NetAdvantage for Windows Phone Release Notes – 12.2 Volume Release
Release notes reflect the state of resolved bugs and new additions from the previous release. You’ll find these notes useful to help determine the resolution of existing issues from a past release and...
View ArticleTED Talks on Data Visualization
TED is a world famous nonprofit that is devoted to exploring ideas from across the globe. It initially began as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment and...
View ArticleXamOutlookBar–Data Bind your Groups and Menu Items from your ViewModel (WPF)
Most of you are aware of what an OutlookBar control is. For those of you who don’t, it is a navigation control that is probably most known for its use in Microsoft Outlook. In Microsoft Outlook, the...
View ArticleInfragistics XamGantt Control - Using Entity Framework Code First to Persist...
Infragistics Gantt Control helps to create own project planning applications, that can contain most of the Microsoft Project features. One of the most common scenario is to store project data in a...
View ArticleWhat is A PetaByte?
According to Wikipedia: “A petabyte (derived from the SI prefix peta- ) is a unit of information equal to one quadrillion (short scale) bytes, or 1 billiard (long scale) bytes. The unit symbol for the...
View ArticleInfragistics Parsing Framework - Parsing 101
This is the first in a series of posts I am going to write about the parsing framework shipped as a CTP in the 12.2 release of our WPF and Silverlight products. This framework is used internally by the...
View ArticleCode samples & video of my TechEd presentation on cross platform native...
The video of my TechEd session has been online for a while. However before blogging about it, I thought I would take a unique approach to sharing the code samples. My session introduced the DataBinding...
View ArticleMobile SharePoint - HTML or dedicated apps
Apple pioneered mobile apps as early as 2008; since then a huge number of web and enterprise platform have adopted them. Apps are widely regarded as a great way of providing content to a mobile device...
View Article4 Steps to Binding XML Data to the Ignite UI Grid
The Ignite UI Grid is a flexible jQuery and HTML-based grid control that can be bound to many different types of data sources - and XML data is no exception. 1. Get the Data To begin, you first need to...
View ArticleXamDataGrid–Dynamically Create and Data Bind Columns with an Editor of your...
I recently had a good friend of mine send me an email asking how to dynamically generate columns based on a collection of objects with the XamDataGrid. This seems like a very common task that just...
View ArticleThe future of mobile user interfaces
A few years ago mobile interfaces consisted of nothing more than simple text and monochrome icons. Web content on these devices was hardly better. But these days, users expect their mobile computing to...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8 is Coming – Build Your Apps with NetAdvantage for Windows...
Windows Phone 8 is just around the corner. There are now over 110,000 apps in the Windows Phone Store. Combined with the release of Windows 8, the new Microsoft Surface, and sexy new hardware devices...
View ArticleThe Road to Hell is Paved with Data Visualization
There is a lot of data out there today. Spreadsheets upon spreadsheets of data. Presenting this in a meaningful form has, until recently, been the domain of bar charts and line graphs (think MS Excel)....
View ArticleNetAdvantage for SharePoint Release Notes – October: 12.2 Volume 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 ArticleWhat’s new in Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft recently released version 12 of its iconic Visual Studio software, and as you might expect there are a host of new features. Predictably, lots of these are aimed at app and Windows 8...
View ArticleHow to Use IgniteUI Cascading ComboBox
The introduction of IgniteUI brought a breeze of freshness to most of the existing jQuery controls we had. The Combo Box control now boasts new functionality : being able to set up relationships...
View ArticleTop 5 ways of dealing with difficult clients
Top 5 ways of dealing with difficult clients We’ve all had to deal with difficult clients at one time or another. Sometimes we inherit difficult clients, sometimes we create them, and other times they...
View ArticleYou Want to Buy a Surface, but What is Windows RT?
There is a new version of Windows available today: Windows 8. Every time you hear about Windows 8, you hear about how vastly different it is from Windows 7 and its predecessors. Then you head to a...
View ArticleIgniteUI jQuery Grid Unbound Columns: Updating and Hierarchy
Unbound Columns bring you the freedom of flexible layouts in the IgniteUI Grid and neat support for features to make your grid behave like nothing’s that different. After you’ve seen some of the...
View ArticleIntroducing TypeScript support for Ignite UI
We are pleased to annouce complete TypeScript support for all Ignite UI widgets and non-visual components, such as the DataSource. TypeScript has been recently introduced by Microsoft as a language...
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