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How to make money from you Windows Phone app free webinar. Sign-up now! Check out the prizes.

Its official. Building top-notch mobile app that generates actual revenue takes more than a smart idea,  developers skills, excellent tools and nice implementation. The app needs promotion and yo...

See the early bits in action Try Teleriks AJAX Q212 Beta

I am happy to share with you that the Q2 2012 Beta of Teleriks ASP.NET AJAX controls is here and you can try it right away. Just as the Q1 2012 SP1 was full of fixes, todays Beta is full of new featur...

XAMLflix Video Tutorial: RadCoverFlow for Silverlight and WPF

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadCoverFlow for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadCalculator and RadGauge. This week we ...

How to design a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app Part 2

Welcome to the second blog where we talk about the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the Windows 8 and the Windows Phone platforms and what this means to designers and...

Why I Hate Unit Testing

So you went to work for the cool company that wooed you with promises of cutting edge technologies and techniques. In the interview, they told you that they are agile and unit test everything. You may...

Quick Tips on Troubleshooting Your Web Pages Element Inspector and Network Resources

When I first started out developing web pages back in the day there barely were any tools for development outside of the IDEs that were offered, which werent too much to write home about anyways. Whil...

What makes a marketer of a toolset for building Windows Phone apps happy?

It is news like this one: two of the four apps that won the big prize of the 30 to Launch competition are built with RadControls for Windows Phone - the product our team is building with so much care....

XAMLflix Video Tutorial: RadCalculator for Silverlight and WPF

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadCalculator for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadPropertyGrid and RadComboBox. This we...

Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Using SQL Server 2012 LocalDB

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is certainly an interesting upgrade for the SQL Server, offering lots of improvements and new features. There are many things that might tempt you to migrate to 2012 or at le...

As your startup grows, the founders have to grow with it

On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg showed up to pre-IPO roadshow investor meetings wearing his signature hoodie. Wedbush Securities managing director Michael Pachter commented on Bloomberg news yesterday tha...

Doing Your First Mock

Are you looking for a solution to your unit tests modifying data? Perhaps your unit tests are so slow that none of your teammates bother running them? You need mock objects. The following items will b...

Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app Design Case Study Part 1

A lot of the Windows Phone developers out there are already considering porting their Windows Phone apps to Windows 8. May be you are thinking: from Metro to Metro - it has to be pretty easy and strai...

GDI+ in a Windows 8 C# Metro Application Experimenting for Fun

Its been about two months since Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out and we, at Telerik, have been enjoying the new framework and all the features it offers. One of the aspects we've been exploring is th...

Slides, Source Code and Video to the Diagramming Framework Webinar Now Available

Introduction Hello everyone, I wanted to thank you all for attending the webinar today. As I promised in the webinar all of the materials are now available for you to download and explore on your ow...

Theres a Tool for That: 13 Essential Tools for the Ninja Web Developer

When I am not hacking code, I can usually be found tinkering with cars.  I have been working on cars for a long time, and have acquired quite a collection of tools along the way.  It’s...

Upcoming Events : Speaking and Attending

Hello Everyone, From time to time, I sit down and write out all the events that I will be speaking at or attending in hopes of connecting with other developers who may be attending these events. Ill ...

XAMLflix Introduces RadPropertyGrid

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadPropertyGrid for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadDragAndDrop and RadMaskedInput. Wh...

Another Awesome VS11 Feature - WAI-ARIA Support

Taking a Step Back What is Accessibility? Accessibility is always  a large concern when creating applications. Whether these are meant for the web, desktop machines, or even mobile devices, acce...

Add the Error Diagnostics Control to Your Windows Phone App with 3 Lines of Code

Everyone in the mobile apps business needs real-time feedback about their apps crashes. These have to be quickly fixed, so that you are not losing converted leads. Instead, these users need to be trea...

Telerik XAMLflix Data Visualization Webinar Wrap-up

Thank you everyone for turning out to Tuesdays XAMLflix Data Visualization webinar, featuring the RadControls for Silverlight and WPF in action. We covered a lot of ground in this webinar, movin...

Kendo UI says Namaste to Indian Developers

Kendo UI is a client side HTML5 framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It  Kendo UI Mobile delivers unique adaptive rendering to build hybrid mobile apps that automatical...

Telerik connects with Indian Developers at GIDS 2012

Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) is one of the top developer events in India. This year it attracted over 2500 developers over 4 days of the event (April 17 20th). The conference has b...

XAMLflix Introduces RadDragAndDrop

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadDragAndDrop for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadTreeView and RadDocking. What is XA...

Time Saving Features For MVC Developers

I recently started reacquainting myself with the Telerik MVC Extensions, and it seems I had forgotten just how awesome they are! I want to talk about a few of the less known features I find really awe...

The Present and Future of Using JSON in WebForms

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is the way to handle data on the client these days. It really is the cat’s pajamas. Almost all the client-side widgets or libraries that you’ll be working...

Take a Walk on the Client Side with WebAPI and WebForms

In my last blog I introduced the basics of using ASP.NET AJAX and WebAPI together in the same project.  In addition, I showed how to bind results from WebAPI to a Teleriks ASP.NET AJAX Grid. In t...

Bend Telerik OpenAccess ORM to Your Will with Type Converters – Storing Classes to XML

In a previous blog I showed how to customize Telerik OpenAccess ORM data mappings using custom TypeConverters.  In particular we looked at storing, and querying, an enum by its name rather than i...

Here we grow again. Telerik acquires NimblePros

It doesnt even feel like its been that long since I wrote a post on Telerik in Numbers (almost 10 months to date), and that blog content feels very out of date. While I plan to update you with some ne...

What's New and Improved in JustCode's Test Runner

Hot on the heels of the recently added support for QUnit and Jasmine JavaScript testing frameworks in Telerik JustCode, we have continued to evolve our Test Runner to make it even better. You will fin...

XAMLflix Introduces RadTreeView

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadTreeView for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at the RadZipLibrary and RadTileView Controls...

Stay Tuned - See Whats Coming to Teleriks ASP.NET AJAX Next Version

Some of you, whove read one of my previous blog posts, already have an idea whats coming to Teleriks ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2012. Now I am happy to tell you that we have the full list of all new controls and...

Take your ASP.NET Controls to the Gym

There’s a ton of cool stuff coming out with ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11. If you haven’t had a chance yet, take a look at my top five list of Visual Studio 11 Designer improvements for...

How to set a custom height for RadButton and RadFormDecorated buttons in ASP.NET AJAX

Lately weve been receiving one question quite often - is it possible to be increase the RadButton and / or RadFormDecorators button default height. Usually people are trying to set the needed value t...

Does JustDecompile Contain Bundled Software?

Some developers have been surprised to discover JustCode and JustTrace installed on their system after installing JustDecompile. Whereas most simply try out the tools or uninstall them, some have expr...

A Match Made in Http Heaven - ASP.NET Web Forms and WebAPI

With the introduction of MVC 4 Microsoft has created a fantastic new way for developers to expose data via HTTP service.  WebAPI is extremely easy to configure when compared to WCF services, and ...

JustTrace and JustMock in Visual Studio 11

Microsoft released Visual Studio 11 Beta just over a month ago, and we quickly ensured bleeding edge developers would have access to their favorite productivity tool, Telerik JustCode! So, what about ...

Telerik MVC Extensions Q1'12 commercial service pack available

The Telerik MVC Extensions service pack for the first quarter of 2012 is out in the wild! It is available under the Telerik accounts of the commercial license holders. This maintenance release deli...

Build a WinRT Metro App to Access the Windows 8 File System published in DevProConnections

Hi Everyone, I hope you are enjoying Windows 8 as much as the team at Telerik is. Matter of fact, we have launched our new Windows 8 Team Blog and have a new post called, Metro, Direct2D and XAML Bur...

Communication struggles at a small company

Ive spent my entire career at start-ups. Im use to small. I once worked at a big table with everyone else employed at the company, resulting in pure bliss. One company that I started with three other...

String Matching in LINQ

Performing simple string equality tests is often not enough when application user convenience is key. Often only a fragment of a string is known to the user, or many of them. Sometimes there is a need...

XAMLflix Introduces RadZipLibrary

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadZipLibrary for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at the RadHTMLPlaceholder and RadBreadCrumb...

Be a Profiling Ninja with Telerik JustTrace Q1 2012 SP1

Nothing says .NET Ninja more than creating beautiful applications from beautiful code, with optimum performance and memory management. Other Telerik products help you create beautiful code, but Teleri...

XAMLflix Introduces RadBreadCrumb

It's another Thursday, so by now you are anxiously awaiting the next installment of XAMLflix. Today we're diving into the navigation controls a bit to bring you RadBreadCrumb, a unique control allowin...

Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Ninjas, the Q1 2012 service pack is here!

Teleriks ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2012 SP1 is already available for download! Upgrade your projects now to leverage the newest improvements and get your issues fixed. I will try to summarize for you the most s...

From Telerik VP: Microsoft + ASP.NET + Open Source: This Time for Sure!

Bullwinkle: Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat! Rocky: Again? That trick never works! Bullwinkle: This time for sure! In the last week or so, Ive heard mixed reactions to Scott Hanselmans...

Writing a JustCode Code Cleaning Extension

I recently decided to clean up an open source project, and the best tool I found for the job was Telerik JustCode’s Code Clean option. If you’ve never tried it, open the JustCode Options, ...

XAMLflix Presents RadHtmlPlaceholder

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadHtmlPlaceholder for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series so far. Last week we introduced the RadDataForm and RadUpload. In ...

XAMLflix Introduces RadDataForm

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadDataForm for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series so far. Last week we took a look at two major controls, the RadRichTextBo...

Lazy Programming for Smarties

As a programmer, I can honestly say that I am lazy. Forget the menial job of repeating tasks... if it takes me an hour to complete an iteration, I would rather spend 3 hours automating the process. Yo...

Print your data with RadGridView for WinForms in a few quick steps

We are sure you will agree that the highly demanded Printing support for RadGridView for WinForms was welcomed warmly by your end-users. We wanted to make sure that the Print Preview, Print Settings&n...

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