Sparklines are small, word-sized charts intended to fit anywhere a word or a number would, essentially packing a lot of data into minimum space, yet remaining very easy to read and analyze. After the introductory HTML5 Sparkline chart for data-intense, small-scale Data Visualization post and what seems like a long time ago when I wrote about Sparkline and Grid integration and it was for our XAML controls, I think it’s…

Is it checked or not quite? Multi-state checkboxes are in the menu today. Which, of course, begs the question “Doesn’t the WebDataGrid already support checkbox columns out-of-the box?”. Why yes, it does support a tri-state CheckBox Field, but there are cases where you might need a little bit more flexibility. As we have been reminded on our Product Ideas feedback platform, having more checkbox states…

With Ignite UI we’ve mostly kept to its platform-agnostic nature, showing you how you can create something great, without touching too much detail of all the possible environments. However, some applications can be platforms in their own right, like web CMS. As content and teams grow,  many end up using some form of CMS(and there’s always room for extending with some awesome jQuery widgets, right?). While WordPress…

It’s a scaled-down, simplified version of your normal chart that is excellent for quick analysis of a lot of data and trend-spotting. For the more curious ones, the inventor of the Sparkline hosts a Q&A board on Sparkline theory and practice where you can find some general DO's and DON'Ts as well as various scenarios people found Sparklines useful in. There’s also a very visually-rich blog on

Thus far we’ve made it pretty clear we have devoted a big part of our process to test automation  for both Ignite UI and in general. We strive to make the most out of it by incorporating Behavior-driven development methodology and tools like Selenium 2.0 (WebDrivers) and SpecFlow (Cucumber for .NET). While the latter can solve some of the common challenges, there’s still some we haven’t touched yet – the creation…

Here at Infragistics we have always been invested in ensuring the quality of our products - that is part of how we deliver great experience to our users and, as you know, we do care about that a lot. Over the years we've delved into many platforms and that means we've seen many of the unique challenges many of them present. To put it in other words - we have a whole lot of experience and know-how. At this stage, throw…

So far we’ve had an overview of the Responsive Web Design mode support for the Ignite UI Grids and some considerations with general implementation, merging columns, combining with column hiding and with hierarchical Grid. By now you should have the basics, but I also promised some tips and tricks and I plan to deliver. For example, how would you go about Updating/Editing experience on a mobile device? Where could…

I really hope I got you excited about the Responsive Web Design mode for the Ignite UI Grids last time – as it is the kind of an unique feature that truly makes this jQuery control stand out! As previously explained it’s not exactly a simple thing to make a grid responsive, but our team made serious considerations on how to best approach this and I do believe they’ve pretty much nailed it and this will turn out to be…

Responsive Web Design has been abuzz for some time now. In case you just now clash with the term, it’s a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices. Basically, a CSS3 / JavaScript / jQuery powered  site that adjusts itself to better suit the screen it’s on, with the added bonus of keeping a single code base. What’s not to like? Well besides…

If you’ve been reading the latest blog about the Column Moving feature of the Ignite UI Grid I’ve briefly mentioned Multi-column Headers. Well, just in case you missed it – that’s a fairly recent addition too! Through a very simple (and logical I think) setup of columns and layouts, this feature allows for visual and sometimes functional grouping of column headers under a common parent.

While on…

The Grid is one of Ignite UI’s bread and butter controls and its feature set just.. keeps growing! I guess that fact that Infragistics has done quite a few grid controls over the years helps. Ome of the latest additions is the The Column Moving feature – it is still in a CTP stage for the current release (not for long I should add, 13.1 is coming our way!). It’s a really simple feature at first glance as with other ‘simple…

Or should I say “How to deliver charts for Technical analysis” and then throw in a little bit of understanding for a good measure. So, we are technical people, no? Then technical analysis shouldn’t sound so distant? Yeah, well, in the field of finance it kind of does… It’s used for forecasting the direction of prices, a discipline in security analysis (probably not the kind of security you would think about first…

I’ve been recently having plenty of fun shifting platforms like a mad man and I feel it’s time to share some goodness with you all. Let’s have ourselves some PHP (and even if that’s not your thing you still might want to check out the last part)! While we still stand behind our statement that the Ignite UI controls can run everywhere and are server-agnostic, there should really be a tiny asterisk…

We’ve stated time and time again that the Ignite UI controls based on jQuery and jQuery UI are pure client-side scripts that are completely server agnostic (meaning they do not depend on the back end). So we keep saying you can use them everywhere, yet time limits the number of platforms we can cover with guides and such. There has been one article on Using jQuery Grid with PHP pretty much. We figured it might be…

As it turns out the Drag & Drop feature is like the gift that keeps on giving – new year and new enhancement to the functionality! May be because the Ignite UI Tree is flexible enough or maybe because the functionality itself is based on simple Add and Remove API coupled with jQuery UI interactions, both of which are easy to understand, manipulate and extend :)

I’m thinking once you allow a user to move nodes…

As promised in the previous blog on Drag & Drop with the Ignite UI Tree – some tips and tricks coming right up. If you haven’t already looked into the control’s features, now’s your chance – overview with main ones listed in the Documentation and live in the Samples. Looking at those, while each of them is rather nice, how do you think some of them would work alongside each other…and…

With the latest release the Ignite UI Tree has received the nifty feature of drag and drop. It’s a fairly common concept and it allows for a natural (at least I perceive it to be for a long time) interaction with the control’s items. From a user’s stand point it’s all but awesome news  - this would allow for nodes to be moved between one tree’s structure and in our case there’s a bonus of being…

This year we had the pleasure of being part of the second “Innovations in Software Test Automation (ISTA 2012)” conference! This year with even more companies joining for knowledge sharing, additional workshop/hands-on track and a lot more participants. ISTA is gathering a healthy range of quality engineers, software test automation experts and developers to the common goal of sharing new technologies and best practices…

After we’ve looked into the range of input jQuery mobile controls you can use with the greatest ease with Ignite UI ASP.NET MVC wrappers, there is something more you can do. If you try the snippets as is you will find them working well and in tone, but rather lacking in terms of layout. So now that you have an idea how to provide content, let’s wrap it up in some proper containers and provide navigation.

Out of the new and exciting things happening around IgniteUI is the enhancement of the mobile toolset. These controls are based on jQuery Mobile rather than jQuery UI, as it provides optimizations for mobile devices. Applications built using them meet the demands of phones and tablets when it comes to usability and design. Windows (Phone) 8,  iOS and Android devices are everywhere and the flavor of the year word is T…

Not so long ago when Jason announced IgniteUI and a plethora of other goodness he mentioned a tool called Configurator that would help you code (or not code really) widgets included in the suite. As as he put it, for all of you server-side developers with desire to fire up your pages with some HTML5 and jQuery that sounds fantastic!

“Configurator for IgniteUI jQuery widgets?  Where?  Why is it not in my install folder…

Unbound Columns bring you the freedom of flexible layouts in the IgniteUI Grid and neat support for features to make your grid behave like nothing’s that different.  After you’ve seen some of the capabilities (getting started blog) and inner workings(configure and make the most of it) it’s only natural to tackle some not too basic cases. We’ll throw in some editing action – in all fairness, something very basic…

When in need of displaying columns with separate data – be it from a different source or based on the values of others – this new column type will prove truly helpful. Be sure to read the introductory blog on how to get started with jQuery Grid Unbound Columns. As promised we’ll go into greater detail into the options available to tweak the Ignite UI Grid’s Unbound Column feature to your own use case…

An all new functionality with the second release for this year comes to bring more flexibility to your grid and the way it handles data. The unbound column is one of the classic grid features throughout Infragistics experience with grids and now user demands are met by the all-new-yet-same Ignite UI Grid :)

The feature itself allows for columns that can be used to render separate arbitrary list of items or calculated…

The XAML Syntax Editor is pretty awesome control – I mean being able to create your own code editor is one and then just customize language and coloring and… add the fact that you can split the view and be on at line 50 and 500 at the same time and making changes in both spots! As you can tell, there are still plenty of neat things about the XamSyntaxEditor that I’d like to show you. I  showed you last…