Going to Adobe MAX? Don’t miss your opportunity to meet one of the industry’s testing experts, Falafel Software’s CEO, Lino Tadros. Lino will be available to answer your questions in the SmartBear booth #113. Please stop by to say hello, challenge him with your toughest testing questions, and get an inside look at TestComplete and LoadComplete. You won’t soon forget meeting our extremely knowledgeable and entertaining founder!

The long-awaited Mango update is finally hitting the streets. If you can’t wait for it to roll out to your phone you can always try this.

For me, one of the most eagerly awaited features was custom ringtones. The omission of that feature in the first version of WP7 was almost a deal breaker for me, but I hung in there. After you get your Mango update, use the directions here to get your custom ringtones installed on your phone. For me, that can only mean one ringtone!

Falafel Software and Webucator today announced a partnership that will expand the accessibility of Android development training on the web. Webucator, a leader in online technical training, will offer a series of Android development live online classes based on Falafel Software’s popular “Android Nuts and Bolts” courseware. 

Information about the four-day online course, including a course outline and contact information, is available on Webucator’s website. Falafel Software’s courseware will be included as part of the course purchase and will continue to be available as a separate purchase from Falafel Software’s website.

“Having the experienced trainers at Webucator use our ...

It seems that Microsoft has positioned itself in the Google-Apple race. Now with Microsoft using Nokia hardware and Google using Motorola hardware, Apple has some serious competition in the future. It worked out that Steve Jobs quit while he was ahead; those are some monsters to be pitted against. So these are the mega-enterprises that will be revolving around "devices and the cloud" for at least another decade (who knows?), but what does this mean for the web?

//Build has pulled the curtains on pushing .NET to a second-class citizen in the future. At best, .NET will turn into a ...

On October 8th and 9th 2011, Falafel software will have the privilege and great honor of sponsoring this great event yet again as a  Platinum Sponsor and also offer seven speakers to present on multiple topics (Mobile, iPhone, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, Silverlight, Windows 8, WinRT, XAML and many others…

Falafel this year is in charge of the Mobile track and we look forward to presenting great session to the community.

We want to thank Peter Kellner and all the great people at SVCC that allow us to share our knowledge and experience with the the community and also learn ...

When creating a domain service on an Entity Framework model typically there is an option to generate the associated metadata classes for adding attributes to the public properties .

It is necessary to have these metadata classes when:

• Validation attributes such as RangeAttribute, RequiredAttribute
• Using the IncludeAttribute to send child entities to the client
• ExcludeAttribute to not send a property to the client
• Others such as DisplayAttribute, RoundtripOriginalAttribute

One thing to note is that this class is not necessary to use a Domain Service. If you have any of the conditions above that you need to do then the metadata ...

This is an error that you are not likely to see unless you are creating dynamic report definitions at runtime, because the designer will not generate code that will cause this error. However, if you do run into this error, it can be difficult to diagnose and debug. Here is some sample code that will reproduce the problem:

Telerik.Reporting.SqlDataSource sqlDataSource =  new SqlDataSource();
sqlDataSource.ConnectionString =  "Server=.;Database=Northwind;Integrated Security=True";
sqlDataSource.SelectCommand =  "select * from [Order Details]";
Report report =  new Report();
report.DataSource = sqlDataSource;

// Some standard units
Unit height =  new Unit(0.2, UnitType.Inch);
Unit width =  new Unit(2, UnitType.Inch);
Unit zero =  new Unit(0, UnitType.Inch);
PointU ...

By modifying the default ListBox and ListBoxItem styles and ControlTemplates, it isn’t too difficult to make ListBoxItems look the way you’d like.  You can also modify the existing MouseOver or Selected Storyboards to add your own animation effects.  But to add some additional polish to an application, I’ll demonstrate how to animate the adding and removing of ListBoxItems.

Here is a look at the finished example which allows you to add and remove ListBox items (Silverlight plug-in required):

To start, we will animate the fade in and fade out of ListBoxItems as they are added and removed.

Use Expression Blend ...

The agenda for the MS Build Windows conference in Anaheim, CA was kept under wraps until the keynote Tuesday morning. Now that the agenda has been unveiled, EventBoard is showing it off. You can browse through the remaining sessions on your mobile device to see what Microsoft is up to. Get EventBoard here.

Have you ever created a UI element in Silverlight (a Grid, Rectangle, Border, etc.) with transparent components and wondered why it was so hard to click on?  Most likely, it’s because the background or fill brush of your element is null.  Null fill and background brushes allow mouse events (and touch events for WP7 apps) to go through to whatever is behind the element in question.

Instead, you can set a fill or background brush to the pre-defined color “transparent”, and your element will now always intercept mouse and touch actions and raise the corresponding events.

Below is a simple ...

Windows 8 was unveiled this morning at the Microsoft Build conference in Anaheim, CA, but Falafel could have built you a Windows 8 application yesterday. 

How is that possible? It is possible because Windows 8 development leverages many of the same tools and technologies that exist today to build applications. These tools and technologies happen to be Falafel Software's main area of expertise. XAML and HTML5 with Javascript are two of the prime technologies for delivering Windows 8 applications, and Falafel's team of Microsoft Certified Professionals already builds with each of these technologies on daily basis.  

If you saw the Windows 8 demonstrations, you noticed ...

In this Blog I’m going to talk about some of the settings that are available to you in the Sitefinity Administrator for controlling password strength requirements in Sitefinity 4.

Alain 'Lino' Tadros, Falafel Software's C.E.O, has been selected to speak at DevReach for the 6th straight year! DevReach is the premier developer conference on Microsoft technologies in Southeastern Europe and takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 17th and 18th. 

Every year, Mr. Tadros's sessions feature cutting edge technologies that audiences pack rooms to hear about, and this year should be no different. His first session, "Mobile development on iOS, Android and WP7" explains development on each device and how to meet each device's user interface guidelines. Mr. Tadros's second session “Silverlight 5 ins and outs” will explain the new features in Silverlight 5 ...

This is shaping up to be a very busy fall for EventBoard and Falafel Software. Today, Visual Studio Live! selected EventBoard as the official mobile application for their upcoming event at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.

VS Live is one of the many upcoming events that are officially supporting EventBoard, including Silicon Valley Code Camp, AnDevCon and DEMOgala.  

Expect new releases of EventBoard prior to each event, we have been hard at work in the Falafel labs and can't wait to show off some new features! 

Get the latest EventBoard news by following @eventboardapp on twitter.