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Understanding Validation Content Element Types
Test Studio offers you up several different validation types when you’re constructing a validation sentence targeting a content type. It’s important you understand the difference between the options you have – the subtle differences may cause unexpected failures or worse, falsely passing tests! To demonstrate the differences, I’ll use the same example HTML I used in my previous post about working with test-hostile UIs. If I select the first NewsItemContent node and look at its snippet of the DOM, we’ll see this: <div class="NewsItemContent">We continue to have more and more successes with dogfooding throughout Telerik. ("Dogfooding" ...August 23, 2011 5 min read -
Productivity
Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Configuring MSMQ for L2Cache usage
Telerik OpenAccess ORM uses Microsoft Message Queuing for (optional) synchronization of the L2Cache. The principal setup is described here. In some cases the default settings as described in the documentation are not sufficient. Having more than one network interface card In cases where you have more than on network interface card on the machine you are running the MSMQ, you might get into the problem, that the MSMQ doesn’t know which nic to use. In effect it starts to randomly use a nic. A message like this will appear in your event log. 1: Message Queuing found...August 23, 2011 2 min read -
Productivity Testing
Automating Innovation
The rise and impact of automated testing tools and technology The year was 1962 and the world was catching its first glimpse of the daring and colorful wonders that tomorrow might bring. It was a space-age vision of a technology-filled future – flying cars that could fold down into an attaché case, wisecracking robotic maids, and miraculous machines that could do anything from washing the dog to cooking a three-course gourmet meal, all at the touch of a button. It was a utopian society made cleaner, better, and more prosperous through the auspicious use of technology and automation. This description, ...August 23, 2011 10 min read -
People
Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team – Part 1
One of the most common questions I get asked is “does the TeamPulse Team use TeamPulse?” My answer is always “Of Course!!!” – The TeamPulse team is the biggest, most passionate, and most demanding customer of the TeamPulse product! We wouldn’t have it any other way. I thought I would take some time to detail some behind the scenes facts about the TeamPulse team; how we work, how we’re structured, and how we use TeamPulse. TeamStructure Just like a lot of teams in the real world, the TeamPulse team is distributed across geographies and time zones. Our entire team (Sales, ... -
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Like Our Tools? Vote for us in Two Award Polls!
Telerik is competing for a number of awards in two different polls, and we’d love to have your support in both! We’re in the running for 20 different categories for all Telerik tools in the DevProConnections awards, and we’re also up for a number of categories specific to Test Studio in the Automated Testing Institute’s annual Honors poll. You can read more about the DevProConnections award on another Telerik blog post. I wrote about the ATI poll a few weeks ago. I was very proud to join Telerik because I’ve been a long-time lover of their software, ...August 23, 2011 1 min read -
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Visit Telerik at TechEd New Zealand 2011
TechEd New Zealand kicks off this Wednesday in the beautiful Auckland. If you are there make sure to come by the Telerik booth, grab a t-shirt (we have a special "geekette" edition for the ladies), get a chance to win a 250GB Xbox360 + Kinect, and check what's new in our Q2 2011 release. You will find a Telerik flyer in your bag, fill it quickly and come to the booth to enter the draw for the prize. Our Aussie web expert Malcolm Sheridan will deliver several sessions covering hot topics like MVC lessons learnt and easy web deployment, so be sure to attend and learn... -
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TeamPulse R2 2011 is Here!
We are happy to announce that we have just released the new version of our agile project management tool TeamPulse. With it we are introducing some great new features that make release planning and work item management as simple as possible. In R2 2011 you will also find a number of functionalities that will improve team collaboration and help you focus on what’s most important. Let’s take a quick look. Backlog Management The new Backlog management feature lets you view and organize all work items, like user stories, bugs, issues, and risks from a single place. In this view you ... -
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RadJumpList for Windows Phone extended: Support for Sticky Header
Besides inheriting all performance improvements coming from RadDataBoundListBox RadJumpList further extends its functionality in our latest Mango Build with Sticky Header support. A sticky header is nothing more but a group header that is statically positioned at the top edge of RadJumpList’s viewport displaying the currently focused data group –just like in the revamped phonebook in Windows Phone Mango. This new functionality brings some small API extensions. There are now two new properties exposed by RadJumpList: IsStickyHeaderEnabled StickyHeaderTemplate The IsStickyHeaderEnabled property determines whether a sticky header is shown or not. This property is set to false by default. The StickyHeaderTemplate property can be used to specify a custom... -
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Async Support in Telerik JustCode
The latest internal build of JustCode has been released with support for the asynchronous language features in the Microsoft Visual Studio Async CTP. Improvements to the semantic analyzer detect errors on usage of the async method modifier and await operators in C# and Visual Basic. This feature will be available for the general public in JustCode Q2 SP1. If you’re new to the async and await keywords and would like to know to learn asynchronous programming with C# 5, refer to Going Asynchronous. I provide an example of a twitter client using synchronous programming, the current way of doing asynchronous... -
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A New Era in Application Development, Part II: Kendo UI
A few days ago in Part I of this blog post, I described how we are moving into a new era in application development, the Device+Cloud (D+C) era. I mentioned how just like 15 years ago we had the “Windows or Web” debate, we are now having the “Native or HTML5+JS” debate. Just like 15 years ago, the answer is that we should take a hybrid approach. Some projects will require the reach of HTML5 and others will require the tight OS integration and custom experience of a native app. Some companies will build a HTML+JS version of their app for broad distribution and then choose to build some...
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