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    5+ Ways to Reduce your .Xap Size

    Being Silverlight developer means that we are also kind of web developers. From this point of view, we also have to think about the web traffic that our applications generate. We need to reduce it as much as possible. So basically we need to reduce the size of the application's output - the .xap file. In this post I'll try to summarize the five ways to reduce the size of a xap that I've shared today with Sofia's Silverlight User Group. Understanding the Xap In order to reduce the size of a xap file, we should first be aware of its structure. Basically it can contain only 4 things: AppManifest.xaml -...
    by Miroslav Miroslavov
    September 15, 2010 4 min read
  • People

    Attend StarWest 2010 Testing Conference for Free

    You won’t be able to make it to San Diego for this fall’s top testing event? No worries! For the first time this year the StarWest organizers will be also building up a virtual event which will take place on Wednesday, September 29. The online conference is completely FREE. You will be able to watch 7 hours of presentations streamed live from the conference, learn what’s coming in Q3 for our automated testing tools, and network with your peers. What’s more, Chris Eyhorn, Executive VP of Telerik Automated Testing Division, will be delivering a session on “Automated testing in the Agile...
    Antonia-Bozhkova by Antonia Bozhkova
    September 13, 2010 1 min read
  • People

    Vote for Telerik!

    If you use Telerik software, why not tell the world how much by voting for the 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards. Voting is open now and Telerik is nominated in 16 of the total 26 categories! While it’s great to take home awards like our recent Best of TechEd 2010 trophy, there is something unique about letting the voters on the Interwebs determine your fate. What do you need to do? Vote today! And then remind your co-workers, Twitter followers, Facebook friends, LinkedIn connections, DNUG members, and anyone else you see to vote in this year’s awards, too. To help you successfully cast your ballot for Telerik’s nominations this...
    by Paulina Tsolova
    September 11, 2010 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Integrating with TeamPulse

    Note: A successor to this blog post has been written focusing on authenticating to the data service. You can read it here. Because TeamPulse makes it very easy to enter and track information regarding your project, users will find that they very quickly will have a large repository of valuable information in the TeamPulse data store.  Due to the complex and integrated nature of most teams, rarely does information stay within one repository.  It often needs to be digested and shared in many different ways and to many different people. Although TeamPulse has a rich visual aggregation of information ...
    September 10, 2010 3 min read
  • Desktop

    Creating a WCF RIA Services Application

    With the release of WCF RIA Services, Microsoft has made it much easier to implement multi-tier Silverlight based applications. Data resides in a database on the server and is accessible through the use of an ORM such as Entity Framework or OpenAccess. WCF RIA Services takes care of moving this data between the server and the client application by using Domain Services in conjunction with the ORM. As you may already know, Telerik Reporting includes a WCF based service responsible for rendering and serving up reports. This service however, is not based on WCF RIA Services, so a few ...
    September 08, 2010 7 min read
  • People

    Vote for Telerik in the 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards

    Telerik made it to the final of 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards. The awards recognize the best products and services in the industry by a community vote. Telerik has been nominated in 15 categories: Add-In –Telerik JustCode Charting & Graphics Tool – Telerik RadChart for ASP.NET AJAX Component Set – Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Content Management System –Telerik Sitefinity CMS Grid –Telerik RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik RadGridView for Silverlight Navigation Control – Telerik RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX ...
    Antonia-Bozhkova by Antonia Bozhkova
    September 08, 2010 1 min read
  • People

    It’s Been A Long Run

    [Cross posted from .NET Musings]  I worked my first paying job involving computers in 1984.  After a degree in computer science from the school of engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, I started quite the run as a computer consultant.  My first jobs involved building custom computers and networks and programming the computers!  I’ve had a fabulous career as a consultant, and worked with a lot of fantastic people.  But I realized a while ago that I wanted to be something else when I grow up.  I just had no idea what that was.  In 1995, I started as a volunteer for...
    Japikse by Phil Japikse
    September 07, 2010 4 min read
  • Productivity

    JustCode Code Templates

    Template Basics JustCode templates are much like Visual Studio code snippets. They give you a chance to seamlessly generate a piece of code following a predefined structure. In the general case you just have to pick up the real content, i.e. the stuff that actually defines the logic of the code, from a set of possible choices that JustCode computes for you. All the boilerplate code is automatically generated for you. For example, here is how the C# built-in foreach code template  normally works out: Step 1 – Expand the template Step 2 – Choose a collection variable to iterate over   Notice how the type of e automatically changes from string to int   Step...
    by Chris Eargle
    September 06, 2010 5 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Silverlight 4 Update: Automate Your Popups Out-of-the-Box With WebUI Test Studio

    Have you heard the good news? Microsoft has just released a SL 4 update addressing some reported issues. Check Tim Heuer’s blog for details. This update is really important in regards to the Popups/ChildWindow automation. Until now the Telerik Automated Testing Tools required to track your popups manually which was inconvenient for some customers. With the latest official release of the product though and the new SL4 update this is no longer needed. Just upgrade the SL4 runtime on your machine and start automating those popups!   Enjoy! -Konstantin
    September 02, 2010 1 min read
  • Mobile

    Building a Windows Phone 7 control from the ground up - Part Two - the “Date ListBox”

    The next interesting part of building a Windows Phone 7 DatePicker control is the Date ListBox. That is a ListBox which should meet the following requirements: Can display in a human readable manner one of the three Date components: Day, Month and Year Should be “Infinite” – as discussed in my previous post. Should use data virtualization (to be most efficient). As you can see our “Infinite ListBox” project now comes in hand. The last two of the upper requirements are already implemented and all we need to do is to implement a special VirtualizedDataItem<DateTime> that provides the needed information to bind to. For a...
    Georgi Atanasov 164x164 by Georgi Atanasov
    September 02, 2010 6 min read
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