I am excited to announce that the Ignite UI help documentation is now hosted on GitHub and is available for your contributions!

We’ve been working hard to re-tool the entire help experience for Ignite UI which began with an brand new help viewer that went live in early 2015. Now, to accompany the 15.1 release, we are making the contents of our help documentation (excluding documents generated from code) available…

Accompanying the 15.1 release we are focusing in on an aspect of Ignite UI that is specifically tailored to the ASP.NET MVC developer. In light of this effort, I wanted to share a few ideas for you to keep in mind as you begin to Ignite UI in ASP.NET MVC.

Helper Syntax in a JavaScript World

Although Ignite UI is a HTML5 and JavaScript-based jQuery UI control suite, you can interface with each control exclusively through…

Updated Ignite UI Help Viewer Now in Public Beta

We are delighted to announce that the new Ignite UI help viewer is now in public beta and ready for your review. This new help viewer was build to help make the process of using an navigating Ignite UI product documentation much easier. Some of the features of the new site are:

	Unified Experience The help viewer now reflects the same layout as www.igniteui.com

We are excited to announce that AngularJS support for Ignite UI is now available in a preview state!

You can work with the running samples as well as get your hand on the code on GitHub. We'd love to have you clone the code and tell us what you think.

Before you get started, here's a quick primer on what's happening when you use these directives.

Using the Directives

You can now use Ignite UI controls in…

Demo: Running code sample and GitHub repository

When working with the Ignite UI igGrid you have the option to harness the column template feature in order to take control of how data is presented in a column inside the grid. While you can use the column template to make some relatively simple modifications to the data (e.g., add labels, etc.) you can also use it to take full control over the layout of a rendered column…

Sometimes when you are working on a new feature of an application the server and client are either in development at different stages or maybe you just want to work out the particulars of a view in isolation from the server. To make this possible there are a few JavaScript libraries that makes it very easy to mock not only data used in the grid, but also Ajax requests to the server.

The following screenshot is the ig…

The Ignite UI igTree is a powerful client-side jQuery UI widget which has a ton of great features baked right into the control. One of the most valuable features of any tree is its ability to support load-on-demand from a remote server. On a recent project I used the tree to read through a series of XML files which represented many megabytes of data – a remote load-on-demand configuration was must in this situation.…

Thanks to all who attended my recent session on 9 Interactive Features of the Ignite UI igGrid. There’s a lot packed into the grid and features highlighted in the webinar just scratch the surface on what the grid can do!

Demos Download

If you’re interested in working through the samples I used during the demo, you can download the code here. Please note that you’ll need to setup a virtual directory named …

Anytime you approach a new library or set of controls sometimes it’s nice to get a helping hand. In an effort to make it drop-dead simple for you to learn how to get started with Ignite UI, I am announcing the release of Fundamentals of Ignite UI.

This video series will acquaint you with Ignite UI from some of the high level architectural constructs down to the details a control’s API. The first batch of videos…

Instantiating the igGrid control is straight-forward; you can simply create the control with a call similar to $("#grid").igGrid() and pass in grid options depending on your requirements. While it’s easy to construct a new grid this way, it’s also easy to overlook a small nuance which can have a significant impact on how you work with the control. In the end, the HTML element that is selected by the …

When defining resources in the $.ig.loader options, you have the option to explicitly load all the scripts associated with the control itself, load a selection of its features and even a load using a wild card option. When you are loading in explicit features the format of the resources string is very important – the list is comma delimited and spaces are not allowed.

Therefore, when you are loading scripts……

The default settings found in the Ignite UI igGrid make working with data easy, but with a little customization you can quickly change how the data appears in each column.

1. Manually Define Columns

The first step to taking control of how data renders in the grid is to turn off autoGenerateColumns and manually define columns to explicitly set each of the column’s options.

Options available for each column are:

The Ignite UI Grid is a flexible jQuery and HTML-based grid control that can be bound to many different types of data sources - and XML data is no exception.

1. Get the Data

To begin, you first need to get data on your page. In this case your page needs to have XML either locally available on the page or as the result of an AJAX call.

For simplicity’s sake the code example that accompanies this post has XML data local…

Summary

• Help installers for Visual Studio 2008 are no longer available
• The installer now supports Visual Studio 2010, Service Pack 1 (Help Viewer 1.1) and Visual Studio 2012 (Help Viewer 2.0)
• There is a repairable known issue if you have both Visual Studio 2010, SP1 and Visual Studio 2012 installed on your machine

Available Help Formats

With the release of NetAdvantage 2012.2 we have made some changes to the available…

One of the great characteristics of the Ignite UI jQuery grid is how well it works in both desktop and mobile environments. In this video I demonstrate the grid working with a number of interactive features enabled and you can see it working on an iPad as well as a desktop browser.

Are you eager to get to know ReportPlus? Take a few minutes to check out the following videos that cover the basics as well as some in-depth features:

• Introduction
• Charts
• Filtering
• Maps

Which of these statements resonates most with you?

"Management wants a reporting dashboard."

"The client needs a reporting solution with the app we just delivered."

"You can’t manage what you don’t measure."

Reporting against data is a natural extension of just about any application. Beyond that, typical business environments are replete with data warehouses, SharePoint installs…

I've recently ran into run into a remote desktop connection error where the error message:

Your computer could not connect to another console session on the remote computer because you already have a console session in progress.

...doesn't exactly do justice as to what was really happening. I detail the workaround here.

Now that Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 are in their final state you may have a number of Windows 8 JavaScript projects built with the RC of Visual Studio 2012 that now need an upgrade to RTM bits. The upgrade process is simple: update the WinJS project reference and update the markup.

Update the WinJS Reference

The Windows 8 JavaScript project template includes a reference to WinJS by default. When you open a project…

One of the most exciting announcements surrounding Windows 8 development is the fact that you can create Metro-style applications in HTML 5 and JavaScript. This means that you as a web developer can leverage your existing skills and tools and to develop Windows applications.

However, moving from traditional web development to WinJS (a.k.a. Metro-style or Windows 8 applications) development can be a bit of an adjustment…

Update API Reference

Updated Home Page

The home page of the NetAdvantage for jQuery API reference is updated to include screenshots of featured controls accompanied by direct links to help topics, samples and the individual API reference page.

Updated Control Overview Pages

The Overview tab of each control now features a rich set of content to get you oriented and up and running with the control quickly. The following…

Allow me to confess something upfront. Saying the WebDataGrid / WebHierarchicalDataGrid Cheat Sheet is anything like a “sheet” is a bit of a stretch. I will say, though, in it’s 51* pages of goodness you have easy access to behaviors, events and common grid customizations. The step-by-step nature of the material demonstrates not only how to implement a specific feature of the WebDataGrid, but also describes the similarities…

When dealing with asynchronous data processing you often want to give users an indication that action is being performed by displaying some sort of indicator. The WebDataGrid and WebHierarchicalDataGrid controls can easily be configured to display an Ajax indicator to the user.

1. Configure the AjaxIndicator properties group
   1. Open the grid’s properties in the Property window
   2. Expand the AjaxIndicator section…

Come learn about the fundamentals of Silverlight 4 in this MSDN webcast titled Building Line-of-Business Applications with Silverlight 4, hosted by Jason Beres (@jasonberes). Many tutorials take you through a cursory view of the Silverlight platform in context of a true-to-life application, but this session will dive deep into the latest capabilities of Silverlight 4 and along the way show you how the Infragistics Silverlight…

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the High Performance Data Visualizations with Silverlight & WPF webinar. Below you’ll find links to the resources mentioned during the session.

Resources

• xamDataChart with Real Time Data (video of demo you saw)
• Setting Up a Fast Chart to Handle Real-Time Data Feeds & Large Data Sets in Silverlight
• Hosting a WPF PivotGrid Delivering Advanced Data Analysis in Your Windows…