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  • People

    EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference is in Full Swing

    Day three of the premier testing conference in Europe has just started. This year the event takes place in Manchester, UK from 21st to 24th of November. Again, numerous smart testing folks flew in to take part in the conference – the program schedule abounds in names of software testing celebrities like Gojko Adzic, Michael Bolton, James Whittaker, Dorothy Graham, and many more. Running along with the conference session tracks there is the EuroSTAR Test Lab which provides a dedicated setup to help attendees get involved and do some real testing in a live test environment. There are real systems to...
    November 23, 2011 2 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Easily Access Embedded Resources with Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX

    With RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX we are committed to building great looking UI for you. Rich HTML, Javascript and CSS work together to provide a professional look and feel for your next generation applications. You can imagine there would be a solid amount of web resources our controls use to achieve that. Still, we keep the bag tidy and free the developer from deploying myriads of files on various development, testing and production environments. Everything is shipped neatly in a couple of assemblies you reference in your project.  How do we do that? We use embedded resources. In this blog post...
    November 23, 2011 5 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Organize Your Tests, Part II: Use Metadata!

    In my last post I talked about some ways to organize your tests to help keep things clear and discoverable. My pal Adam Goucher, one of the top Selenium folks around, took me to task me via mail (in a friendly way!) that tags and metadata are a critical part of organizing your tests. I agree, but with a subtle difference. Tags and other forms of metadata are great for helping you categorize your tests, but I think they come in to play more when you’re trying to execute your tests versus organize your tests on the file system. ...
    November 23, 2011 3 min read
  • Release

    Dynamic Data Support for OpenAccess ORM in Q3 2011 Release

    In past releases, we included an example in our SDK that showed customers how to work with Dynamic Data projects when using OpenAccess ORM.  The process was not as straightforward as we would have liked, but it worked.  In this release we are excited to announce that we have greatly simplified this process by adding wizards, and a new provider, allowing OpenAccess ORM to work directly with .Net 4.0 Dynamic Data Web Applications, and Web Sites. Getting Started To use this new functionality, the first thing you need to do is build a Telerik OpenAccess ORM domain model. Once the domain...
    November 23, 2011 3 min read
  • Release

    Next Monday: What's New in Q3’11 for OpenAccess ORM and Telerik Reporting

    Mark your calendars! Next week is the official Q3 Webinar week and we have set up 11 webinars covering the complete Telerik developer portfolio (and then some). We will once again be giving away some Ultimate Collection licenses, so make sure to register for the webinars that interest you the most, and multiply your chances of winning. On Monday we will start off with an overview of Q3 2011, followed by the XAML webinar, and will finish off with What's New in Q3 2011 for Data Tools. In it, we will take a dive into all the great new features the Telerik Reporting and...
    November 22, 2011 1 min read
  • Release

    Join the Official Kendo UI Launch event!

    There is nothing more exciting than working on developing a new product for months and months, publishing a hugely popular beta, and then finally reaching the big "v1" official release. Kendo UI's road from idea to release has been more than a year in the making, but...
    November 22, 2011 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Organizing Your Tests

    Naming and organization is critical in keeping software systems maintainable as you move forward, especially with larger systems or systems with longer lifespans. You’ll find yourself spending large amounts of time stumbling around unclear, tangled source code if you don’t take care with how you lay out your classes, namespaces, and projects. We should take the same exact care with our tests as the systems we’re delivering to our customers, because test code IS production code. Careful naming and layout of your tests is every bit as important as the system itself—and perhaps even a bit more since we ...
    November 22, 2011 6 min read
  • People

    Test Studio Wins the VS Magazine Reader’s Choice Award!

    Telerik has won multiple honors for this year’s Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards! Test Studio won top honors in the Software Testing and Quality Assurance category, and I’m proud to say that a number of other great Telerik products got top nod as well, including: Best Collaboration, Project Management, and Agile Solutions – Telerik TeamPulse Best Component Suite: Web – RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Best Mobile Development Tools – RadControls for Windows Phone JustCode, OpenAccess, SiteFinity, and Telerik Reporting all got Merit awards, as did a number of our other controls. Thanks very much to our loyal customers ...
    November 21, 2011 1 min read
  • Release

    JustCode Q3 2011 is Here

    We are proud to announce the official release of Telerik JustCode Q3 2011. This release contains many features that we have launched over the past few months in internal builds, including Razor and CSS support, Visual Studio 11 support, a key mappings window, and many new refactorings! Razor and CSS JustCode brings blazing fast code analysis, quick fixes, code navigation, refactorings, and formatting to Razor and CSS. Much of this has been covered in the previous article, but razor formatting has been vastly improved in this release. In addition, we have added a new visual aid that did not escape the notice...
    November 21, 2011 2 min read
  • Release

    Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q3 2011 – Connection pool types

    With the Q3 2011 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced three connection pool type settings. The OpenAccess Connection Pool, OpenAccess Connection Pool with OpenAccess Connection Management and the ADO Connection Pool. This blog post will show how these types can be used and when it makes sense to make use of them.     OpenAccess Connection Pool   With the type set to OpenAccess Connection pool, Telerik OpenAccess ORM will handle the connection pooling internally. Therefore a set of ADO connections is created that are maintained by the product. All settings for the connection pooling behavior can be configured via the settings dialog or...
    November 21, 2011 2 min read