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…
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…
I’m on the road again for my second user group tour of 2013. This time I am headed to the great state of New York. I am calling it the I-90 Tour, mainly because all the groups I will be speaking at are located along the I-90 New York State Thruway.
This is the seventh 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 a new Contacts module to the application. We went through the necessary steps to add this module…
This is the fifth video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video, we implemented our navigation using the Prism navigation APIs as well as some navigation objects we created…
This is the first video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. This video covers how to setup a multi-platform Prism application that targets WPF and Silverlight. I show you how to setup…
I was reading the Infragistics forums today and noticed a common question regarding the XamGrid control. Basically, there is a need to place checkboxes in the row selector of the XamGrid, and then data bind those checkboxes to a property of the bound…
Back before I worked at Infragistics, I was the author of an open source project on CodePlex called the Extended WPF Toolkit. You may or may not have…
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…
This is the third video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video we will create the first module in the application called the Mail module. We concentrate on just stubbing…
Have you ever needed to create bindings to elements without knowing, or having access to, their DependencyProperty until runtime? Have you ever had the need to get the DependencyProperty of an element at runtime for any reason at all? If so, then this…
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…
Yesterday I announced the release of our new XamGantt and XamSyntaxEditor CTP controls. In this post we are going to get to know the XamSyntaxEditor. The XamSyntaxEditor is a highly customizable text editing control that provides syntax highlighting and…
This is the second video in a series that will take you step-by-step on building a Prism application that mimics Microsoft Outlook. In this video, I walk you through creating a shell for both the WPF and Silverlight platforms. This is a relatively short…
Shhhhh…. Do you hear that????? That’s the sound of another great FREE theme!
Today’s theme is the highly requested Office 2010 Blue theme. The Office 2010 Blue theme takes it’s visual cues from the Microsoft Office 2010 product suite…
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…
In case you missed it, Microsoft’s mainstream support for Silverlight 4 has ended. Technically it ended in January of 2013, but you wouldn’t know that unless you keep up to date with Microsoft’s Silverlight Support Lifecycle, or you tried to open a Silverlight…
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 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…