• A Look Into The Future–Using the Ignite UI Geographic Proportional Symbol Series Map

    Infragistics Ignite UI Geographic Proportional Symbol Series Map jQueryThe Ignite UI map is already a control that boasts a wide variety of features , proving useful in a number of different scenarios. I have been posting about the map’s current capabilities; this post and another one which will follow shortly will shed some light on some upcoming features.

    Today we shall be looking into the Proportional Symbol Series – a nice touch on the standard symbol series. With this new type…

    • Sun, Dec 16 2012
  • How to use Contour Line Map Series in Infragistics Ignite UI Map

    Ignite UI Infragistics Map Contour Line Series JQueryI have recently covered the Ignite UI symbol & shape series in these two blogs. Today , I will be introducing yet another type of series of the map – the contour line series. This type of series is useful for when you want to illustrate how a set of values are distributed over a region of space on the map. Altitude , precipitation , population – all of these come to mind as being possible scenarios that would call…

    • Sun, Dec 9 2012
  • Drill-Down Using The Ignite UI Map

    Infragistics Ignite UI Map Drill-Down

    This blog post will bring the last addition to my series on the Ignite UI Map – this time we’ll look into drill-down functionality.The feature is not something that comes out-of-the-box for the control , so I will present an alternative solution to achieving the same effect.

    Drill-down is when a selection of a series item shows up additional series contained within that item , each one bearing distinct data…

    • Wed, Nov 28 2012
  • How to Use IgniteUI Cascading ComboBox

    IgniteUI Infragistics jQuery Combo Box

    The introduction of IgniteUI brought a breeze of freshness to most of the existing jQuery controls we had. The Combo Box control now boasts new functionality : being able to set up relationships between the data in different combo boxes. If the options on combo boxes vary depending on the selection in another combo box – cascading will make everything very simple. Let’s see how it’s done.

     

     

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    • Fri, Oct 26 2012
  • Infragistics jQuery Map’s Shape Series: An Introduction

     As a follow-up in the series of blogs , this one will be about the other major type of maps – shape series. While the symbol series are all about individual points or “places” , the shape series are meant to define regions. This means that they are very useful for displaying statistical information such as population density in different areas and country boundaries.

    If you’ve read the blog about…

    • Wed, Oct 10 2012
  • How to handle tooltip events in the Infragistics jQuery Map

    Infragistics jQuery Map TooltipIn this next blog post , we will solve one of the issues we had with displaying information about specific series items back to the user. The way we did it was by using a rather hacky approach which was just to show that it’s indeed doable. Now , let’s go ahead and find out what the intended way was – by using tooltips !

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Preparing for tooltips

    The tooltips that are being displayed are styled through jQuery’s…

    • Mon, Sep 24 2012
  • Introduction to the jQuery Map

    Infragistics NetAdvantage jQuery Map

    Hey people ! This post , along with four more will try to shed light on the latest addition to the range of Infragistics jQuery controls – the jQuery Map. Albeit in a CTP stage , you can expect to squeeze a lot of use out of this widget. This blog post will focus on the basics of the control and how to use it in your applications and the rest of the topics will be centered on specific features.

    Setting the map…

    • Wed, Sep 12 2012
  • Touch Support in NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 12.1

    We , the people of today , have mobility rooted deeply into our lives. We are constantly on the move , be it due to work routines or leisure activities. We are also used to being surrounded by high-tech gadgetry – it helps us in our everyday tasks and brings entertainment right at our fingertips , literally. Along came a new way of interacting with devices: enter touch screen. It brought the traditional way of “pointing…

    • Wed, Jul 25 2012
  • Using the Infragistics Pivot Grid in a LightSwitch Application

    All of you LightSwitch-using people have one more reason to be happy about our 2012.1 release of Infragistics for LightSwitch line – the Pivot Grid makes its appearance and comes to aid with your LoB development. This post will give you the basics on what to do in order to start using this flexible grid in your applications. Bear in mind that I’m using VS 2012 – you may notice that in some of the attached images. I advise…

    • Thu, Jul 5 2012
  • Cell Merging in WebDataGrid and WebHierarchicalDataGrid

    With the NetAdvantage 12.1 release , all grid controls now have the cell merging feature added to them. This includes NetAdvantage for ASP.NET’s WebDataGrid and WebHierarchicalDataGrid. This post will guide you through using this feature. Damyan Petev wrote a blog post about the same feature used with the jQuery grids so make sure to check that out as well !

    What this feature is about is readability. Cells are merged…

    • Fri, Jun 8 2012
  • Metro Style Support in NetAdvantage for XAML 2012 Vol.1

    The 12.1 release of NetAdvantage for XAML brings Metro support to the table. With this addition , you can now develop Metro-styled applications using all the benefits of our Infragistics components–without losing any style !

    First off , the Metro theme that is provided with the 12.1 release has improved support for touch gestures. The interaction zones have been improved – smaller components such as arrows and handles…

    • Mon, Jun 4 2012
  • How to use the Infragistics Color Tuner in XAML Applications

    In the 12.1 release of NetAdvantage for Silverlight , developers may now start using the Infragistics Color Tuner to style their applications. The Color Tuner is a Visual Studio add-in that lets you pick a color palette that you can apply to any and all the controls within your project with just two clicks ! And the beauty of all this is that the color tuner requires no additional setup – you can instantly use it as soon…

    • Mon, May 14 2012
  • How to use the Infragistics jQuery Pie Chart

    With the arrival of the 12.1 release of Infragistics for jQuery , the Pie Chart control is no longer in a CTP state. This brings an amazing opportunity to display quantitative relations in an easily-understandable way. After reading this blog post , you should have enough knowledge on how to operate the Pie Chart control.

    Where to start

    First thing’s first , you’ll need to load the required files so that the chart gets…

    • Thu, May 3 2012
  • Using Checkbox Columns with the Infragistics jQuery Grid

    Coming with the 12.1 release of the Infragistics jQuery product line is a new feature for both the jQuery Grid and jQuery Hierarchical Grid. Checkbox columns let your grid render boolean variables as checkboxes – this way you don’t need to map the true/false values to meaningful text before displaying in a grid.

    The difference

    With a standard grid setup at hand , let’s see how it deals with boolean values…

    • Thu, Apr 26 2012
  • Adding expand/collapse animations to WebHierarchicalDataGrid

    What we’ll cover in this post is adding an animation to the expand and/or collapse actions within an Infragistics WebHierarchicalDataGrid. Utilizing this visual effect is literally a one-liner and will not interfere with your existing code in any way – it’s just possible that you’ve missed on this feature while browsing the control samples.

    How to do it

    So you’ve got an Infragistics Hierarchical…

    • Thu, Mar 29 2012
  • Implementing multi-column headers in WebDataGrid

    The Infragistics ASP.NET WebDataGrid control comes with the option to add multi-column headers – much like grouping your actual columns. These headers let you structure your grid data in a meaningful way , making it easy for the end-user to quickly locate the information he’s looking for. Using this additional layer of columns requires no overhead and reorganizing of your data. This blog will focus on showing you how…

    • Mon, Mar 26 2012
  • Exporting a WebDataGrid to Word, Excel, XPS or PDF

    Following the recent posts about exporting data from a grid , this time I will show you how to do the same with the Infragistics ASP.NET controls. The target is a WebDataGrid and the goal – saving the data locally into today’s most widely used document formats: Microsoft Word/Excel files and PDF documents. As you shall see deeper into this post , all of this is done in an extremely simple way.

    Let’s get on…

    • Mon, Mar 19 2012
  • Import/Export using Infragistics Excel in MVC3 Applications

    Using the Infragistics Document library , you have access to a great set of tools to manipulate Microsoft Excel files. Infragistics Excel gives you an API to modify and save server-side data into an Excel document , as well as load up and process a file that a client specifies. In this blog post we’ll cover a basic scenario for both of these cases – showing you how to export data that has been fed to an Infragistics Grid…

    • Fri, Mar 9 2012
  • jQuery Hierarchical Grid - Handling Events

    Just like every other Infragistics jQuery control, the hierarchical grid comes with events you may attach handlers to. Due to the nature of the grid, however, it might prove difficult to determine exactly where was an event fired. You will probably have several child grids ( which are also called "column layouts" ) and each one is a suspect for triggering an event. In this post, I will detail how to get basically all…

    • Mon, Jan 30 2012
  • jQuery Hierarchical Grid - Enabling paging, sorting & filtering in the grid

    If you have worked with our jQuery Hierarchical Grid, you most certainly have respect for the sheer amount of data you can load it with. You can have multiple levels of grids all connected to a single entry in your hierarchical grid. The amount of information available at any given point in time can become overwhelming – this is where any features that ease up the presentation of your jQuery Hierarchical Grid help. Sorting…

    • Thu, Jan 26 2012
  • Infragistics jQuery Tree–load on demand, checkboxes and keyboard navigation

    Enabling load on demand can be very beneficial for your Infragistics jQuery Tree’s performance. Loading on demand will decrease page loading time in two ways:

    1. Additional sub-nodes will not have their HTML elements rendered until the moment they are required to load – meaning the only elements that actually exist are the ones you can visually identify in the tree.
    2. Information that should be loaded in sub-nodes…
    • Sat, Jan 21 2012
  • jQuery Grid - Feature Chooser

    With NetAdvantage for jQuery in your hands, you are dealing with one of the most feature-complete jQuery controls package on the market. All of the components come with an amazing amount of built-in functionality that is just waiting to be tapped in. The NetAdvantage for jQuery Grid is a great example – take a look for yourself ! With so many things you can set up and use immediately, it will most often be the case…

    • Wed, Jan 18 2012
  • jQuery Grid - Showing Row Selectors & Selection

    In this blog post, we will discuss how to spice up your igGrid widget by adding interaction options. Namely, this means letting your users select data directly by clicking on it. Yeah, this is out-of-the-box functionality that comes with NetAdvantage for jQuery – all you need to do is enable it. In a little while, you will know how to do that too, so without further ado – let’s get on with it !

    Basic…

    • Wed, Jan 11 2012
  • Introduction to Column Hiding in jQuery igGrid

    Column Hiding is one of the igGrid features bundled into NetAdvantage for jQuery. It will enable an igGrid user to alter the amount of information he sees by hiding certain columns or revealing ones that might have been hidden. This is quite helpful since, pretty often, the user would only be looking for a certain part of the information and not all of it. Enabling this feature is traditionally easy and the effect is…

    • Tue, Jan 3 2012
  • Using auto-complete, match highlighting and filtering in the jQuery igCombo

    Upon taking a look at all the available options for our NetAdvantage for jQuery igCombo widget, one can see how easy it is to accidently miss an option or two. Chances are, if you have been going for a quick setup of your control, you might have missed some of the nice things your igCombo can do – worry not, though ! We’ll discuss how to enable auto completion, highlighting selections by matched text and also filtering…

    • Thu, Dec 8 2011