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  • Productivity

    The OpenAccess SDK

    Say you want to take a quick glimpse of OpenAccess. Up to this point you had to download the trial version, then look at some articles and then at some more, maybe download an example, find some blogs, where is the documentation? With the Q3 release of OpenAccess we are introducing a solution – The OpenAccess SDK . This simple application will quickly become your favorite resource for all things OpenAccess. It will give you quick access to featured resource, videos, release notes, community blogs and of course a rich set of comprehensive examples providing real-life solutions to everyday problems. Now let’s have a...
    November 15, 2010 4 min read
  • Productivity

    Using a Coded Step to Verify a Treeview

    We have had some recent requests to provide an example of using a coded step in WebUI Test Studio. Additionally, we have had a few inquiries asking how to verify items in a tree view. This post should address both questions! The goal with this test is to use a data source to verify the contents of a tree view, the tree view I would like to verify contains (3) values, "Project", "Iteration 1" and "Iteration 2", see below image.  After creating a new test, the first thing I will do is utilize our local test data feature to create a ...
    November 13, 2010 1 min read
  • Release

    Q3 2010 Object-Relational Hierarchy with RadGridView for WinForms

    [You can see all new hierarchy modes of RadGridView in this week’s webinar. See details and register >>] More and more developers are using ORM frameworks like Telerik OpenAccess, Entity Framework, and NHibernate to save valuable time from writing dependent and synchronization code for the database server. In many cases it is often necessary to create complex custom business objects that contain the object relations to support the different needs of the application like serialization (database, file storage, online service) and transactions. In many of these scenarios the developers are looking for a convenient and quick way to visualize the data and...
    November 13, 2010 3 min read
  • Release

    Action-packed Q3 2010 webinar week continues with Reporting and Windows Forms controls

    Great enterprise features were pushed in Telerik Reporting and RadControls for WinForms in Q3 2010, and this is your chance to see how easy it is to use them! Join us for the live webcast on What’s New in Telerik Reporting and RadControls for WinForms this Wednesday for a chance to win a Telerik Premium Collection (worth $1299): Wednesday, November 17, 11 am Eastern Time: Register here >> You can also register for some of the other webinars dedicated to the release and learn about all the major new features that ship with the Q3 2010 release. Book your seat for a chance to win a Telerik Premium Collection (worth...
    November 13, 2010 1 min read
  • People

    See Telerik OpenAccess ORM Q3 2010 in action and get a chance to WIN

    This is your chance to see all the improvements that have been added to OpenAccess ORM in Q3 2010. Join us for the live webcast on What’s New in Telerik OpenAccess ORM, RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, and Extensions for MVC this Monday for a chance to win a Telerik Premium Collection (worth $1299): Monday, November 15, 11 am Eastern Time: Register here>> Monday, November 15, 10 pm Eastern Time: Register here>> You can also register for some of the other webinars dedicated to the release and learn about all the major new features that ship with the Q3 2010 release. Book your seat for a chance...
    November 13, 2010 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET MVC

    Binding to a collection of dynamic objects with Grid Extension for ASP.NET MVC

    Great news everybody! With its latest version and the addition of MVC3 specific build, you can now bind the MVC Grid to a collection of dynamic objects quite easily. Note that we will be using the new Razor view engine for extra fun. Just declare the View’s model to be IEnumerable<dynamic> 1: @using Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI 2: @model IEnumerable<dynamic> 3: @( 4: Html.Telerik().Grid(Model) 5: .Name("Grid") 6: .Columns(columns...
    November 12, 2010 1 min read
  • Web

    Google Chrome & Safari 5 Execution Support

    I am pleased to announce that WebUI Test Studio now has execution support for Google Chrome and Safari 5! You can now record once, and playback across even more browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.  Our Q3 release is available to download today, come see what has the QA community buzzing. See Google Chrome Test Execution in Action on Telerik TV.  
    November 12, 2010 1 min read
  • Web

    The World of Model&ndash;View&ndash;ViewModel - through my eyes.

    The Big UI Problem Since the User Interface came on the scene of software development, it is constantly one of the biggest problems. It is really hard to design the architecture of the User Interfaces, User Interactions and deal with all the logic around, all the different states and behaviors. It is not an easy task also to separate the UI logic from the other layers of the architecture. On the other hand, even if you develop the whole application, you should start to think about how to automatically test the UI (unit tests, components tests, integration tests…), how to maintain it in a way...
    November 12, 2010 8 min read
  • Web

    RadMediaPlayer true FullScreen support

    Telerik's official Q3 2010 release just came public introducing many improvements and new features. One of them is RadMediaPlayer's full screen support. Prior to Q3 2010 release developers had to implement additional logic to provide full screen support for their apps using RadMediaPlayer. With the new release users can experience true full screen apps without any custom code. Full screen support is build inside the media player but can be easily customized by using the IsFullScreenProperty or attaching a handler to the FullScreenChanged event. In addition, two new properties are available which you can use to customize whether the video controls panel and...
    November 12, 2010 1 min read
  • Release

    Q3 2010 brings more slickness, performance and new controls to RadControls for Silverlight/WPF

    Q3 2010 brings more slickness, better performance and new controls to RadControls for Silverlight/WPF to allow you develop your most interactive and richest Line Of Business applications. The latest major release includes new powerful data visualization controls, Data Virtualization for data-bound controls, supercharged RichTexBox and the most feature-rich and innovative ScheduleView control for WPF. RadSparklines Sparklines are intense, simple, word-sized graphics that bring context and history to numbers. Adding sparklines to the numbers in any report shows patterns and trends for those numbers, making the report much more useful for the end-user.   RadBulletGraph The BulletGraph is extremely useful in dashboards, or just any report, because it...
    November 12, 2010 2 min read