I'm quite new to the Infragistics suite. I'm trying to replace an old WinForms application with a WPF version. The old application used the UltraWinExplorerBar, but I can't find it in the WPF version. Is there something roughly equivalent?
This week I held a webinar for the APAC region: Introduction to XAML (WPF) & Data Binding for Modernizing Desktop Applications.
WPF is around 10 years old, and the platform is mature. In the webinar, I explained why I would choose WPF over Windows…
If you're a customer of our Infragistics Ultimate UI for WPF controls, then you are probably already aware of our innovative new control configurators. Configurators enable Infragistics customers to more easily learn and discover the control APIs…
WinForms has long been a popular way to develop form and GUI based applications, generally for Windows based devices. Part of the .NET framework, and originally seen as a replacement for Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC), WinForms applications…
Hardly a day goes by without new programs, products or updates being released from the tech sector, which certainly lives up to its dynamic nature. Last Thursday was no different, as Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices team announced that they will be…
You might be familiar with some of our controls. But have you truly seen everything Infragistics can do for your development?
We’ve been working hard to bring you the best possible tools, no matter what you’re developing for. So if you haven’t taken…
The Infragistics packages for WPF and Silverlight contain a lot of diverse charts for data visualization. The control that we are going to look at is The Doughnut Chart. This chart supports one or more rings surrounding a blank center. It can be customized…
A QR code is a popular way to present small chains of information. Infragistics has a QRCodeBarcode control for both XAML and Ignite UI. I have already written about the Ignite UI control in my previous blog Creating a vCard QR Barcode generator with…
The grid is one of the most useful controls for visualizing structured data. It gives you the opportunity to display and style your data according to your needs. There are numerous features that can help you customize it and provide best possible user…
The main idea behind a bullet graph is to present a progress against a goal. It allows the end-users to visualize data in a simple concise view and thus create an attractive bar chart. The new xamBulletGraph control is a Infragistics XAML control which…
This year, the folks at Infragistics have been hard at work building easy-to-use, lightweight tools that help you create amazing apps for every platform. And with those great tools comes a lot of supporting material: how to videos, blogs, and more.
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…
The Infragistics WPF 15.1 release is upon us, and it’s time to see what new major features you’ll be getting when you upgrade. Unlike the past four releases where we saw nothing but new controls on top of new controls and features galore,…
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…
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…
With the release of Windows 8, the era of touch devices is in full swing. Manufacturers are scrambling to create mobile devices that can run Microsoft Windows with the touch of a finger, without the need for a keyboard and mouse. Even Microsoft has released…
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…
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…
Try to think of your top three movie sequels. Which ones come to mind? Having trouble? Well, that might be because it’s not often that you find a sequel that is just as good, if not better, than the first. Well, grab your popcorn, your drinks, and…
I was monitoring my Twitter feed, like I always do, and saw a tweet come through asking about how to validate an object’s property against it’s parent ObservableCollection in the Infragistics XamDataGrid. What this person was trying to accomplish…
After showing how to create barcodes it only seems logical to show how to read them – your XAML NetAdvantage package of choice would not be complete if it only included a control to create barcodes. And, well, it is complete, since it includes the Infragistics…
Sorting, filtering, grouping and summaries, thus far, have always been performed been performed internally by the Data Presenter – it was designed after all to be the backbone of data-driven controls and it provides a whole armada of automatic functionality…
The XAML Syntax Editor is pretty awesome control – I mean being able to create your own code editor is one and then just customize language and coloring and… add the fact that you can split the view and be on at line 50 and 500 at the same time and making…
The XamSyntaxEditor is one of the recent additions to the Infragistics toolset. It made an odd voyage from being announced as a CTP not with a release, but with a service release a bit over two months ago. And now it is on route to a XAML project near…
With 11.2 we introduced the XamSparkline control, which is in essence a fully-functional chart but with the major addition of being extremely compact. This is so important as it is intended to fit inside a grid cell. While this control is still CTP in…