Paul Usher's Blog

• ASP.NET
• DevExtreme
• TestCafe
• v14.2

Approaching Angular 2 from a WebForms perspective

Sometimes we spend so long working in a technology it is a difficult to make a switch. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right!? The problem is, the world moves on. Using server side technologies like ASP.NET WebForms is something I still love to do, add...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

25 October 2016

BI: Dashboards and Reporting – webinar

With so much information at hand in todays fast paced world of technology, it’s sometimes hard to make sense of it all. How many times have you been provided a spreadsheet that someone has painstakingly assembled from 100’s if not 1,000’s of rows of data...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

15 April 2016

Debugging a PhoneGap / Cordova App

DevExtreme has to be one of my favourite tools to create mobile apps with, but it’s not without some caveats. The biggest one has to be debugging. The simulator is an amazing piece of software except for when you want to run some PhoneGap plugins, or...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

23 March 2016

Webinar–Is Data Too Hot To Handle?

Next week, Julian and I are going to kick off the 2016 Webinar Series with a look at handling data on mobile devices. Regardless of the type of application you are building, data is important. It may be a scoreboard, most recently used list, user details...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

18 February 2016

TestCafe v15.1 What’s New Webinar

The one thing I found when I was learning about libraries and frameworks was that it was much easier to watch someone use it than have to read about it. That's also true of TestCafé, even though we've made it a lot easier to hit the ground running over...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

21 May 2015

Priming for WPF and the DevExpress MVVM Framework

WPF is the desktop choice for the future! There are so many reasons to support that statement, starting with resolution independent UI all the way through to support for MVVM. However getting to grips with some of the concepts is not the easiest thing...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

9 March 2015

Just in time for the weekend - DX Hotels webinars now on YouTube

A number of people have been asking where to find recordings of the recent DX Hotels webinars, we are please to announce they are now available via our YouTube channel. Building DX Hotels - Part 1 Building DX Hotels - Part 2 As always we welcome your...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

13 February 2015

Webinar: TestCafe - Powerful Extensions

One of the aspects of my role here at DevExpress is to share all the cool tools, and TestCafe certainly fits that description. Since its inception TestCafe has taken a unique fresh approach to functional testing web sites and web based applications. When...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

16 January 2015

Learn HOW to Build a site like DX Hotels

A few months ago we presented a webinar on what went into building the ASP.NET DX Hotels demo that starting shipping in the v14.1 DevExpress ASP.NET Subscription. The feedback was overwhelming, you wanted to see exactly how to put together the stunning...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

30 December 2014

Building a Questionnaire with the DevExpress ASPxGridView control

A number of people have requested the source code that was used in the recent webinar " DevExpress ASP.NET GridView: Build a Questionnaire for Your Website ". A zip file containing the project can be downloaded from here , however, there are a few things...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

13 November 2014