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A typical software developer’s day includes anything from writing and coding new programs to resolving bugs and attending meetings with clients.

One of the most exciting evolutions on the web today is the ever increasing number of publicly available APIs as exposed by companies and individuals.

We’ve recently been looking a fair bit into the world of wireframes and prototypes and what they can do for the design and development process. However, we are yet to touch upon the history of this discipline, specifically the history of wireframes. In this post we will do just that.

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 are ‘event driven’. That is they sit and wait for a user to interact with them, before springing into action and reacting to this input.

Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a user interface (UI) framework for building Windows client applications with immersive and intuitive user experiences. It is a subset of the Microsoft .NET Framework and was first introduced by Microsoft as part of .NET 3.0. It combines the application UI, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, documents, and multimedia into a single framework to help developers create rich and interactive applications.

Gathering UI requirements is simple right? You just need to ask end users what they want, what they need and from there get on with the business of developing the solution they asked for - whether it’s an app, an Intranet or some other enterprise IT solution. If only things were so simple!

This month, Infragistics takes you through the creation of a financial cash flow dashboard using our Windows Forms controls, but without looking like a typical clunky Windows Forms application.

In this post, we are going to look a little more at what type of projects C# can be used for, and the type of code the languages particular features make it most suitable for.

Those of us who spend our working lives developing Windows applications will have seen it a million times. End users will also be familiar with this error.