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Telerik Insiders Are Out
For you community dwellers, this may not be new news – but we are very excited to officially publicize our Telerik Insiders Program: a speaker’s bureau for the community run by Telerik. The Insiders Program is comprised of 14 (thus far) passionate and influential speakers conducting a variety of sessions at community events and user groups. Check out their profiles and abstracts here and our FAQ page for detailed information. Even more exciting news - we’ve expanded this program into the European and Australian markets! (Check out today's Press Release for details) There we will continue our commitment to supporting the local developer community, with upcoming sessions at events... -
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How To Create A Population Pyramid with RadChart for Silverlight
A population pyramid, also called an age structure diagram as defined by Wikipedia is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a human population (typically that of a country or region of the world). It typically consists of two back-to-back bar graphs, with the population plotted on the X axis and age on the Y axis, one showing the number of males and one showing females in a particular population in five-year age. Although there are different types of population pyramids this blog post will demonstrate how to create such pyramid using the RadChart’s Horizontal Bar type.... -
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Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part IV: Kanban defined
See also: · Part I: How I started to use Scrum · Part II: Scrum, but · Part III: Moving away from Scrum In Part I we looked at how I got into Agile and Scrum. In Part II we explored how Scrum failed to be flexible enough to fit into my unique process. In Part III we took a look at how I got introduced to Kanban, without even knowing it. Today we’ll take a quick look at what Kanban is. Kanban is a Japanese word that loosely translated means “signal card.” Kanban’s underlying thesis is that by using signal cards at various points in the production process to indicate the amount of work... -
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Need a break? JustCode Autopilot Mode Comes to the Rescue.
Ever dreamed of being able to step away from your desk for a while without negatively impacting your capacity? What if you could answer the phone without interrupting your coding flow? Well, now you can. True to our commitment to facilitate effortless software development, we are pleased to announce the launch of an Autopilot Mode for Telerik’s Visual Studio productivity add-in, JustCode. This new mode enables you to deliver unmatched efficiency gains, while helping you identify flawed coding logic on the spot. By relying on complex pattern-matching algorithms and semantic analysis, Telerik JustCode can derive an understanding from your unique coding... -
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Agile is not Scrum, but Scrum is Agile
Sounds simple enough right? Unfortunately, I missed that lesson after being introduced to SCRUM, which I thought was actually called “Agile”. Why unfortunately? Well, this lesson in Agile 101 was taught to me by a potential client. Here’s how the conversation went: Client: “So, what sort of development methodologies does your team use?” Me: “Agile methodologies. They really work well for us.” Client: “Oh really? Which methodology?” Me: “Uh…Agile?” Client: “I know that, but I mean what type of agile development you do?” Me: “The one with Scrum meeting, I suppose.” Client: “You mean Scrum?” Me: “Yeah. Scrum…that makes sense.” ...March 31, 2011 3 min read -
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RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Are Here - So Now What?
Now that the official release of RadControls for Windows Phone 7 has shipped, we have been seeing a few questions from both current and potential customers around what is coming next and what to expect from the suite now that it is official. Luckily, I’ve got some answers for you! First up, now that the suite is official, the official “free lunch” with the RadControls for Windows Phone 7 is officially over. What does that mean, you might ask? As it turns out, during both the CTP and both Betas of the WP7 suite we had tons of developer interest, so much so... -
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Using SterlingDB with Telerik RadJumpList to achieve maximum performance in LOB scenarios
This is the last part of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details and links for the other part of the series. In this article I will show you how to implement a real life LOB scenario for WP7. In our latest Telerik WP7 ToDo application we have a lot of tasks which should be persisted on the device. We are using SterlingDB to persist and retrieve the data to/from the IsolatedStorage and RadJumpList to group and display the data. SterlingDB is an open source, well documented and high performance database – it is available on... -
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Implementing WP7 ToDo application part3 - adding richness and device features
Add/Edit Task This is part 3 of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details and links for the other part of the series. The add/edit task screen is a standard form for adding and editing tasks. The more interesting things here are how the rich (voice, photo, location) fields for the tasks are specified. But first let’s see how to populate the “standard” fields. The design of the add/edit screen is specified below: We basically have a form field for each of the Task class properties. For the string properties we have... -
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Implementing WP7 ToDo application part2 - building the home screen
Building the Home Screen Panorama This is part 2 of the series on building WP7 ToDo application with Telerik WP7 Control toolkit. Please refer to the "master" blog post for more details about the application and links to the other part of the series. The home screen of the application consists from the following major components: Home Panorama Tasks List Projects List Let’s first examine the Panorama control. The requirements were that that the logo of the application and the “New Task” button should be always visible regardless to which item of the panorama the user has scrolled. To accomplish this we are using the Title property of the Panorama control... -
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ListView style for your Silverlight and WPF DataGrid
Have you ever wondered how to create a grid with sorting, filtering, etc. however present items in similar to Windows Explorer ListView way? With Telerik components for Silverlight and WPF this can be achieved very easily in just three steps: 1. Edit RadGridView style with Blend and remove GridViewScrollViewer from the template: 2. Insert RadTileView in the grid template, bind it to the RadGridView Items and define desired tile content: 3. Run the application to check the...
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