With our previous release (Q2 2012) we introduced RadHtmlChart, but we didn’t stop there – even before the next major release we introduced a lot of the features you asked for.
Once again we leveraged the latest HTML5 goodness and RadHtmlChart now has its own younger brother – RadGauge. In fact, it’s a pair of twins – RadRadialGauge and RadLinearGauge to make the family life even more fun.
Put simply, you can use the gauge to show very specific data with relation to a given range. You could mimic a car dashboard and show the fuel left and have the last quarter...
To read the other steps in the step by step guide for creating a Metr0/ WInRT application go here I mentioned a few times that synchronous programming can be a bit problematic when programming Windows Store Applications. Asynchronous programming is basically a must- as it is considered good practice and gives a better user experience
Out of question, high quality is top priority for each and every software product on the market. Microsoft knows that well and that’s why with the introduction of Visual Studio 2010 they unveiled their own test automation solution called Coded UI Tests. We plugged Telerik’s WinForms into this test automation ecosystem by introducing MSAA support for the whole suite which allowed for integration with the first level of Coded UI Tests. We did not stop there, however, and I am glad to inform you that as of Q3 2012 RadControls for WinForms suite will introduce full support for Coded UI Tests...
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...