Friends Group Presentation: Essential WinRT and Windows Phone 8 Development...
Infragistics Friends group with the help of Infragistics Inc. organized a presentation about how Essential WinRT and Windows Phone 8 Development. The event was held on Thursday, December 13th at...
View ArticleWeb browser market share - An update
It’s always interesting to keep an eye on the market shares of the various web browsers. While their support for standards is much improved, it is still important to know what browser visitors to your...
View ArticleBuilding MVVM HTML5/JS Apps Follow Up: Download Code Samples
I’d like to thank everyone who joined this morning’s webinar. The source code for the sample applications used in today’s webinar can be downloaded using the links below:WPF MVVM Sample...
View ArticleWindows 8 Development Tips #6: Be great at something
Building an application that people want to keep using and sharing with their friends is hard work. You will spend hours trying to get everything just right and many code reviews later you'll have...
View ArticleBrian Lagunas - 2012 Year In Review
Wow, that was fast! The year 2012 just flew by. It’s amazing how much can happen in a year, and it is hard to appreciate what you have accomplished without looking back at the road that got you where...
View ArticleVisual Studio Live Event Recap: Windows Phone, iOS & Data Visualization
I had the pleasure of speaking at the Visual Studio Live! conference last week, located in the Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando and part of the Live! 360 overarching conference. It was a fun...
View ArticleTips on Drag & Drop with the Ignite UI Tree
As promised in the previous blog on Drag & Drop with the Ignite UI Tree– some tips and tricks coming right up. If you haven’t already looked into the control’s features, now’s your chance –...
View ArticleInfragistics Parsing Framework - Removing Ambiguities, Part 2
This post is part of a series on the parsing framework provided by Infragistics starting in version 12.2. The previous post in the series can be found here.[After reading my previous post, a friend of...
View ArticleBuilding MVVM HTML5/JS Apps Follow Up: Answers to Submitted Questions
Answers to Webinar Questions:Thank you for joining the webinar. The following are answers to questions that were submitted via the chat box:Q1. Does it make sense to use Knockout with MVC 4? It...
View ArticleNetAdvantage for Windows Forms Release Notes – December: 11.2, 12.1, 12.2...
With every release comes a set of release notes that reflects the state of resolved bugs and new additions from the previous release. You’ll find these notes useful to help determine the resolution of...
View ArticleGetting Started with Android Development
A lot of people are coming to Android development from a Windows Silverlight or WPF background, and whilst there are quite a few “getting started with Android Development” blogs, tutorials and even...
View ArticleInfragistics’ Android Chart Tutorial-Getting Started
Mobile controls are different to desktop ones, and android controls are different to those on other mobile platforms. Within all this variation though, charts traditionally stand out as the most...
View ArticleAndroid Development with Eclipse–HelloWorld Tutorial
Starting work with an unfamiliar tool can feel a little intimidating – there are so many unknowns that you never really know where to start and it’s hard to tell the important stuff from the things...
View ArticleWindows 8 Books
Windows 8 Secrets by Paul Thurrott and Rafael RiveraPublisher: WileyPublication Date: Sep 11, 2012Price: $24.24In Windows 8 Secrets, bestselling authors Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera cover topics...
View ArticleBuilding IG Outlook Part 7 – Adding the Contacts Module
This is the seventh video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video, we added a new Contacts module to the application....
View ArticleIntro to KnockoutJS: An MVVM Library for HTML/JS Developers
At the end of this article, the reader will understand what MVVM is, why it is useful, and how open source JavaScript frameworks like Knockout can help deliver MVVM applications.Topics covered in this...
View ArticleAdding a privacy policy to your Windows 8 application
One aspect of Windows 8 app development that I have seen a lot of developers get tripped up on has been the inclusion of a “privacy policy”. The certification requirements document explains why it is...
View ArticleSorted lists in Windows 8 applications
While developing Windows 8 applications I have come across the requirement to have my list of items sorted on my screen, sometimes in a . Unfortunately the base WinRT controls make this really...
View ArticleCreating dashboards on the iPad from Excel spreadsheets with ReportPlus
Every now and then we get users asking: what do I have to do to use my own excel spreadsheets to create dashboards with ReportPlus? The answer to this question is that there are a number of ways to do...
View ArticleActiveNick’s 2012 Year in Review and Predictions for 2013
Every January 1st for the past 9 years, I’ve been getting an email from Microsoft titled “Congratulations 20YY Microsoft MVP!” ( enum YY {Max = 13, Min = 05}; ) where I have the honor and privilege of...
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