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  • Productivity Testing

    Limit Step Execution by Browser.....AND VERSION.

    So here it is, the first post about what is coming in the forthcoming R1 2011 Test Studio release. You can now set test steps to execute against specific browsers and even specific versions of those browsers. To run a test only against Internet Explorer 9, simply select the test step, adjust the 'RunAgainst' property to 'InternetExplorerOnly', then set the 'RunsAgainstVersion' property to '9' and lastly 'RunsAgainstVersionCompare' to 'Equals'. That's all there is to it - the step will now be executed when you playback in IE9, however it will be ...
    April 18, 2011 1 min read
  • Web

    Telerik Data Virtualization, WCF RIA Services and Visual Studio Async CTP

    Last week (MIX 2011), Microsoft released the second Visual Studio Async CTP and I’ve decided to give it a try and implement one of my blog posts related to our Silverlight Data Virtualization with WCF RIA Services. To do this I’ve made two extension methods for DomainContext: LoadAsync<T>() and CountAsync<T>(). The first method will return the entities from a EntityQuery<T> and the second will return asynchronously count for the specified query.   And here is the result:   As you can see the only hardcoded value here is LoadSize for the virtual collection and everything else is retrieved and applied asynchronously using...
    April 18, 2011 1 min read
  • Desktop WinForms

    RadDragAndDropManager - What's in a Drag Cue?

    Every once in a while a customer will come to us and ask about a particular piece of functionality in one of the RadControls for Silverlight or RadControls for WPF that isn't covered in the demos, documentation, or videos. Just this week, one of the fans on our Telerik Facebook page did just that - specifically asking whether you could use a certain type of layout panel for the drag cue of RadDragAndDropManager.  Normally in a case like this, I want to say "Yeah, it's just a DataTemplate in Silverlight/WPF, so you could do almost anything there!" But we're developers, and code speaks...
    April 15, 2011 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Automating Sitefinity 4 with Telerik Test Studio

    As you can imagine, we use a lot of our own products internally - all our teams use our Agile Project Management software, Team Pulse; Sitefinity uses our ASP.NET AJAX tools, ORM and RadControls for Silverlight and Test Studio for automated functional and regression testing; Test Studio uses ORM, RadControls for WPF - and this does not even begin to touch upon the collaboration and cross product use here at Telerik. Well - why not showcase this - why not show how well the Telerik suite of tools can work together to boost your teams productivity? We thought we would start ...
    April 15, 2011 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC in Azure – Part 2, Deploying your Application

    In Part 1 of this series we covered how you can create an MVC (both MVC 2 and MVC 3) web application that is ready to be published to the cloud. Of course we also went through how you can make this application a Telerik application, taking use of our Visual Studio Extensions. What the application actually does is up to you of course, but now that you’ve finished developing everything you want to take it to the next level; you want to deploy! Launching to the cloud So your project is ready to rock and you’re eager to brag to everyone that...
    April 15, 2011 3 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Volume Mixer with the new shiny RadSlider for Silverlight and WPF

    As you may already know, we are working hard to improve the RadSlider in a broad way. We've fixed a lot of issues, but also added a lot of new cool features. Now it's so easy to customize and bind (in MVVM-ish way), that I've created this Windows 7 "Mixer" like example in less than an hour. I didn't change the Slider's ControlTemplate and don't have a single line of code behind. (Please note that the new slider will be available with the  beta of Q2.2011 ). Download and play with the new bits
    April 15, 2011 3 min read
  • People

    Moving to Australia

    G’day mates, I would like to share something with you – me and my family recently moved to Sydney, Australia to enjoy the nice weather and the golden beaches down under and for me to become Mr. Telerik Australia. :-) The press release says: “We see that the Australian and New Zealand are expressing great interest in our latest software developer productivity solutions, data conversion tools, automated Web Testing tools, and CMS offerings and our goal is to answer these markets’ needs by broadening our presence, our community and our technical team in this dynamic region.” Firstly, this means our commitment to this market, and...
    April 15, 2011 2 min read
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC in Azure – Part 1, Building your Application

    As some of you are (hopefully) aware of, our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX work flawlessly on Windows Azure. We actually have a short blog series available here on our blogs that go through the necessary steps for creating an application (Part 1) and later deploying it (Part 2) to Windows Azure. However, do our ASP.NET MVC components work on this platform? The answer is: yes! (Note the usage of ‘!’, that’s how exciting it is!). The best thing is that the process is no more complicated than what you have to do for our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. Note Since most of...
    April 14, 2011 6 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Using the Resize and Drag extender built into the ASP.NET AJAX controls

    The development for both desktop and mobile browsers has always been a difficult task, often an impossible one. To ease the process, we have prepared a couple of extenders, thus delivering to the developers unified methods to implement solutions for the mobile web platforms. In addition to the previously introduced TouchScrollExtender in Q3 2010, we present to you another member of the family. The ResizeExtender is a small client-side only control that enables resize and drag functionality on an HTML element in all browsers regardless if they are desktop or mobile (except the browsers that lack the needed desktop or touch events...
    April 14, 2011 3 min read
  • Release

    First Telerik AJAX and MVC Q1 2011 service packs

    A month after the official Q1 2011 release of our AJAX and MVC components, I would like to announce the immediate availability of the first maintenance packs for both product bundles and appoint the most important bullets in them. See the next two paragraphs for details: AJAX Q1 2011 SP1 Release Notes | Demos | Documentation Highlights Updated the internally used jQuery to 1.5.2 Addressed reported IE 9 issues for all components Grid - Updated the grid's visual designer to provide support for grouping and client settings; Support for default font setting when exporting RadGrid to PDF RibbonBar - Added RadRibbonBar>RibbonBarMenuItem>NavigateUrl property SiteMap - All SiteMap nodes...
    April 14, 2011 1 min read