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Productivity Testing
Follow up to Maintainable Automation
During my first-ever webinar with Telerik this week I spoke briefly about learning how to keep your tests maintainable. This is something near and dear to my heart – I’ve been on a number of projects where we’ve had to suffer through test suites which became ever more brittle as time went on. Brittle tests break frequently due to unrelated changes in the system’s workflow, UI, or business rules. Of course, tests should fail when something directly relating to the test is broken—that’s why we have the tests!—but one change to a web page unrelated to the specific area you’re ...July 22, 2011 5 min read -
Desktop WinForms
Telerik RADControls for Windows Forms Webinar Sample Code and Slide Deck
For those of you that attended the What’s New for Desktop Developers in Q2 2011 Release Webinar, thank you for attending! For those that didn’t get to attend (or for those of you that want to go back through it since it was jam packed with information), the recording worked perfectly, and I will be posting it to Telerik TV in the next 48 hours! Several people attending the webinar asked for the source code for my project that I created to demo the features as well as the powerpoint slides, and you can get them both here (slide deck, code... -
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Desktop WPF
Under the Hood of RadImageEditor for Silverlight and WPF
Introduction In one of the previous blog posts, we gave you a quick overview of how to use RadImageEditorUI to add a basic image editor to your application in a few simple steps. However, there is often a need for more customized image editing capabilities, in which case you can use the bare-bone RadImageEditor control. It doesn’t force a specific UI, so you can choose one that will best integrate in your application. Whereas RadImageEditorUI contains all the UI you need from a basic image editor, RadImageEditor consists only of the image that is being edited. It has an API that... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX – Getting Started with RadImageEditor
We often get requests for new controls and features for our products here at Telerik, and the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX are definitely no exception. One of the most popular requests has always been for the ability to edit images online. Enter the RadImageEditor. This new control, introduced with the Q2 2011 release, allows for end users to take images, edit them in various ways, and then either save them to the server or to their local machine. In this blog post I’ll introduce this new control to you, taking a quick look at how to set it up (it’s... -
Productivity
Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Executing an Oracle stored procedure that returns result sets
In this blog post I will describe how easy it is, to work with the Telerik OpenAccess lower level ADO API and Oracle Stored Procedures that are returning SYS_REFCURSOR as out parameters. The Setup For the following examples we are using a basic Console Application project, which should be enough for the purpose of this blog. We have added a Domain Model to our Solution with two Domain Classes(‘Category’ and ‘Product’). Further we added the ODP.NET Driver from Oracle( you can get it from here), which should be installed on your machine as well. On the Oracle database, we have created 2... -
Mobile
Metro Theme Customization Made Easy
Simplicity is one of the corner stones for the visual appeal of all Metro UIs. Simplicity allows the theme to be largely consistent and make development of the UI of any program a breeze. But there is a risk. The risk of many applications looking alike. Are we facing a homogenization of the next version of UIs? Will my TODO app look like your Twitter client or another’s cloud photo service? I have no clue. What I do know is that we did not want you stuck with a white and blue theme. We want to give you a chance to... -
Release
AJAX TreeList - New Q2 2011 Features
I want to introduce you two new cool features in the RadTreeList for ASP.NET AJAX, available into the Q2 2011 release. RadTreeList Scrolling Sometimes you need to load dozens of rows into the RadTreeList, however the space where the RadTreeList control is placed on the page is not so big and the entire layout of the page is messed up. In this case you may feel some discomfort with necessity of scrolling. So here it is, you could use it when the page has limitations regarding the size of the RadTreeList control. To enable the scrolling of the RadTreeList you need to set the ClientSettings.Scrolling.AllowScroll property to true. -
Release
Telerik Zip Library–the newest member of the big RadControls family
Have you ever wondered how to increase the responsiveness of your applications by compressing the data that you send over the internet? The Q2 2011 release of the RadControls for Silverlight and WPF comes with a new RadZipLibrary which allows you to easily compress data like images, docx or pdf files and send them over the wire. Thus, you will achieve fast and secure transactions. This is a list with short descriptions of the top-of-the-line features of Telerik’s Zip Library: Easy to use API – the Zip Library exposes flexible and easy to use API to provide you with full control over the compressed data Load or create ZIP... -
Productivity
Self-Organizing Teams Focus on Learning
Most Agile texts/guidance/speakers (including myself) stress the creation and sustainment of self-organized teams. What does this mean? Is this possible? Can this ever be achieved? I’ve seen many teams evolve to Agile teams over the years. I must say, Team organization and Team management (especially self-organized teams) is quite difficult and absolutely the single most important aspect of success. The teams that I’ve seen succeed have a few characteristics that are in common.“… learning is key to having a self-organized team” First, there is usually a really great Scrum Master/Agile Coach involved at the beginning of a good self-organizing ...
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