Infragistics will help the new jQuery Sofia group, registered in jQuery Meetups. This is an open community for people who want to exchange information and ideas for jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, ASP.Net and other WEB related technologies. jQuery Sofia group help these people from Bulgaria (Sofia Region) to be more familiar with technology and become better professionals.

Members of the Evangelism Team in Sofia will help…

One of the highly-anticipated features  in the Entity Framework 5 is a Spatial support.

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Many developers have been asking since the release of SQL 2008 for support of Spatial data types in the Entity Framework. It was a dream for the Microsoft ORM users to create .NET business applications quickly, using spatial data.  In May of this year the release candidate for Entity Framework 5 (EF5) was announced.This version…

People often wants to keep a list of  favorite views (bookmarks) on their map.

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This article describes how to implement persistence of the favorite views with the Infragistics jQuery Map using HTML5 Local Storage.

Local Storage

First lets start off with what localStorage is. Basically it is a client-side database. That is a database that resides in the users browser and not on your server. The difference between…

To detect the location of a client device in the past, one would typically have to inspect the client IP address and make a reasonable guess as to the where that device was located. However, as part of the HTML5 efforts, the W3C has developed a set of APIs to effectively allow the client-side device (i.e. your iPhone 3G+, Android 2.0+ phones, or even your conventional desktop browsers) to retrieve geographic positioning…

Developers always want to follow the latest technologies. Microsoft announced in June ASP.Net MVC 4 RC.  Perhaps many of you are asking: how new versions of ASP.Net MVC work with existing components. This blog is a quick review how you can use Infragistics jQuery controls with MVC 4.

The latest NetAdvantage for jQuery Vol. 12.1 includes many new exciting components and many feature enhancements to existing controls. You…

For the first time in Bulgaria SQLSaturday#152 will be held on Sep 29, 2012 at Infragistics Bulgaria office: 110 B, Simeonovsko Shosse Bul., Office Floor II, 1700 Sofia, Bulgaria.  Infragistics do much to be done the first conference SQLSaturday in this region. The event will be of interest to all specialists, using SQL server - developers, administrators and analysts. The conference is supported by Microsoft Bulgaria…

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Infragistics jQuery Chart offers exciting new features. An overview of the igDataChart features is available in the blog Infragistics jQuery Chart New Features in 12.1 Release. One of these new features – bubble series has too many features to be possible to describe it the overview blog about new Infragistics jQuery Chart. This feature is not just an inheritor of the scatter series, that let you create quick…

When we talk about NetAdvantage for XAML we mean WPF and Silverlight. Now  NetAdvantage offers many new XAML cross-platform components and new features for the existing controls. This article is about new features and innovations in NetAdvantage for Silverlight and NetAdvantage for WPF 2012 Vol.1. For the first time, Infragistics Data Visualization tools are included with our Line of Business XAML products, and will no…

Probably many developers who have experience with XAML applications are familiar with Model View ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern. Specialists who work on WEB projects now have the opportunity to implement this pattern in the client portion of the applications using KnockoutJS.

Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model…

NetAdvantage for jQuery Vol. 12.1 includes many new features. One of the most  important features is the outstanding Infragistics jQuery Chart.  This control is based on the successful NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization xamDataChart. In NetAdvantage for jQuery 2011 Vol.2 there was available most of the charting features as CTP. All igDataChart features available in 11.2 release now are improved and available…

NetAdvantage for jQuery Vol. 12.1 includes many new exciting components and many feature enhancements to existing controls. This release also includes new Metro theming for all Infragistics jQuery components. This theme could be applied to jQuery UI widgets.  The Metro theme has been added to allow better integration of NetAdvantage for jQuery controls into the new Metro UI for upcoming versions of Microsoft® Windows®…

If you are interested in jQuery probably you read the article "NetAdvantage for jQuery 2012 Volume 1: Sneak Peek" which reveals some details about the new release of NetAdvantage for jQuery. In this blog you will find detailed details about new features, that you will have in 12.1 release. This article is an overview of the new features, released in the NetAdvantage for jQuery Vol. 12.1 product.

NetAdvantage…

Metro applications have an innovative new interface and a component-based architecture.

Many developers created components for XAML-related technologies like Silverlight / WPF and developers of jQuery components they would like to create WinRT controls for Windows Metro applications.One of the new challenges for developers is to work on Windows 8 Metro applications. This article is about how to start creating XAML WinRT…

Today developers often need to use data from SharePoint in their applications.

When talking about Silverlight and SharePoint data we have two cases:

• Silverlight application in the context of SharePoint (as a part of ASP.Net Web Part).
• Silverlight application outside the context of SharePoint (such as blankets application that simply accesses SharePoint data).

This post is about the second approach (Silverlight application…

NetAdvantage Reporting is a tool that allows developers to create modern, innovative, visually appealing reports by providing an easy-to-use design experience in Visual Studio.  It is possible to use almost anywhere Infragistics Reporting: From XAML applications in ASP.Net WEB solutions based on Visual Studio LightSwitch and those distributed in Windows Azure.

This article is about how to use Infragistics Reporting with…

Infragistics Friends Group is an open community for people who want to exchange information and ideas for development. Infragistics helps these people to be more familiar with technology and become better professionals. Each month the group will organize presentations on topics attractive to developers

On December 14 in the office of Infragistics Bulgaria in Sofia was held the first meeting of Infragistics Friends Group…

The development of Facebook applications is almost always associated the attractive visualization of data.

In this article you will learn how to create attractive charts based on data from social network with NetAdvantage for jQuery Vol.2 2011 and in particular with jQuery Chart (CTP for 11.2 Release). Infragistics jQuery components could be used in different Web applications as jQuery widgets or via .NET helpers in ASP…

NetAdvantage 2011 Vol.2 is a wonderful product that makes life easier for programmers. One of the most interesting features for XAML platforms in this release is the Resource Washer.

Infragistics Resource Washer is a XAML cross-platform component, that provides an fast and easy way to ‘wash’ a controls in the application layout with one or multiple colors. If you still are not familiar with Resource Washer, you can view…

In October 2011 Packt Publishing has issued an interesting new book - Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development. Author of the book is Jayaram Krishnaswamy.

I am proud to announce that Packt Publishing recognized the leading role of Infragistics Inc. in developing products for Visual Studio LightSwitch. Publishing invited me as a developer and technical evangelist, working on LightSwitch at…

Developers could enjoy the Infragistics Reporting In NetAdvantage Vol.2011.2.  With this product you could cerate modern, innovative reports in Visual Studio. Infragistics Reporting is designed manly to create easy reports in XAML products (Silverlight and WPF applications) – without code and/or programmatically. It is a very common case to integrate Infragistics Reporting in other  platforms: ASP.Net, Windows Forms…

Client-side rendering is a great feature of Infragistics Reporting.

When using this approach in the Silverlight application it is not possible to create a database connection. Usually in similar cases are used  references to WEB services. This approach is related to an additional implementation of the method, which returns us a collection of type IList <T>.

This case is described in the article "Implementing…

Infragistics offers the amazing NetAdvantage Reporting in the new 11.2 Release.  This is the perfect tool to create reports for XAML (Silverlight and WPF).In fact Infragistics Reporting is not only right solution for generating reports in XAML applications. It can be integrated very easily into WEB applications. 

In this article you will learn how to integrate reports created with NetAdvantage Reporting in ASP.Net applications…

This blog is about how to render your report on the client (Silverlight or WPF application).

By default Infragistics Reporting uses server-side rendering (more information about server-side rendering you could find in the post Introduction to Infragistics Reporting)

Reports created with NetAdvantage Reporting can be fully rendered on the client side (without any server participation whatsoever). This Client-Side Rendering…

In the new NetAdvantage vol.2011.2 you could enjoy the first RTM of amazing Infragistics Reporting.

NetAdvantage Reporting is a tool that allows developers to create modern, innovative, visually appealing reports by providing an easy-to-use design experience in Visual Studio. It is possible to create easily reports for Silverlight and WPF without any code. Coding is only optional if you want to change something programmatically…

The new NetAdvantage for WPF 11.2 is on the market these days. This is an amazing product, including many new features and many new useful features in existing controls and libraries. New controls support Infragistics shared XAML strategy to support the same XAML controls in both Silverlight and WPF. In the new 11.2 release there are many components and libraries, available for Silverlight like high-performance XamGrid…