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Productivity
Visual Studio Productivity Tools Q2 2012
We showed off tons of new features during our Q2 2012 release webinar, Easier with Visual Studio Productivity Tools Q2 2012, and we gave you the opportunity to directly ask us questions. Here are the topics on attendees’ minds, and our responses. General Are all of the Just products working in VS 2012? Yes, they all work with VS 2012 RC. Can you give these presentations at user groups? We sure can, please send us your individual requests. We will also provide training material if you’re interested in giving the presentation yourself. JustCode What are the advantages of JustCode over similar products? There are other tools on the...July 23, 2012
by Chris Eargle
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People
According to an Old Saying, “There is an App for Everything”
And the Telerik Windows Phone Showcase Gallery proves it right. We’ve just added 15 new customers’ apps using Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone. You are into swimming? FusionWare Swim Tracker will precisely monitor your progress. If you are feeling like partying with friends, Drinks is the correct choice for you. Providing a growing list of alcoholic drink recipes, it will turn you into a fun guru. Moreover, you can also create your own drinks and submit them to the database. The lie indicator, Pinocchio Lies or the excellent stock market monitor, Markets & Me are just a tiny bit of all the new apps featured on our...July 23, 2012 -
Productivity
Beyond Agile Estimation Part I: Measuring Key Data Points
During the recent conference season, I did a lot of presentations about Agile Estimation based on my Pluralsight course of the same name. At the end of the sessions I showed an Excel spreadsheet that shows how to take the concept of Agile Estimation one step further by measuring what actually happened and using that as part of your estimation. I am assuming that you know something about Agile Estimation, however, at BarCamp Hong Kong, I got a request to further explain this spreadsheet in a blog post. As promised, here it is. Let’s take a look at the spreadsheet after your first iteration (Sprint 1). Let’s assume...July 23, 2012
by Steve Forte
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Desktop WinForms
Get some interactivity from your charts with RadChartView for WinForms
I guess you are following us closely, so you are aware of the great RadChartView control introduced in Q2 2012 which aims to replace the old RadChart implementation. Today, I would like to introduce two cool RadChartView features and demonstrate how you can engage them. Namely, these features are Trackball and Selection. Trackball So, what is Trackball? Trackball displays a vertical line across the chart plot area and also displays little visual indicators (circles by default) at points where the trackball line crosses the visualization of a series object. For example when the trackball line crosses a line series line segment, a...July 20, 2012 -
Web ASP.NET MVC
TeamPulse (Hearts) Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC
A while back, I wrote a blog post detailing how Kendo UI is used in TeamPulse xView™ UI. If you'd like the kick the tires yourself, check out our online demo: It's awesome. It's hotter than two bears fighting in a forest fire. What you may not know...July 20, 2012 -
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Hear Jim Holmes talk Testing with Jesse Liberty
Jesse Liberty, one of Telerik’s great evangelists, had me on his Yet Another Podcast show to talk about, wait for it, testing. Jesse and I cover a lot of things about testing at all levels. It’s a wandering conversation that I think you’ll find entertaining and useful, too. Yet Another Podcast Episode 70: Jim Holmes & Automated Testing. 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 ...July 20, 2012 -
Productivity Testing
Latest Release is Live! Test Studio 2012 R1 SP2
We’re happy to announce the latest release of Test Studio: Service Pack 2 for version 2012 R1. (In case you didn’t know, we have two major “R” releases each year. Each major release has two service packs.) There’s a huge list of bug fixes and feature updates for this latest release. Some of the big highlights include: Recording with 64-bit IE and IE10 on Windows 8 Updated metrics for Load tests Analyzing results from individual agents for load test results Improved data binding for WPF and web tests Encrypt passwords used in tests Continued enhancement of our translators for Telerik’s ...July 19, 2012 -
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[Podcast] Transitioning to Agile with Ted Neward, Jessica Kerr, and Glenn Block
In this episode we continue the discussion with Ted, Jessica, and Glenn while at the CodeMash conference in Sandusky, Ohio, and it’s all about transitioning to agile. How do you get organizational buy in? What are the agile anti-patterns that make agile projects fail? How does an individual get started with agile, including agile software engineering? Additional resources: Bug Tracking in TeamPulse Listen to our previous talk on TDD, BDD, And All of the other DD’s About the guests: Ted Neward Ted is an Architectural Consultant with Neudesic, LLC. He lives out of a suitcase, travels with four laptops, ...July 18, 2012
by Phil Japikse
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People
Wake up call: How to Beat Entrenched, Dominant Competition
This post has little to do with Kendo UI, but after reading another story about Microsoft’s inability to unseat Google’s search dominance, it has me thinking about a very core question that many companies face: how do you beat an entrenched, dominant competitor?This is a very specific...July 18, 2012
by Todd Anglin
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Web
Hello Kendo UI Part 1
Many weeks back I started a series entitled “HTML5 For ASP.NET Developers”. The response was fantastic, and we begin to work our way through the charted waters of modern web development starting from the very beginning. In Hello jQuery, we went over the absolute fundamentals of...July 18, 2012
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