Learning about controls and features is great, but seeing our products in the context of a real application truly helps connect the dots. Please join us for the next installment of our monthly webinar series for Building Windows Forms Line of Business Applications with NetAdvantage.

During this one hour webcast, Jason Beres (@jasonberes) will help you become acquainted with:

• WinGrid
• WinToolbars
• WinDockManager
• WinExp…

A big thanks to all of you who were able to join us for the Silverlight 4 Primer webinar this morning. Below you’ll find links to the recording and code downloads.

If you weren’t able to join us during the live broadcast, we’re happy to have you join in the fun as well!

Silverlight 4 Primer – Creating a Business App with NetAdvantage Silverlight Controls

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The fast-paced release scheduled for Silverlight has brought advancements in the framework at a breakneck speed. One of the best ways of getting proficient with all these advancements is to simply have someone show you the ropes. In the latest installment of the Infragistics Webinar Series, Jason Beres (@jasonberes) explains the basics of Silverlight 4 and gives the context of how Infragistics controls fit into the the…

Infragistics is honored to support a number of user groups throughout the world. One of the stand outs, though is the Inland Empire .NET User Group. Now I say this group is special not just because it’s my local user group, but because of the true sense of community and quality of participation that happens at this group. I recently wrote about the group’s Most Valuable Member event and how the Inland Empire .NET User…

I just published a new episode of Pixel8 with Pete LePage where we discuss the upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 support in Internet Explorer. I started off with the first question that I could think of when Pete agreed to meet with me for an interview… so, what’s taking so long? ;)

I just published a new article in the ASP.NET section of the community site where I discuss the WebRating's support for HTML5 and some of the other great features of the control. Please check it out!

The guys in Engineering are hard at work and are experimenting with native jQuery plug-in controls for the web. With the recent release of WebMatrix and the Razor view engine I thought this might be a good time to show off some of what’s to come.

Note: This code is pre-beta and is not yet available for download. I will post again when we are ready to announce release dates.

The following screenshot shows the client…

How do you learn new technologies? I like to get my hands on some working code and re-write it. This really helps me see how it should be done, but allows me to make my mistakes with the API to see where I’m not understanding how things work.

Often developers have many avenues for learning available to them. Learning options often include product documentation, blogs, articles, videos, webinars, training and the…

The Quince team has done it again with a number of new features aimed at team workflow. This round of additions is heavy on helping make the assets in Quince more accessible and easier to maintain. Read on for full details on what’s new!

Subscription Manager

To provide greater security for your subscription, we’ve created the role of Subscription Manager. These folks manage everything at the subscription level…

In the 10.2 release NetAdvantage now support localized strings in German. This post explains how to setup Silverlight and WPF applications to render German control strings.

    Note: If you are developing with the German release of Visual Studio 2010 running on a German OS, then these changes are unnecessary and the German resource strings will appear automatically.

Silverlight

The below image represents how the xamGrid looks…

When running the installers for the NetAdvantage tools, the Toolbox items should appear automatically. If for some reason after an install you do not see the appropriate toolbox items in Visual Studio, then you must run the utility “Create Toolbox Tab for CLR {Version}”. The utility is easily found in the All Programs menu:

    Start > All Programs > Infragistics > NetAdvantage {Version} > {Product} > Utilities…

Jumping off stuff. Sword fights. And yes, shooting things – these are the basic skills every boy inherently knows he must master. How cool must it be to have a job that asks you to do the same?!

While at TechEd I had the pleasure of interviewing Microsoft’s Clint Rutkas (@clintrutkas) on his t-shirt cannon invention which includes some awesome hardware fully equipped with a remote control on a Windows Phone…

One of the most important issues for websites to address is the performance of the objects served within a page. Often a single web page will load in a multitude of images, CSS files and JavaScript files. With the 10.2 release of the NetAdvantage Web Client toolset, Infragistics is announcing the launch of a Content Delivery Network (CDN), currently in CTP, which hosts the web resources used by our controls.

As you are…

Come join Jason Beres and the Infragistics Product Management team to review the the latest and greatest features in the NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization product, as well as the launch of the brand new NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization product!

If you need high speed data charts, rich OLAP pivot grid features or comprehensive geospatial mapping, then you should see what these products offer.  From…

Come join Jason Beres and the Infragistics Product Management team to review the new features and controls in the latest Silverlight, ASP.NET, Windows Forms and WPF release from Infragistics.

Learn how NetAdvantage 10.2 fully supports CLR 4, Silverlight 4, and core ASP.NET 4 features. Watch demonstrations of new controls and innovations in each of the line of business toolsets. The entire product management team will…

Today marks the release of NetAdvantage 10.2 which includes scores of new features and controls. In the weeks leading up to the release members of Evangelism and Product Management spent time creating videos to get you off to a running start with the latest release. Enjoy!

ASP.NET

Working with VS 2010 Code Snippets

In this video you will learn about the new code snippets feature in Visual Studio 2010 and how Infragistics…

Working with beta software is hazardous to any developer’s machine, but betas are also a way of life. Therefore a good virtual machine strategy is important in order to keep those beastly betas at bay. XP-More is a open source tool that helps ease the pain of creating and managing VMs.

Here’s an excerpt from the project’s home page:

What is XP-More?

XP-More is a tool that helps manage Windows 7 Virtual…

CSS Specificity is the litmus test used to decide which of the ‘cascading’ styles in CSS will ultimately take precedence when the page is rendered in the browser. This short video demonstrates a quick way to quantify CSS specificity making it easy for you to know which CSS rules will render and which are overridden.

Now that you’ve read that our latest releases of the NetAdvantage toolset support Visual Studio 2010, perhaps you’re ready to make the jump to the updated IDE. There are some striking new features available in Visual Studio and I found some resources that may help unearth some of the most valuable features for you.

Ten Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Visual Studio 2010

Gergely Orosz writes Ten Cool…

Often when I am writing for the web, I need to encode HTML snippets for display in the browser. When I need something converted fast, I turn to the Opinionated Geek’s HTML Encoder tool.

Tip: I even have a SlickRun shortcut pointing to the encoder, so all I have to do is type “htmlencode” in SlickRun and I am taken directly to the site :)

Have you ever been working on some XAML and wanted to make a gradient, but didn’t want to use Blend for one reason or another? Well, Mark Betz features an Online Gradient Maker on his website, and it makes creating gradients a snap!

Have you grown tired of the default theme in Visual Studio? Well the Visual Studio Theme Generator is a handy tool that makes it easy to generate a new theme for Visual Studio.

Just use the color picker to customize the colors of your theme and click create!

My good friend Dave Ward recently re-published a printed version of his article 5 Steps Toward jQuery Mastery. In this article Dave explains how the jQuery Sizzle engine evaluates selectors from right-to-left and how this nuance affects how you write queries. Take the time to read the rest of the article as Dave dives into four other ways to step up your jQuery game.

If you like what you see in his blog post, perhaps…

Josh Blake of Infostrat joins Pixel8 to discuss NUI development in .NET. Josh is the author of the upcoming book Multitouch on Windows from Manning. Reaching far beyond theory and the niche market of Microsoft Surface, NUI development is now possible with Silverlight and WPF development on Windows 7 and Windows 7 Mobile devices.

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The Natural User Interface (NUI) was a prominent force at MIX10…