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  • Productivity

    What is a Persona in TeamPulse?

    Personas are fictitious characters created to represent the different user types of a system. Personas will help you visualize the people behind the keyboard using the features of the software your team is creating. You will can describe exactly how personas use your software by describing the interaction in a story. When defining software requirements in the context of a persona (complete with a picture, a name, and a rich description of a personas goals, objectives, constraints, and day to day realities) teams can better define how to approach the design of the features the persona interacts with. TeamPulse provides ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Free JustCode, JustMock licenses tomorrow

    [Cross-posted from TelerikWatch.com] Sometimes people use the saying “Everyone’s a winner,” when in fact everyone is not a winner. If you join us tomorrow for the JustCode, JustMock and OpenAccess ORM webinar, though, you will be a winner! Everyone is truly a winner tomorrow because everyone that attends the Q2 2010 What’s New webinar will get free licenses for both JustCode and JustMock, Telerik’s powerful Visual Studio productivity tools. That’s $500 worth of software just for attending the live webinar event! To get your complimentary licenses, register now for the webinar, and then join us tomorrow, July 22nd at 11:00 AM Eastern. You must attend the...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    New Fetch Optimization API

    In this blog post we will introduce the new intuitive and powerful Fetch Optimization API. Users familiar with the LINQ to SQL data load options will feel very comfortable with our API. If you don’t have a clue what this is all about, here we will give an overview of the basic concepts behind the usage of fetch strategies. In short, fetch strategies help you optimize your retrieval of objects from the database. They allow you to specify properties in a persistent object that are retrieved together whenever you invoke a call to the persistent object. Let’s consider the following example...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Web

    Create Silverlight Word Processor Using Just Visual Studio 2010 Designer

    Introducing RadRichtextBoxRibbonUI Some of you may have noticed that along with the official release of RadRichTextBox for Silverlight 4 we introduced a new control to our suite – RadRichTextBoxRibbonUI. Now we want to get your attention and share with you some more details about the new control. Its main purpose is to allow you to get a full featured editing UI for RadRichTextBox out-of-the-box with just one click. The whole process will take few seconds while you drag the control from the toolbox and drop it in the design surface. After that all the XAML will be generated automatically for you...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    Jump-start using Telerik RadControls

    Or the quickest way to acquire and start utilizing RadControls Okay, I’m throwing it out: With Visual Studio 2010 on your machine and a Telerik account, you can set up a project utilizing the latest RadControls in less than two minutes. Here is how: Start Visual Studio 2010 Launch the Extension Manager and navigate to the Online Gallery tab Search for Telerik VSExtensions Install the VSExtensions you’re interested in. For the time being there are four of them: WebUI ( RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX ), Silverlight ( RadControls for Silverlight ), WPF ( RadControls for WPF ) and WinForms ( RadControls for WinForms ). VSExtensions for ASP.NET MVC are in production and will be published...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Unit testing LINQ to SQL

    Unit testing LINQ to SQL repositories can be very challenging. Unit testing such requires faking hard to mock classes and requires simulation to return your custom data for a particular LINQ statement. In this post, i will show how you can mock your LINQ repositories easily without much digging in. As,  i was goggling [my start page is bing, its a matter of time when i will be bing-ing :-)] around, found a nice post by Ronnie Holm, where he shows how to unit test a  LINQ to SQL repository. I will follow his trail and use some of the codes...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    The Telerik CAB Enabling Kit - RadDockableWorkpace w/RadDock Support!

    Recently, Telerik released a new and improved version of the Telerik CAB Enabling Kit (TCEK). This latest version now provides support for using the RadDock control as a workspace in your Composite UI Application Block (CAB) applications. Previously, only the old DockingManager control had been supported. In this blog entry, I will show you how to begin using the RadDock as a workspace in your applications through the use of the newly updated RadDockableWorkspace. In case you are new to CAB/SCSF or the TCEK - I highly recommend reading through my older series of blogs. You can access the introduction ...
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Web

    Silverlight: OutlookBar, Prism and TransitionControl

    With this post, I'll show you a step by step approach on how to integrate RadOutlookBar with Prism. To spice thing a little bit, the transitions between the different Prism modules will be handled by RadTransitionControl. Start off by creating a new Silverlight solution. Name the Silverlight application Prism.Shell and the Web project - Prism.Web   Organize the Solution Explorer a little bit by adding 3 solution folders.   Right-click on the Modules solution folder and add 2 new Silverlight applications. These applications will be the modules of our Prism application. Name them Prism.Module1 and Prism.Module2. Also, make sure they output their xap files...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Fun with pointers in C#

    Disclaimer: this post is all about fun. It is not about: turning a bug into a feature; some new isolation/mocking practice; wow, look what I will do with pointers in my next project; It is all about fun :)
    May 27, 2021 4 min read
  • Release

    Today: Free Webinar on What’s New in RadControls for WinForms and Telerik Reporting

    Monday marked the first day of the Telerik Q2 2010 Webinar Week. Today (Tuesday, Jul 20, 11am EST) you will have the chance to catch a one-hour webinar on what’s new in RadControls for WinForms and Telerik Reporting, which also comes with live demos of everything new we have introduced in Q2 2010 for those two products. The webinar is not only free; during the live event attendees will have the chance to win a Telerik Ultimate Collection (valued at $1999). Register for What’s New in RadControls for WinForms and Telerik Reporting.  Here is a quick overview of what's new in the product lines: RadControls for WinForms 5 New...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read