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  • People

    Free Agile Development and Testing Training in Pune, India

    In early 2011 Telerik is heading to India again, this time to organize its own 1-day event in Pune, India. The free seminar on Agile Development and Testing will take place on January 18 (9am-5pm) at the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce in Pune. The training day will be split in two sessions that will respectively cover implementing your own Agile development processes and Agile testing. If you are a developer/development manager using the Microsoft .NET platform or you are interested in learning how to make your testing efforts more efficient, than make sure to show up on Tuesday, January 18...
    December 22, 2010 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Test Scheduling Updates in 2010 Q3 Service Pack 1

    This week we published the latest official release of our automated testing tools – 2010 Q3 Service Pack. This release enhances product stability by introducing a lot of improvements and bug fixes in many areas. I’d like to focus this post on the latest optimizations and important bug fixes in the Test Scheduling feature. I’ll start with the QA Edition changes. Project Tab Now you can find the following Scheduling commands in the Project Tab.
    December 17, 2010 4 min read
  • Desktop WPF

    Programatically selecting visual items with the new Interactivity API in RadChart for Silverlight / WPF

    Hi everyone! As you know RadChart supports selection and hover interactivity effects and 2010.Q3 release exposes an API that allows you, the developer, to control it. Now I am going to show you how you can select any number of items only by moving your mouse.   First let’s start with the rectangle selector that the user draws with its mouse. I have added a canvas on top of the Radchart to hold the rectangle. We need to listen to MouseLeftButtonDown, MouseMove and MouseLeftButtonUp events to control the rectangle position and size. The tricky part is how to convert the size of the rectangle...
    December 16, 2010 2 min read
  • Release

    Q3’10 SP1 of RadControls for WinForms available for download

    Yesterday, we released Q3 2010 SP1 which introduced many improvements and bug fixes throughout the whole suite. The most important improvements aim to satisfy the customers’ demands regarding a better RadGridView Property Builder and a new Office 2010 theme (also known as Office 2010 Silver): RadGridView Office2010 (Silver)
    December 16, 2010 1 min read
  • Mobile

    Integrating your Windows Phone unit tests with MSBuild #2: Technical Overview

    Last week I started a blog post series that introduces our approach of automating the Windows Phone unit test execution on our build machines simply sharing the idea behind the automation infrastructure. I have also prepared a diagram that follows the automation process and have structured what I plan to share with you in the following weeks. Now, with the second post of the series I am going to make a more detailed technical overview of our infrastructure and give some reasons for choosing the discussed approach. The Dedicated Build Task and communication with the Windows Phone 7 emulator As already mentioned,...
    December 16, 2010 3 min read
  • Productivity Reporting

    Connecting Telerik Reporting to SQL Azure via Open Access

    Download SqlAzure.OpenAccess (C# VS2010) - 163KB In the previous blog post from the series we discussed how to connect Telerik Reporting to a SQL Azure database using ADO.NET with the help of the SqlDataSource component. Now we will demonstrate how to accomplish the same task with Open Access ORM utilizing the OpenAccessDataSource component. For the sake of this example we assume an existing SQL Azure account with the Adventure Works sample database already installed. Let’s start with a new Open Access domain model – the Open Access ORM Data Wizard starts. Choose Microsoft SQL Azure as a backend for the database connection and specify the connection string to your SQL Azure database as shown in the screenshot below: Choose the following tables...
    December 16, 2010 3 min read
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Binding Telerik Grid for ASP.NET MVC to OData

    We have just made a nice demo application showing how to bind Telerik Grid for ASP.NET MVC to OData using Telerik TV as OData producer. The grid supports paging, sorting and filtering using OData’s query options. To do that we implemented a helper JavaScript routine (defined in an external JavaScript file which is included in the sample project) which is used to bind the grid. Here is how the code looks like: @(Html.Telerik().Grid<TelerikTVODataBinding.Models.Video>() .Name("Grid") .Columns(columns => { columns.Bound(v => v.ImageUrl).Sortable(false).Filterable(false).Width(200).HtmlAttributes(new { style="text-align:center" }); ...
    December 16, 2010 1 min read
  • Mobile

    Going mobile – the UX perspective. Part 1 – be Metro

      We are proud that our controls are not only excellent development tools but they also excel in appearance, styling, great usability and overall user experience. This is a result of the united efforts of the whole team of our developers and us - the UX and UI designers here in Telerik. Our brand new RadControls for Windows Phone 7 and the all new Metro design guidelines bring so many new UX challenges that we thought it would be a good idea to share them with you and to hear your thoughts, which are of great value for us. This is the first...
    December 16, 2010 4 min read
  • People

    A letter to our customers

    At the end of each year we have time to look back and reflect on the year before and think about the year ahead. 2010 was once again a challenging year for Telerik as well as our customers. The economy continues to be stubborn in many parts of the world. Microsoft released new versions of .NET and Visual Studio that we had to be ready for. Silverlight 4 was released, then pronounced dead, then alive again, then Silverlight 5 previews were shown. Even Mother Nature in April gave us trouble; the eruption of Mt. Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland stranded over a dozen of our employees, including our CEO, on...
    December 16, 2010 3 min read