Infragistics Blog

Infragistics has been developing ASP.NET controls since the ASP.NET framework was released during early 2000s. Since then, we have provided the toolset that have helped web developers take advantage of the Microsoft’s web platform, combined with the RAD environment & tooling for Visual Studio to build rich, interactive web applications.

Most people would instinctively agree that cluttered screens – unorganized, overloaded and busy – are not desirable or a sign of great screen design.

As most of us know, Silverlight has built-in effects. However, these effects can be pretty memory intensive.

The XamDataGrid component, one of the controls in the NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business product (free trial version available here) is the most frequently-used component from our WPF product. It presents your tabular data, and allows you to group, sort, filter, compute column summaries, as well as control its layout by column grouping, reordering, pinning and many more.

WebDataGrid CSS Styling Guide provides guidelines for customizing the appearance of the WebDataGrid using CSS. It covers modifying colors, fonts, cell sizes, borders, backgrounds, and animations, as well as applying custom classes to enhance the user experience.

With this blog post, we want to keep you up to date on some important changes coming in the ASP.NET toolset for the 2010. Read more here.

In this article I will show you how to set up an SQL server that provides analysis services and XMLA HTTP Access to the Adventure Works database. In the end I will show a basic Silverlight application that uses this setup and Infragistics’ Silverlight PivotGrid to visualize the data.

A number of people have asked about binding the ItemsSource of a TabGroupPane to their collection. This is not supported by the TabGroupPane so I thought I would explain why and provide an alternative approach.

Over the years I have mentored many developers on using design patterns and best practices. One question that keeps coming up over and over again is: What are the differences between the Model View Controller (MVC) and Model View Presenter (MVP) patterns?