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Productivity
7 Must-have Features When Choosing an Agile Management Tool [Whitepaper]
There is an overabundance of tools on the market today. Some of these tools span across various landscape areas of development processes where some tool choices only target specific areas. “The application development software market will grow modestly through 2015, when it will reach $10.1 billion in revenue. New applications, consumption models, devices and developers are driving evolution of the AD space.” Gartner Market Trends: Application Development Software, Worldwide, 2011-2015 To save you time and effort we have compiled 7 of the most important characteristics that organizations should consider when investing in tooling that supports their Agile management practices and teams. -
Release
What’s New in Telerik JustTrace Q1 2012
Our Q1 2012 release cycle has been very exciting! All of the Just products received features and enhancements, and we used the opportunity to officially launch JustDecompile. But so far, we’ve been rather quiet on JustTrace, and the JustTrace team has been working hard to add features that will best help you track down performance and memory issues in your application. We recently added the capability for finding the largest memory retainers, refactored the live data view, and introduced new capabilities for profiling Silverlight applications. If you caught the webinar, you did get to see the latter in action, but here’s... -
Productivity Reporting
First Impressions: Visual Studio 11 Beta and the Telerik Report Designer
In a few days, VS11 Beta will be revealed. This release is big for Microsoft, not only from a technological standpoint, but also from the experience it will give developers. The new UI is so substantial, that there is a dedicated post on it in the Visual Studio Blogs: (source) When Microsoft revealed the first ribbon interface back in 2007, there were some speculations that this interface may make it into Visual Studio 2010. Obviously, this did not happen for an logical reason - the ribbon interface is slick, visual, easy to use, but requires more screen estate, and in some cases... -
Productivity
Telerik OpenAccess ORM - It's all about the speed
An object relational mapper is about developer productivity, about the ability to quickly and easily make changes to your model, about integrated change tracking, caching and moving to other databases easily. It is also about speed. In this blog post I will try to explain the most common questions about OpenAccess in regards to performance and how you can improve it. The OpenAccessContext When using OpenAccess you always start with a type that derives from OpenAccessContext. Creating an instance of that type is a lightweight operation, typically in the order of a dictionary lookup. Then you execute your first LINQ query, and... -
Productivity Testing
Testing Framework Documentation
Or, in the vernacular, “Dude! Where are my .CHMs?” In order to streamline the Test Studio installers, we’re no longer delivering the Telerik Testing Framework standalone help files bundled in with the download. Instead of a 100MB or larger download, we’re at 52MB – that’s a really nice improvement! This only impacts teams that are working directly with the Testing Framework or are leveraging coded steps or tests within Test Studio Standalone or Express. In those cases you’ll still be able to find the complete API reference straight from the Online User Guide section of the Help tab: Click there ...February 25, 2012 1 min read -
Release
New Sample Application Available for ASP.NET AJAX – Image Gallery
An image gallery is a popular feature in a website, so we decided to demonstrate how easy and quick it is to build a gallery with the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and OpenAccess ORM. The finished app is compatible not only with the latest desktop browsers, but also with the major mobile ones. The list of images on the main page was a perfect opportunity to show off the new client-side data-binding of our RadListView control. To get the data to the browser, we settled on a WCF Web Service. The same approach is used for populating the images in a... -
Desktop WPF
Brand New WPF Website & XAML Support Lifecycle Updates
In anticipation of the brand new Q1 2012 release, we were hard at work behind the scenes ensuring that the forthcoming releases of the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF were chock full of new goodies for all the developers out there. But we've also been working on a few other little gems, including a brand new website as well as an update to our support lifecycle and approach to developing the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF. Read on for more... WPF - Streamlined Content and a Metro Makeover One of the huge efforts we have been hard at... -
Productivity
JustCode and Jasmine (BDD JavaScript testing framework) play together
With every new release of JustCode we at Telerik are committed to providing you with the best tool for writing better, faster and error free code with ease. That of course includes testing it. With the latest and greatest version of JustCode we added support for two of the widely and most commonly used JavaScript testing frameworks out there - Jasmine and QUnit. In this post we will cover the support for Jasmine BDD JavaScript tests in JustCode. Industry first Jasmine support Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing your JavaScript code. For more information and details about the framework please visit Jasmine official site.... -
People
What to do when team members go dark, aka the problem with “Fine”
We’ve all heard it in our personal relationships, whether it’s a partner, parent, or child. You ask a question, and the dreaded answer comes – “Fine”.What’s wrong with that answer, you ask? -
Web
XAMLflix continues with RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF.
Hello everyone and welcome back to the XAMLflix! We hope you enjoyed the marathon that ended yesterday with DataBars. In today’s episode we will take a look at RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF. Also, don’t forget that you can get caught up at any time by visiting our XAMLflix page or read below for a short introduction. What is XAMLflix? In case you missed the previous episodes, it is Telerik’s way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Telerik’s XAML suite. Each and every Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting...