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Surface RT versus Surface PRO
As of January 15th 2013, the Surface Pro hasn’t been formally launched. However preliminary reports and sneak previews have been making their presence felt. Based on these, here is a tentative...
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Avoid Errors When Defining Resources with the Ignite UI Loader
When defining resources in the $.ig.loader options, you have the option to explicitly load all the scripts associated with the control itself, load a selection of its features and even a load using a...
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Windows 8 Development Tips #7: Get creative with grid item sizes
One of the defining aspects of Windows 8 is the grid view layout that many application hubs use. These horizontally panning lists of items are used everywhere from the Start Screen tiles to many of...
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Bid farewell to Microsoft Messenger
I guess the writing was on the wall when Microsoft bought Skype back in 2011. But the news is now official. The once ubiquitous messenger app, Microsoft Messenger, is soon to be retired and replaced...
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The year of SharePoint 2013?
2013 is now firmly upon us. As the holidays become a distant memory, and our thoughts turn to getting back into shape in the New Year, what kind of condition is SharePoint 2013 in? What does 2013 hold...
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How to connect to Analysis Services from the iPad with ReportPlus
When we built SharePlus, we saw an opportunity in bridging one massively used server side technology such as Microsoft SharePoint, with a new family of technologies, such as the iPad and iPhone.We saw...
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Windows 8 Development Tips #8: Don't be afraid to break the mold
If you ask enough people what they think about the Windows 8 UI, you would begin to think that every single application looks the same. Many people seem to have this mistaken opinion that we're...
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UX of Responsive Web Design
What is Responsive Web Design?Ethan Marcotte first used the term Responsive Web Design in his article in A List Apart in May of 2010. Marcotte explains that designing for every screen size and device...
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Whyyy Are You Still Designing With Static Wireframes?!?
Why?? Seriously. Interaction prototyping is so much more effective.Honestly, it's a little baffling to me when I see the disconnect between theory and practice in UX/interaction design when it comes to...
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iOS Tips and Tricks: Working in the Background
Sometimes it feels like there is nothing worse than when you're in an application and you are stuck waiting for it to do some long operation, such as downloading a file or doing some kind of long...
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NetAdvantage for Windows Forms Release Notes - January: 12.1, 12.2 Service...
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...
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What Is A UX Consultant?
Here at Infragistics we offer lots of exciting UIproducts, products that we think really help our customers build beautiful interfaces. But did you also know we offer a UXconsultancyservice? We offer...
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User Experience Research & Motorcycle Racing
I race motorcycles. I’m also a 20+ year veteran of user experience research. Believe it or not there are similarities. When I race, I have my knee on the ground as I lean the bike through the turns...
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How to use TFS on a Mac
Here at Infragistics, we're primarily a Microsoft shop. And Like any good Microsoft shop, we use TFS for everything, from planning our next features to handling our source control to managing our bugs....
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Technology and trends to look forward to in 2013
It is the time of year again, when many of us look back (or forward in this case) and review the big technology trends. In this post I’d like to look at the technology and gadgets that we can to look...
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Tomorrow’s Webinar: How to Build an HTML5/JS Single Page Application
Please join me for tomorrow’s (January 30, 2013) webinar. 11:00 AM ESTGain a solid introduction Single Page Applications (SPAs), a format growing in popularity as the world embraces HTML5/JS....
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Windows 8 Development Tips #9: Get a Windows 8 tablet
When you're developing for Windows 8 you need to acknowledge that you are developing for a touch-first platform. This means that as you design your app you will constantly need to be aware of the...
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Get DependencyProperty by Name for WPF and Silverlight
Have you ever needed to create bindings to elements without knowing, or having access to, their DependencyProperty until runtime? Have you ever had the need to get the DependencyProperty of an element...
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Adaptive/Responsive Web Design - Don't Neglect The Users
What is responsive Web design (RWD)? You don't need me to tell you--there are hundreds if not thousands of articles on the Web, not to mention a few books. I've personally read about twenty some odd...
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3 of the most interesting UI improvements in SharePoint 2013
The Modern UI“Modern” is the new name for what we used to call “Metro.” But this being a 2013 Microsoft product, it of course sports the new standard Microsoft user interface. Does it work better in...
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