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  • Productivity Debugging

    Fiddler and IE7

    Do you use Fiddler to inspect the HTTP traffic? You may be faced with the following problem: since we started using the beta of the IE7 browser we started experiencing problems when monitoring the requests sent to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 - the requests were not reported by the Fiddler tool. It took us some time to understand what was the exact reason for this until we found the workaround for this issue here: http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/help/hookup.asp --- quote --- Why don't I see IE7 or System.NET traffic sent to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1? IE7 and the .NET Framework are hardcoded not to send requests for Localhost through any proxies,...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Release

    This summer... Reporting and Windows Forms from telerik

    The June issue of MSDN is out earlier than planned and this gives me freedom to blog about some very important developments in the telerik product offering. If you are an MSDN subscriber and you do not completely disregard the product ads, you might have noticed that "telerik is growing" and our ASP.NET product line will be soon complemented by a set of Windows Forms components and a Reporting tool. If you are interested in getting more information and seeing a preview of the Telerik Reporting and Windows Forms product lines, please stop by booth 819 at TechEd USA to meet with our...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • People

    Mix 06 Sessions are available

    There's a lot of great content so go and check it out at http://sessions.mix06.com/...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Third-party controls and support for Atlas

    So much to blog about and so little time... It has been almost a couple of months since my last blog post and there were quite a few things to comment - new initiatives, interesting updates, participation in events, etc. For some reason I felt guilty for having so much to say and not blogging about it and I was looking for "THE blog post" to get back into the game:)Luckily for me, and for all telerik customers, the dev team came up with some pretty exciting news - with a great sense of pride we are happy to announce the first major third-party component suite...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    IE Memory Leak Best Practices with AJAX in Mind

    Am I getting obsessed with memory leaks?  Give me a non-leaking browser and I'll cut it out .Yesterday I was hunting for a hard-to-find memory leak with r.a.d.treeview.  Our component cleans up its DOM element references and DOM event handlers when it is being destroyed.  Control destruction and resource disposal occurs on two occasions:  when the page unloads and when the control is updated by an AJAX call (r.a.d.callback, Atlas, etc -- the mechanism is framework-agnostic).  Now the treeview, being a good citizen, follows the leak prevention pattern of keeping references to DOM elements to a minimum.  Most of the...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    Automating Complex JavaScript-rich Controls with Watir

    Watir is a web testing tool that allows you to automate Internet Explorer and script interactions with your web application.  It uses the COM automation interface to drive the browser.  The nicest thing about the tool is that it allows you to use Ruby to create the test scripts.  Ruby is an unobtrusive, easy to learn, fully object-oriented language whose power at abstraction building will allow you to bring your testing to a level you never previously imagined. Now, a lot of people love and use Watir, and we have been getting requests for help on scripting our web controls with Watir.  All of our controls are pretty complex beasts and require...
    May 08, 2025 3 min read
  • Release

    Drip -- some exciting news

    I should have posted this a few days ago, but I have been so busy that this Easter (Orthodox Easter, is THE Easter in Bulgaria) Saturday morning is my first blogging opportunity for the whole week. I was writing an article on Drip and contacted Matthias Miller, the tool's developer, about some of the limitation of the tool that I've described here . He confirmed my findings, and while I wasn't watching he pulled some ninja coding skills and sent me a new build that detected more leaks and had none of the original limitations. It worked like a charm, and Drip...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Mobile

    Origami: the next Big Small thing

    Will Microsoft take on Apple and Palm with its all-in-one consumer/business ultra-portable device? Well, you’ve probably heard the news already - Microsoft is entering the persona-portble-cool-weired-widgets market with their own device… The device code named Origami (official name is UMPC which is spelled out like Ultra Mobile PC) is very compact all-in-one information device that is targeted as an iPod, Palm and BlackBerry competition. Origami sounds way cooler than UMPC though (I keep asking myself why the guys at MS are giving great code names like Indigo, Avalon and Origami, and the official naming is almost unpronounceable like WPF, WCF, UMPC,...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Web

    The invisible memory leaks in MS Internet Explorer

    Oh boy, not another memory leak post!  We already got a couple here and there.JavaScript development is so frustrating at times that every little victory counts.  The seemingly memory-managed, easy-to-write script language sometimes is harder than C++, and believe me, I've had my fair share of C++, Win32  and COM development.  As if it's not enough that you have to deal with each and every browser's way of implementing the "standard", but now you have to manage and free your own memory.Memory leaks have not been a big problem most of the time.  Well, a leaked <div> or <td> here or...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read
  • Web

    Playing with minimo

    With mozilla minimo recently released it will be interesting for web developers and geeks alike to mess around with it. For those not familiar with minimo it is basically mozilla’s alternative to pocket internet explorer for PDAs, smartphones and other devices that use Windows CE. And yes, it does have tabs! Here is what we can read on the official website (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/): The Minimo has been focused on code-size and runtime footprint reduction, small screen usablity, and porting to small consumer devices. We hope to make Minimo the browser of choice on small devices, or machines with limited system resources; taking advantage of...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read