With the 7.3.0 we release we are introducing some new and interesting features that will allow our user to expand the usability of the igxGrid. The two major things we are introducing are the Multi Row Layout and the Row Dragging feature.

Multi Row Layout

Multi-row layouts allow developers to create intricate cell arrangements within the same row by defining a template layout that is applied to header and body cells. This…

Along with the many other new controls and features in the newest release of Ultimate 19.1, we’ve added the much-anticipated new Spreadsheet component to Ignite UI for Angular.

The IgxSpreadsheet is a Microsoft Excel inspired component that gives you the ability to embed Excel document creation and editing experiences directly into your Angular applications. The IgxSpreadsheet is built on top of our existing Excel…

With the Infragistics UI for WPF 17.2 release, we will be retiring four controls.  In this post we will discuss what it means to retire a control, what controls we are retiring, and which controls you should be using instead.

Impact of Retiring a Product

When we retire a product or control, we maintain our existing support policy:

• Bug fixes / service releases for 12 months after the retirement announcement
• 3 years of…

Almost a year ago, we announced the retirement of our Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 products.  This was in response to the ever-changing Windows platform, and the utter lack of market interest.  Since then, we have been planning and waiting for the right time to make our move.  The time is now!  The Windows Platform has made a number of improvements and the market is starting to gain traction.  We have recognized that now…

On Infragistics product ideas website there is a highly voted product idea titled “Use Nuget for Distribution”.  Well, it turns out that Infragistics does have NuGet packages for some of their products that are installed locally with the Infragistics Ultimate Installer.  You just have to know where to look.

Where can I find them and how do I use them?  Good question! 

Find and Extract Packages

Simply navigate…

It’s no secret that mobile development is all the rage right now.  Every conference, user group, pod cast, blog post, and chats by the water cooler involve some form of mobile topics.   In the beginning, HTML5 was the technology that got all the attention.  It was often talked about as if it were the tech that ruled them all.  While trying to target all device types with HTML5 sounded like an easy win, it has been proven…

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.  Well to be honest, in 16.1, we really out did ourselves.  We added some of the most mind blowing, face melting, eye popping features that will make you want to slap your…

Infragistics WPF 15.2 is your release!  That’s right… your release.  My job as a Product Manager here at Infragistics is to give you, our customers, a voice.  I listen to your feedback, both positive and negative, and make sure our products reflect those conversations.  For years, Infragistics has been working on building a community with you, with honest and transparent communication.  It took some time, but…

When Microsoft first released the Windows 8 and Windows Phone platforms, Infragistics was there with an initial investment of controls to help determine if there was a community interest and platform adoption from our customers.  We had to answer the question, “Is there a market for these platforms, and do our customers care about it?”.  Needless to say, the answer to those questions were pretty clear.  It’s…

The Infragistics xamRichTextEditor control is a highly customizable rich text editing control that provides functionality modeled after the features and behavior of Microsoft Word.  You can easily create and edit Microsoft Word documents using the xamRichTextEditor.  Here’s the thing though… not every app that uses rich text uses Word, or even deals with a document at all.  Sometimes you just have a string stored…

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 thought those solutions were overly complicated and not very straightforward.  Of course my first thought was “then they’re are doing it wrong”.  So I wanted…

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, this release had a different goal.  We wanted to make sure we were filling the control gaps in our WPF product offering, as well as taking time to address some of our own…

The Microsoft TabControl is a popular control to use as a region in a WPF Prism application.  Unfortunately, the Microsoft TabControl comes with some limitations, such as the inability to close tab items.  If you want to close tab items in the Microsoft TabControl, you need to implement this functionality yourself.  However, you can make this easy on yourself by using the Infragistics xamTabControl.  The xamTabControl extends…

If you are a current user of Visual Studio 2013 and Xamarin, and you are wanting to start playing around with the new features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview, including the new Android emulator, then this post is for you.  I spent most of my morning trying to get this to work, so I will save you the troubles that I went through and just tell you what you need to do.  This should make your life so much easier.

First, you…

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’s the XAML Peek and Edit feature.  Wait.. what?  Let me explain.

Let’s say you have a massive XAML application, in my case it would be a WPF application, and you have…

Unless you were living under a rock today, you have probably heard about the availability of the new Visual Studio 2015 Preview.  Now, your first question is can I install it side-by-side with Visual Studio 2013?  Well according to Scott Guthrie, yes you can.  So I did.  I figured I would walk you through the process that I went through.

The first thing you have to download the Visual Studio 2015 Preview.  Here are some of…

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 too complicated, and nearly impossible to use without reading the docs, combing the forums, looking at samples, or contacting support.  Well, that is just unacceptable.  Although…

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 your candy, because this 14.2 release of Infragistics WPF controls is the MUST SEE sequel of the year!  In just a mere six months, we have RTM’d the xamDiagram and xamSpreadsheet…

With the most recent release of Infragistics WPF 14.1, we announced the availability of a new xamSpreadsheet control as a CTP (Community Technology Preview).  Since this announcement, I have been getting a number of question regarding how to even get started using the control.  Since it’s a CTP control, it has no documentation or samples, and things can be a little hard to figure out.  So let’s take a quick look at the most…

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 that provides functionality modeled after the features and behavior of Microsoft Word.  So imagine taking Microsoft Word, removing all the crap you don’t care…