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  • Desktop WPF

    XAMLFlix RadDataBars Tutorial for Silverlight and WPF

    Every Wednesday we publish a new tutorial based on the XAMLFlix video series.  This gives you the same information as the video, but in a searchable text form. This week we are looking at RadDataBars. RadDataBars are a very useful way to display information about relative sizes and percentages. RadDataBars come in three flavors: RadDataBar RadStackedDataBar RadStacked100DataBar The RadDataBar reflects a single value, typically as a horizontal bar. The RadStackedDataBar reflects a series of values and their relative sizes, one stacked upon another . The RadStacked100DataBar is much like the RadStackedDataBar except that it is sized to fill the entire provided area -- each value given a...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Mobile

    Introducing the ActionSheet for Kendo UI Mobile

    Highlights New! ActionSheet introduced in the Q1 2012 SP of Kendo UI Mobile (v2012.1.515) ActionSheet displays a set of choices related to a task the user initiates Super-easy to add the ActionSheet to your apps built on Kendo UI Mobile Easy to add ActionSheet to existing Kendo UI Mobile applications (i.e. TeamThing) Introduction In case you missed it,...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Webinar Series: Getting Started With Web UI Automation

    I mentioned earlier that we’ll be hosting a three day “lunch and learn” format webinar designed to help folks new to web UI automation get off on the right foot. We’ll be covering lots of fundamental concepts to help you and your team succeed with automation instead of falling in to the pit of despair. You can start signing up now for the webinar! You’ll only need to sign up once, and you can join us for any or all of the sessions. The webinar is a three day series, with each day’s sessions running somewhere between 30 and ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Mobile

    How to make money from your Windows Phone app free webinar. Sign-up now! Check out the prizes.

    It’s official. Building top-notch mobile app that generates actual revenue takes more than a smart idea,  developer’s skills, excellent tools and nice implementation. The app needs promotion and you as a developer need to take advantage of every potential opportunity for making money. Join us for our free webinar where we’ll talk about how to make money from your Windows Phone app. We’ll cover topics such as: the composite parts of a mobile app; discoverability of the app, best methods for monetization and best methods for re-engagement. We’re co-hosting the webinar with Tapjoy, a company offering a mobile advertising and publishing...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    XAMLflix Video Tutorial: RadCoverFlow for Silverlight

    Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadCoverFlow for Silverlight. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadCalculator and RadGauge. This week we will be taking a look at RadCoverFlow for Silverlight and WPF. What is XAMLflix you might ask? Well, it is Telerik’s way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Telerik’s XAML suite. Each and every Tuesday and Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control. Since our Silverlight and WPF share a common codebase and API, you only...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Mobile

    How to design a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Part 2

    Welcome to the second blog where we talk about the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the Windows 8 and the Windows Phone platforms and what this means to designers and developers. In the  first blog post we covered: Design process Layout and navigation In this part we will take a deeper look at: Commands and actions Touch Orientation and views Notifications and live tiles Telerik upcoming Windows 8 suite You can download the full series as: high resolution pdf  (~7 MB), or low resolution pdf (~2 MB).
    May 27, 2021 8 min read
  • Productivity

    Localization of the TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal

    With the 2012 R2 Release, localization of the Ideas and Feedback Portal is as easy as editing a text file!  Background Localization is the process of changing the text in an application to another language, or locale.  Well designed applications allow for changing the text that is displayed without having to branch the source code and recompile, and TeamPulse certainly falls into this category.  Built on Microsoft’s .NET Platform, TeamPulse takes full advantage of the localization features provided by the .NET Framework, allowing you to customize the Ideas and Feedback portal to the language that best meets your needs. Based on our customers’...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
  • Release

    Windows Phone Controls Roadmap - what is coming in our next release

    The next release of RadControls for WindowsPhone is near and I would like to shed some light on what we have been working on in the last three months. In this blog post I'll just highlight the new goodies, more details will be available later as we approach to release. The first thing that I want to share is the work that we did to improve the total experience in creating applications with our tools. Matching the Metro design guidelines and designing your application to the highest Metro standards sometimes is hard and we decided to give you a major help in this...
    May 21, 2012 2 min read
  • Productivity

    The Import Project from TFS Wizard in TeamPulse

    “Click-Click-Click-Done” That’s how Joel Semeniuk, Executive VP of Agile Project Management at Telerik, defined “done” for our TeamPulse integration with the Team Foundation Server. Last Thursday we released the Service Pack to our R2 Release and it is exclusively focused on the integration with TFS. To meet Joel’s requirements, we created the Import Project from TFS wizard. The new Import Project from TFS wizard can be launched as soon as you start TeamPulse. And here is how the integration goes step by step. Select a Project Once the connection to your server is established, you can decide which project to import ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • People

    Load Testing Webinar is Live on Telerik TV!

    Did you miss our first-ever webinar on the new Load Test functionality we just released in Test Studio 2012 R1? Fear not! We’ve just uploaded a recording of the webinar to Telerik TV. I hope you find it useful and informative! If you’re not already using Test Studio, why not go grab a fully functional trial download? 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 ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read