Slides from My Summer HTML5 Sessions (so far)

It's been an unusually busy summer for me and conferences. Where I normally take a break from conference travel, I found myself spanning the United States in June, with quick stops at the SoCal Code Camp in San Diego, the huge ASP.NET Users Group in Dallas, and the inaugural MADExpo in Virginia. Fortunately, at each stop the focus of my sessions was the same: HTML5.

I've been "preaching" and teaching HTML5 concepts for nearly 2 years now, so it's fun to see the industry catching-up. It's always a good feeling to be ahead of a curve instead of behind it! But if you're just jumping in to HTML5, don't dismay. It's still very early in the HTML5 technology curve, and getting started now will set you up to be an expert as the technology matures.

For those of you that attended my sessions at any of the conferences this summer, thanks for choosing to attend! Hopefully you got some value out of our brief conversations and are now energized to learn HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. As promised (albeit a bit belated), slides from those sessions are available below. Enjoy the resources and stay tuned for more more HTML5 content in the very near future!

(Oh! And don't forget about htmlUI.com and @htmlUI. I'll be updating this resource significantly very soon, so bookmark for lots of great HTML5 resources.)

The Rich Standard: Getting Familiar with HTML5

Doing More with LESS for CSS

HTML5 for Tablets and Mobile

HTML5 and CSS3 Techniques You Can Use Today (v2)

Join me at DevTeach 2011 in Montreal

While the Canadian government is the biggest fan of me at border crossings, I will be making one trip to the Great White North this spring to speak at DevTeach 2011 in Montreal. This is an amazing community conference- 3 days, over 90 sessions, plus pre- and post-conference workshops. If you're in, around, or able to get to Montreal for this event, you definitely should. It's only XX, which is a bargain for this kind of training.

I will be presenting a session on ASP.NET MVC on Wednesday, so if you're a WebForms developer still trying to understand MVC and some of the different concepts it represents, don't miss this targeted talk. It's early, but it'll be worth it.

I'll also be hosting a "open discussion" on Tuesday during the lunch hour talking about "Silverlight, HTML5, and the Future of the Rich Web."  This will be a fun, interactive conversation about two very interesting technologies and a chance for you to actively share your opinions. The lunch conversation is sponsored by Telerik, so we'll be providing free ice cold beer! That should make the conversation more fun. Don't miss it and don't be late (first come, first served).

In fact, Telerik is a sponsor of the entire DevTeach event, so don't miss our other speakers (Joel Semeniuk, Phil Japikse) and our other lunch-hour bonus sessions (happening on Wednesday and Thursday, also with free beer). It should be a great time and it all starts on May 30th. See you in Montreal soon!

Dallas DNUG Speaking Tour This Week

I've trekked north from my home-base near Houston and I am in Dallas this week for a quick series of .NET User Group sessions. Three nights, three different groups, and three very different talks. Here's the schedule for the week:

• Dallas XAML Users Group (Tuesday, May 3rd)
  "State of Silverlight + What's New in Silverlight 5"
  
• North Dallas .NET Users Group (Wednesday, May 4th)
  "The Rich Standard: Getting Familiar with HTML5"
  
• Dallas C# SIG (Thursday, May 5th)
  "Building a Testable Data Access Layer"

Obviously, the XAML talk is already in the history books, but you still have time to attend the fun HTML5 and useful testable DAL talks this week. All of the meetings occur at the local Improving Enterprises offices, and all seem to start around 6:00 PM. I've got some extra Telerik swag for each meeting, of course, so clear an evening and come join me and the rest of the Dallas .NET community for some fun this week.

BOF Sessions at TechEd 2011

In addition to being a speaker at TechEd 2011, I also have the privilege of hosting a few Birds of a Feather (BOF) discussions in Atlanta. If you've never attended a BOF session, these are essentially moderated conversations around specific technical topics where the value of the session comes from the exchange of ideas and feedback from fellow attendees. As a BOF moderator, it's my job to keep the conversation "on the rails," and make sure a great exchange of information is had. Believe or not, the BOF sessions at TechEd 2010 were the highest rated sessions at all of TechEd!

For my part, I'm hosting or co-hosting three different BOF sessions this year (some of the title's were changed by the BOF organizers- in other words, I'm not a huge fan):

• Silverlight, Flash, and HTML5/CSS: And the Winner Is? (BOF02-DEV)
  Hate the title, but the idea is a discussion about Silverlight and HTML5 (and I guess Flash, to some degree) and discussing which technology is "right" for various kinds of development. The idea of a "winner" is INETA's, but the discussion will be a frank discussion of how to choose between these competing rich options.
• How on Earth Do I Keep Up with All the New Technologies That Come Along? (BOF06-DEV)
  Another beautiful INTEA title, but the concept is simple: how do you survive the tech fire hose? With so many new technologies hitting every day (iOS, WinPhone, HTML5, IE9, etc.), it can be quickly overwhelming to try to keep-up. This discussion will cover the practical challenges and solutions for surviving and flourishing in this environment.
• Choosing Between WebForms, MVC, WebPages, Dynamic Data, and More (BOF08-DEV)
  Finally, this BOF discussion will address ASP.NET specifically, and how you should tackle the growing number of ASP.NET variants. Do you need to learn them all? Is one better than the other? Let's talk about it and figure it out.

If you're in Atlanta and going to TechEd, be sure to add these BOFs to your schedule, and swing-by for a good open conversation. For a complete overview of all BOF sessions at TechEd 2011, tune-in to the TechEdBOF blog.

DevConnections Slides & Wrap-up

Now back in sunny (and unusually cool) Texas, I'm happy to report that DevConnections 2011 was another great developer conference! (Especially if you managed to attend my sessions and workshop on HTML5.) Developers from around the world trekked to the city made famous by the House of Mouse to spend 5 days learning about everything from HTML5 (my favorite) to SharePoint.

For my part, I delivered one half-day workshop on HTML5 and CSS3, plus two sessions: one on practical HTML5/CSS3 techniques you can actually use today, and another on LESS for CSS. Special thanks to everyone that attended (especially those of you that paid for the workshop)! My hope is that you left Orlando with a better understanding of "HTML5" and are now the experts in your offices.

For everyone else, I've made the slide decks from all three sessions available via SlideShare below. If you're really diving in to the content, you'll definitely want to download the slides as I've embedded lots of extra info and links to useful resources in the slide notes.

Finally #1: I created a new Twitter feed during DevConnections EXCLUSIVELY for sharing HTML5/CSS3/modern standards web dev resources. Follow @htmlUI or visit htmlui.com, which will soon re-broadcast and enrich the Twitter content for those of you morally opposed to social media.

Finally #2: Miss DevConnections and still want to talk HTML5? Come find me at MIX11 in Vegas next week (Telerik will have a booth), or visit my HTML5 session at TechEd Atlanta this May.

Slides

Accelerated Adoption: HTML5 and CSS3 for ASP.NET Developers
(Though most of this is generally applicable to any web developer adopting HTML5/CSS3.)

HTML5 and CSS3 Techniques You Can Use Today

Doing More with LESS for CSS

Join me at DevConnections for HTML5

Looking to get a better grasp on HTML5 and CSS3? I hope so! If you've only casually looked at these technologies, 2011 needs to be the year you start to get more in-depth. With the impending release of IE9, the soon to arrive Firefox 4 (and the expected FF 5, 6, and 7 this year), and the near constant updates of Chrome, the world of HTML5-enabled browsers is hitting critical mass. Don't get left behind in the next major wave of web development technologies!

You can jumpstart your HTML5/CSS3 learning by joining me at the upcoming DevConnections conference in Orlando. I'll be doing a half-day HTML5/CSS3 pre-conference workshop, and two sessions during the conference on these topics. It's the perfect way to learn HTML5, enjoy some sunny Florida heat, and maybe visit some famous Orlando destinations (work hard, play hard).

What do you need to do?

Register for DevConnections. Book a quick trip to Orlando. And join my workshop and sessions for some fun HTML5/CSS3 learning.

TechDays Canada, Stop #2

After a very successful visit to Vancouver to kick-off Microsoft's TechDays Canadian tour a few weeks ago, I'm headed back to the Great White North to present at TechDays Edmonton. Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 6th, I'll be back in Canada talking about MVC for WebForms Programmers and Speeding-up Development Using 3rd Party Controls. If you're in the Edmonton area, hopefully you'll be able to join me for the fun!

As a reminder, all TechDays attendees are getting a license for the Telerik RadControls for Silverlight (a $1000 value). Heck of a deal for a sub-$400 conference ticket. I'm not sure if you can still get a ticket to attend, but it wouldn't hurt to beg at the door if you've not already secured your seat!

This will be my last stop in the TechDays tour. While I am the content owner for the MVC session, my fearless (and available) colleagues at Telerik will be covering the rest of the stops in cities like Toronto, Halifax, and frigid Winnipeg. If we don't catch you in Edmonton, come look for a face from Telerik later this Fall and be sure to say 'hi'!

What's New in ASP.NET 4, Today on LIDNUG

Sometimes blogs go silent longer than they should. Such has been the case with Telerik Watch recently. I've got 1,000 reasons why, some of which I'll try to enumerate over the coming weeks, but for now, there is more "urgent" news to share.

Today, Tuesday, October 5th, I'll be presenting at the "virtual" LinkedIn .NET User Group (also known as LIDNUG). At 11:00 AM Eastern (use this handy link to parse that time to your local timezone) I'll be presenting "Getting the Most Out of What's New in ASP.NET 4.0" via Live Meeting to a global audience of hundreds.

If you're interested in learning more about the latest release of ASP.NET, join me for this quick overview. You can register for the free event on EventBrite and then tune-in with Live Meeting from any computer. We'll be focusing on the WebForms features of ASP.NET 4.0, so if you're more interested in MVC, hopefully you can join me in Canada on Wednesday for a conversation on that topic!

See you online soon.

Join me in Canada for TechDays

The infamous Fall Travel Season is getting ready to kick into high gear, and first-up on my calendar is a trip to the Great White North for Microsoft TechDays Canada. In fact, I happen to be a National Session Lead for this year’s event, coordinating the “MVC for WebForms Programmers” session. TechDays will be hosted in 8 cities across Canada, starting with Vancouver next week and ending with Calgary in mid-December. I will be presenting at the kick-off stop in Vancouver next week week and then again in Halifax in early November. Most of the other stops will be covered by the talented Telerik Evangelist, Evan Hutnick.

While at TechDays, I’ll be doing two talks. First, obviously, the talk on MVC for WebForms Programmers will be a good intro session with practical tips designed to help long-time WebForms developers understand the transition to MVC. Second, I’ll be doing a “Power Talk” on Speeding Up Development Using 3rd Party Controls, featuring the Telerik Tools for Silverlight. We’ll look at how the RadControls for Silverlight are unlocking the power of the platform for LOB developers.

Oh! And as a great bonus for attending TechDays, Telerik will be giving RadControls for Silverlight licenses to all TechDays attendees! I’m not sure what it costs to attend TechDays, but I’d bet $1000 of complimentary software makes it a pretty good deal.

If you’re in Canada, register for TechDays now and come join Telerik (and me) as we travel across the country this fall!

Baton Rouge SQL Saturday Wrap-up

Only a couple weeks late, I want to loop-back and provide a little follow-up on a few events I’ve participated in as August (and summer) wind to an end. On August 14, I hopped over to Baton Rouge to participate in the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday, an all day event that covered SQL and .NET. While the name is a bit misleading, the great Baton Rouge developer community pulled together more than 300 developers to talk SQL and .NET, and from my observation, the .NET sessions were filled to the brim.

I was late to the game joining the Baton Rouge speaker’s line-up, so I delivered two sessions: Building a Testable Data Access Layer and a quick “power talk” about the Telerik Toolbox. Thanks to everyone that joined the sessions! Hopefully you were able to takeaway some useful tips and tricks.

Meanwhile, I also participated in a Microsoft-hosted MSDN webcast covering the Telerik Toolbox for Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010. If you missed the live event, an on-demand recording of the event is available directly from Microsoft. It’s a great introduction (or re-introduction for you long-time fans) to what Telerik is doing these days, and it includes three demos that cover a range of Telerik tools (including WebUI Test Studio, the OpenAccess ORM Data Service Wizard, and the Silverlight Telerik Extensions).

Enjoy the archived webcast and stay tuned for more blog updates. After a weeks of events and some down-and-dirty dev work, it’s back to helping you be more productive .NET developers!

devLink 2010 Wrap-Up

This has been a busy summer for speaking and .NET events! After the recent virtual mvcConf and (real) Dallas TechFest, I made my way to Nashville to participate in devLink 2010. If you’re not familiar with devLink, it is one of the largest (and best) community-run conferences in the US. John Kellar and crew put-on a 3-day, multi-track event that rivals the “big shows,” but unlike the big shows, devLink doesn’t cost you a paycheck. This year, devLink returned to the beautiful Lipscomb University campus in Nashville, and the event packed with over 800 paying developers.

I travelled to Nashville to deliver three sessions and participate on an impromptu panel on finding a job (hosted by David Giard or TechnologyAndFriends vidcast). My sessions were for the web developers at devLink, and we packed the rooms standing-room-only:

• The Rich Standard: Getting Familiar with HTML5
• Combining WebForms, MVC, and Silverlight
• Getting the Most Out of What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0

Thanks again to everyone that joined me for the sessions, and big thanks to the person (sorry, didn’t grab your name) that taught that devLink vending machine a lesson for stealing my drink! I had a great time and hope you were able to learn something from the sessions. The code and slides for the sessions is available below for your on-demand learning pleasure.

For now, it’s time to prep and head-off to Baton Rouge for SQL Saturday. See you in Louisiana!

The Rich Standard: Getting Familiar with HTML5
[Slides (PDF)]

Combining WebForms, MVC, and Silverlight
[Slides (PDF)] [Code (Zip)]

Getting the Most Out of What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0
[Slides (PDF)] [Code (Zip)]

Dallas TechFest 2010 Wrap-up

On Friday, I made the quick 3 hour drive from Houston to Dallas to participate in another Dallas TechFest. The Big D’s TechFest is put-on by Microsoft MVP Tim Rayburn and Telerik is a proud sponsor of the event. Unlike many “.NET events,” TechFest truly draws a diverse crowd of developers, with a fair mix of .NET, Java, PHP, Flex, and other “developer flavors” filling the sessions. This year’s event expected more than 400 developers, and I’d say they drew at least that to the University of Texas at Dallas campus.

Building on the popularity of a session originally presented at the Toronto Code Camp, I presented my “Getting Familiar with HTML5” talk to another standing room-only audience. Thanks to everyone that attended, and thanks for the great questions! It was fun to do this session with a group of developers with very diverse backgrounds and focuses.

Updated slides from this session are available below, complete with a resources page filled with related HTML5 links. Your next chance to hear this session live (along with some others) is devLink (this Thursday!), so if you’re curious and want to learn more, find your way to Nashville and be sure to visit my 4:00 PM session.

The Rich Standard: Getting Familiar with HTML5 [Slides PDF]

Virtual MVC Conference this Thursday, Join my sessions

As if there wasn’t enough to do online this week with the Telerik Webinar Week, I have another online event that needs mentioning. This Thursday, July 22nd, from 8 AM to 5 PM Central time, there will be a virtual ASP.NET MVC conference. Conducted entirely over Live Meeting, the day long (free, Telerik-sponsored) conference, dubbed mvcConf, will feature 3 tracks with sessions exclusively covering ASP.NET MVC and related topics. There will be some great speakers presenting throughout the day, so if MVC is something you’re even remotely interested in, this is a great “event” to attend.

For my part, I’ll be delivering two sessions (official schedule should be on website soon):

• Creating Rich MVC Views with Open Source Telerik Extensions
  11:00 AM Central Time
  ASP.NET MVC is a great web development platform, but it shouldn’t require you to write all HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by hand. Come learn how the free and open source Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC are making it easy to build rich MVC views by giving you MVC-native reusable UI components. This session will focus on how to add Telerik Extensions to an MVC project, how to use the rich Grid for MVC (including binding to web services), in addition to highlighting additional tools in the MVC toolbox, such as the new rich text Editor for MVC.
• The Four C’s of Web Asset Optimization
  2:00 PM Central Time
  Learn how to leverage the four C’s of web asset optimization- caching, combining, compressing, and CDNs- to deliver higher performance standards-based web sites. By applying one or all of these techniques to JavaScript and CSS resources, ASP.NET MVC applications can improve load-time performance and scalability. This session will  also look at two Extensions included in the open source Telerik Extensions for MVC- ScriptRegistrar and StyleSheetRegistrar- that simplify the actions required to optimize web assets.

So, right after you attend the JustCode/JustMock/OpenAccess ORM Telerik webinar (at 10:00 AM Central), jump over and join me for some MVC fun at mvcConf. If the conference will allow it, I’ll give away a few commercial licenses for the Telerik MVC Extensions and JustMock to attendees of my sessions.

One final note: the event is currently sold out! I know, unusual for an online event, but I’m told it has to do with the event’s access to Live Meeting (or Live Meeting limits, or something…). Fortunately, they are working on streaming sessions via UStream, too, so check the conference website for updates (or check their official Twitter account). Otherwise, I’ll see you- virtually- at mvcConf on Thursday.

Telerik wins Best of TechEd 2010

See that trophy sitting there? That’s the “Best of TechEd: Software Components and Middleware” award (right above the previously mentioned Code Project Members’ Choice award). This is a huge honor for Telerik and we are extremely grateful for all the support and feedback from you, our customers, that helped us bring this trophy home. As our CEO said, this is validation that we’re on the right track and it only pushes to go further!

And while we didn’t take home the trophy in the other two categories where we were nominated (congrats to Dundas and Quest!), being a Best of TechEd Finalist is still a major accomplishment. Hundreds of submissions from around the world get whittled in to fewer than 50 finalists, so being represented in 3 of 14 award categories (only Quest, Symantec, and Microsoft matched that feat) says a lot about Telerik’s success delivering solutions for all aspects of .NET development.

Thank you for being part of Telerik’s success and stay tuned for an exciting Q2 release in a few short weeks!

Telerik at TechEd, Winning awards

As you know, this is a busy week for Telerik because we’re in full-force at TechEd 2010. TechEd New Orleans is underway and the Telerik crew is busy doing booth demos, talking to Telerik fans, and helping developers learn how Telerik’s tools help them save time building great software. As you would expect at a conference made-up largely of the “IT Pro” audience, Telerik’s TeamPulse planning software and WebUI Test Studio testing software are very popular in the booth this week, and Telerik Reporting is a big hit with the BI attendees (especially with our support for Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, and ASP.NET).

We’re also very honored to receive some awards this week.

We kicked-off the week taking home the Code Project Members’s Choice Award for Best Silverlight UI components! The Telerik Silverlight Team has been working very hard to create the best Silverlight UI components available and we’re pleased that our work is producing results the entire .NET community loves. We’ll continue to build on this success and once again establish Telerik as the industry leader for UI components on any Microsoft platform.

Meanwhile, we’ve also been nominated for three “Best of TechEd” awards this year! We’re nominated in these categories:

• Best Database Development Tools (with OpenAccess ORM)
• Best BI Tools (with Telerik Reporting)
• Best Software Components (with Telerik Ultimate Collection)

It’s a great honor to be considered among the best of the best across such a wide spectrum of .NET, and we definitely appreciate all of the feedback and support that you- our avid fans and critics- provide to help make our products great.

Of course, beyond the booth and the awards, there are plenty of parties and meetings and parties this week in New Orleans. It’s a busy time, but an exciting time. And speaking of time, it’s time for me to get back to the expo floor…

Telerik at TechEd 2010

It’s hard to believe that it’s TechEd time again, but summer is upon us and TechEd New Orleans is kicking-off in 4 short days. New Orleans has had its share of bad luck in recent years, between Katrina and the current oil spill, and the general “theme” for TechEd this year seems to be charity and community. From GiveGeek’s Habitat for Humanity project on Saturday to Telerik’s “Deserving Developer” TechEd passes, the .NET community is coming together to make TechEd 2010 more than a geek fest.

The Telerik Houston crew will be Road Tripping^TM it to New Orleans this weekend, driving to meet a cadre of Telerik crew members from around the world, including our Boston, Austin, and Sofia offices. We’ll be pitching camp in the famous Telerik “dance floor” booth for the week (Booth 2001, if you’ve got a map), and we’ll have some great t-shirts, prizes, and demos to give at the booth. You’ll also want to stop by our booth on Monday to learn about our special contest that could give you a chance to take a trip in New Orleans (similar to the lucky people that won the Grand Canyon helicopter ride at DevConnections)!

Otherwise, keep your Twitterators/RSS Readers/Facebook-checker locked in to these resources next week as we bring you the sights, sounds, and news from TechEd 2010:

Twitter

• @toddanglin
• @telerik
• @telerik/insiders <- aggregation of all Telerik tweeters

Facebook

• Telerik “Fan” Page (exclusive videos and pictures)

RSS

• Telerik Watch (of course)
• Telerik Blogs
• Telerik TV (get updated when we add new videos!)

Toronto Code Camp wrap-up

So, yeah…in my busy haste to finish 1,001 tasks last week, prep a brand new HTML5 session for the Toronto Code Camp, speak at the South Houston .NET Users Group, and join Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell for their Houston .NET Rocks! Road Trip stop, I kinda sorta ran out of time to actually mention that I was going to Toronto this weekend to speak. So, to kill two birds with one blog post, this is both your “heads-up” post that I’m speaking at the Toronto Code Camp 2010 and the wrap-up!

I presented two sessions this weekend, and I was pleased that they were two of the most popular sessions at the entire event. It always amazes me that people are willing to stand for 75 minutes to watch a session when a room is full. You guys are hardcore and get bonus points in my book. Thanks to everyone that attended the sessions, though! I hope you took away at least one useful bit of info.

My sessions at this event were:

• Maximizing Ajax Performance – Not new, but always useful for people to see how Ajax really works and what you can do as an ASP.NET developer to get the most out of Ajax. Unfortunately, I was a bit rusty delivering this session in Toronto because I was prepping the next session…
• The Rich Standard: Getting Familiar with HTML5 – Brand new for Toronto Code Camp, I’ll be doing this session a lot this summer and fall. This is your primer to HTML5 and a must see if you A) care about standards, or B) are a web developer.

Slides for both sessions are available below. The slide notes contain a lot of links to additional resources, so be sure to check them out if you’re trying to dive deep on these topics (especially HTML5). I’ll post code soon, but it needs some tidying before it’s “download ready.”

Overall, it was a great event and more than 600 developers ventured-out for the day of learning. Other than a more than frustrating experience with Canadian immigration cops, I had a great time and would encourage anyone to attend this event in the future!

The Rich Standard: Getting Familiar with HTML5
[Slides (PPTX)]

Maximizing Ajax Performance
[Slides (PPTX)]

[Picture courtesy of Joey DeVilla’s Code Camp Flickr set]

New divisions at Telerik, DevConnections wrap-up

In case you weren’t watching the Telerik Blogs, or the Telerik Twitter account, or the Telerik Facebook Page, we were in Las Vegas this week celebrating the launch of Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, and…the introduction of two new divisions at Telerik! A busy week to say the least. We also re-launched Telerik.com and launched a beta of the new Telerik TV (more details soon).

On Monday, we introduced two new divisions at Telerik:

• Team Productivity Tools
• Automated Testing Tools

Team Productivity Tools
This brand new division has been created to focus on building tools that help teams better collaborate and work efficiently through the entire application lifecycle. At Telerik, we recognize that building great software doesn’t start with writing code, it starts with capturing ideas, planning requirements, and managing the software development process. As a software development company ourselves, we see gaps in the tools available today for accomplishing these tasks and we aim to fill those gaps with the tools coming out of this division. This division is based in Winnipeg, Canada and headed by ALM and TFS expert (and Microsoft RD) Joel Semeniuk.

We introduced the beta of the first new tool out of this division this week:

1. TeamPulse (licensing TBA)
   TeamPulse is best described as a planning sandbox for TFS. It helps teams quickly capture project requirements, define application personas, and plan the work that must be done to build software. It’s an innovative tool built on Silverlight 4 that we think will be essential to any TFS shop.

Automated Testing Tools
This division is the result of a merger with ArtOfTest, the company Telerik has been partnered with for the last year to provide WebUI Test Studio. Now that we can operate as one company, we can more effectively combine our efforts and bring new solutions to the automated testing and QA world. This new division establishes a Telerik office in Austin, Texas (my neighbor), and it is headed by Christopher Eyhorn and Faris Sweis.

At the same time, we’re introducing two new versions of WebUI Test Studio:

1. WebUI Test Studio QA Edition ($2499)
   Aimed at the non-technical QA, this is a standalone version of WebUI Test Studio that does not require Visual Studio. It’s brand new and super easy to use. It sports TFS integration to ensure dev teams can easily collaborate with QA teams.
2. WebUI Test Studio Developer Edition ($1499)
   This is the “replacement” for the original WebUI Test Studio edition. It’s aimed at developers and it is a Visual Studio plug-in that provides all of the features found in the QA edition.

Clearly, with news this big, it dominated our time at DevConnections and demanded that we do something special. Something like our in-your-face green .NET Ninja shirts that over 200 people wore to the Silverlight 4 keynote, our Telerik VIP Lounge party bracelets, our green Telerik guitars given away by Carl Franklin and his band (that we flew to Vegas to perform), and no less than 4 unique t-shirt designs given away at the booth! It was a big week and everyone that engaged with Telerik went home a winner.

Stay tuned for much more news about our new products, our new divisions, and new things happening across all of the existing areas where Telerik is working hard! Also, be sure to visit our Facebook page for more photos from DevConnections and new videos coming soon.

Telerik @ MIX10

I know this week has been a flood of Q1 2010 news and bits, but there is no rest for the crazy. Next week in Las Vegas, Telerik will be there in full force at Microsoft’s MIX10! MIX is Microsoft’s premier conference for web developers (and designers), and this year promises to be full of excitement. Everyone expects lots of news around Silverlight 4, Windows Phone 7 Series, Silverlight on Windows Phone, Internet Explorer 9, and surprises that will be icing on the cake.

Telerik is a Silver Sponsor of MIX10 and we’ll be hanging-out in the new “Showcase” area in our Microsoft-supplied micro-booth. I’ll be there with a few people from the Telerik Silverlight product team, so if you have questions, want to see a demo, or just want to say hello, we’d love to meet you.

Finally, if you want a shot at some “spot prizes,” make sure you bring and wear your cool Telerik t-shirts. I’ll be keeping my eyes open, and if I spot you in a Telerik .NET Ninja or Geekette or other equally awesome Telerik cotton, I may present you with a valuable prize. It’ll be the easiest way to win in Vegas!

Oh! And, of course, I’ll do my best to “live-blog” from the MIX keynotes. It may be more of a “summary blog” now that MIX broadcasts everything to the web, but it’ll be your direct connection to all of the big news at MIX. See you in Vegas on Monday!

What’s new in Silverlight 4 tonight at D2SIG

Following my great one-day notice about my speaking trip to the South Florida .NET Code Camp, here’s a same-day notice about your next opportunity to attend one of my sessions. Tonight, Tuesday, I’ll be speaking at the D2SIG in the Houston offices of Microsoft. I’ll be presenting a new “What’s New in Silverlight 4” session, where we’ll do the basic walk-thru of some of the more significant changes in the next version of Silverlight (like printing, data binding, notifications, and so on).

The session starts promptly (as I learned by being late to speak last time) at 6:00 PM. If you’re in Houston and you’re ready to start working with Silverlight, don’t miss this great introduction to the newest features. You can RSVP for the session on the EPS Software website and then we’ll see you tonight. I will, of course, have some Telerik swag to give away, if bribery is the incentive you need.