In my previous post, i showed how JustMock picks mock expectations based on current context without the instance being injected. Based on feedback we found that It’s sometimes confusing and often does not work as intended. However, the context of this post is not to introduce future mocking rather a new feature that allows you to skip mock instance intentionally (when you can’t pass the dependency through a constructor or via method argument) instead the tool is applying it for you on behalf.

You can find more on future mocking and some abstract behind it from my previous post:

http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/archive/2011/09/30/future-mocking-revisited.aspx

Now moving forward, i...

I want to thank everyone that joined me on Monday for the What’s New in Q3 2011 for Data Tools webinar.  We had a lot of great questions, and saw many of the new awesome features available in Telerik Reporting and OpenAccess ORM for Q3.  In such a short time span it is not possible to cover everything; so make sure to stay tuned to my blog, or the team blog.  Over the next few weeks we will cover even more of the awesome Q3 features!

For those of you that missed out on the fun, the webinar is now live on Telerik...

Have you been looking for a way to visually represent your organization? You’re not alone - many of our customers have been requesting this exact feature. Enter the RadOrgChart. This new ASP.NET AJAX control is perfect for displaying hierarchical structures in a visually appealing and intuitive way. My colleague Nikolay already wrote a blog post regarding the features of this control and the post has a lot of good links that you can follow. What I wanted to take a look at here is how you can get started working with this new and awesome control today, so let’s get started...

I hit this error today while working with an MVC3 application.  It appeared out of the blue – but don’t they always?  Fortunately, I make a habit of committing my work into SVN every time my tests pass, so I could have just reverted back to my last Revision, but I wanted to know what I did to cause this.

Much to my demise, the optimistic fixes didn’t work:

• Restart the debugger several times, because surely that will fix it :-)
• Close Visual Studio and reopen it.

Just kidding.  But we do tend to try those don’t we?

Back on topic,...

It has been an exciting day today as we completed the Q3 2011 Windows Phone 7 Webinar.

As always, all of our webinars are available for viewing on tv.telerik.com. So far, the following webinars are available for viewing:

• What's New in Windows Phone 7
• What's New in Silverlight and WPF Recorded Webinar
• What's New in ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC
• Overview video of What’s New in Q3 2011 (All Products)

Some of the new controls covered in the Windows Phone 7 presentation are:

• BulletGraph
• ContextMenu
• AutoCompleteBox
• ToggleSwitch
• MessageBox
• SlideView

The Source Code to the presentation is also available to download now.

We have several other great webinars lined up that you may...

Or how to uncover the touch horizons for your applications.

The once unnamed RadPanorama control is here to make your Windows Forms applications rock! Together with the Touch API we have introduced in our previous blog, it brings the full power of touch-optimized applications to your Windows 7 users.

If you have not heard anything about RadPanorama before, let us introduce it with a few words. Basically, this new control allows you to represent a small amount of data in the form of tiles that the end-user is able to smoothly scroll left or right with a gesture, just like in Win8, and...

In case anyone in the audience has been sleeping for the past couple of weeks, we're smack in the middle of the annual Webinar Week for the Telerik Q3 2011 release.

It's now 11:03AM EST on Tuesday, meaning you've already gotten to see the kick-off, data, phone, and Xaml webinars and are probably watching Ajax/MVC right now - but in case you missed any of these you're in luck. 

All of our recorded content makes its way up to Tv.Telerik.com for your viewing pleasure, so head on over here in case you missed the live What's new in Xaml webinar yesterday to see everything that's...

I have provided technical support for RadScheduler since its inception and I can say that it is truly like an iceberg - the more you dive in knowing the control the more you come to appreciate its power, richness of features, potential for customization and flexibility. But what good is something if you don't know that it exists? For the Q3 2011 release, we have made a thorough review of the RadScheduler demos and realized that they show only a fraction of RadScheduler's potential. So, we have updated some old demos and added a few new ones. We will continue this practice in the future...

Just a few short weeks ago, Telerik was a proud sponsor for 2011 ‘Agile Testing Days’ event in Potsdam, Germany. This event brought together agile testers from all over Europe to converse and learn in an intimate setting. Jim Holmes and Daniel Levy were there to guide the European agile testing community through many of the recent advancements that have been made in our automated functional and performance testing software, Test Studio. 

Those who dropped by the Telerik booth were treated to in-depth product demos and some amazing ‘SWAG’ including our new testing t-shirts featuring a soon-to-be-named character.

While the event has...

With the Q3 2011 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced three connection pool types which are explained in this blog post. In this blog post we will have a look at the connection pooling behavior of the Oracle driver and what setting to be used when we want to use Telerik OpenAccess ORM with Oracle databases.

 

Which setting for Oracle and why?

When we want to use Oracle as our backend, it is advisable to use the connection pool type Open Access Connection Pool with OpenAccess Connection Management or the Ado Connection Pool setting. When using one of the two settings, we...