We often get questions from our customers about which of the multitude of app frameworks that Microsoft provides for .NET developers they should pick. WinForms? WPF? Silverlight? ASP.NET? What’s the right solution for their problem? The answer is always the same: it depends. Unfortunately, that’s not very helpful, so we sat down and figured out just what it depends on and whether we can offer clear, concise guidance for our customers. The answer was “yes we can”. 2012 has been a busy year which included two major events in the life of a .NET developer: Silverlight desktop and web have been...
We, as developers, need resources when it comes to learning a new skill or technology. To complicate matters, each of us employ different techniques to learn. Some developers, for example, prefer to immediately get their hands dirty by writing "hello, world". Others prefer a more traditional...
Financial Charts
Do you develop financial applications for WinForms? Do they need a visual boost in terms of financial charts and indicators? If the answers to these two questions are ‘yes’, then you will be definitely eager to meet the improvements in RadChartView coming in the soon-to-be-released Q3 2012. For this release we developed two types of financial series – Candlestick series and OHLC stick series. In addition, to aid the raw stick data, we have added a bunch of financial indicators that will allow end-users to easily visualize the trends exactly the way they want.
Touch Support
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JustTrace makes profiling your application easy. Just follow these four steps and you will soon be on your way to identifying and removing memory leaks and performance issues. Keep in mind, profiling is best done regularly so you can detect unusual behavior early and avoid problems before they manifest. Follow these four steps to profile your applications with JustTrace: Assess, Acquire, Analyze, and Act. Step 1: Assess Determine what kind of issue you have. Is your application’s memory continuously growing while running? You have a memory leak. Do some parts of your application take too long to run? You have a performance...
On Tuesday night I visited and delivered a talk to the cohort at Launchub,
Bulgaria’s first software startup accelerator. Launchub is financed by a seed fund
made up of private and EU money. Launchub is hosted at a great co-work space, betahaus,
in downtown Sofia. It was great visiting betahaus and meeting the teams. I quickly
noticed that the Bulgarian accelerator is the exact opposite of AcceleratorHK;
in Bulgaria, the teams are engineering heavy, while in Hong Kong, the teams are business
people/designer heavy. Too bad we are too far away for a merger.
I delivered a talk titled: “Lessons Learned From a Career in Startups.”...
I just wanted to let everyone know that Telerik’s Q3 2012 Webinar Week is almost here. It will take place on Oct 22 – Oct 26 and we will be hosting NINE (9) webinars this time! This is your opportunity to see what is new in all our product lines and ask questions to the presenters live. You will be pleased to learn that our Windows 8 controls have become official in this release as well as full support for Visual Studio 2012 across our entire product line. I will be involved in the three webinars listed below. So what...
Browser developer tools have been around for quite some time now, yet a surprising amount of current, or people looking in to becoming, web developers are unaware of them. This is why I wanted to spend some time on creating a short series looking at, what I think, are the important items to know about these great tools. This is actually the last post out of the series with part one covering the element inspector ant network resources, and part two going over the scripts tab. Today I want to take a look in to the all mighty console which is...
Earlier this year we introduced two schemes showing the support life cycle of RadControls for WPF and RadControls for Silverlight. With this blog post we would like to remind you that with the Q3 2012 official release you will no longer receive future updates, new features and installations for WPF 3.5 and Silverlight 4 controls. Since the WPF 4.0 and Silverlight 5 have been around for quite some time now and the public trends are that they are already widely adopted (what is more .NET 4.5 along with WPF 4.5 are also alive), we truly believe that this step will...
How does mocking benefit me? That’s a question I hear a lot as I travel around the world giving talks. So before we dive into how to use a mocking tool like JustMock, let’s discuss why this is important and the benefit that mocking provides over other techniques like Fakes. In my post on Why SOLID Matters, we refactored a small piece of code to be more SOLID. Granted, it was a simplistic example, but good for illustrating several key points on SOLID. We will continue using the same code to discuss the benefits of Mocking. As a refresher, we ended...