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  • Using standard resource loaders with Ignite UI

    Ignite UI Team

    AMD signatures

    Ignite UI controls can be loaded using standard module loaders. Each module now contains an AMD signature and references dependency modules. System.JS is a popular module loader which is used by the JSPM package manager. This topic describes how to setup System.JS to use Ignite UI controls.

    All examples below are executed in Windows PowerShell. Similar commands can be performed in terminal on MacOS. Usin…

    • Wed, Dec 7 2016

  • Introducing Ignite UI Scroll

    Ignite UI Team

    Introduction

    In today’s blog we would like to introduce the new igScroll. This control was previously used only internally in the Ignite UI controls. In this release we rewrote the control to take advantage of the latest browser features and decided to officially release it as part of the toolset. The control allows our customers to create custom scroll solution than the default scrolling the browser provides. The control…

    • Tue, Dec 6 2016

  • Using Ignite UI NPM package to boost your productivity

    Ignite UI Team
    During the last six years since its` initial release, npm gained a huge popularity and it is now the most popular JavaScript package manager. It is also the default one for the runtime environment Node.js.  
     
    With the release of version 2016.2 we made Ignite UI available as an npm package and you can now add it as a dependency to your project in few easy steps!  
     
    All the licensed users will be able to use the licensed version…
    • Wed, Nov 30 2016

  • Ignite UI NuGet Package

    Ignite UI Team
    Ignite UI is available as a NuGet package since the release of version 2012.2. However, the package used to provide only a trial version of the Ignite UI product for the developers to explore and play with. It also contained a starting sample, demonstrating how different components can work together.  
     
    With the release of version 2016.2 we decided it’s time we have all our products as NuGet packages as well! The…
    • Tue, Nov 29 2016

  • igGrid Collapsible Column Groups feature

    Ignite UI Team

    You asked for it and we are delivering! igGrid Collapsible Column Groups is now here, giving you additional grid functionalities for greater productivity.

    The multi-column headers feature in igGrid provides the ability to group columns under the same header. Collapsible column groups is a part of that feature and provides a way to collapse/expand a column group.

    Generally a column group consists of two or more columns…

    • Mon, Nov 14 2016

  • JS Blocks – open source Angular components for progressive web applications

    Konstantin Dinev

    We already mentioned JS Blocks in one of our earlier posts on Ignite UI and Angular. This post is intended to introduce Ignite UI JS Blocks in much more detail. JS Blocks is a brand new member of the Ignite UI family. We started JS Blocks at the beginning of the year and codenamed it “Zero Blocks”. JS Blocks is built from scratch on top of Angular and is entirely open source, since the beginning of the project. Angular…

    • Thu, Nov 10 2016

  • What does the powerful combination of Ignite UI and Angular 2 make possible for developers?

    Ignite UI Team

    We have always striven to stay ahead of the curve with Ignite UI, thus with 16.2 we're introducing compatibility with the newly released Angular framework in two separate directions. We now have both Ignite UI Angular extensions on top of the Ignite UI you're already familiar with, as well as a brand new set of Angular native components, which we codenamed "Zero Blocks" and are now called JS Blocks.

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    • Tue, Nov 8 2016

  • How to use Ignite UI components with React

    Ignite UI Team

    Great news, folks! With the release of Ignite UI 2016.2 our toolkit is available to use in your React websites and applications! Combining the rich and powerful Ignite UI controls with the great performance of React will boost your productivity and will help you in building great user experience applications.

    What is React?
    React is an extremely popular library for creating user interfaces that has already conquered its…
    • Fri, Nov 4 2016

  • ASP. NET Core – Creating custom Tag Helpers

    Ignite UI Team

    Asp.net Core provides a way to extend the Razor syntax with custom tags using TagHelpers.

     

    Using TagHelpers makes the Razor view much easier to understand from a non C# person due to the html look. Instead of using HTML helpers for creating a label now we can use a TagHelper.
    For example, if we want to create a label for our username input, we should use the following syntax.
    @Html.Label("Username", "Username…
    • Thu, Nov 3 2016

  • ASP.NET Core - Using Ignite UI components

    Ignite UI Team
    ASP.NET Core 1.0 is here, providing some new and exciting features that we can’t wait to get our hands on!
    We’ll take a look at some of the key features and concepts that were introduced as part of the redesigned ASP.NET Core together with examples on how to incorporate them with a cool components toolkit for modern web development that will Ignite your UI.
    The Ignite UI is a complete HTML & JavaScript toolkit…
    • Wed, Nov 2 2016

  • Big news for the web dev community! Ignite UI is now open source!

    Ignite UI Team

    For a while now, Ignite UI has been the choice for large enterprises to create beautiful and powerful modern web UIs on top of their enterprise data. To enrich the community, we're opening up the most powerful and easy-to-use UI framework for Modern Web Applications to everyone. That's right, we’ve made the majority of the line of business Ignite UI controls and components open source, and they're now available on GitHub…

    • Tue, Oct 25 2016