October 10, 2008

Infragistics' Jesse Chadwick and Grant Hinkson Are Awarded Microsoft MVP

Infragistics' Leadership in the Software Development Community Grows

Princeton, N.J. & Elstree, United Kingdom — October 10, 2008 — Infragistics, the world leader in user interface development tools, announced today that two more of its employees have been honored with the 2009 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award. Jesse Chadwick received the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET, and Grant Hinkson was awarded Microsoft MVP for his work with the Microsoft Expression Community. This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high-quality, real-world expertise with others.

Chadwick, the Lead Web Developer at Infragistics, is entrenched in the developer community as both a leader and founder of several best practices and mentoring groups including Central New Jersey .NET User Group, NJDOTNET, and the NJDOTNET Agile & Dojo groups. Chadwick is also the Technical Editor on a book entitled Silverlight 2.0, published by WROX.

Hinkson, the Director of the Experience Design Group at Infragistics, has made significant community contributions including the development of the Fireworks to XAML Exporter and co-authorship of both the Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2.0 books, published by WROX. Hinkson also led the development of Pistachio, a tool that analyzes resource usage in WPF projects and is listed among the "must have" tools for WPF development.

"We are so proud of Jesse and Grant for all of their achievements at Infragistics and the technical community as a whole," said Dean Guida, CEO and President of Infragistics. "Their personal drive, technical expertise and passion to be active in the community which led them to meet the technical and worldwide community standards required to become Microsoft MVPs are an inspiration to everyone at Infragistics."

Chadwick and Hinkson join seven other Infragistics employees with Microsoft MVP status including: Jason Beres, Visual Basic; Tony Lombardo, ASP.NET; Ambrose Little, Solutions Architect; Kalpesh (Vic) Parmar, ASP.NET; Ed Blankenship, Visual Studio Team System; Josh Smith, Client Application Development and Code Project MVP; and Craig Shoemaker, ASP.NET.

For information about Infragistics, please visit: http://www.infragistics.com.

About Infragistics

As the market leader for over 18 years, Infragistics offers the most comprehensive user interface component toolsets available for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF to empower developers to build and style immersive user experiences in line of business applications. Infragistics also offers user interface testing tools, support, training, and consulting services. Infragistics continues to grow worldwide with offices in the US, UK, Japan, Bulgaria, France, Canada, and India. For additional information on Infragistics, products and career opportunities, please visit www.infragistics.com or call us in the US at 1 (800)231-8588, 1 (609) 448-2000, in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa (EMEA) at +44 (0) 20 8387 1474, or in Japan at +81-3-5474-8040.

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