Infragistics XamSchedule Solution is a part of  NetAdvatage 2010 Volume 3  products.

The new scheduling components are offered both for Silverlight and WPF.
XamSchedule suite for Silverlight is a part of NetAdvantage for Silverlight  Line of Business 2010 Vol.3, 
XamSchedule for WPF is a part of NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business 2010 Vol.3.

Both suites are part of NetAdvantage for .NET 2010 Vol.3 and NetAdvantage Ultimate…

Security is a very important feature for business applications.
Visual Studio LightSwitch supports security, build in screens, queries and entities that allow you easily check defined permissions.

Security is implemented in role based LightSwitch applications.

Role based applications could implement different roles, permissions to the roles and assign roles to the users.
To be possible to have security implementation…

In the modern software industry developers expect from each new framework to support localization.
This feature is a mandatory for the most of applications. Customers want a software that could be localizes easy and flexible.

This article describes how you can localize LightSwitch applications (using Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1).

In Visual Studio LightSwitch developers will be able to set the culture at the application…

Visual Studio LightSwitch support deployment of 2-tier and 3-tier desktop client (Out-of-Browser) applications and 3-tier browser client applications.

In the article  Deploying Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 2-Tier Desktop Applications described an approach when you have a 2-tier LightSwitch application.
Post  Deployment of 3-Tier Desktop Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch  is related with publishing of the 3-tier…

Visual Studio LightSwitch applications Deployment process could be different depending on the application topology. In the article  Deploying Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 2-Tier Desktop Applications was described an approach when you have a 2-tier LightSwitch application.  Probably more interesting are cases when you have 3-tier desktop or browser applications.

There are three types of LightSwitch applications by deployment…

Visual Studio LightSwitch applications are based on the Silverlight Framework. Therefore, the deployment of these 2-tier and multi-tier applications  is of particular interest to developers.

This article will examine ways of deployment of the 2-tier desktop LightSwitch applications .

In Visual Studio LightSwitch deploying of applications is via using ClickOnce deployment. ClickOnce is a deployment technology that enables…

Visual Studio LightSwitch proposes a flexible extensibility mechanism to use custom data sources, controls or themes.

This article is related with custom LightSwitch control extension – the powerful approach to make your Silverlight components available in Visual Studio LightSwitch extensions.

The LightSwitch framework leverages the capabilities of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to expose (and discover…

Introduction

SQL Azure now supports Spatial Data. Unfortunately not all  tools offer migration of spatial data..

Microsoft SQL Management Studio for SQL Server 2008 R2 is released when SQL Azure didn’t support spatial data and now they are no updated to
support this feature.

One possibility is to use SQL Azure Migration Wizard: http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/

The actual version is SQL Azure Migration Wizard…

Using Visual Studio LightSwitch, you have a possibility in the use of Custom Silverlight Controls. With a Custom Silverlight Control, you can implement functionality that is outside the normal abilities of LightSwitch.

The first question if some company has an interest in Visual Studio LightSwitch applications is how to now be re-written as a regular Silverlight application because it “can’t perform the new requirements…

Introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch

LightSwitch is primarily targeted at developers who need to rapidly product business applications.  It is part of the Visual Studio family and when you get into writing code you are in the VS IDE.

Overview

 Visual Studio LightSwitch helps you rapidly produce line of business applications by optimizing for the most common application patterns (data + screens + code).  LightSwitch…

Custom symbolization for the map elements in XamMap component is a common case .

The solution often is to use a Value Template for the specific MapLayer. 

By default position of the symbol is in the center of the bounding rectangle of the multi-polygons.
It is possible to have a symbol outside of the polylines, included in the multi-polygons, representing surface elements.

Sample demo application demonstrates how to change…

Infragistics XamDataChart for Silverlight and WPF proposes a flexible approach to create a series where markers look different depending of properties of the bound items.

It is possible to use a MarkerTemplate property of all kind of MarkerSeries like ScatterSeries, RangeColumnSeries.
There it is possible to create own DataTemplate where properties of the UI elements could be bound to the properties of the item DataContext…

XamMap control is a powerful component for the visualization of geographic data.
Often users want to change the style of components and in particular the style of MapNavigationPane.
Many people want to have navigation on the map similar to the Bing Maps or other applications.
This article demonstrates how to do custom style in MapNavigationPane XamMap:

Bing Maps navigation pane

This article demonstrates how to change the…

People often wants to keep a list of "favourite places" on their map.

This article describes how to implement persistence of the favourite views with the Infragistics XamMap control for Silverlight.

The sample application is based on the Silverlight sample, used for the article Using Infragistics XamMap Silverlight/WPF control with SQL Server Spatial

Steps to implement a sample application:

1. Create a Silverlight…

Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Spatial

Overview.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers comprehensive spatial support that enables organizations to seamlessly consume, use, and extend location-based data through spatial-enabled applications which ultimately helps end users make better decisions.

Geospatial Data Types

SQL Server 2008 supports two different spatial data types: GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY.

• GEOMETRY - This data…

This article describes how can convert an ASP.Net multi-tier business application to business application with Silverlight client.

There are a lot of business n-tier applications, developed like ASP.Net applications.

Sometimes it is an advantage if it is possible quickly and easily to convert  the client side of these applications from ASP.Net to Silverlight. Silverlight proposes rich environment for development and it…

This article demonstrates how can use the new Silverlight Reporting project.

It is possible to download source code and sample demos from Codeplex here

This project, a created from Pete Brown and David Poll of Microsoft, provides a a very basic framework for building simple, multi-page reports using Silverlight 4.

The initial release includes:

• automatic pagination
• support for line items of varying height
• total page co…

This article describes how to use the Infragistics Control Persistence Framework with XamGrid.

There are many cases when customers want to go back to the saved state of the application layout or to save the state of the Silverlight application when they close it and use it again next way when they start this application.

 Persistence Framework provides possibility to serialize and deserialize the state of the specified…

This Article describes how to use the Infragistics XamGrid and the new XamDataChart with WCF RIA Services.

Important things, related with WCF RIA Services and  the Infragistics XamGrid and RIA Services are described in the article "Using the Infragistics XamGrid with RIA Services" and the part 1 of this article.

To create an application you need to repeat first six steps from the previous article: "Using…

This Article describes how to use the Infragistics XamGrid and XamDataChart with WCF RIA Services.

Some of the most important things, related with WCF RIA Services and using the Infragistics XamGrid and RIA Services are described in the article "Using the Infragistics XamGrid with RIA Services".

One more interesting topic is using the hierarchical data with WCF RIA Services.

Part 1 of the article describes using…

This article describes how to use the Infragistics XamGrid with WCF RIA Services.

WCF RIA Services simplifies the development of n-tier solutions for Rich Internet Applications (RIA), such as Silverlight applications. A common problem when developing an n-tier RIA solution is coordinating application logic between the middle tier and the presentation tier.

RIA Services adds tools to Visual Studio that enable linking client…

This article describes how to use the Infragistics Compression Library from NetAdvantage v10.1 Silverlight Line of Business controls

Compression Library supports creating, opening and extracting a zip file in your Silverlight application.

It is used for upload and download files to the server using different technologies: WCF, WCF Ria Services, Web service (.asmx), HTML Form for File Uploading with ASP.Net etc.
In this…

Part 4 describes how to create an out-of-browser Silverlight application with the Facebook Developer Toolkit

To create an out-of-browser Facebook Application with Silverlight API you can follow these steps:

1. Create a Silverlight Application with the Silverlight API from the Facebook Developer Toolkit
   1. Create a Silverlight application, hosted in an ASP.Net application.
   2. Add the Facebook Connect Components to the…

Part 3 of this article describes how to build a Silverlight application with Facebook API for Silverlight from the Facebook Developer Toolkit

To create a Facebook Application with Silverlight API you can follow these steps:

1. Create a Silverlight application, hosted in an ASP.Net application.
2. Add the Facebook Connect Components to the ASP.Net application.
3. Set up the Silverlight project to reference the assemblies from…

1. Build a Silverlight application, hosted in ASP.Net application, that…