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  • Mobile

    Windows 8–Storing App Data

    How to store application data while your program is running, or when your program is being suspended. Application data can be stored by a "key" into the ApplicationDataContainer. This blog post will show you how.
    February 12, 2013 2 min read
  • Release

    TeamPulse Has a Brand New Website

    Our team is extremely happy to announce we just launched the new TeamPulse website. The URL is the same: http://www.telerik.com/teampulse We have been working on it for a while in order to create a new fresh look & feel. The goal for the redesign was to improve your experience on the website. And make all the valuable content more easily accessible. Along with the redesign, we did a few more improvements and some of them are in terms of content. The Resources section of the website now has the role of a hub where you can find any how-to materials related ...
    February 12, 2013 1 min read
  • Release

    WinForms Conference Buddy – Creating the Shell

    Conference Buddy is an application being developed to assist Evangelists in collecting attendee information at Conferences as well as showcasing the use of Telerik controls. This post walks you through the implementation of the shell form of the Conference Buddy using Windows Forms controls, demonstrating the starting point of this application's development.
    February 12, 2013 4 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    How Scorpion Software Saved $100k a Year with Telerik Test Studio?

    Scorpion Software is a Canadian based software security specialist that helps SMBs reduce their business liability, gain staff accountability and increase productivity with software that monitors and strengthens access to information on premise and in the Cloud. System quality is especially important for a vendor of security software. With three product lines and multiple platforms to support, the QA requirement was becoming increasingly hard for Scorpion Software’s existing testing system to meet. Scorpion Software made Telerik Test Studio the heart of their automated test management platform, leveraging Test Studio’s extensibility to create a custom solution meeting their unique needs. As a result, ...
    February 12, 2013 1 min read
  • Productivity Debugging

    Fiddler and Modern TLS Versions

    Recently, a Fiddler user contacted me to note that they discovered a client/server application which failed when the TLS version 1.1 option is enabled in Internet Explorer’s Advanced settings. They were surprised to find that when they attempted to use Fiddler to debug the communication, the connection was instead successful.
    February 11, 2013 3 min read
  • People Accessibility

    Strengthen the Accessibility of Your Apps Even Further with WAI-ARIA support for RadControls

    We are happy to announce that even more RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX now have support for WAI-ARIA - a W3C standard with growing popularity in the past couple of years. Remaining true to our tradition of keeping up to date with the latest technologies and web standards we have further improved many of our controls which are now WAI-ARIA compliant.
    February 11, 2013 2 min read
  • Productivity Debugging Release

    Announcing Fiddler 2.4.3 Beta

    Yesterday, an updated Fiddler Beta was released, targeting .NET2 or .NET4. This update contains the usual set of bug fixes as well as a number of small features that I hope you’ll find useful.
    February 08, 2013 4 min read
  • Productivity

    Lifesaving Tips for Developers

    Read Chris Eargle’s list of lifesaving tricks and tips for developers which may help you avoid losing your job or your project.
    February 08, 2013 3 min read
  • People Accessibility

    Enhanced Accessibility for Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Databound Controls and Why This Matters

    Accessibility is becoming increasingly popular for websites and critically important for their success. The idea behind accessible website applications is allowing people with disabilities or limited access to Internet to freely navigate your content. This could be achieved by adding additional attributes and elements which could be used by special readers to provide more in depth information for what certain part of a web application is used for.
    February 08, 2013 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Five in Five: Some of My Favorite Things about Test Studio

    [Updated: Fixed a pasting error] Earlier today I posted up a video on Telerik TV: Five in Five. It’s five things I love about Test Studio in five minutes. (Well, the video is 5:54 long, so it’s not quite six minutes which means it’s still five minutes. Mostly.) My five favorite things about Test Studio are: The Element Repository. Centralized, managed handling of element locators? Sign me up. This is perhaps my most favorite part of Test Studio. Flexible find logic. Yes, you can write various Xpath selectors in WebDriver, Watir, or other tools, but Test Studio’s chained find ...
    February 08, 2013 2 min read