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Windows 8 App Bars
In my previous posting I said that I’d be distilling parts of my presentations into blog posts. This post continues that idea, focusing on the App Bar. If we are going to place Content Before Chrome...
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Why SOLID Matters
One of the biggest struggles that developers have with adopting Unit Testing, whether it’s Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or even just Test Eventual Development (TED),...
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Bad code exposed! Do you really know when your code smells?
I’ve seen really bad code in my day. I have seen it in legacy code bases, code reviews on greenfield projects, and worse: I’ve even seen it in my own code. In fact, I can open up just about any open...
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Windows 8–Search Suggestions
I recently started a series of postings from my tour of presentations in Europe and the UK. Today I’d like to return to Searching (which I started to cover here), and this time take a look at what it...
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Getting Started with the <canvas> Tag – Examples to Get You...
There is a great tendency among web browsers nowadays - the wide and fast adoption of HTML5 APIs. Why should we, as web developers, be excited about it? Well let's take the canvas tag, for example....
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Creating A Live Tile In Windows 8
Continuing my series of Blog posts that distill the presentations I’m giving this month in Europe and the UK, today I’ll take a look at creating a Live Tile. Live tiles tell the user that something...
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Location Awareness in about 2 minutes with Windows 8–HTML
Introduction I was working on a mapping application for Windows 8 – HTML using the Bing SDK and needed to pass the latitude and longitude into it. I began searching for a straightforward way to get the...
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Why I am Starting a Hybrid Development Accelerator
I often get the question, “why the focus on hybrid development for your accelerator?” This question has come up more and more as Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook’s focus on HTML5/hybrid development...
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Telerik OpenAccess ORM - From your Database to a WCF Service
After the official release of our new Add OpenAccess Service wizard you have shown some great interest in using it to shorten the efforts for creating the Web Services and start developing your N-Tier...
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JustCode 2012 Q2 Service Pack 2 Makes Navigation Even Easier
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!...
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Kanban Boards and Microsoft TFS 2012 support in Telerik TeamPulse R5 2012
Our agile project management tool TeamPulse just released our R5 2012 bits and let us tell you, TeamPulse has never been that Agile. R5 marks the release of the much requested Kanban boards, as well as...
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Controlling current culture in your XAML Windows Store apps
When building an application for Windows 8 we find the same known feature for Globalization through the CultureInfo.CurrentCulture and CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture properties, used in many cases where...
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Migration to Telerik OpenAccess ORM is Now Easier Than Ever
Have you reached a point in your application where you want to rewrite some portion of the code, change a public API or even switch to one of the third party components that are widely used today? It's...
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Windows 8–Secondary Tiles
Continuing my series based on the presentations I’m giving on Europe, today I return to Tiles to look at creating Secondary tiles. A secondary tile can be created by the user and pinned to the start...
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Windows 8–Toast Notification
Continuing my series based on the presentations I’m giving in Europe, today I turn to toast notifications. As with Tiles, Toast notifications are a great way to let the user know that something...
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Getting Started with NUnit, NUnit.Should, and JustMock
Technorati Tags: TDD,Test Driven Development,JustMock,JustCode,NUnit,NUnit.Should,Mocking Before diving into mocking with JustMock, it’s important to note that JustMock is a mocking framework, and not...
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Telerik DevCraft Q3 2012 What’s New Webinar Week is coming! Are you ready?
Watch out! The Telerik DevCraft Q3 2012 “What’s New” Webinar Week is fast approaching! Free your calendar for the week of October 22-26, 2012 and prepare for five days packed with information-rich...
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Telerik OpenAccess ORM - Database Naming Settings
We, the OpenAccess ORM team, believe that an ORM solution should not only be easy to use and time-saving, but also flexible enough to reflect your needs. For instance, it is important that the names we...
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Pivotize your data with Telerik’s PivotGrid for WinForms
Our Q3 2012 release is coming closer and closer and I was eager to share that we have prepared a new pack of fresh enhancements that will energize your Windows Forms applications. In this blog, which...
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Get your Learn on With Telerik 2012 Q3 Webinar Week
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...
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