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    Silverlight: Silverlight 5 is out. What does this mean to me?

    Microsoft's long awaited release of Silverlight 5 happened on Friday. Silverlight 5.0 ships with a ton of new features, including new media and graphic improvements as well as extending the trust model to the browser (a big deal for some Line of Business applications). This release happened without any fanfare but that hardly diminishes its value. Some of the great things in the release are listed here. While Microsoft did not announce that there was going to be a Silverlight 6, they did announce they would extend support for Silverlight 5 for ten years until 10 Dec 2021, as long...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Test Studio Is First to Automate Silverlight 5 Applications

    Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 5 a couple of days ago. Telerik is the leader in supporting the new technologies so is our automated testing solution – Test Studio. The Silverlight Test Automation is straight forward with Test Studio no matter the SL version the application is built on top of or the Silverlight runtime on the client machine. The latest official Telerik Test Studio version released a couple of weeks ago and labeled 2011.2.1117 officially supports Silverlight 5. Download the bits from here! We also recommend the latest internal build, labeled 2011.2.1209 (yes, released the same ...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    31 Days of Testing—Day 11: Maintainable Functional Automation

    NOTE: I’m running a series called “31 Days of Testing” on my personal blog at FrazzledDad.com. The series covers a really broad range of testing topics, so I haven’t been cross-posting things here. This specific post; however, hits perfectly on things I’ve spoken about in Test Studio webinars and previous posts, so I’m posting it here, too. I’ll cross-post a few others; however, if you want to read the full series then please join me over at FrazzledDad! I wanted to write a blog post on “Introduction to Functional Automation Testing” but I realized I firmly believe there are ...
    May 27, 2021 8 min read
  • Web

    Silverlight 5 and Telerik RadControls – What you need to know!

    Introduction The Silverlight 5 Release to Manufactures (RTM) is now available to download from the Silverlight site. Telerik is very excited about this release as well as WPF as you can see in our latest Q3 webinar. We can confirm that all of our tests against the latest release were successful. We will be releasing the SL5 build shortly but no longer than the end of the month. Please use this release to update your Silverlight 5 Beta/RC code to work with and use the new features. Download the bits: Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 SP1 is...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Asserting a mock with test framework

    When asserting an expected call for its number of occurrences or may be just to verify if the setup/arrange is acted as intended, the tool generally raises assertion that points us to the reason why the test failed. Different mocking tools use different exception classes therefore there is no common way to consolidate them. However, if we just take a look into the test framework unless its some alien one, they all have a common underlying structure for Assert.Throws or ExpectedException (MSTest). MS Test (C# and Silverlight) Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.AssertFailedException NUnit NUnit.Framework.AssertionException XUnit Xunit.Sdk.AssertException MSpec Machine.Specifications.SpecificationException MbUnit Gallio.Framework.Assertions.AssertionException So the point here is that if we just use the existing exception class rather...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    Inheritance With Kendo UI

    If you have been reading some of my other blog posts on things like the DataSource and Models, then you know that I like to talk about some of the lesser known features of Kendo UI.  Kendo UI is more than just great looking widgets with amazing...
    May 27, 2021 7 min read
  • Mobile

    Building Stock charts with RadChart for Windows Phone

    Download the demo Visualizing financial data with RadChart for Windows Phone, part of RadControls for Windows Phone, has never been easier. As of the Q3 2011 release, the control adds two of the most popular financial series – Candlestick and Stick (or OHLC as we call it) to its broad range of different visualizations. In this post I will explain how easy it is to setup a chart that visualizes some financial data. The more interesting topics covered are: Reading data from a file and creating view models Setting-up and styling a RadCartesianChart instance Adding chart interactivity  The view model The data points created by a CandleStickSeries...
    December 08, 2011 4 min read
  • Release

    Meet TeamPulse R3 2011: Forms authentication, role-based permission and more

    The final TeamPulse release for 2011 brings a number of highly anticipated features for people looking to add an extra level of security to their projects and those using Microsoft TFS. Some of the new features are: Role-based Permissions Roles-based security allows teams to define groups of users that have specific permissions and roles within TeamPulse. Teams will then have the ability to assign users to these groups to help them control who can do what within the application.   Forms-based Authentication With R3 2011 users that want to use TeamPulse outside of Windows Active Directory will be able to ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    The Ultimate Scheduler Touch Experience for WinForms

    ‘Touch’ is everywhere around us. We use it daily in our lives thanks to the touch-enabled devices – mobile phones, tables, kiosk stations. Touch navigation just feels more natural and pleasant to the end-user than using some kind of a pointing device, such as a mouse or a track-ball. Today, we are going to reveal what you can expect from RadScheduler for WinForms in the context of the touch support. The improvements described here will be introduced in Q2 2011 SP1, and will greatly enhance the end-user experience of you applications on Windows 7 and Windows 8 touch devices.   Switching between...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Release

    What’s New in JustDecompile Beta 3

    We release updates to JustDecompile on a regular basis to provide you with the highest quality, decompiled code, but we recently arrived at a milestone with JustDecompile Beta 3. We’re going to take a look at two highly requested features of JustDecompile that were recently added. Remember, you can always make your voice heard at the Telerik JustDecompile User Voice, and perhaps you will find your request featured in our next milestone. Zip File Distribution Telerik JustDecompile can now be downloaded as a zip file. You can put the files on a USB drive for easy access without installation, or you can put...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read