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Understanding Secondary and Primary User Actions
One quick and easy way of making any application or website more usable is to identify primary actions and secondary actions. Primary actions are the most frequently used that guide the user along an intended path to complete a task.

Optimizing XamDataGrid Performance Using External Data Operations
A number of line of business applications use XamDataGrid for its rich feature set, high customizability and performance.

jQuery Grid Checkbox Column Alternatives - Part II
A quick recap: the Checkbox column is a feature that provides default setup to turn Boolean values in the jQuery grid into checkboxes.

jQuery Grid Checkbox Column Alternatives
The checkbox column (introduced with the last release, see this post on Using Checkbox Columns with the Infragistics jQuery Grid) was created to provide a ‘shortcut’ for transforming columns with Boolean values into checkboxes and mostly became reality due to the great interest in such functionality from customers (and after all it does make perfect sense).

Using Spatial Data in ASP.Net MVC with SQL Server
One of the highly-anticipated features in the Entity Framework 5 is a Spatial support.

Creating Barcodes With or Without Human-Readable Text With the Xambarcode
Parallel lines with varying width and spacing – they are virtually everywhere. Barcodes have a rather long history of becoming a standard for assigning data to an optical representation and it allowed for identifying a broad range of goods in stores, shipping containers and countless other items, which in turn streamlined multiple industry processes.

Live Data With jQuery Grid, WebSockets, and KnockoutJS
There are numerous scenarios when from for the sole purpose of having an effective or functional application it seems the only way to go is live – like live data, updating clients in real time.

Button with Image & Text in ASP.NET
A very common need in almost every ASP.NET web application, a UI requirement to have a button control that can display text and image.

Rich Text Editing with Infragistics HTML Editor in both jQuery and ASP.NET MVC
Along all the exciting features introduced for NetAdvantage for jQuery 11.2 release (read: new Hierarchical grid, tree, combo controls) and CTP Charting with Motion Framework – it’s not that surprising some controls didn’t get their full share of the spotlight.