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  • Mobile

    5 Strategies for Building Mobile Apps with Telerik

    Traveling down the mobile development road can be challenging, given the diversity of mobile projects and the diversity of strategies available to build out mobile solutions. Also, understanding all of the offerings that can help a developer execute a strategy can be challenging. In this article I am going to silo Telerik’s mobile development offerings […] The post 5 Strategies for Building Mobile Apps with Telerik appeared first on Telerik Developer Network....
    August 22, 2014 1 min read
  • People

    Telerik Platform Named the Best New Mobile Development Solution of 2014

    Telerik Platform was chosen as the winner of a 2014 Gold International Business Award— known as the Stevies—in the Mobile Solutions Category.
    August 19, 2014 1 min read
  • Design

    A Comprehensive Guide to Styling File Inputs

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    Trying, and failing to style an <input type="file"> control is a twisted rite of passage in the web development trade. If you’re not familiar with the problem, you could read this Stack Overflow thread to get up to speed, but you may consider a new career afterwards. (Law school did seem appealing, and you only […] The post A Comprehensive Guide to Styling File Inputs appeared first on Telerik Developer Network....
    August 19, 2014 9 min read
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Integrate ASP.NET with a 3rd Party Security Service

    After the recent spate of security issues from large retail companies, especially those that caused me to have to get a new credit card issued, I’ve been thinking more and more about how to secure my ASP.NET web applications. Fortunately, the new OWIN-based security in ASP.NET 4.5.1 can fill that need. In this article, I’m going to show you how I integrated the ASP.NET security model with the security services available in Telerik Platform.
    August 19, 2014 7 min read
  • Desktop

    Windows Notifications Demystified

    Users only spend a limited amount of time in our apps; anything we developers can do to invite them back into our apps increases user engagement. One of the best tools for doing this in Windows Store apps are notifications such as toasts, tiles and badges. We can trigger timely and appropriate notifications from outside […] The post Windows Notifications Demystified appeared first on Telerik Developer Network....
    August 18, 2014 1 min read
  • Desktop UWP

    Now is the time to Develop Windows Universal Apps!

    I’d like to take a moment and time travel back to late 2010, when Windows Phone 7 officially launched. Microsoft developers everywhere were excited that they could reuse their existing skillset and begin to build native mobile applications. Not only were Microsoft developers happy, but so was Telerik. We had been working closely with Microsoft […] The post Now is the time to Develop Windows Universal Apps! appeared first on Telerik Developer Network....
    August 14, 2014 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Functional GUI Testing and Kendo UI

    Even though Kendo UI makes it easy to build gorgeous UIs, teams regularly struggle with getting solid UI testing wrapped into their delivery flow. Teams often run into issues with asynchronous operations, difficult Document Object Model (DOM) structures, or browser incompatibilities that challenge team members writing functional UI tests.
    August 14, 2014 12 min read
  • Mobile

    3 Steps to Crafting an Effective Mobile Strategy for Your Enterprise

    Most companies have already experimented with their first app by now. However, some embarked on it without any strategy, realizing later that they need one; and others have crafted one, but are yet to measure its effectiveness. Here are the three important steps to crafting an effective mobile strategy for your enterprise.
    August 14, 2014 5 min read
  • Web

    Creating a Flippable Cards UI

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    Cards keep showing up everywhere I look. Twitter has cards. Google has cards and cards are everywhere in Material Design. Cards are also showing up in mobile apps, such as Tinder (not that I would ...
    August 13, 2014 8 min read
  • Web

    The Case For Kendo UI

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    A safe and diplomatic strategy used by developer advocates, such as myself, is to promote a product by only speaking of its merits while sidestepping a direct comparison with its competitors. This is ...
    August 12, 2014 13 min read