There’s a lot more to planning an ASP.NET MVC application than meets the eye. This whitepaper offers a high-level outline of what developers need to consider when planning an ASP.NET MVC app, from tooling choices during development all the way through deployment and performance strategies.

There will be numerous roadblocks as you build your next cross-platform mobile app—Xamarin.Forms helps you out in many ways. Your goal is to ensure a smooth user experience that keeps inviting the user back to your app, over and over again.

Xamarin.Forms developers need to strategize about some key aspects of mobile apps – like data management, cloud integration, page organization, navigation and visualization. This whitepaper delves into the common roadblocks from a developer’s perspective and offer a solution on how to solve them.

Some topics that we'll cover: 

• Common sense breakdown of developer challenges
• Xamarin generic solutions supported by framework
• Smart UI controls that take away developer pain
• Understanding options to strategize on key app workings

In any organization with ambitions of growth, standardization is non-negotiable. Well implemented standards allow you to do everything in less time. That extra time is what you reinvest into growth activities.

Still, standardizing removes decisions from the individual and puts them in the hands of the organization, which can be harmful to employee creativity and self-drive. In situations where individual judgement creates inefficiencies and mistakes, standardization is a life-saver. In situations that require individual judgment, this is an impediment. Recognizing the difference is important, but hard.

Get this whitepaper for guidance on standardization strategy from software consultant Erik Dietrich and learn:

• How the advantages and disadvantages of standardization can impact your organization’s productivity
• What you can standardize on, when and to what extent when it comes to hardware, programming language & environment, developer tools, proprietary source code and collaboration processes
• How to build a business case for standardization at your organization
• How to avoid pitfalls when adopting standards

Planning an Angular (version 2 and above) application is something you may have already done, or will be soon attempting. This whitepaper documents a high-level outline of things to consider when planning an Angular application, from tooling choices during development all the way through to deployment and performance strategies. There’s certainly a lot more to it than meets the initial eye.

Will JavaScript continue to rise in use? What’s in store for the most popular JavaScript frameworks? What’s next for JavaScript being used to run server-side web, mobile and desktop applications?

We cover:

• Future of some of the most talked about third-party libraries, including Angular, React, Vue, and more
• Which JavaScript-based mobile frameworks are on the rise? Cordova? NativeScript? React Native?
• The massive growth of GitHub’s Electron project
• The future of JavaScript in bots, virtual reality, IoT, and more

Progress^® Telerik^® Report Server is designed from the ground up to meet the needs of the Enterprise and to satisfy all of these key requirements. It is a true Line of Business (LOB) Reporting Solution, with a minimal footprint and full set of features and functionality. It also enables easy configuration and provides an economical licensing model. 

This whitepaper will go through the entire solution with tips on getting started.

Have you wondered how the teams working on Telerik products test software? We launched a detailed guide, giving you deeper insight into our very own processes. We’ll share insights around the practices and tools our product development and web presence teams employ to confirm we ship high quality software. We’ll go into detail so that you can learn not only the technical details of what we do but why we do them. This will give you the tools to become testing experts.

Mobile applications have quickly become vital tools for businesses and can play a pivotal role in their success. Consumer-facing apps can bolster audience engagement and the customer experience, while internal apps can significantly improve productivity and operations. While there is no secret formula for building a successful app, nearly every developer will agree that choosing the appropriate development environment is a pivotal first step in the process. For many companies, Xamarin has become an attractive option. Because Xamarin uses a C# shared codebase, teams can use Xamarin to build cross-platform mobile apps with native performance, all while using the skills and expertise they’ve already developed.

This whitepaper will help you kick-start your Xamarin app development process by walking you through your initial steps. After reading this starting guide, you should have a better understanding of the essential tooling for Xamarin development and a clear path for building an elegant user interface for your cross-platform apps.

Today’s businesses are constantly trying to optimize their operations and improve processes through reports as it is vital to have the most important information at the right time. However, Excel-like tables with numbers and text could be informative, but the most impact and value comes out of well structured, expressive and visually appealing dashboards. Google Trends shows about a 100% increase in search frequency for data visualization since 2010. How to make reporting as beautiful as possible has become a top priority.

Download Beautiful Reporting Whitepaper to discover the following:

• Granular and Reusable Styling
• Data Driven Styling — Data and Styles in Unison for Great Reports
• Giving your customer control over the Report Theme
• Importance of Report Viewers
• and much more.

Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a rookie interested in C#, you should know how it has matured and adapted as developer needs have changed over the past 15 years. In the latest version, C# 7.0, you’ll find a plethora of new features designed to make it easier for you to read and write code. This whitepaper discusses the history of C#, provides an overview of what’s new in C# 7, and answers the following questions:

• Is C# a viable tool to have in my toolbox?
• Is C# the top tech to know?
• Is there a limit to the number of platforms I'll be able to develop for with C#?
• What are some major features that have emerged through 15 years of C# development innovation?
• What’s coming in the future for C# 7?

Get the answers and dive into the world of C# with our exclusive whitepaper.

Modern .NET and web development embraces CLI tooling and as an ASP.NET developer you might have been caught by surprise. This whitepaper celebrates the resurgence of CLI tools and provides insight into how modern development platforms cater to application development through CLI—for web, desktop and mobile channels. Key takeaways include:

• Reconnect with the command line and become more productive
• Master command line across development platforms with tips and tricks
• Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI
• Master distributed version control systems with Git CLI
• Embrace modern web development with Angular CLI

SharePoint is changing so much that the traditional SharePoint developer may start becoming a little frustrated. On the flip side, these are exciting times: instead of learning the Microsoft version of a technology that’s rapidly becoming outdated, you can use the latest and greatest in jQuery and Angular (or Knockout.js, React.js, etc.) and create great SharePoint UI.

The future of SharePoint development and customization is the SharePoint Framework, a client-side based framework that allows JavaScript customizations to work on top of SharePoint Online/Office 365 (and SharePoint Server on-premises in a future update). Let’s put to work a toolset of web technologies, including Angular, Webpack and Kendo UI controls, to build a simple yet useful application and get started with the web stack today.

Download this whitepaper to:

• Get excited about the new SharePoint Framework and related web stack technologies
• See a great set of tools in action
• Learn how to build a practical SharePoint business application using modern web technology

This is a report by SharePoint Gurus, an award-winning consultancy based in Sydney, Australia, that specialize in improving productivity through configuring and developing Microsoft SharePoint technologies.

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) offers sophisticated capabilities that you can use right off the bat in your mobile apps to make them more robust, versatile and fast—no need to redevelop your own backend every time. MBaaS solutions have evolved to a point that they provide scalability, security and reliability for your mobile apps through highly optimized backend infrastructure.

Why Telerik Platform MBaaS?

Recognized as a visionary in the 2016 Magic Quadrant for MADP by Gartner, Telerik® Platform by Progress offers best-in-class mobile backend services as part of its end-to-end mobile application development solution.

Read more for the key reasons why you should consider Telerik Platform MBaaS for your mobile needs.

If you're an HTML5/JavaScript developer, maybe you have already jumped in on a responsive project and would like to learn more. If not, responsive web design will probably be a requirement in the near future. This whitepaper will walk you through the must-know responsive web practices to help you succeed in building HTML5 apps for any screen size. You’ll learn how to:

• Leverage the basic building blocks of responsive web design - grid systems, media queries and flexible content - to create responsive layouts
• Choose a responsive web design framework (Bootstrap, Zurb Foundation, Telerik Page Layout)
• Use advanced Bootstrap features, such as fluid containers, offsets, push/pull and more, to achieve even the most complex responsive web scenarios

Leaders Thrive on Data-Driven Decisions

"In any business, some of the key leaders shaping the product’s growth story are Software Development Managers and Product Managers. Telerik Analytics is a great solution for helping Product Managers and Software Development Managers grow their products. Through usage insights and crash analytics, they can drive success for their products and, in turn, their organizations. With real-time analytics making sense of valuable data, they can make rapid, informed decisions to accelerate development and adoption, increase user engagement and build compelling roadmaps that resonate with end customers.”

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Will JavaScript continue to rise in use? What’s in store for the most popular JavaScript frameworks? What’s next for JavaScript being used to run server-side web, mobile and desktop applications?

Learn the answers to all these questions and more through the analysis and predictions of Telerik experts and industry influencers—some of them the very authors of popular JavaScript libraries.

We cover:

• The 2015 ECMAScript features to be considered the most critical in 2016
• The expectations for JS to JS transpilers’ popularity
• The JavaScript package manager to rule them all
• The issues remaining in 2016 that future updates to JavaScript will need to resolve
• The future of some of the most talked about third-party libraries

 

Mobility is the biggest shift that enterprise IT has faced for many years. It is of generational significance, and so it is perhaps not surprising that so many organizations are struggling with how to make it work efficiently and effectively for them. A recent study by 451 Research* found that while employees own 79% of all the smartphones used for work, a staggering 58% of those employees still believe that they would be more productive if they had access to corporate services using their own personal technologies. Despite this, 39% of all companies and 48% of larger companies still admit to finding it very difficult to distribute mobile applications to their workers' devices.

In a further study, Gartner** found that employees in today's digital workplace actually use an average of three different devices in their daily routines, which Gartner predicts will increase to five or six devices as technologies such as wearable devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) become mainstream.......

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The explosive growth of mobility is putting enormous pressure on enterprise IT leaders. Employees and customers increasingly expect to have high quality, secure, reliable and fully satisfying interactions with organizations through their smartphones and tablets—whether they are iOS, Android, Windows or anything else. Enterprise IT has to deliver mobile applications that meet these demands or they will find they are missing significant opportunities and putting their businesses at risk.

According to exclusive IDG research, 46% of organizations plan to develop between five and 10 mobile apps over the next year, with a significant percentage of larger organizations developing a higher number of apps. The overall market for mobile enterprise business applications is expected to double during the period 2012 through 2018, and leading analysts have said that enterprise mobile applications are poised to become a $100 billion market.

For IT leaders these lofty expectations mean that they must not only continually develop new mobile applications, but they must also focus on enabling existing apps with mobile features and capabilities. IT leaders identified mobility as one of their top two strategic initiatives in 2015, according to internal research from TechTarget. Nearly 50% said their No. 1 mobile initiative was to deploy a mobile enterprise application development platform.

The Enterprise Approach to Mobile App Development

Time-to-market, reliability and positive brand representation are fundamental to commercial success.

IDG Connect interviewed 150 IT decision makers engaged in mobile app development. Their responses provide a detailed picture of how companies across the four territories currently approach mobile app development and offers insight into changes to the way they plan and manage the development process to help overcome the challenges they face.

Key findings include:
-Hybrid and responsive web mobile approach top of mind
-Mobile security, timely delivery and staff resourcing are focus of IT leaders
-Speed, reliability of mobile apps correlated with success

According to Gartner, by 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion. The first interaction your prospects have with you is increasingly likely to be on a mobile device.

Test Studio allows you to test your mobile applications easily and reliably. Find out more and see what is on the roadmap for the next releases.