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    Pie Chart: Taking Control of the Label

    It is pretty straight-forward to create a pie chart with a simple label that identifies the “category” for each slice. What is a bit trickier is to modify that label so that it shows not only the category, but the percentage each slice represents. Let’s build the pie chart both ways to see the difference. In either case, we begin with data. Our pie chart will reflect a municipal budget, and so our first class is BudgetData, 1: public class BudgetData : INotifyPropertyChanged 2: { 3: private double millions; 4: public double Millions ...
    September 04, 2012 4 min read
  • Release

    Telerik Windows 8 XAML and HTML examples – now available on the Windows store

    Telerik examples for Windows 8 XAML and HTML are already on the store. The two apps are free of charge with source-code viewer to help you get started with your development. The examples will guide you through all the available components and features of the Telerik suite for Windows 8 development.    We get a lot of question as to whether you can submit apps to the store with the current version of the product and the answer is yes. With the latest Beta 2 release which we announced on the 15th of August you can submit your applications using RadControls...
    September 03, 2012 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Tweet your Performance results

    You might already be familiar with this article. It will tell you how to access your results from code so that you can do whatever you like with them (tweet them, use them to build up a custom dashboard, post them on Facebook etc.). But that's just for functional test. What about  Performance testing? Can you access your Performance data from a coded snippet?  Yes, you can. It's slightly more complex. Performance results are not available immediately after a test has finished running. Hench you won't be able to access them from the OnAfterTestCompleted (reference). Instead you have to access ...
    September 01, 2012 2 min read
  • Desktop

    Showing 4 Data Points At Once: Financial Chart

    Most charts show one point at a time on a Cartesian (x/y) coordinate. That is, a single point might indicate that July sales were $525MM while August sales (a second point) were $350MM. The chart might also show a line connecting the two points to show the change in value. But each individual entry is typically a single point on the coordinate system. With stocks, we’d like to show four bits of information for each entry: the opening price, the closing price, the high for the day, the low for the day. There is no good way to do this by drawing points on an...
    August 30, 2012 3 min read
  • People

    10x10 Shanghai Recap

    Last week I traveled up to Shanghai, China to speak at the 10x10 event: bringing in 10 tech “pioneers” to speak for 10 minutes each to a crowd of entrepreneurs. I put pioneers in quotes, since there were 9 pioneers plus me speaking. It was a great way to connect with the startup scene in China. The event was sponsored by Chinaccelerator, an early stage startup accelerator that has 10 companies in a cohort right now. I met with most of the 10 companies and was very impressed; most, but not all, were doing mobile or social media startups. People in the West understand that Facebook and...
    August 30, 2012 2 min read
  • Web

    Custom paging with Telerik RadGridView and RadDataPager for Silverlight and Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch

    With this post I would like to show you how you can customize easily paging behavior in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch using Telerik RadDataPager for Silverlight .
    August 29, 2012 1 min read
  • Web

    The JavaScript Bat Belt

    The Dark Knight This weekend, I finally did what so many developers have already done several times in the past month. I saw the new Batman movie. I decided for this post, that I would do a complete character and plot breakdown while dissecting the...
    August 29, 2012 6 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Encrypting Passwords in Test Studio

    Using safe, generic accounts for testing is a boon; however, sometimes that’s simply not possible. Corporate policies may prevent “fake” accounts, or perhaps the test accounts have access to sensitive areas. In these cases it’s critical you’re able to secure the logon credentials. Test Studio’s Service Pack 2 for our 2012 R1 release now enables you to securely encrypt passwords in your tests with just a simple click. Here’s how a test logging on to our demo app looks. You can see the password is stored in clear text in the test: The password is also stored in clear text ...
    August 28, 2012 2 min read