User Centered Dashboards: A Visual Design Approach
As a visual designer at Infragistics I am always keeping my eyes open for effective dashboard designs to lend inspiration to projects. By browsing design-rich websites like Pinterest, Behance, or...
View ArticleUsing Windows Forms for Web Apps
What is WinForms?The .NET Platform provides you with a rich set of libraries to build GUI client applications. The concept of building rapid GUI applications has been borrowed from Visual Basic and...
View ArticleDeveloper News - What's IN with the Infragistics Community? (3/2-3/8)
The first week of March is super webby! Check out our top 4 most-engaged with posts here:4. Why We Killed Off Code Reviews (Real Scout)3. Next Generation HTML5 and JavaScript (InfoQ)2. 10 UX Trends You...
View ArticleThe Windows Presentation Foundation Roadmap: What does it mean for WinForms?
Developers who work within Microsoft’s universe will treat recent announcements about the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with some interest. The corporation are promising important improvements...
View ArticleWeekly news roundup: .NET, JQuery, HTML
Whether you’re a professional developer, a hobbyist or a student, regularly keeping up to date with events in the development world is crucial for understanding larger trends. These recent...
View ArticleIt's The Little Things That Matter: Axes, Tick Marks, Tick Labels, and Grid...
General principlesWhile the fundamentals of chart design largely concern the accurate and efficient visual representation of data, it is important not to forget the supporting structures - axes, tick...
View ArticleMachine Learning as a Double Edged Sword
It’s an interesting, difficult and controversial concept. On one side there are incredible, wonderful, life changing, life-saving possibilities, yet on the other there are awful,...
View ArticleDeveloper News - What's IN with the Infragistics Community? (3/9-3/15)
The top article this week is a great one -- make sure you get a chance to check it out. It'll certainly brighten up your Monday... but it also might make you start wishing for the weekend to come a...
View ArticleReleasing Update 3 for Indigo Studio (v4)
Here’s what you will find in Version 4 (update 3):Drag reorder open tabs (documents)Editors for position and sizeProject refreshSearch and delete screenpartsEnhancements to image pickerHiding Property...
View Article7 Do's and Don'ts of Dataviz Infographic
You've already seen Tim Brock's "7 Do's and Don'ts of Dataviz" article (and if you haven't, go read it now!!)... and now you get to see it visually enhanced in an infographic style! A little less prose...
View ArticleWhich is Better for Analysis, Spreadsheets or Affinity Diagrams? Part 1
In my 15 years in the field of user experience, I’ve analyzed a lot of user research and usability testing data. For most of that time, I’ve typed up and organized my notes in spreadsheets. I find a...
View ArticleApp Development using the Office 365 API – Part 1
Office 365 is a collection of software and services that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. It includes server and client applications that allow users to...
View ArticleThe Rise of Mobile C#
Microsoft have been struggling to get traction with their mobile computing efforts, with Windows Phone stuck at around 3% share of the smartphone market. Windows 8 is doing a little better in the...
View ArticleIgnite UI Release Notes - March 2015: 14.1, 14.2 Service Release
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 the notes useful to help determine the resolution of...
View ArticleInfragistics ASP.NET Release Notes - March 2015: 14.1, 14.2 Service Release
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 the notes useful to help determine the resolution of...
View ArticleInfographic: The Rise of Mobile C#
C# is becoming an increasingly important language for mobile development, with or without Windows. For more info, check out our recent blog post about this topic and check out our latest infographic...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Patterns and Practices Prism Change of Ownership
Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices team announced today that they are about to undergo a change. In the past, the team has focused on creating and giving guidance on most major Microsoft...
View ArticleOpen Source Spotlight: Mobilesiz.es
Competition in the mobile app space becomes fiercer every day. There are more and more applications crowding the marketplace, and everyone seems to want a piece of the proverbial pie. However, many...
View ArticleWPF Finance Sample Application Featured on Quantlabs
Bryan Downing over at Quantlabs recently featured Infragistics finance dashboard sample applications in a recent post - take a look![youtube] width="560" height="315"...
View ArticleThe Role of Convention in Dataviz
If you've read my other articles you might have realized I have a particular interest in how science and the study of perception can aid us in creating effective visualizations; visualizations in which...
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