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On the Road Again! The I-90 User Group Tour (Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse)
I’m on the road again for my second user group tour of 2013. This time I am headed to the great state of New York. I am calling it the I-90 Tour, mainly because all the groups I will be speaking at...
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A Global Conversation About "The Architecture Part" Of Information Architecture
Come snow or high water, Infragistics was committed to being a part of World IA Day, and for good reason. Our meeting of the minds of technologists throughout business, policy, academia, and more was...
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Designing for Windows 8 is now available!
Today is an exciting day for me. My book, Designing for Windows 8, officially released today and is now available. Those of you that pre-ordered it early might already have it or are receiving it...
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Get Started Learning Ignite UI Today!
Anytime you approach a new library or set of controls sometimes it’s nice to get a helping hand. In an effort to make it drop-dead simple for you to learn how to get started with Ignite UI, I am...
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What’s New in Windows Phone 8 for Developers
Another one of my popular conference talks is now available as an on-demand webinar! Excited? Who is this webinar for?You can approach this webinar from many different perspectives, depending on...
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UX @ DevWeek 2013
It’s DevWeek! The London Barbican Centre hosts the UK’s largest developer conference. Close to 600 developers are here - and so are we. Infragistics is represented with a booth and we’ve had a lot of...
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Learn Ignite UI HTML5/JQ: Introduction Videos
Are you interested in learning how to use the most comprehensive HTML5 / JQ toolkit on the market? Please check out our Free video course:Ignite UI Introduction: 6 videosigGrid Introduction: 5...
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Brent Goes South For The Winter Tour 2013
First off, yes I know it is March and Spring is right around the corner. However, it’s not Spring yet and when I left home via Newark-Liberty International Airport the plane needed to be de-iced...
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Roanoke Code Camp 2013 Follow-up
The first stop on my Brent Goes South For the Winter Tour was Roanoke Code Camp 2013. This event, hosted by the Roanoke Valley .NET User Group (RV.NUG), was held at Virginia Western Community College...
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Windows 8 Development Tips #10: Take advantage of promotions
Let’s face it, many of you have app ideas but you’re not building the app. Why? I don’t know. Maybe you need some motivation. Maybe you’re worried you won’t get any return on your time investment....
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WarGames, Table Tennis and “Sexy” Product Ideas – A Conversation about UX
A former colleague of mine, Helmut Degen, runs a blog about UX from a bird's eye view. He covers UX industry news and a monthly interview with experienced UX professionals. For the newest edition he...
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jQuery Grids with Multi-Column Headers
If you’ve been reading the latest blog about the Column Moving feature of the Ignite UI Grid I’ve briefly mentioned Multi-column Headers. Well, just in case you missed it – that’s a fairly recent...
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Windows Azure Boot camps (Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane)
Microsoft is running Windows Azure boot camps around Australia. These are one day events that will help get you on the fast track to developing with the cloud.The registration page with information on...
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Simulating a DatePicker in Indigo Studio
Although we had a date picker in an early alpha of Indigo, it had to be cut for V1 release. We do know it is a common/useful control, so it will make its way back into the toolbox. To expedite that,...
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Infragistics Parsing Framework - Removing Ambiguities, Part 3
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.In the previous posts about ambiguities, I...
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iOS Tips and Tricks: Associate a File Type with your App - Part 3
Part 1: Standard File Extensions Part 2: Custom File Extensions In this final part of the series we'll finally learn how to react to those files being added to your project. Step 1. Open your...
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XamDockManager–An Updated Prism Region Adapter
Last September, I wrote what has become a very popular Prism region adapter for the Infragistics XamDockManager control. As pointed out in the post, this original XamDockManager Prism region adapter...
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Galaxy S4 And The Quest For The Perfect Retina Display
The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has some nice features:Hover state. This is made possible through the phone recognizing the proximity of your finger towards the screen surface. This is not new, Sony’s Xperia...
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Triangle .NET User Group March Meeting Follow-up
The second stop on my Brent Goes South For the Winter Tour was the Triangle .NET User Group (TriNUG) Main Meeting for March. The meeting was on March 13, 2013 at Microsoft’s Research Triangle Park...
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Orlando Code Camp Follow-up
The third stop on the Brent Goes South For the Winter Tour took me to the Orlando Code Camp 2013. This event, hosted by the Orlando .NET User Group (ONETUG), was held at Seminole State College on...
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