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    RadChart for Windows 8 WinRT - Designing the demo

    We, at Telerik, are trying to be the first facing the challenge to adopt the newest technologies - and here we are now designing and developing a WinRT demo application at this early developer preview stage of the OS and developer tools. As a UX designer I was eager to start with the design and in the same time a little bit scared in front of the challenge. However it turns out it’s not as big of a challenge as I thought. Two of the most important reasons for that are: our RadControls for Windows Phone 7 completely working on WinRT...
    by Nina Zayakova
    October 14, 2011
  • Productivity

    Agile is for your WHOLE Business

    I’ve said this very often – and I’ll say it one more time. Agile isn’t just about software development. It can be effective to manage your entire business. I’m a huge believer that many aspects of Agile should be applied to business – especially management and sales approaches. In his book Enterprise Scrum, Ken Schwaber introduces the idea of using Scrum at the enterprise level.  I don’t think we need to stop at Scrum to apply Agile to Business development, sales, or virtually any corporate initiative.  The principles hold true.  This is becoming more and more apparent as I ...
    by Joel Semeniuk
    October 14, 2011
  • Productivity

    A Testament to an Agile Team

    I wrote a number of blog posts on a “behind the scenes look” at how the TeamPulse team works.  You can read all about them here (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) As you can see, we truly value and embrace the principles behind Agile and have worked very hard to get the team to where it is today. When I started with Telerik and began to think about how I would form the team, I can’t deny that I hand picked specific people with specific personality and technical traits.  In fact, I will be completely honest ...
    by Joel Semeniuk
    October 14, 2011
  • Productivity

    The Lure of Specialization

    Everyone knows that developers can’t test! Let’s face it – testers should only test. Developers should only develop as they have no clue what test cases look like and can’t be bothered with such mundane and trivial work. Asking a developer to test or to write documentation is like asking Leonardo da Vinci to build his own canvases and clean his own paint brushes. We need business analysts to tell developers exactly what we need to be developed using very detailed models and specifications (I mean.. developers understand code… they need to explicit instructions so that they know how to ...
    by Joel Semeniuk
    October 14, 2011
  • Productivity

    Bend Telerik OpenAccess ORM to Your Will With Type Converters – Part 2 : Enums

    In my previous blog I showed the basics of using Type Converters in OpenAccess ORM.  I even walked through creating a very basic type converter for storing an int as a varchar in SQL Server.  The example converter was very basic, so in this blog I would like to take a look at something a little more practical.  In this example I will create a converter that tells OpenAccess ORM to store the value of an Enum property using the enum value’s name. Out of the box OpenAccess will persist enum’s using the enum’s underlying type which by default is int. In...
    October 13, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Location and Localization - two new charms in the Telerik AJAX CarRental sample app

    When we conferred internally (in the beginning of the current quarter) on the update of the AJAX Car Rental sample application, we asked ourselves the substantial question: How can we make this example even more useful for the developers? And going through the functionality it incorporated, we made the important deduction: Add car location, to make the vehicles more easily discoverable all over the world and Include localization to remove the language barrier for users that are not proficient in English. For the first part the most natural choice was to choose to integrate...
    rahnev by Stefan Rahnev
    October 13, 2011
  • People

    The LOB Chronicles Episode 10: UI Consistency

    We have taken quite an adventure in chronicling the new Silverlight CRM demo and all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into making new demos for our site, but now we finally get to talk about the really fun stuff – UI. I know, I know, depending on what hat you are wearing at your company you may be thinking “Hey, I loved the previous posts on MEF (here and here) as well as what you were saying about the Repository Pattern, what’s all this UI business?” As it turns out, Telerik sells a wide range of UI components that are used...
    by Evan Hutnick
    October 13, 2011
  • Mobile

    RadChart for Windows 8 WinRT – Taking its First Breath

    This is part three of the RadChart for WinRT blog series. For more information please refer to the other parts of the series: Part one - A Prelude Part two - The Compilation   Okay, we have already compiled our Windows Phone Chart under WinRT (refer to the previous post). The whole process went pretty straightforward and took less than an hour. Now, let’s move on with setting-up a demo project with a simple chart in it to verify the compilation and to check for some hidden exceptions. The steps are well familiar: File->New Project->Visual C#->Windows Metro Style->Application. Adding the reference to our freshly compiled...
    Georgi Atanasov 164x164 by Georgi Atanasov
    October 13, 2011
  • Mobile

    Lambda woes with csc

    While helping with the development of our Tasks application I stumbled upon a strange compiler error. There was a lambda expression that was compiling just fine before I touched the file with the lambda and after changing a line inside the body of the lambda, the project suddenly stopped compiling. The error was, that it could not find an adequate overload of the method that accepted the lambda in question as an argument. The cause turned out to be very interesting(for me at least) and I think it is worth sharing. Consider that you have a function with two overloads that both accept...
    by Viktor Skarlatov
    October 12, 2011
  • Release

    RadPropertyGrid for WinForms is getting new cool features in Q3 2011

    Q3 2011 release is getting close and we are eager to share some of the improvements that we have been working on lately. We have always been relying on your feedback to better shape our tools for your purposes. This time it is no different. RadPropertyGrid will get three highly requested features. The first feature will allow you to add custom items in the RadPropertyGrid by using RadPropertyStore. It is a collection of PropertyStoreItems which contain information that describes a property, its type, name, value, etc. When the RadPropertyStore is set to the SelectedObject property of the RadPropertyGrid, it displays these...
    by Nikolay Diyanov
    October 12, 2011
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