Is HTML5 "hype" justified or not?
 
We had the same question. We read the available research online, and often found it conflicting. Some analysts are HTML5 bulls; some are bears. Clearly, the Kendo UI team has its own (bullish) opinions on HTML5, but like any good student of the industry, we want to make sure those opinions are in-touch with the heartbeat of the developer community.

Not satisfied with the available data, we gathered our own via a new survey that collected responses from more than 4,000 developers! If you want it done right, you've got to do it yourself, they say. Although the...

Our new RadControls for Windows 8 offers a number of controls to make your application look and perform better.  One of the key features is the new set of HubTiles.  These are easy to work with, and greatly simplify the job of creating a terrific tile for your application.  Remember, Microsoft’s advice is “Invest in a Great Tile.”  Now that’s easy to do.

To see how to create great tiles, we’ll create a small application that hosts two tiles: one an image with “peek” text that appears halfway and then all the way over the image, and the second a flipping...

For Booking.com, the world’s leading online hotel and accommodation reservations agency, getting its app in the Windows 8 store ahead of the platform’s official launch date was essential.  For Methylium, the team charged with achieving this, the Telerik controls for Windows 8 helped solve a major headache, providing sophisticated controls to deliver the app within 6 weeks’ time.

With the advent of Windows 8, Booking.com was quick to target the new platform. Determined to get its app into the Windows 8 store prior to the platform’s official launch, they turned to the Windows Phone development expert and Microsoft MVP Tom Verfoeff. Tim’s...

We designed the typing assistance feature of JustCode to increase your productivity by saving you keystrokes without getting in your way. In this release, we enhanced this feature, making it faster and better than ever.

Brace positioning

When you press enter between opening and closing brace, JustCode positions the braces correctly and inserts an empty line so you can begin typing immediately. Previously, JustCode used the formatting feature to position braces correctly, and this was sometimes slow. The brace positioning no longer relies on the formatter, and the result is extremely fast.

Wrap statement in braces

When you add an open brace at the beginning of...

The current situation

The major browsers offer the option to zoom the entire page rather than just increase the font size. This is an important accessibility feature, which is often used not only by people with vision impairments, but also by users that, for different reasons, need to see the page smaller or larger.

Usually we zoom to increase the font size but, since the browser zooms the entire page, visual glitches could appear when the layout is based on background images and/or sprites. It will not ruin the page accessibility but will leave a feeling that the UI is not structured very well. And we don’t want...

Unit testing LINQ queries can be really challenging. This requires a deep knowledge of how LINQ queries work and how they filter results based on predicate values.  While I am adopting test first development approach, it is most likely that I want to verify the behavior of a query for correctness. In this post, I will show how easy it is to mock a LINQ query using JustMock for a given context.

First, let me build up the context with a simple entity class for Employee that has two properties:

Next, I created a dummy context that inherits the LINQ to SQL...

RadPivotGrid’s development is gathering momentum and Q3 brings along a major improvement: our pivot grid control for Asp.Net Ajax already comes equipped with a powerful filtering mechanism.

Let’s look straight into what this new feature offers. Filtering in RadPivotGrid supports three modes: report, label and value.

1. Report filters

Report filters are applied on fields that do not participate in the grouping of the data but are still present in the underlying data source:

So, for example, let’s suppose that your data items grouped by RadPivotGrid feature a Category property with 100 unique values. Furthermore, your manager needs a report where the data should be grouped...

A few months ago, I blogged about Telerik’s ASP.NET RibbonBar control (or just ribbon for short) in general: why use it; a few words about the ribbon spec; improvements we have made and future plans we have for it.

Now, few days after the 2012 Q3 release, I am blogging about our progress in this area, as well as bringing up some other lesser known features of the ribbon.

What's old new in the Ribbon

I did mention this in my previous post, but perhaps I did not emphasize it enough: apart from complying with the MS specs more, we introduced two major features for...

It is only a few days since the 2012 Q3 release of RadControls for Silverlight and WPF and we have something new to show you. Here in Telerik we really appreciate feedback from you, the customer. Following this feedback we revamped our ChartDataSource to include the most desired features and we also significantly improved performance.

Let’s start with a few words on the ChartDataSource itself. If you are familiar with it you can safely skip this section and move directly to the goodies. The ChartDataSource is a companion control, designed to work together with our new charting solution –...