One of the most requested features we’ve had for the XamGrid has been clipboard support, and we’re excited to make this feature available in the 10.3 release. Clipboard support makes the XamGrid a true first-class citizen of your application, as this makes it easy for your user to take data in and out of the XamGrid and Excel. Copy-pasting data is fully supported within the XamGrid, and from and to Excel.

In two past blog posts about theming Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business  applications, I presented theming using the resource washing approach (here and here). This type of theming enables the developer to quickly specify theming settings at compile time. Although this approach to theming is very simple to setup, it is not very flexible in that the theme remains unchanged during the execution of the application…

In an earlier post we looked at a quick and easy way to theme your Infragistics WPF Line of Business applications. The approach basically came down to specifying a single color setting, with all Infragistics WPF Line of Business controls being themed in shades of this color, preserving the differences in shade in the elements within a single control.

However, the approach described did not allow any control over the coloring…

You're developing an application in Silverlight and you'd like to take advantage of XamDataChart - the fast chart that features a variety of built-in series and trendlines, zooming and panning that’s a part of the NetAdvantage for DataVisualization available in both WPF and Silverlight. However, your data sits in a corporate MSSQL Server, and you'd like to retrieve it and display it in the Silverlight applicaiton…

Say you’ve built an application using Infragistics WPF Line of Business controls, and would like to finish the job with a color theme matching the corporate color palette or the color your graphical designer has recommended. This blog post demonstrates how you can do this easily by using the powerful theming capabilities provided by Infragistics WPF Line of Business controls. This approach will enable you to change…

Trendlines are an important feature in every charting component. The XamDataChart, the fast chart component capable of real-time data feeds in both WPF and Silverlight platforms, supports a number of built-in trendline types – Linear, Quadratic, Cubic, Quadric, Quintic, Exponential, Logarithmic, among others. Try as we might, we cannot implement every type of trendline possible in the XamDataChart. And all too often…

Let’s say you have a collection of data series you need to bind to a XamDataChart, our fast and user-friendly charting control in WPF and Silverlight. Declare the series in the XAML code, you say. However, let’s assume we don’t know the exact number of series we will be getting in our collection. So, how do you do that?

Basically, you need to cycle through all the series view models you have in your…

A while ago, I blogged about plotting series containing missing values using scatter plots, while having date labels along the X-axis of the XamDataChart, the fast and flexible chart that’s a part of our Silverlight and WPF Data Visualization products. Such a scenario is fairly common, especially in time-series data, as often we have data sources which do not have their values all begin at the same point in time…

Many of you have probably heard of the Open Data Protocol (OData) – a Web protocol for querying and updating data. According to the site of the project, the OData protocol is built upon HTTP, AtomPub and JSON to provide a way to connect to a wide range of data sources – applications, services and data stores. It can enable an application to access information from sources as different as relational databases…

Let’s say you have a requirement to have your application make the absolute minimum of calls to the server. One class of calls you can consider eliminating is the calls made by cascading drop down controls, which retrieve a list of items to display based on the selected item in the preceding drop down controls. Although the WebDropDown, one of the many controls in the NetAdvantage for .NET, does not provide this…

Working on a project recently, we had to plot time-series data using the XamDataChart, the fast new charting component in the Data Visualization suite, available for both WPF and Silverlight. As data for the different series we were plotting was available starting at different points in time, we had to use a scatter series type, because it positions a data marker considering both X and Y data item coordinates. The scatter…

Let’s say you’re well along the path implementing your application, when your users turn to you with a request to filter records in one of the XamGrids using a multi-column filtering condition. You’re familiar with XamGrid single-column filtering, and are wondering whether you’ll have to change existing logic at the data source level for multiple-column conditions.

Actually, there’s a way you can…

Users like to have quantitative data visualized as much as possible, in order to make it easier to understand, compare and discover patterns. In many cases, however, editing data takes your users away from its visual representation, into rather context-poor editing controls. What if you could enable users to edit data right there, while it’s visualized?

The just-released XamDataChart delivers this editing functionality…

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…

I will be writing a few blog posts which will showcase the depth of the features of the XamGrid. They will introduce you to powerful features of the XamGrid, and ultimately help you get the most of your time using our product. In this post, I’ll describe how to do advanced summaries in the XamGrid.

So what do we mean by summaries in a grid context? Summaries allow the user to get an overview of the data quickly…

With only a month left to the release of the NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization, we felt that some guidance is due on how to use the XamDataChart in a Silverlight application. We’ve developed a sample to demonstrate its capability to handle real-time data streams and cope with large amounts of data. 

Many of you have probably seen samples featuring the XamDataChart, which will be available in both Silvelright…

Let’s say you have the following scenario: you have a flat table containing a large number of records that you display in a grid control in a web application. Furthermore, you’d like to display the data always grouped by the same column, as all users use this column to locate the data they’re looking for. As each group contains a lot of records, it’s an absolute necessity to only retrieve the records in the group the…

Can you provide your users with rich data-analysis capabilities, including zooming, panning, rich styling, when working with large volumes of data and real-time data feeds? Now you can. Using XamDataChart, the one of the many powerful visualization components in the NetAdvantage® for WPF DataVisualization suite, you can totally change the way your users view data. The NetAdvantage® for WPF DataVisualization suite…