In the new NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 11.2 Release you could have the advantage to use the outstanding  XamGeographicMap (CTP) component.  This is a new high-performance control predicted to work with a huge amount of spatial data. It is based on the fast XamDataChart in you could use the work experience from data chart control (XamDataChart). XamGeographicMap control has a lot of exciting features like…

NetAdvantage for LightSwitch  Vol.11.2 is coming next days. This is an innovative product with a new Infragistics Grid control  for LightSwitch and improvements for  existing controls.

This blog is about how to upgrade existing Visual Studio LightSwitch projects with NetAdvantage Vol.11.1 extensions to new 11.2 release components.

Procedure for upgrade

To be possible to upgrade your LightSwitch project you should follow…

The new 11.2 Releases of NetAdvantage for Silverlight and WPF Data Visualization / Line of Business offers an outstanding new feature - Error Bars.

Error bars are a graphical representation of the variability of data and are used on charts to indicate the error, or uncertainty in a reported measurement. They give a general idea of how accurate a measurement is or  how far from the reported value the true (error free) value…

In the next few days is coming one of the most interesting packages with components for Windows Phone - NetAdvantage for Windows Phone Vol. 11.2.

This product follows Shared XAML goals across all XAML products, including many components available in NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization and Line of Business products. NetAdvantage for Windows Phone offers also new innovative controls to help developers achieve…

This blog is an overview of the new features, released in the Silverlight Data Visualization Vol. 11.2  product.

NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization Vol. 11.2 includes several new exciting components and many feature enhancements to existing controls. Some of the feature enhancements  can be considered ‘new features’ because of the impact they will have on our customer base.  In this wonderful product…

This blog is an overview of the new features, released in the 11.2 Silverlight LoB product.

NetAdvantage for Silverlight vol.2011.2 has a lot of new controls and new features of the existing controls. This article presents the important  features in this new release. I’m glad to announce a lot of new  things in this product. Most of XAML LoB components are cross-platform (supported in the both Silverlight and WPF…

Creating applications for Facebook is associated with the use of the API for the platform. With the release of Facebook C # SDK developers accepted this framework for developing Facebook applications under .Net based environments.

An interesting case is the development of Facebook applications with ASP.Net MVC3 and Razor. In a series of articles will show you how to develop Facebook applications with MVC3 Razor and NetAdvantage…

The NetAdvantage for jQuery product contains a bunch of client-side components. Probably the most used one is jQuery igGrid. This component comes with an ASP.NET MVC Html Helper. The Helper makes it easy to new up the grid within your MVC views connecting to data form your model. Detailed information how to use NetAdvantage jQuery grid with ASP.Net MVC3 you could find here. In this blog, you will learn how to perform…

On 24 August 2011 Jason Beres, VP of Product Management, Community, and Evangelism at Infragistics announced the winners of the "Winners in the" Visual Studio LightSwitch Challenge".

The event was attended by the winners, guests and employees of Infragistics Inc.

The winners are:

• 1st Place:
  Christo Tsvetanov, Bulgaria
  Valeria Inyusheva, Azerbaijan
• 2nd place:
  Galina Georgieva, Bulgaria
• 3rd place:
  Stanimir Todorov…

Often you may want to use the Map components Infragistics LightSwitch for a spatial data type, different from shapefiles.

In this case the NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch offers convenient option of using WCF as a source of spatial data.
Thus you can use different data, such as implementation-reading of the data depends solely on you. This article will be shown examples of spatial data from SQL Server 2008.

Some people ask about how to use Infragistics Geospatial Map in Visual Studio LightSwitch. This is a component that uses a collection based data source. It is intended to generate thematic maps as data collection data source, not the spatial data.

This component offers two-way communication between elements of the collection and the items on the map. If you select an item from List or DataGrid on the same screen will…

Infragistics Inc. released the new NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011.1. This product includes two map control extensions:

• Infragistics Map Control (value based map)
• Infragistics Geospatial Map (series based map)

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 uses WCF RIA Services to maintain data. This framework for now doesn’t support spatial data (SQL Server Spatial). That is the reason map controls to use…

The article Understanding NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch - Dealing with Charts (Part 1) has described the work with Series based LightSwitch controls like Infragistics Data Chart control.

A major milestone in the development of applications for Visual Studio LightSwitch is understanding the fundamental principle of the binding data to controls.

Visual Studio LightSwitch control extensions are 3 main groups…

Infragistics Inc. released the new NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011.1. This article is about where you can use this product and how to start use it. The complete list of Infragistics extensions for Visual Studio LightSwitch  can be found in the wonderful article from Jason Beres "Announcing NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch".

Additional information how to install NetAdvantage for Visual…

During the week of April 18 to 22 comes new Infragistics  NetAdvantage for Windows Phone CTP , which includes new components of Infragistics for Windows Phone 7. Samples Browser can be downloaded from Windows Phone 7 Market Place .

There are nine group controls in Infragistics Mobile CTP:

• DataChart (XamDataChart )
• BulletGraph (XamBulletGraph)
• Gauges (XamRadialGauge, XamLinearGauge, XamSegmentedDisplay)
• Map (XamMap)
• Barcodes…

When talking about spatial data in the Windows Azure understand SQL Azure Spatial. Windows Azure presents other options when you file your sources for spatial data is to use Windows Azure Blob Storage. Due to the lack of good examples of this I decided to write this article.

Demo application is a Silverlight application for visualization of spatial data that uses data from the Windows Azure Blob Storage. This application…

Very often, developers are asking - how to migrate a Windows Phone 7 application to Windows Azure (data and server-side applications). The answer is - the migration to Windows Azure is very easy when you observe certain rules.
This article will show you how to do from an existing Windows Phone 7 administration system to enjoy benefits of Windows Azure.

Sample Application

Requirements:

Software:

• Visual Studio 2010
• Windows…

 Loading data on demand is typical of applications that use hierarchical data. The article “On Demand Data Loading in XamTree” demonstrated an application using Infragistics XamTree. This article shows how they could benefit from hierarchical data XamGrid and XamDataTree as load only the data that is necessary to show.

Requirements:

• Visual Studio 2010
• Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
• Silverlight…

The use of hierarchical data in applications often requires loading data on demand. This is very typical problem, especially when using WCF services from Silverlight applications.

Infragistics Silverlight controls as XamTree, XamDataTree, XamGrid offer an easy way to visualize these data. This article provides an example of the use of Infragistics XamTree with such data as the data loading is done in 2 different ways…

LightSwitch is primarily targeted at developers who need to rapidly product business applications.
Visual Studio LightSwitch application could  connect to a variety of data sources. For now it can connect to database servers, SharePoint Lists and WCF RIA Services .
Connection with WCF RIA Services requires some settings that are not "out of the box".  Despite this it is a very often expected scenario and developers…

Myworldmaps (http://reporting.myworldmaps.net) is a Silverlight client ,providing statistical information from Worldmaps  (http://www.myworldmaps.net ) visualized with components of Infragistics. MyWorldMaps provides various methods of statistics based on the users browser agents and geographic distribution.
Especially attractive is the visualization of multidimensional data using the "Stats Distribution". This user control…

When developing applications for Window Phone 7 is essential to realize the simulation of the Multi-Touch Activity for the applications. Currently, most computers do not have Multi-Touch Screens.
One very easy option is support for multiple mice. For this purpose you can find different solutions as Multimouse for Windows 7 or Multi-Touch Vista in codeplex. This article uses Multi-Touch Vista which is free and quite popular…

A few months ago I read a wonderful article by Johannes Kebeck “Creating Bing Maps Tile-Layers from SQL Server 2008 on the Fly” and DataConnector project  in the codeplex. DataConnector project is focused on Bing Maps and SQL Server 2008 (and can also be easily used with SQL Azure). This allows organizations and developers to rapidly create web mapping applications that contain rich geospatial data visualization…

WCF RIA Services simplifies the development of n-tier solutions for Rich Internet Applications (RIA), such as Silverlight applications.

XamSchedule components could be used with WCF RIA Services. This article explains a possible approach to use together RIA Services and XamSchedule suite.

If you are no familiar with WCF RIA services you could read the article Using the Infragistics XamGrid with WCF RIA Services

XamSchedule…

XamSchedule suite offers a WcfScheduleDataConnector to use a data from different sources via WCF service.

It is very easy to create a multi user applications that have calendar or other scheduling features.
When schedule application uses a data on a remote server the best approach is to use WcfScheduleDataConnector instead ListScheduleDataConnector.
In this case connector will be responsible for communication between client…