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Desktop WPF
Building IDE with RadDocking for WPF/Silverlight
One of the key concepts when building an application stays the layout – what should it be? How should it be defined? It’s a tough question with lots of different answers. Of course, Telerik always tries to make the development easier and here is our answer as simple as possible – the combination of RadMenu and RadDocking controls. -
Productivity Testing
Dynamic Frames? No Problem.
Many sites and web applications are using iframe elements to create tabs or sections on the page which the user can enable/disable/move at will. These often are being created in such a way that putting an ID on each frame is difficult or not feasible. As each frame is created or destroyed, of course, the index of a given frame within the frames collection changes. These factors combine, making it very difficult for an automation framework to reliably locate elements within the frames. Beginning with the R2 release, Test Studio 2013 introduces Custom Tags for Frames, a way to ...December 09, 2013 3 min read -
Productivity Testing
30 Days of TDD – Day 27 – Reader Question #3
Adam Hall asks Just a quick question regarding TDD, encapsulation and DateTime.Now() I’ve often seen suggestions that you should control the behavior of DateTime.Now so that you can reliably test the way classes react to date times. Controlling DateTime is a solution, but it smells of violating encapsulation, you are affecting objects from outside of their boundaries (and indeed system wide) In your experience what is the best way to deal with Dates in TDD? -
People
Software Craftsmanship 2014 Anti-Patterns Calendar
The 2014 Software Craftsmanship Anti-Patterns Wall Calendar is available for order now from gear.telerik.com. -
Productivity Testing
Using QUnit To Unit Test PhoneGap/Cordova Applications
As the state of hybrid web development matures, developers are looking to bring their tools and techniques from more "traditional" development to this new medium. One of these techniques, unit testing, can be a bit tricky to setup in PhoneGap/Cordova applications. In this article, we'll look at how to build a test suite for a hybrid app with QUnit - a popular and easy to use unit testing library. We'll look at not only how to build and run tests, but also how to automate them as well. -
Release
RadControls for WPF and Silverlight Q3 2013 SP1 is now available
Today we have shipped our December service pack of our WPF and Silverlight controls. Keeping the good tradition, our release is packed with numerous improvements and some new features. -
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Web
DataViz Does Rendering Modes And Browser Support
Kendo UI’s DataViz suite is one of the most flexible and versatile data visualization suites around. It has a leading number of charts, graphs, geo-spacial visualizations, and other bits, letting you chart, plot and pie your way to amazing dashboards and graphs. It also also has a suite of rendering engines that support browsers all the way back to IE7. But don’t worry - DataViz is not mired in ancient technologies that keep it from moving forward. IE7 support is handled through one of three rendering engines in the suite: the VML engine, SVG or Canvas. -
Productivity
Prioritizing Development Work using Application Analytics
Application analytics can help you make informed decisions while prioritizing development work. This article reviews a couple scenarios that demonstrate the usefulness of including analytics in your applications. -
Mobile
Bring the OneNote Native Menuing Experience to Your Windows Store Apps
RadControls for Windows 8 XAML Q3 2013 came with several new controls and one of them is RadRadialMenu. Its highly customizable nature makes it the perfect menu assistant for any Windows Store application.December 04, 2013 4 min read