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    Breakfast at Telerik 13 March!

    Are you in the Boston area on 13 March? Come join me and some really smart Telerik colleagues for breakfast and learn a bit about Test Studio can help you quickly bring great quality to your projects. We’ll also have a session targeted to the question “HTML5 or Silverlight?” along with some demonstrations of how Telerik’s controls can help you in either case. We’re shooting to have folks out by 10:30; however, we’ll have a few deep dive sessions afterwards if you’re able and interested in sticking around. Find out more, and register, at our Eventbrite page: http://breakfastattelerikmarch.eventbrite.com. I ...
    February 14, 2012 1 min read
  • Release

    Lessons Learned About Documentation

    Here at Kendo UI, we have always encouraged you to give us feedback.  Whether it’s through our forums, or the Kendo UI User Voice site, what you think is important to us.  We take your thoughts very seriously.  We receive a lot of feature requests, enhancement...
    February 14, 2012 4 min read
  • Release

    Formatting content with RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX just became easier

    One of the new features coming up in Q1 2012 for the RadEditor control is a new drop-down tool called "Format sets". We hope that this new editor command will make styling your content faster and easier. In its essence, the format sets drop-down combines the features of two existing editor tools - the paragraph styles and the apply CSS class and adds a new way to apply formatting to content.  The new tool will help you immensely if your site has a lot of CSS styles and it takes a long time to find the right one each time. It...
    February 13, 2012 2 min read
  • Release

    Service Pack 2 Is Live!

    We’re excited to announce Service Pack 2 for Telerik Test Studio 2011 R2 is now live and ready for release! You can find it available for downloads at the regular download page, or through your account’s product page. You can find a complete list of what’s new in this release on our version notes page. Some of the big items in this release include: Support for Firefox 9+ Support for Chrome 17+ Support for recording file dialogs in IE9 (upload, save as, etc.) Neat enhancements to the Test as Step dialogs – better sorting, grouping, and metadata There ...
    February 13, 2012 1 min read
  • Release

    What’s Coming in JustCode Q1 2012

    The Q1 2012 release webinars are just around the corner, and we will be showing off some cool new features in Telerik JustCode. Here are the session details, be sure to check your schedule! Note: we’ll be giving away a Telerik Ultimate Collection. What’s New in Tools for Better Code – JustCode, JustMock, JustTrace, JustDecompile We have many exciting features to introduce for Just products in 2012 Q1. JustCode gains LINQ conversions, enhancements to the test runner, and support for QUnit and Jasmine. JustTrace makes it easier to find memory hogs with the Largest Memory Retainers view. JustMock gets a codeActivity workflow activity...
    February 11, 2012 3 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Minified CSS for your RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. Enjoy!

    One of the major goals web developers have when building web applications is performance. In general there are three areas that can be improved to achieve better overall performance: the server-side generation of the requested page, the time it takes for the page and all of its web resources to be downloaded by the browser and the performance of the rendered page in the browser. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX have been, are, and will continue to be Telerik's promise for easily building great ASP.NET web applications, which are both beautiful and performant. There was however a small area where the tools lacked behind -...
    February 11, 2012 2 min read
  • Release

    Q1 Webinar Week Final Countdown is Starting Now!

    Hey fellow Ninjas, Q1 2012 Webinar Week is quickly approaching! This is just a reminder that the first event of the webinar series starts in less than 10 days, so if you haven’t registered yet, be sure to book your seat right away. With the first release of 2012, Telerik will provide yet another set of high-quality updates to tools that help you sharpen your .NET skills. An official launch of JustDecompile, the wildly popular .NET decompiler, a bunch of new betas for the XAML developers and a brand new End-User Report Designer now included in the Telerik Reporting Suite, are only...
    February 10, 2012 1 min read
  • People

    Q1 Webinar Coming Up!

    Telerik’s Q1 webinars are coming up very soon! You can see webinars on all Telerik products and find out the latest and greatest about them. I’ll be hosting the Test Studio webinar on 20 Feb from 11AM-12PM, Eastern US time. I’ll be walking through the changes from our November service pack release, and I’ll also show off some of the features Test Studio has to help you create more maintainable functional tests. You can find registration details at the Telerik Webinars page. I hope to see you there! About the author Jim Holmes Jim Holmes has around 25 years ...
    February 10, 2012 1 min read
  • Release

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM – What’s coming in Q1 2012 release

      As many of you probably know already, we are going to release Q1 a month earlier this year (in mid-February). As the release date is approaching we are proud to show you the improvements in the product we have developed in the last several months. Following your feedback and advices, we have dedicated this version mostly to usability and optimization of the time you spend working with large Domain Models.   Batch Operations Dialog We have acknowledged that if you have hundreds of domain classes or tables with plenty of columns, modifying your model can sometimes become a boring and lengthy task. In...
    February 09, 2012 4 min read
  • Productivity

    At a Single Glance - Interpreting and Acting Upon Agile Project Metrics

    At a single glance. That’s what it should take to know when something isn’t right on your projects. Knowing that something is wrong with your project should be as easy as glancing at a visual indicator. You shouldn’t have to interpret anything. You shouldn’t have to be an expert in metrics or project analysis. You should easily be able to tell that something isn’t right … with a single glance. Monitor and control systems have been around since the dawn of innovation. We see these types of systems all over industry – simple and intuitive displays representing the health of ...
    February 09, 2012 5 min read