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  • Web

    Windows 8 RTM. Who Cares.

    If you missed all the excitement on the interwebs yesterday, you should know that Windows 8 officially went RTM. My good friend and prolific animated GIF pundit John Bristowe posted this apt metaphor of the frenzy over at MSDN. You can count me in the pile of chaos...
    August 17, 2012
  • Productivity Testing

    Test Studio’s Love for Visual Studio 2012 (RTM)

    You can tell the VS team has an appreciation for Test Studio because they’ve went with our color scheme for the VS 2012’s artwork: As you may already know Visual Studio 2012 is here. And the answer to the question you’re probably asking yourself is:   “Yes, Telerik’s Test Studio fully integrates with Visual Studio 2012” That’s right – VS 2012 is now officially part of the Test Studio-integrated family (alongside VS 2008 and VS 2010). Hooray!     Testing-wise the major change in Visual Studio 2012 is that Test View is gone. Instead we have the Test Explorer. We recommend that you checkout this...
    August 16, 2012
  • Desktop

    Creating A RadCartesianChart – Line Graph

    In this post, I will explore creating a line chart using the RadCartesianChart from the Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls.  You can Download Telerik Widows 8 Controls here. Figure 1 shows the chart we wish to build. This is a linear chart built with a RadCartesianChart. It represents revenue for the last six months of 2012, The best way to approach building a line chart (or any chart) is to start with the data you wish to display. In this case, we will use mock data representing Monthly Revenue earned from July through December 2012. The class that will hold our data...
    August 16, 2012
  • Productivity

    Simplify Data Access in VS 2012 RTM with OpenAccess ORM

    The highly anticipated Visual Studio 2012 has just been released to manufacturing! Just as quickly as we responded to the Beta version of your favorite IDE, we are now proud to announce that we are ready to bring OpenAccess ORM to the RTM with our dedicated Q2 2012 SP2 version. OpenAccess ORM is ready to help you get started by generating all the needed code for your Data Access Layer in any Visual Studio 2012 RTM project. You can start right away, utilizing our project templates already fine-tuned for VS 2012 and .NET 4.5. Choose either Fluent Mapping project or...
    August 16, 2012
  • Release

    What’s New in Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Beta 2, Compatible with Windows 8 RTM

    Now that Windows 8 RTM is available to developers, we have prepared a BETA 2 update of our Windows 8 UI suite. This update is fully compatible with the latest Win8 bits as well as it adds several new components/features that we believe will add even more value to the suite. I can’t wait to share what’s new, so let’s get straight to the list: HTML – Date/Time pickers Our commitment is to deliver same components and user experience regardless of the platform – be it XAML or HTML. Following this commitment we have added DatePicker and TimePicker components to the HTML part of the suite...
    August 16, 2012
  • Web

    Rocking Kendo UI in Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8

    It's an exciting time for developers using Visual Studio 2012 or targeting Windows 8. With recent announcements regarding availability of these products, the obvious question of support with Kendo UI is being asked by developers. Rest assured, the team building Kendo UI has been working hard...
    August 16, 2012
  • Mobile

    Data Binding In Windows 8. Part 3–Element Binding

    In my previous post, I discussed the three modes of DataBinding for Windows 8. Today we’ll take a brief look at binding not to data, but rather binding one UI element to the value of another.  In this example, we’ll bind the IsActive property of the ProgressRing to the IsChecked property’s value in a CheckBox.  <StackPanel> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Left" > <TextBlock ...
    August 15, 2012
  • Release

    RadControls for WPF Control Suites is ready for VS2012 RTM! Are you?

    IntroductionHere at Telerik, we live on the cutting edge. We were the first vendor to release controls for a variety of Microsoft technologies, including RadControls for Windows Phone and RadControls for Metro. We also pride ourselves for being compatible with the latest version of Microsoft’s IDE. We are happy to announce today that RadControls for WPF fully support Visual Studio 2012 RTM.To get started using the new controls log into your account and select the product you are interested in or use the new control panel to grab them all at once.Let’s Take a Quick Look at VS2012 RTM and our RadControlsOnce everything...
    August 15, 2012
  • People

    [Podcast] Phil Japikse and Lee Brandt on Collaboration

    In this episode, I sit down with Microsoft MVP Lee Brandt to discuss the difficulties in communication and collaboration amongst project teams as well as with people outside of the project team. Lee offers some great ideas on why the problems arise and how to improve the communications gap.
    August 15, 2012
  • Productivity

    It Just Works in Visual Studio 2012

    Upgrading to a new version of Visual Studio can be a daunting task. Current solutions and tools need to be tested for appropriate support, and a late discovery that something isn’t working quite right can be disastrous. There is something you can be assured of… your Telerik Visual Studio Productivity Tools will continue to work as expected. In some cases, they will even work better. We began upgrading our tools the moment we had a beta in our hands so you would have one less thing to worry about. Don’t take my word for it: try JustCode, JustMock, or JustTrace with the...
    August 15, 2012