J. Ambrose Little

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From Blah to Aha! in Web Sites/Apps
There are a ton of resources out there to help developers (and designers) make better Web sites and applications, but I wanted to draw out three that I think will have a very high ROI for any developer who is building for the Web.  You could easily Read More...
Posted: 12 Jun 2008, 10:50 | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio Tutorials (.com)
One of our IG champs (unofficial term), Christopher Bishop, has put up a really snazzy independent community site called VisualStudioTutorials.com : It has a tutorials, code snippets, and forums, and he'd love to get more folks using Infragistics and/or Read More...
Posted: 06 May 2008, 19:59 | 0 Comments
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Minor faceOut Update
As reported by Dave Sussman (and others ), the initial version expected to be running on US systems (thanks to some hard-coded US date formats in the sample XML data).  I've since updated faceOut to handle those peculiarities (including forcing use Read More...
Posted: 09 Apr 2008, 14:43 | 0 Comments
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German Article (auf Deutsch!) on Infragistics Excel Engine
I just wanted to point out an article written by one of our top German community members, André Krämer.  Thanks, Andre! "Wenn Excel mehr als eine Datensenke sein soll" "Optisch ansprechenden Excel-Dateien zu erzeugen, erfordert Read More...
Posted: 08 Apr 2008, 09:56 | 0 Comments
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faceOut - our latest Silverlight 2 app - is Alive!
If you want to get an [updated] overview of what we're doing with Silverlight, go to our Focus on Silverlight area . We've published a high-level roadmap there and that's also where you can get an intro and overview of faceOut (as well as launch it or Read More...
Posted: 17 Mar 2008, 09:50 | 10 Comments
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Come Learn Infragistics at our First Ever Conference!
This year— coming up very soon —Infragistics will be co-hosting devscovery with Wintellect! This is going to be awesome. Not too long ago, I blogged about how Infragistics is an MVP squirrel . We’re bringing those nuts to this conference as well as some Read More...
Posted: 20 Feb 2008, 17:53 | 0 Comments
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UX and Agile
I was scheduled to do a talk today called "Building Great UX with .NET" today at the SouthCT .NET UG.  Well, mother nature had other plans , and I had to reschedule for 8 April.  So I have this wonderful presentation all prepared and Read More...
Posted: 12 Feb 2008, 23:08 | 0 Comments
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Little Links - M-V-Poo on WPF, RSS Bandit on Infragistics, and More
Here are a few more links of interest I thought I'd share with you all. M-V-Poo on WPF Josh Smith , resident Infragistics guidisan, has posted yet another awesome article to Code Project detailing how you can do what has now been dubbed "M-V-Poo" (great Read More...
Posted: 28 Jan 2008, 10:28 | 0 Comments
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Debug the .NET Framework
Scott just announced the availability of the .NET Framework source with the ability to debug (e.g., step into) the code inside of VS 2008.  Those of us who have spent hours digging in via Reflector using imagination debugging (i.e., I imagine that Read More...
Posted: 16 Jan 2008, 20:58 | 2 Comments
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Little Link Round-Up - Podder & IG Context Menu in System Tray
Just wanted to post a quick pointer to some great links on the net related to Infragistics. WPF Podcatcher "Podder" - IG Guidisan Josh Smith published his WPF podcatcher app, named "Podder" over on Code Project. It's pretty snifty; here are some interesting Read More...
Posted: 07 Jan 2008, 16:02 | 0 Comments
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Blog Notes Live Writer Plug-in
I just published a sample Blog Notes Live Writer plug-in on dotNetTemplar .  The full source code is available for learning/tweaking/extending.  The plug-in just helps with using superscript notes (endnotes/footnotes) in blog posts as I am wont Read More...
Posted: 22 Dec 2007, 14:14 | 0 Comments
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Favor Thoughtful Adherence Over Blind Adherence
Far be it from me to put words in Phil's mouth, but I hope that folks recognize that his post about favoring composition over inheritance is not specifically about that one best practice (the comments seem to indicate this is being missed). It's pretty Read More...
Posted: 11 Dec 2007, 10:00 | 3 Comments
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Beware Visual Studios Bearing Gifts of Pretty Markup!
This one bit me again last night. The problem is that something mysteriously adds <assembly /> elements to the <compilation /> section of the web.config file. I had previously attributed the problem to the ASP.NET compiler, but it seems it Read More...
Posted: 16 Nov 2007, 11:50 | 0 Comments
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Infragistics - An MVP Squirrel?
I can't take credit for the metaphor (that goes to our VP of Product Development & Marketing, Jonathan Cohen), but I thought it was apt. Why do I say this? Well, in addition to Jason Beres (VB MVP), Tony Lombardo (ASP.NET MVP), myself (Solutions Architect Read More...
Posted: 13 Nov 2007, 20:56 | 3 Comments
Better Silverlight Installer UX
Anybody keeping an eye on the prominent Silverlight blogs knows that Microsoft just published guidelines for good installation experience . I took this as an invitation to update our Infragistics Silverlight prototype demo on Infragistics Labs. Oddly Read More...
Posted: 06 Nov 2007, 16:21 | 0 Comments
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