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  • Productivity

    Working with Mock Behaviors in JustMock

    When you create a mock using Mock.Create<> or Mock.Create there are three Behavior modes available. Each one causes the mock to behave in very different ways. For those of you new to mocking, you may not know at first what each of these behaviors mean
    March 18, 2011
  • Release

    TeamPulse R1 2011 Beta Available Online

    We are excited to present to you the R1 2011 BETA release of Telerik, agile project management tool, TeamPulse. If you are eager to know what happened behind the curtain during the last couple of months and what will be shipped in the next major release, read on! As promised, we will deliver a bunch of great new features: Problem Management (Bugs, Issues and Risk Management) The new Problem Management module contains a number of features that offer bug, issue, and risk management making the process more productive and flexible and giving users greater insight into overall product quality. ...
    March 17, 2011
  • Release

    New RadMonthYearPicker control in RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2011

    Hi all, My name is Radoslav Kirilov and I am developer at one of Telerik's ASP.NET teams. I want to introduce you the new RadMonthYearPicker control which is available in the new Q1 2011 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. RadMonthYearPicker is a flexible component that allows the user to select month and year and to display that month/year in the specified format and culture. RadMonthYearPicker is a part of the RadCalendar suite and it has most of the properties introduced into the RadDatePicker. Below are listed the most important of them: MinDate, MaxDate - the control will not accept dates beyond the specified range. DisplayDateFormat - Customize the display month/year...
    March 17, 2011
  • Desktop WPF

    New control for WPF and Silverlight from Telerik - RadDataForm

    In the context of our 30th release I am happy to share even more good news with you. With the official Q1 2011 release we have enriched the developer toolbox with the new RadDataForm.In the tradition of our existing data-aware controls such as RadGridVIew, RadDataForm deals with data in easy and intuitive  way. It provides complete CRUD support over an object or a collection of objects taking care of adding, editing, deleting and navigation trough collections. We had the RadGridView to take care of tabular views and now we have RadDataForm to take care of scenarios where form layout is more...
    March 17, 2011
  • Release

    Quering Spatial Data with OpenAccess in Q1 2011

    Starting with the 2011 Q1 release, OpenAccess supports development of applications that involve geometric or geographic data. For the sake of simplicity, this blog will focus on the use of SqlGeography with MSSQL 2008. Other databases (like Oracle) provide support for geometric and geographic data as well, but this shall be the topic of another blog post. Let's start with a simple model that has only two domain classes City and Country. Both classes should contain geographic information: the location of the City (as a point) and the polygon shape of the Country. Both domain classes then...
    March 17, 2011
  • Productivity

    Different OpenAccess Versions Used in Development Process

    We hear a lot that migrating projects using OpenAccess to a new OpenAccess version is a complicated process. The first decision should be if you want to migrate each of your projects or if you want to stay for some of them with the old OpenAccess version. This post describes how to prepare your project so that an installation of a new OpenAccess version does not break your build or makes it necessary to use the new version in your older projects. The first step is to check-in all necessary runtime and compile time used resources instead of taking them from the...
    March 17, 2011
  • Release

    RadControls for WinForms Roadmap: Check. Q1 2011 Released: Check.

    We are proud to announce the first major release of RadControls for WinForms for this year, where we worked towards expanding and optimizing the whole suite. To start off, I can say that we introduced a fully refurbished RadTreeView control with new UI and data layers which allow it to bind several times faster! Of course, we are trying not only to optimize the existing products, but to offer new components in the suite as well. By popular demand, we developed a brand new control that helps you break a complex process into separate steps – RadWizard. Additionally, in the spirit of...
  • Release

    Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone first official release

    As the market and Windows Phone 7 are getting bigger so do the RadControls for WP7. Q1 2011 marks the first official release of Telerik’s RadControls for Windows Phone 7. The suite has grown up to 20 controls built from the ground up for the Windows Phone 7 Operating System to deliver new user experience based on content and motion, complying with all Metro design patterns. Combining Telerik’s expertise in Silverlight development and the capabilities of the Windows Phone platform, RadControls for Windows Phone 7 are super light and blazing-fast controls for building mobile applications. Amongst these 20 controls you can find...
  • Release

    Localization support for RadControls for Windows Phone

    We are happy to announce that the very first official release for RadControls for Windows Phone is here. As we promised, we polished the existing controls as much as possible for this release and added a small feature that many people will find useful, namely Localization support. The Q1 2011 release provides a localization mechanism that users can utilize by providing localized resources either through code or through resource files.  In order to localize the existing controls users have to create a ResourceManager that will contain resources in their native language and pass it to the LocalizationManager class in the RadControls suite. Also, the localization...
    March 17, 2011
  • Release

    RadControls for Silverlight/WPF Q1 2011 is here

    It has been an amazing quarter for the Telerik XAML teams. Q1 2011 brings 6 new controls for Silverlight, 5 new for WPF and tons of improvements and new features. Amongst these new additions are the new ScheduleView control for Silverlight, RichTextBox editor for WPF, DataForm, ExpressionEditor, new MaskedInput suite, TimeBar and a SpellChecker control. Another major re-design of our online demos is now in place and demonstrates not only our advanced controls but also how we envision great UI built on Silverlight.  If I can summarize the entire Q1 release in just a few words it is all about ease of use, amazing...