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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Hello Services / WebAPI, REST, JSON and AJAX

    This is the second module in the ongoing course HTML5 Development For ASP.NET Developers. This module will cover how to create a RESTful service with ASP.NET WebAPI, and how to consume that service in JSON format with jQuery. There is also a very quick primer on the...
  • Mobile

    Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1

    A lot of the Windows Phone developers out there are already considering porting their Windows Phone apps to Windows 8. May be you are thinking: from Metro to Metro - it has to be pretty easy and straightforward, doesn’t it? Let’s see if this is true. This case study gives insights into porting the design of an existing Windows Phone app to a Windows 8 Metro app. It discusses the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the two platforms, what can and cannot be reused. User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows 8 For...
  • People

    As your startup grows, the founders have to grow with it

    On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg showed up to pre-IPO roadshow investor meetings wearing his signature hoodie. Wedbush Securities managing director Michael Pachter commented on Bloomberg news yesterday that Zuckerberg should show the investment community some respect by ditching the hoodie in investor meetings and wearing it is a sign of immaturity. Pachter’s comment: "Mark and his signature hoodie: He’s actually showing investors he doesn’t care that much; he’s going to be him. I think that’s a mark of immaturity. I think that he has to realize he’s bringing investors in as a new constituency right now, and I think he’s got to show them the respect that they deserve because he’s...
    May 10, 2012
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadComboBox

    It’s Thursday and time for the latest installment of XAMLFlix. As a quick review, XAMLflix = Videos + Projects covering all of the controls in both the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF control suites. We are revamping the entire video library with fresh new content based on the latest versions of our controls, complete with projects so you can grab the same code you see in the video and run with it. Be sure to check out www.telerik.com/xamlflix for all the videos! Discovering RadComboBox RadComboBox is an enhanced drop down list control for displaying and making choices.   Getting Started with RadComboBox – In...
  • Mobile

    GDI+ in a Windows 8 C# Metro Application – Experimenting for Fun

    It’s been about two months since Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out and we, at Telerik, have been enjoying the new framework and all the features it offers. One of the aspects we've been exploring is the immediate mode rendering and what options the new runtime offers. XAML is in the core of WinRT (Windows Runtime) and it offers rich presentation capabilities but sometimes, especially on devices with limited hardware resources, we need to achieve even better performance to get up to the “fast and fluid” Metro applications' standard. As I explained in this blog post, Direct2D is undoubtedly the best choice...
  • Web

    TeamThing: A HTML5 Mobile App Demo

    As some of you may recall, during Kendo UI’s huge Q1 release online keynote, I briefly showed a demo mobile app called “TeamThing.” The app is something I worked-on to show the capabilities of Kendo UI Mobile for the release, but it was always my goal to...
    May 09, 2012
  • Release

    Slides, Source Code and Video to the Diagramming Framework Webinar Now Available

    Introduction Hello everyone, I wanted to thank you all for attending the webinar today. As I promised in the webinar all of the materials are now available for you to download and explore on your own. If you have any questions then feel free to send me a tweet or leave a comment below. I’d also suggest that you download RadControls for Silverlight and/or WPF if you haven’t already. Diagramming Framework Webinar Materials Slides, Source Code and the Recorded Webinar Video are available right now! Other XAMLFlix Webinars Data Visualization : By Evan Hutnick - happened last week and all the materials have been posted to his blog. Go...
  • People

    TeamPulse Nominated for Code Project Reader’s Choice 2012 Award

    A few days ago the nominations for the CodeProject.com Reader’s Choice Awards 2012 were announced. We are extremely happy that our agile project management tool Telerik TeamPulse is among the nominees in the Application Lifecycle Management category. Hooray! Please vote for TeamPulse in the ALM category here. Just to remind you that recently TeamPulse introduced a deeper integration with Telerik’s automated testing tool Test Studio which further helped us with this nomination. Thanks to the tight integration between the two you can now ensure that all your requirements are properly defined, tested and that all bugs are captured and managed ...
    May 08, 2012
  • People

    Vote for us in Code Project Reader Choice Awards 2012

    Telerik Test Studio has been nominated in the Debugging & QA category in this year’s Code Project Readers’ Choice Awards. If you enjoy using Test Studio; appreciate your experience with our customer & technical support, please, do cast your vote for us! Telerik has been nominated in 14 categories. If some of your favorite products are in that list you can vote for them until Friday, May 11. Thank you for your support!
    May 08, 2012
  • Web

    There’s a Tool for That: 13 Essential Tools for the Ninja Web Developer

    When I am not hacking code, I can usually be found tinkering with cars.  I have been working on cars for a long time, and have acquired quite a collection of tools along the way.  It’s safe to say I love tools much to my fiancée’s dismay. =)   In this blog I highlight a few tools I find useful for web development, and best of all, almost all of them are completely free! General Tools Fiddler Fiddler is one of the best HTTP debugging tools available today. It can be used any time you want to capture all HTTP traffic between your computer, and...