What an awesome week! If you have been following me on twitter, then you know that I was on my BAM! User Group Tour this week. I spoke at three user groups, in three days, in two states, and two countries. It only took nine airplanes to get me there.
Last week at Microsoft TechEd, two new controls were added to our NetAdvantage for WPF and NetAdvantage for Silverlight products in the form of a CTP release. So, chances are, if you weren’t at TechEd you probably didn’t know. Well now you…
Last week I traveled to Nebraska to give my “Introduction to Prism” presentation to the Lincoln .NET User Group and the Omaha .NET User Group. My first stop was on Aug 29 at the Lincoln .NET User Group in Lincoln at the Assurity Life Insurance…
Lately, we have been ramping up for the release of our newest volume of 12.2 for NetAdvantage for WPF and Silverlight. Let me tell you, this is a going to be a great release. I am so excited, I can’t wait until we actually release it to show you what…
Quite some time ago, Josh Smith wrote a post on how to adorn the cells of the XamDataGrid. I like the concept, but wanted a better implementation that didn’t rely on events or initializing controls in the code behind. So this led me to write a simple…
This is the sixth 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 the support for injecting ribbon tabs into the XamRibbon control for different views. As a View is…
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…
A couple of days ago, I announced the release of our new XamGantt and XamSyntaxEditor CTP controls. By now you have probably seen the “Getting Started with the XamSyntaxEditor” post. Well now it’s time to get to know the XamGantt control.…
Those of you that know me are well aware of my enthusiasm for Prism, and today is no different. About 5 minutes ago a new build of the Prism binaries targeting the .NET 4.5 framework was released. So those of you who are having to use a custom build,…
I was playing with the Infragistics XamMenu control today and made a discovery that I did not like. It does not provide support for commanding! That’s right; no Command or CommandParameter property that I can use to data bind a command in my ViewModel…
I was browsing the Infragistics WPF Forums the other day and ran into this question asking how to localize the descriptions of properties in the xamPropertyGrid control. The original poster looked at other solutions including the use of attributes, but…
I am very excited to announce the immediate availability of the newest member of the Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF and Silverlight control suites, the xamRichTextEditor. What is the xamRichTextEditor? The xamRichTextEditor is a highly customizable…
Try to think of your top three movie sequels. Which ones come to mind? Having trouble? Well, that might be because it’s not often that you find a sequel that is just as good, if not better, than the first. Well, grab your popcorn, your drinks, and…
Writing a generic custom Prism RegionAdapter for a complex control is sometimes difficult, because custom RegionAdapters are custom. They normally have some specific logic built into them that make them fit into a particular application just right. You…
If you develop WPF applications with Prism, then you are probably already aware of the many ways in which you can load a module. Loading a module starts with what is called a ModuleCatalog. You can’t load a module unless it has been added to a ModuleCatalog…
The xamRichTextEditor was release just over 5 months ago, and it has quickly becoming one of Infragistics’ most popular controls. For those of you that don’t know about the xamRichTextEditor, it’s a highly customizable rich text editing control…
Well, it has been exactly one week since I presented at the Ft. Wayne .NET User Group in Ft. Wayne Indiana. Why did it take me so long to write my follow up post? What can I say, I’m a busy guy. What matters is that I have time now. So here it goes…
If you write your own WPF custom controls, you are probably aware of how to go about adding theming support for the various Windows themes. One of the more popular themes introduced in Windows Vista, and continued over to Windows 7, was the Aero theme…
Last week I traveled to Nebraska to give my “Introduction to Prism” presentation to the Lincoln .NET User Group and the Omaha .NET User Group. My first stop was on Aug 29 at the Lincoln .NET User Group in Lincoln. After my talk in Lincoln…
The quest for a good application theme never ends. You spend hours scouring the realms of Google and Bing looking for a clean, modern, and touch friendly theme to use in your application. That is, until now! If you have been looking for a free Metro theme…
Since I have been working here at Infragistics, I have been gathering tons of great customer feedback, and have been trying to identify the areas of our WPF product where we can start improving. It became blatantly obvious that the xamDataGrid was way…
My job as a Product Manager for Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF and Silverlight has many aspects. One of those aspects is knowing the good and the bad about my product. Naturally it is always easier to concentrate on the good, but that’s not my style…
Wow… is it 2016 already? It seems just like yesterday I was talking about all the great stuff we did in the last 15.2 release of Infragistics WPF. Now, it’s time to see all the goodies we have been working on over the last few months since.…
The Infragistics WPF 15.1 release is upon us, and it’s time to see what new major features you’ll be getting when you upgrade. Unlike the past four releases where we saw nothing but new controls on top of new controls and features galore,…
So, I just found a feature in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview that will probably be one of my most favorite and most used. This feature is plain out AMAZBALLS! Yeah, that’s right… I said it… AMAZBALLS! What is the magical feature? It…