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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... -
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 3 min read -
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... -
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 4 min read -
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... -
Mobile
Palette support in RadChart for Windows Phone
We are working hard to improve our charting component for Windows Phone 7 and to make it more and more feature-rich. And we are happy to share that as of Service Pack 1 of the Mango build of our tools, RadChart gets “Palette” support. A Palette may be thought of as a collection of brushes that define the look-and-feel of chart series and data points. The API is quite flexible and allows you to create custom palette or to select from the built-in ones. Two predefines palettes are currently available – Contrast and Warm. To simplify the usage we have created a smart... -
Mobile
Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express
Yesterday I blogged about using my Windows 8 tablet as my main machine for work and device for play. Today I will share my experience in using the device for building a Metro app. The first application that I ever wrote was 19 years ago for the Timex Sinclair 1000. (I can’t believe that I am that old!) I’ve come a long way now writing for a touch enabled device (but the TS 1000 was about the same size of an iPad.). Keeping with tradition, I will write a simple “Hello World” and see how it goes. Step 1: Load Visual Studio Sounds easy, right? Remember this is Windows... -
Productivity
Bend Telerik OpenAccess ORM to Your Will With Type Converters – Part 1
In Q1 2011, Telerik OpenAccess ORM introduced a flexible type conversion system. This type conversion system allows developers to instruct OpenAccess on how to map types that it may not support out of the box. This feature makes it possible for OpenAccess to work with built in UDTs, such as SQL Spatial and XML, as well as any custom UDTs developers create. What is a User Defined Type? SQL Server 2005 introduced user-defined types (UDTs). UDTs extend the SQL type system by allowing you to store objects and custom data structures in a SQL Server database. UDTs can contain multiple data types...September 20, 2011 4 min read -
Release
Kendo UI Quick Answers, #1
As Kendo UI continues to grow in popularity, the Kendo UI community is also quickly growing. And with that growing community come some very good technical questions about Kendo UI. To help give more visibility to some of these questions happening in the active Kendo UI... -
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New Team Member on the XAML Evangelism Team.
Hello Everyone! My name is Michael Crump, and I am the newest member of the XAML Evangelist team. I will be spreading the word about Telerik’s WP7, WPF and Silverlight controls. I will also be covering other great Telerik products . I will be writing blog post, creating video content, attending conferences and answering questions relating to Telerik’s great line of products. Even more importantly, I will be spending a lot of time working with the community and helping my fellow developer. Last week was the //Build/ conference in Anaheim, California. A lot of questions and concerns popped up all over the internet concerning...
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