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  • Productivity Testing

    Hold The Dates! June 26-28: Getting Started with Web Automated Testing

    Are you completely new to functional web testing? Don’t know where to get started? If so, please mark off your calendar for a three day series of webinars June 26th, 27th, and 28th. I’ll be hosting these webinars from 11AM – 12PM Eastern US. This series is targeted to individuals or teams just getting started with web automation—although more experienced folks may learn a few things too! I’m still fleshing out the agenda and content, but here’s a few of the things you can look forward to learning about: Automation’s purpose/fit in your overall quality and testing strategy What ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Using SQL Server 2012 LocalDB

    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is certainly an interesting upgrade for the SQL Server, offering lots of improvements and new features. There are many things that might tempt you to migrate to 2012 or at least to start your new projects based on it, but to name a few: Enhancements for higher availability New and improved version of the SQL Server Management Studio Easier migration – the new Side-by-Side Migration option makes the migration from older versions of SQL Server safer and the rollback easier, which can be crucial. In the same time, you can do even an In Place migration (only if...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • People

    Upcoming Events : Speaking and Attending

    Hello Everyone, From time to time, I sit down and write out all the events that I will be speaking at or attending in hopes of connecting with other developers who may be attending these events. I’ll be at these events representing Telerik, so feel free to stop by the booth and ask say Hi.  I have several different talks lined-up from Windows 8, Silverlight, OData and Windows Phone 7! That’s a lot of XAML if you ask me! [Click below for more information including registration links] All About XAML [May Meetup] – Alabama – May 15th, 2012.    Rocky Mountain Trifecta – Colorado - May 19th,...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    3 Great Examples of Styled Feedback Portals

    After the last TeamPulse release, you have the chance to use an upgraded version of the Ideas & Feedback Portal that allows you to fully style the portal and get closer to your company’s look and feel. Here is the original look of the feedback portal.
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Load Testing and Performance Webinar 5/16

    Join us Wednesday, 16 May, at 11am US Eastern time, to learn how Test Studio’s performance testing and just-released load testing features can help you detect bottlenecks in your system’s performance and answer business-critical questions about your site’s ability to handle large amounts of traffic. This webinar will focus solely on Test Studio’s Performance and Load Testing features. We’ll be drilling down in to some great specifics of how these features can help you respond to questions from management like “Will our site be able to support traffic after this new product’s launch?” and “Are our customers happy when ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • 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...
    March 10, 2025 17 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 7 min read
  • 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 4 min read
  • 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...
    May 10, 2012 1 min read
  • 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...
    May 27, 2021 5 min read