In a previous article I discussed the project that I’ll be building in Windows 8.  We started with a couple screen mock-ups and then passed these to the designers who came back with preliminary designs.  While these designs were not ready for Prime Time, they were enough to get me started coding (okay, I would have started coding without them, who can wait?) 

Introduction Hello again! We recently released a brand new XAMLFlix episode on RadPivotGrid Beta and RadAutoCompleteBox. Both of these video series are dedicated to getting you up to speed quickly with our Telerik controls for WPF and Silverlight. So while you are playing with the new controls, we thought you might like a crash course on how you can use Coded UI Testing with RadControls for WPF. We will specifically be taking a look at RadGridView, as it is one of our most popular and requested controls to show this integration with. The video is hosted on Telerik ...

Introduction

As you may know, XAMLflix is a video series designed to get you up to speed quickly and easily with our Telerik controls for WPF and Silverlight. In this episode, we examine the RadAutoCompleteBox, looking at both single and multiple selection, as well as how you can tune the control to match the appearance of your project using themes.

What Is RadAutoCompleteBox?

RadAutoCompleteBox allows the user to type in one or more letters and see a list of potential matching values. The more the user types, the more the selection field is narrowed. The user can, at any time, select one of...

In this posting, we’ll look at how to track location coordinates in Windows 8 and how to plot changes in position using Telerik chart controls.  Specifically, we’ll chart changes in altitude (e.g., of a toy helicopter) over time, as shown in figure 1.

Figure 1

In Figure 1 we see the current altitude (at 12 minutes) is 15 meters. This is reflected in the scatter diagram and is also reflected in the simulated location information that we’re using to simulate the flight of our simulated helicopter.

Setting Up

In order to get this to work, we need to be able to obtain the values...

Are you excited about Windows Phone 8 development? If yes, do not miss our webinar on the topic What’s Hot in RadControls for Windows Phone 8. On December 4, our evangelists, Michael Crump and Jesse Liberty will provide you with useful insights about the new functionalities introduced in Windows Phone 8 such as Speech Recognition Support, MultiResolutionImage, and DataForms.

Every week, Telerik's staff produces a vast amount of online resources to help you - our users in their work with the products. The purpose of this blog series is to keep you updated of the latest, most demanded and most popular documentation, knowledge base and code library articles, videos and useful forum threads.

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Profile Windows Store apps with JustTrace
Windows Store Application profilee type in JustTrace allows you to profile Windows Store Applications written on .NET.

Explore the new JustTrace features. You will be surprised!
What's new in JustTrace Q3 2012.

4 Steps to Profile Your Apps
Getting started with JustTrace and how to profile...

We spent the past few weeks reviewing the feedback we’ve received from you through support tickets, our public issue tracking system, emails to our sales team, talks with our evangelists at conferences, etc. We are now officially ready to announce the plans we’ve come up with based on your input.

Basically, we will develop our ASP.NET AJAX control suite in several directions:

1. Enhancing User Experience

• Persistence Framework – with Q1 2013 your users will be able to persist app settings between sessions.
• Improved performance thanks to modern (light) rendering leveraging HTML5 and CSS3 in modern browsers for our Window, Dock, Rating, Tooltip, Button and...

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...

Mocking legacy code is hard. Especially, if it’s a third-party library and you have little control over how it’s written. It is even more difficult to unit test a type that is instantiated internally. One can argue that it should be refactored to accept dependencies via constructor injection.  However, constraints such as time, budget, experience with the offending code, or even access to the source often prevent paying down the technical debt accumulated in these legacy systems.  

This post will show you how to mock an external library (concept) where it calls a login service class that cannot be sent...

Last week was our second week at AcceleratorHK and things are starting to fall into a good cadence. On Monday, we had our first of the weekly 1:1 meetings and Paul and I worked directly with the teams on the issues that they face. We also had two amazing mentors come in:

First was Salim Virani, the creator of Leancamp. He talked to us about Customer Development and took a lot of time out of his vacation time in HK to spend with the teams on how to ask the right Customer Discovery and Customer Validation questions.

 

Later in the week we had Mikaal Abdulla, co-founder of 8 Securities, a Hong...