If you have used the Infragistics xamDialogWindow control in your WPF or Silverlight application, I can probably guess your biggest complaint with the control. I know what mine is! Currently, the XamDialogWindow has to be part of the visual…
Often when learning a technology you start by searching the web. You look for videos, blogs, articles, samples, and examples. What you start to realize is that everything you find is very simple “demo” code. That’s code that shows how to implement…
This is the fourth video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video we create custom region adapters for the Infragistics XamRibbon and XamOutlookBar controls that are defined…
It’s that time again! Time for another free WPF and Silverlight theme for the Microsoft controls. The last free theme I gave away was the Metro Light and Dark Themes for WPF and Silverlight Microsoft controls. Soon after I released that theme, 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…
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 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…
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…
I know this is no ground breaking, mind blowing secret trick, but I have been getting a surprising number of questions regarding how to find the parent of a specific type for a control. The ability to find a parent control based on a type comes in real…
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 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…
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…
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.…
AMAZING! That’s all I can say about this 14.1 release of Infragistics WPF and Silverlight controls. This is the most feature packed release we have had since I started working at Infragistics over 2 years ago. I am really excited about the new controls…
Back in July I wrote a blog post that showed how to add a checkbox to the row selector of the XamGrid and data bind to it. The demo was written in WPF and used a method that exists inside a Utilities class. Specifically Infragistics.Windows.Utilities…
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…
This post will cover how to more effectively get answers to questions you have using Infragistics products. Note that if you have a license it is important for you to register your keys to ensure that you get the correct level of support…
The XamFunnelChart™ is a new control in 11.2 and as with other newly introduced controls following our Unified XAML strategy – they are Cross-platform and this one is no exception. It will be available in NetAdvantage® for Silverlight and WPF both Line…
Recently (read: the latest release) the Infragistics Excel engine got a set of neat enhancements to further improve the control you have over exported or imported files. For those that are not yet familiar – it’s a library that allows you to create and…
It has been a part of the company strategy to create a common experience while using our controls across all XAML platforms – something here at Infragistics we call the Unified XAML Product Strategy. Controls build on top of it are meant for rich Line…
In a previous post we looked into using XamDataChart along with a Correlation calculator. But there’s much more – the Infragistics Math Calculators™ library offers quite a few calculators that can be used to perform mathematical or statistical calculation…
It has been a clear trend over the past years to move a big deal of interaction with applications from the usual desktop experience to touch-enabled versions – easily portable and compact tablets, comfortable touch displays and a whole army of mobile…
Parallel lines with varying width and spacing – they are virtually everywhere. Barcodes have a rather long history of becoming a standard for assigning data to an optical representation and it allowed for identifying a broad range of goods in stores,…