The LiveTileHelper can be used to update your application’s primary tile and also to create or update Secondary Tiles linking to pages inside your application. Once created, the tile can change its size depending on the preferences of your users. LiveTileHelper gives you the option to use custom UIElements for content of the tiles and allows you to use different elements for the different sizes of the tile you create.

Take a look at what's new in RadControls for Windows Phone in Q1 2013.

On January 22, 2013 Telerik and Telerik Academy added 2 more accolades, for “Corporate & Social Responsibility” and “IT Education”, this time from the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies.

I’ve been doing a lot of WinJS work recently, and I am an avid user of the JustCode Template functionality.  So, I thought I’d share my templates as I have them now, and will update this post as I update them or create more.  For more information on creating JustCode templates, please see this help content.

For each template, I show my acronym in parenthesis.  For example, the first template’s acronym is “winjsfile”.  I also don’t show the results for every template, since some of them are obvious.

Templates for New JavaScript File

This template and the related templates following are used when I...

With our Q3 2012 release last month, we introduced a new functionality in RadSlideView: Filmstrip mode. This feature brings this control even closer to the native photo browsing experience of Windows Phone. As you might have noticed, with RadSlideView you can zoom-in an image and see more details, but when you zoom-out, you can't zoom any further than fitting the image to the available screen-size. Not anymore. The new mode allows you to see the adjacent images if you zoom out enough and quickly browse all images by pan and flick gestures. To leave this mode, simply zoom-in or tap some...

Four months ago, we released over 20 ready-to-use templates that provide implementation for common application development scenarios: Design Templates. We have good news for you: after our latest release the templates are over 50!

The fresh additions include our newest controls demonstrated in various scenarios, allowing you to choose what suits you most.

One of these new controls is RadDataForm. It is included in different form scenarios like: registration forms, sign in, check-out and multipurpose template for search and filter purposes.

            

The templates that include RadConversationView are a great example of how Design Templates not only use and configure RadControls so that you can...

Slides, Source Code and Video to the "The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful Than Ever" Webinar Now Available

We want to thank you all for attending the Telerik Reporting Webinar. As promised, all of the materials are now available for you to download and explore on your own. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below. We also suggest that you download Telerik Reporting and the new standalone Report Designer if you haven’t already done so.

For Those Who Couldn’t Attend, What is the Telerik Reporting?

Telerik Reporting is a lightweight reporting solution for all .NET cloud, web, and...

How does mocking benefit me?  That’s a question I hear a lot as I travel around the world giving talks.  So before we dive into how to use a mocking tool like JustMock, let’s discuss why this is important and the benefit that mocking provides over other techniques like Fakes.

In my post on Why SOLID Matters, we refactored a small piece of code to be more SOLID.  Granted, it was a simplistic example, but good for illustrating several key points on SOLID.  We will continue using the same code to discuss the benefits of Mocking. 

As a refresher, we ended...

Webinar week is coming!  From October 22 to October 26, we will be hosting nine webinars showing off the best of what’s new, including an incredible level of support for Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8.  In addition to seeing all of the cool new features in Telerik’s ever expanding suite of products, you can have a chance to win valuable prizes, including DevCraft Ultimate licenses.  Please visit this link to register: http://www.telerik.com/developer-productivity-tools/whats-new.aspx

I will personally be involved in three of the webinars, on Telerik Reporting, the Just suite of products, and support for Windows8 development.

The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful...

JustCode has long been helping developers navigate their code and quickly find Files, Types, Members, and Symbols.  The most recent Service Pack (released 12-September 2012) has made it even easier! 

Go To File (Ctl-Alt-G)

Camel Case Searching

Entering capital letters (or a combination of capital letters and lowercase letters) into the search box will filter the files accordingly.  For example, I know that I have two BDD concerns that test logging in, both starting with “When_Logging_In”.  By Typing “WLI”, the Go To File dialog filters down to the files that have the capital letters W,L,I in their name (in order).  The result is...