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  • Productivity Testing

    Wrapping Performance Testing Introduction: What to Monitor (Plus Learning Resources)

    In this final post of my performance testing series I’ll help you figure out where to start, then pass on a few resources I’ve found extremely helpful in my own efforts. What do I Monitor? Figuring out which metrics, measurements, and counters to monitor can be extremely daunting—there are hundreds of individual counters in Performance Monitor alone! In most cases you don’t need anywhere near the entire set of metrics. A few counters will give us all the information you generally need for starting your performance testing work. Most performance testing gurus will tell you just a few items will ...
    September 27, 2011
  • Release

    JustCode Support for Visual Studio 11

    Last week during the BUILD conference Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview was announced. Soon after that it was made available to the public. Here at Telerik we are committed on providing support for the latest and greatest technologies so we are already working on JustCode for Visual Studio 11. Actually, JustCode is happily running inside VS11 on our own PCs. Now it is a matter of an internal build or two to test and fix some compatibility issues before we can give it to you for test...
    by Chris Eargle
    September 22, 2011
  • People

    The LOB Chronicles Episode 7: MEF, Attributes, and Behaviors (Oh my!)

    The last time we all got together was before a little conference known as Build. Everyone learned a ton of information about what is coming next in Windows 8 and the WinRT platform, but one thing stuck out for sure – Metro is in. Thankfully our designers have been all over this for quite a while and we have some very nice things in the works, most of which I can’t publicly talk about (yet!), but in the terms of this application we’re definitely on the right track. And don’t forget, an investment in a Silverlight application today means...
    by Evan Hutnick
    September 22, 2011
  • Release

    Telerik XAML controls Q2 2011 SP1

    The Service Packs of Telerik XAML controls (Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone) are out.  You can find a bunch of improvements and fixes in the service packs that are currently available for download under your accounts. You can check the updated demos at:  Silverlight demos WPF demos Some of the high spots for Silverlight and WPF are:  Improved QCV performance when having lots of groups on many levels (LinqToEntities) in the GridView. Added UI Layers API and allowed more than one style (Bold, Italic, Underline, FontSize) to be set on an empty span while editing a document in the RichTextBox. Optimized memory and performance of the TreeListView. Added declarative support for...
    by Nikolay Atanasov
    September 22, 2011
  • Web

    Silverlight is dead. F****** dead

    Or maybe it isn’t that dead? OK…you expected me to say that, and you’re thinking, “this guy is just trying to sell me Silverlight tools and save his business.” I will not argue…you’re almost right. There’s one small correction to be made - we are not trying to save our business. :) Rather, we are hard at work on all fronts, be it HTML5 or Win8, so it doesn’t make a difference for us what technology you’ll ultimately choose as we have all bases covered. As I’ve said many times, use whatever makes most sense for your business. That said, I...
    vassil_terziev by Vassil Terziev
    September 22, 2011
  • Mobile

    RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Mango and Q2 2011 (NoDo) SP1 are now available

    In mid-August, sometime after the Q2 2011 release, we upgraded RadControls for Windows Phone 7 to support Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and released an official build that contains some major performance improvements in RadDataBoundListBox and also all major controls that were introduced back then with Q2 2011: RadChart RadCalendar RadBusyIndicator Enough time has passed for us to gather some very valuable feedback from you to prepare a Service Pack which addresses some critical issues, introduces a new control (RadBulletGraph) and a meaty new feature in our powerful RadChart. We have also managed to greatly optimize the performance of our Data Engine by using the new System.Reflection.Emit APIs. RadChart alone represents...
    Deyan Ginev by Deyan Ginev
    September 22, 2011
  • Productivity Testing

    Not Every Test Should be Automated!

    Updated: I realized that I didn’t make it clear I was writing this post from a vendor’s viewpoint! My choices of what to automate below are based on the view of a tester working on the team for this component—the creators of this control. You, as a consumer, should rarely, rarely ever automate third party controls or components. You may need some high-level test to ensure custom functionality works correctly, but your value is much better focused on testing your own software. Don’t invest in automating Google, Telerik, or other commercial products. -------- When you’re working with automation, choosing what ...
    September 22, 2011
  • Desktop

    When Should You Use Metro, Version 2

    A blog by Todd Anglin, Chief Evangelist at Telerik. (Original post here) During my busy week at the Microsoft BUILD conference, I cranked-out a quick and rough decision tree designed to help you decide which Microsoft platform you should use for app development:Silverlight/WPF, HTML5, or the new Metro/WinRT. The chart proved to be very popular, so I thought I'd revisit the decision tree and with the benefit of more time to reflect, produce a new, more complete version. Thus, I present version 2 of the "How to Pick Your Platform" chart. What's Different? In the original chart, the first question I made you answer was, "Do you need to support...
    ToddAnglin_164 by Todd Anglin
    September 21, 2011
  • People

    There is a need for only five Metro style apps in the world.

    A blog by Doug Seven, Executive Vice President at Telerik. (Original post here) Over the past week I have spent some time playing with Windows 8 and the Samsung Windows 8 Developer Preview Device (SW8DPD). If you’ve spent any time lurking around the Start page or trying out the Metro apps you’ve likely come to the same conclusion I have. There are only five (5) Metro style application types. All of the Metro style app samples in the Windows 8 Developer Preview fit pretty nicely into one of these five categories, which leads me to assert that these are the five intended...
    September 21, 2011
  • People

    Day 3: Can the Tablet come out and play?

    Today is day 3 of running the Windows 8 Build tablet. Apparently I am the only person in Hong Kong with the Build Win8 tablet and everyone I  know in Hong Kong wants to play with it. Some Telerik customers read my blog post from yesterday and asked me if they can play with the tablet too. I set up a meeting at a local pub in Hong Kong to allow some Telerik customers to play with the tablet. So today, the tablet went into the wild. Stop 1: Starbucks I was a little early to meet our customers, so I hung out at Starbucks. Just about all of...
    by Steve Forte
    September 21, 2011
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