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  • Productivity

    Delivering Software Value

    What makes software valuable? Or, to be specific, when does software become valuable? To put it simply, software becomes valuable when the proper solution gets into the hands of the user. Software sitting on a developer’s computer, no matter how wonderfully it was designed or coded, doesn’t provide any value. Your development teams are hard at work developing the best software possible. They are employing many of the agile practices that have been developed over the past decade or so, including implementing a rapid feedback loop through increased collaboration, developing in small iterations, ensuring transparency, and responding to change. Including ...
    January 16, 2012
  • Release

    2012 Roadmap Revealed: 6 Major Releases

    For the TeamPulse team, 2012 means “new frontiers” 2011 was a stellar year where we focused on delivering around our core product to help teams represent and manage requirements and plan and manage work. The later part of the year we really switched gears and started adding value on top of this core set of functionality by adding the Feedback Portal. Here is a summary of what we are planning on doing for 2012 based completely on customer demand: Deliver Every 2 Months Our customers have been asking for a LOT of features – and we don’t want them to ...
    January 13, 2012
  • Productivity

    Search in JustDecompile

    There are many reasons why you would want to decompile an assembly with Telerik JustDecompile. Perhaps you’re curious about the inner workings of a particular reference, or maybe you’re looking for interesting techniques. But when you’re trying to solve an issue, you need to be able to quickly find what’s going wrong. Clues can range from a particular method call to an exception message, and a more robust method of searching was requested on the JustDecompile User Voice. We have answered the request in the latest version of JustDecompile. The Search Window The new search window is accessible through the common shortcut...
    January 13, 2012
  • People

    Kendo UI on Hanselminutes podcast

    Interested in hearing an open and honest discussion about Kendo UI? Then you don't want to miss Episode 298 of the popular Hanselminutes podcast. I sit down with Mr. Hanselman to discuss everything Kendo UI, from technical direction of the product to licensing. It's 30 minutes of...
    January 13, 2012
  • Mobile

    New Videos Added to our Windows Phone 7 Library

    Hello everyone, You have asked and we have listened! A new set of WP7 videos have been released. This time we included: RadJumpList, RadCalendar and RadDataBoundListBox. The videos below are hosted on TelerikTV and are around 8-10 minutes each. So grab a coffee and put on your favorite tunes and check them out. Getting Started with RadJumpList Getting Started with RadCalendar Getting Started with RadDataBoundListBox The Source Code to all of the videos is also available to download now. In case you missed the Q3 2011 WP7 Webinar describing our new controls then you can watch it here and don’t forget to check out this follow-up blog post...
    January 12, 2012
  • People

    Talking to a Windows Phone Developer About the App Market

    Last year Telerik sponsored the WP7 Unleashed Events – a series of hands-on lab events organized by Microsoft and the local communities. 25 apps of all applications submitted at the end of each event were selected and one of them won the Telerik Grand Prize – $5000. The winner of the big prize was Jack of Tools - the app that turns your phone into a virtual tool belt. We are talking with Jonathan Isabelle from Digitalmason.net, the company that created Jack of Tools and a few other Windows Phone apps, about his observations on the Windows Phone app market, his success...
    January 11, 2012
  • Release

    JustCode formatter – Introduction

    The formatter in Telerik JustCode is one of its many great features. Its main goal is to let you define and enforce your code style across your projects. It is a very important part of the product as it is used in many other places as well (for example typing assistance and refactorings). Configuration The JustCode formatter is very configurable. You can find its options in the Code Style section of the JustCode options dialog: You can also configure JustCode to share the Code Style options per solution. To do that, go to the Options Sharing page in the Options. Supported languages As shown on the image...
    January 10, 2012
  • Productivity Testing

    New Video: Integrating Test Studio with Team Pulse

    I’ve just posted up a new video showing how you can link automation tests in Test Studio to user story acceptance criteria in Team Pulse. It’s extraordinarily simple to do! Find the video here on Telerik TV! 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 of tools to help teams deliver better software. Find him as @aJimHolmes on Twitter.
    January 10, 2012
  • Desktop WPF

    RadMap for Silverlight / WPF: How to resize map shapes with mouse dragging

    RadMap provides a rich set of geocoordinate-enabled shapes that can be defined and displayed onto the map surface .There are scenarios, however, where you would like to do more than just position a shape onto the map. This blogpost will demonstrate how to manipulate each individual segment of line/polyline/polygon shape based on mouse input from the user. For example we will select (highlight) a point, and drag the selected object to another location on the map – modifying in this way the shape or the line segment. First of all we’ll need two Information layers – one...
    January 09, 2012
  • Web jQuery

    What You May Not Know About jQuery

    It never ceases to amaze me at how much I don’t know. jQuery is a pretty straight forward library.  It’s essentially one large object off of which we can call and chain functions.  The beauty of it is in it’s simplicity.  It takes a somewhat convoluted and...
    January 07, 2012