In the last versions of Telerik JustCode we added some nice features that will help you quickly refactor your code, so let’s start right away.

Convert If To Switch Statement

JustCode now detects the if-statements that can be converted to a switch statement and suggests doing it for you. Place your cursor on the if-statement and hit Alt+Enter or choose the F menu from VisualAid, select ‘Convert if to switch statement’.

Convert If To Conditional Expression

Another if conversion that we added is to convert an if-statement to a conditional expression (or ternary operator as some people call it). Place your cursor on the if-statement and hit...

The Q3 2011 BETA release of RadControls for Windows Phone is on its way (expected within several days) and I cannot wait to share what’s new in our charting component. Along with several important bug fixes reported by our users, two brand new series that bring the financial charting to your applications are included.

Candlestick series

According to Wikipedia, these series are used primarily to describe price movements of derivatives or currency over time. Supporting true UI virtualization, the series are capable of displaying thousands of data points. Using the Pan-And-Zoom behavior you can move through the timeline to a certain time slot...

As Q3 is approaching we give you a sneak preview of what’s coming in November.

What’s new in the box:

RadChartingKit

Our brand new ChartingKit control empowers users to understand and analyze complex data and ensures great performance for your data visualization applications. The new architecture comes to serve the numerous requests for improvements in our existing RadChart control.
We decided to build this new control from scratch to achieve the best results that could not have been done with the architecture of the old RadChart.
The new ChartingKit reuses the charting engine from our Windows Phone 7 Chart and guarantees flexibility, advanced customization options and unique performance.



Check out the ChartingKit demos

RadEntityFrameworkDataSource (WPF...

Although the command prompt has fallen out of vogue in the past few years, developers and power users alike invoke cmd when a job calls for finesse. Command line support is also essential for many scripting and automation languages, such as MSBuild. JustDecompile has the ability to export code directly from the command prompt. For ease of use, I recommend adding %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Telerik\JustDecompile\Libraries to your path.

To decompile an assembly from the prompt, use the command JustDecompile.exe /out:[OutputDirectory] /target:[PathAndAssemblyName]. This currently only supports csharp, but in the future the /lang switch will enable you to target other languages.

You may find yourself wanting to...

About a week ago I tweeted that two happy Windows Phone developers will go home with $5000 and $300 from Telerik. What I didn’t mention was that these are the Telerik Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Events Grand Prize and the Community Vote Award.

25 apps from all apps submitted by the participants in the Windows Phone Unleashed Events were selected to participate in the contest for Telerik’s Grand Prize - $5000. The winner will be randomly picked up and announced on October 28. Check out the page here

We are also announcing one additional prize for the WP7 community favorite app -...

After a long journey through building up various aspects of the CRM demo here in the LOB Chronicles, we’re finally at the point that we can start talking about the different controls that we are using to better display and organize data within the application. If you recall the last episode in which the topic of UI consistency was discussed, these are going to be working within that uniform model for displaying content, providing a uniform (and downright good looking) experience for users.

This time around we’re going to start taking a closer look at what controls from the RadControls...

As we are constantly trying to make the Telerik OpenAccess ORM learning resources and documentation better and easier to use, we have made some changes that you might find very useful.

Getting Started Videos

Recently we released two sets of entry level videos on working with Telerik OpenAccess ORM. You can choose your scenario between Database First or Model First approach the short series of 2-3 videos will guide you from creating your model to updating your changes to/from the database. Check them out and don't forget to LIKE them. Feel free to post some feedback about your learning experience either here or in YouTube!

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In the past, most developers’ approach to code is that you should write it once and hopefully never have to debug or revisit it again. This stems from the traditional waterfall approach of software development where we were trying to completely describe the entire system up front perfectly. Change was bad and bugs were not accounted for and left for the end.

The Agile movement ushered in the first change to this mentality. Agile introduced the concept of refactoring, or writing your software once and then revisiting it (often if needed) and restructuring its internals for improvement (without changing its external outputs). Refactoring is a core tenant of test driven...

Which one is harder and takes more work? Build a great WP7 app? Or make hundreds of thousands of people download your app? I had a one-hour discussion over lunch with our product team today and we finally agreed that making your app popular is probably harder.

To help starting Windows Phone 7 developers build their first app and promote it for free we have a special combo offer:

If you are among the first 25 people to buy RadControls for Windows Phone till the end of the month you will get 20,000 impressions for free from AdDuplex – the ad exchange network...

We, at Telerik, are trying to be the first facing the challenge to adopt the newest technologies - and here we are now designing and developing a WinRT demo application at this early developer preview stage of the OS and developer tools.

As a UX designer I was eager to start with the design and in the same time a little bit scared in front of the challenge. However it turns out it’s not as big of a challenge as I thought. Two of the most important reasons for that are: our RadControls for Windows Phone 7 completely working on WinRT...