Hi,
I am fairly new to VS and LightSwitch is a great opportunity to stop developing with MS Access and start doing so with LS.
I wanted to check the NetAdv controls, downloaded them and ran setup. Where do those controls appear now? I can see the extension in Extension Manager but how to embed them on a screen?
I couldn't find any HowTo on this (basic) topic.
Thanks!
Hi
Once you have installed the NetAdvantage for LightSwitch product, you can open Visual Studio 2010. From the Tools menu select Extension Manager and verify that the "Infragistics LightSwitch Extensions" extension is added:
After that you can create a new LightSwitch project and open the project's properties. Further you should enable the "Infragistics LightSwitch Extensions" extension to your project. To do this you should open the your LightSwitch project properties, after that select "Extensions" and check the "Infragistics LightSwitch Extensions".
After that go on the "Data Sources", right mouse click and select "Add table". Here is how my table looks like:
Next a screen should be added. To do that right click on the "Screens" and select "Add Screen...". After that select "List and Details Screen", from the "Screen Data" ComboBox select People (your table name), and after that click "OK".
Once the screen is open in the Designer, Click on the root of the tree "Columns Layout - People List Detail" and after that click on the "+ Add" button, further select 'People" (the first Item in the menu).. Next DropDown the newly added node and select "Infragistics Data Chart":
After that select "Category Axis" for the Name property, and "Column Series" for the Age property. This will visualize a Column chart for you.
Hit the F5 keyboard button and start your application. Once the application starts, enter some data and get it visualized:
Best Regards,
Anatoli
Can you customize the look of charts, colors, backgrounds, etc? Also are there 3d charts?
Hello,
Currently only applying LightSwitch themes change the look of charts. We released four LightSwitch themes in our 2011.1 release:
For more information you can take a look here: http://help.infragistics.com/NetAdvantage/LightSwitch/Current/CLR4.0?page=NetAdvantage_for_Visual_Studio_LightSwitch_11_1.html
Best regards,
Is this correct? we cannot change the formatting / colours etc of any charts? If so, that is a serious omission, i simply cannot buy/use this is simple charts have no way to be customised.
forrestd said: Is this correct? we cannot change the formatting / colours etc of any charts? If so, that is a serious omission, i simply cannot buy/use this is simple charts have no way to be customised.
Changes could be made by applying a LightSwitch theme. You can use the themes we have released in our 2011.1 release:
Or another option could be to create your custom theme.
Yes but what about chart formatting that matters like individual series colours, axis formating (scaling, number formatting, steps, grids) titles, legend placement etc etc etc. Without these, i just cannot use your product.
Thank for the information that you posted..Really helps me a lot too..