Devin Rader - Infragistics Community

Extending a XamRibbon ButtonTool to execute ICommands

Infragistics Silverlight Ribbon control does not currently expose a Command and CommandParameter properties on its ButtonTool class. Our guidance to customers wanting to use commands with this tool has been to use the Infragistics commanding framework...

Published 07-12-2011 4:00 PM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Filed under: Blogging, Silverlight

Using Behaviors to Synchronize Selected Items of Infragistics Silverlight controls to a ViewModel

Behaviors, which were introduced with Blend 3, are a great way to package up bits of functionality that attached to existing objects using XAML. They also are a great way to create man in the middle connections between objects in your View and properties...

Published 06-01-2011 3:27 PM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Filed under: Blogging, Silverlight

Adding a “Select All” Checkbox to a XamGrid CheckboxColumn Header

Using checkboxes in a grid is a common way of allowing end users to select multiple objects in the grid, which the application can then act on later. Its also common to see a “Select All” checkbox in the header of a column that lets the end...

Published 04-29-2011 9:22 PM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Binding to Properties of non-FrameworkElements

A common question we see from customers using our XAML controls is that they want to set a binding on a control property, but the property is exposed by an object that does not live in the Visual Tree. Unfortunately in both Silverlight and WPF, objects...

Published 04-29-2011 11:48 AM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Filed under: Blogging, Silverlight

Extending XamGrid with a Right-Click Context Menu

In Windows, users expect that right clicking in an app will show a context menu that exposes the actions they can take for a particular UI element. Extending XamGrid to add the ability to show a right-click context menu is fairly simple. In this blog...

Published 04-15-2011 11:53 AM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Filed under: Blogging, NetAdvantage, Silverlight

Assembly Caching Infragistics Silverlight control assemblies

Way back in Silverlight 3 Microsoft added a feature called Assembly Caching which allowed developers to configure their Silverlight apps in such a way that the assemblies needed by that application could be cached on the client. This means that...

Published 07-15-2010 10:50 AM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Filed under: NetAdvantage, Silverlight

Creating Custom Columns for xamGrid

When we originally sat down to design the xamGrid one of the problems we knew we wanted to address (based on lessons learned from building other grid controls) was providing an easy way for developers to extend the control by creating their own custom...

Published 07-08-2010 2:46 PM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Filed under: Blogging, NetAdvantage, Silverlight, XamWebGrid

XAML Control Unification Changes in 2010.2

Starting with our 2010 Volume 2 release of both our Silverlight products and our WPF products, we are unifying the development of the controls included in these products and creating a single XAML control code-base. As part of the process of unifying...

Published 06-15-2010 1:51 PM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Simple Column Chooser for XamWebGrid

If you’ve used the Infragistics XamDataGrid or UltraWinGrid, you are probably familiar with a feature each of those controls offers called Column Chooser (or Field Chooser). This simple feature provides a simple UI that allows you to expose a way...

Published 01-19-2010 4:33 PM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Filed under: Blogging, Silverlight, XamWebGrid

Creating Custom Summery Operands

The 2009.2 release of the XamWebGrid added the ability to display a summary row in the grid which allows you to display summary information for columns in the grid. The feature includes five summary native summary operands (minimum, maximum, sum, count...

Published 01-07-2010 9:34 AM By [Infragistics] Devin Rader

Filed under: Blogging, NetAdvantage, Silverlight, XamWebGrid