If your users’ native language is not English, you’re all too often faced with a localization requirement. You can easily setup the user code to display control strings in the required language, but what about the strings displayed in Infragistics WPF controls? In the 10.2 release, both our Silverlight and WPF products include control strings in German. As shown in this blogpost, showing control strings in…

Some of the most demanding charting scenarios are in the financial world – substantial amounts of data coming in at real-time, and a wealth of historical data to put everything into context. Apart from charting current and past price movements, decision-markers use a variety of indicators to predict the market trend. This presents very specific challenges to any charting component that is to be used in such a scenario…

You’ve talked to your users about showing those inventory levels records in the NetAdvantage for Silverlight XamGrid. They’ve mentioned  they would like to see inventory stock levels categorized in groups corresponding to how soon they have to be restocked. Your users would like certain threshold values to be used on the number of items in stock for separating the inventory items into the different groups.…

When it comes to data analysis, users have for too long relied heavily on spreadsheet software. We’ve all seen applications where users export the data shown in a grid control, and analyze it using spreadsheet software. Apart from slowing end-users down, this practice has in some places led to embarrassing information leakages and incompatible ways of computing of the same measure by different users, resulting in misleading…

Users are not content with just looking at the data anymore, they want to have as much data analysis done automatically and presented together with the data, so they can quickly interpret and act upon this information. Maybe the simplest form of data analysis you can do as part of your application is conditional formatting of records in a grid control – basically, this allows you to apply specific appearances to cells…