We are in the process of getting ready to ship the next version of NetAdvantage for Win Client; which includes both Windows Forms and WPF.  This is an incredible release on both platforms that shows both our commitment to Windows Forms and our belief in driving the WPF platform forward to be a full single solution for all of your WPF needs.

Windows Forms

WinGrid

We’ve made a lot of enhancements to the Windows Forms…

Feeling as though we just shipped a product a few months ago…It’s that time to ship a product packed full of exciting features again.  I’m not going to talk about the ASP.NET side of things, but their release (you need to be a current subscriber to see Tony's post in the beta forums) is not just monumental it’s really freakin’ cool. 

What I am going to talk about is a new technology that the Windows Forms team has…

If you’ve ever wanted to get that cool rounded form style that you see displayed with our ribbon, but you don’t want to use the ribbon it’s really quite easy to achieve.  (Actually, it’s just a simple property setting.)  The code is as follows:

ultraToolbarsManager1.FormDisplayStyle = Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.FormDisplayStyle.RoundedSizable;

And of course if you want to change the color to one of the other Office…

For the United States (and Canada) the start and end of daylight savings times will be changed this year.  Daylight savings time will now start on March 11, 2007 (about 3 weeks earlier than normal) and end November 4th, 2007 (one week later). 

This may affect you if you are using the Infragistics Scheduling products that are part of NetAdvantage.  We rely on the operating system clock to get the current date and time (DateTime…

Microsoft's Pattern and Practices guys are hosting a summit on the Microsoft Campus this week.  So, if you have a chance to be in the Redmond area this week definitely stop in and see the event.  There is a killer lineup for speakers including the father of VB (Alan Cooper) and the god of C# (Anders Hejlsberg).  You'll notice by viewing the website that Infragistics is one of the main sponsors for the event.  As a…

As of yesterday, NetAdvantage shipped a beta of the 2005.3 release for Visual Studio 2005.  One of the things this does is change the assembly name from Infragistics.xxx to Infragistics2.xxx in addition to the obvious part of NetAdvantage being compiled against CLR 2.0.  So, what do we have to do in order to enable you to develop your WinForms applications in VS2005 utilizing the .NET Framework 2.0 and test them with TestAdvantage…

You know those projects that you start with every intention of finishing, but then other things come up like random trips to Redmond, shipping product, determining features for new products, et cetera and you never finish it.  That’s what happened this past week.  I had every intention on completely mimicking the Outlook Contacts grid and write a sample on it, but I never finished it.  So, I had one of two choices: take…

In the recent release of NetAdvantage, we shipped a new column chooser for the grid.  This functionality is available in Outlook, but is now also available for our Windows Forms Grid Control.  There are three methods for using this control.  The first method is to set the UltraGrid.DisplayLayout.Override.RowSelectorHeaderStyle to ColumnChooserButton and the UltraGrid.DisplayLayout.Override.RowSelectors property to True. 

Friday, October 7th :: 11:58 P.M.
I received an email from Rafael, my MVP lead, stating that I have be re-awarded as an MVP for the next year.  My first inclination was to phone fellow MVP and colleague, Jason Beres, and see if he received a similar email.  However, it was midnight and I didn’t want to disturb him.  My second thought was to blog about it, right then and there.  However, after a long day, I wasn’t sure…

At Infragistics we strive at making the developer experience for WinForm’s Developers pretty similar to ASP.NET Developers.  To enhance this process, the Product Managers (Tony and I) sit in the same office and are in constant communication.  Sometimes, we disagree and work really hard at reaching a common solution.  Today, we’ve taken a break from finishing up the plans for the next release cycle to draw the battle…

The flight to LA was actually a bit more comfortable than I thought it would be.  I was scheduled to sit next to my fellow PM, Tony Lombardo, and stuck in the middle seat.  In all of our kindness, we switched seats with one of our architects so that he could sit with his girlfriend.  Because of our kindness, Tony ended up in the back of the plane and in the middle seat and I managed to get a nice seat on the aisle.  I’ve…