012 enables you to create data-driven find expressions! This is an uber-geeky feature which can help you build out very flexible, powerful tests. There are a number of scenarios where you may find this useful; this post will show you one scenario for quickly validating the contents of the top menu in our Telerik demo application. In the image below you can see we’ve got three items, each identified by an ID, and each with some text content. To build a data-driven locator, fire up the recorder, pick an element from the menu (#1 ...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • People

    R2 Release Webinar is Live on TTV!

    If you missed the Release Webinar for Test Studio’s 2012 R2 release, never fear! You can find a video of it now on Telerik TV. I hope you find the video a useful overview of a few of the great features we’ve included in this release. Enjoy! About the author Jim Holmes Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools" and Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. He's a blogger and evangelist for Telerik’s Test Studio, an awesome set of tools to help teams deliver better software. Find him as ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Design

    CSS Tip: Star Selector Not That Bad

    While working on some projects recently, I found myself frequently writing CSS rules like this to enable CSS3 hardware accelerated "fade" transitions for elements in my app: .mySelector {    -webkit-transition: opacity 1s linear 0s;    transition: opacity 1s linear 0s; } When this rule is applied, any change to an element's opacity...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Mobile

    Windows 8–Secondary Tiles

    Continuing my series based on the presentations I’m giving on Europe, today I return to Tiles to look at creating Secondary tiles. A secondary tile can be created by the user and pinned to the start menu to provide deep access into your program. A classic example of a secondary tile would be to pin a tile for your home town in a weather application, or a specific stock in a portfolio program. I’ve stripped down the Microsoft SDK sample to its essentials to make it a bit easier to see how to create a secondary tile. To begin, create a new application,...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Release

    JustCode 2012 Q2 Service Pack 2 Makes Navigation Even Easier

    JustCode has long been helping developers navigate their code and quickly find Files, Types, Members, and Symbols.  The most recent Service Pack (released 12-September 2012) has made it even easier!  Go To File (Ctl-Alt-G) Camel Case Searching Entering capital letters (or a combination of capital letters and lowercase letters) into the search box will filter the files accordingly.  For example, I know that I have two BDD concerns that test logging in, both starting with “When_Logging_In”.  By Typing “WLI”, the Go To File dialog filters down to the files that have the capital letters W,L,I in their name (in order).  The result is...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Test Studio 101: How To Record A Login Test

    *this article talks about HTML-based apps; Silverlight is a different story For today's lesson we're going to talk about the most basic of scenarios: automating your Login screen. Sure this might seem simple. But lately I've noticed that some new Test Studio users struggle with this. The question you might be asking yourself is: "I thought Test Studio is supposed to be the most intuitive UI automation tool on the market? How can recording a simple Login sequence be so complex that it requires its own blog post?" OK, that's actually two questions. Anyway, the thing is that when you're ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • People

    MobilityDay 2012 Official Windows 8 App Developed with Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls

    MobilityDay 2012 Official Windows 8 app is the next app built with the Telerik Windows 8 UI controls. In case you’ve missed this piece of information, the last version of the suite is Release Candidate, which means that it is still free, but you can submit apps to the store. And you know how important it is to be among the first out there. You can download Telerik Windows 8 UI controls here. Mobility Day 2012 Conference targets business decision makers and IT professionals who are involved in business and technical aspects of mobile solutions. It will be held on Sept...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Mobile

    Controlling current culture in your XAML Windows Store apps

    When building an application for Windows 8 we find the same known feature for Globalization through the CultureInfo.CurrentCulture and CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture properties, used in many cases where it comes to using culture-specific strings, formatting dates, numbers, etc. And while developing, you might be surprised that, in the common scenario, the current culture does not derive from the OS culture for the current machine. Then, how the current culture is resolved? It turns out that there is a way to get the correct OS UI culture. To understand the process I will start from a blank app and modify it for our needs. Package.appxmanifest default language When...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read