Introducing JavaScript's Math Functions
As of June 2015, the world has a new JavaScript standard. Officially called ECMAScript 2015, but commonly known as ECMAScript 6 (ES6) and sometimes ECMAScript Harmony or ECMAScript.next, the...
View ArticleHow to Use SharePoint on iOS (iPhone/ iPad)
Until pretty recently, Microsoft had a reputation for being incredibly protective of its products and services. While some of those perceptions linger on, the Redmond giant has made a lot of...
View ArticleUsing Bootstrap to power your apps
What is Bootstrap? Bootstrap is a free, open source framework built with HTML, CSS and JS to develop responsive web design. It offers an extremely powerful framework developed to facilitate faster...
View ArticleBuilding Real time application with SignalR – Part 1
HTTP protocol is the basis for all communication over the web, and it has catered to our needs since the early days. HTTP works in a request and response model, where a request needs to be sent to...
View ArticleLearn to Code at Home! (Infographic)
It's true that we all have very busy lives, but that so many of us also lust after new skills and knowledge. It would be so much easier if we could learn on our own time, in the comforts of our own...
View ArticleUseful Outlook.com add-ins to try out
The email service we now know as Outlook.com is among the world’s oldest webmail services. Founded in the mid-1990’s under the original name Hotmail before being acquired by Microsoft, the service was...
View ArticleConveying the Right Message
We communicate data and the conclusions we've drawn from our datasets in numerous ways: conversations, presentations, reports, charts shared on Twitter... Frequently, the results will be compressed....
View ArticleDeveloper News - What's IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/25-2/7)
Check out the top content from this week in the Infragistics community! If you're a blogger and you've got something you'd like us to socialize for you, don't hesitate to drop a comment here and either...
View ArticleMatching Design Patterns to Cognitive Processes
What happens when your brain is trying to process conflicting streams of information? Let’s find out.Read this list of colors to yourself:RedGreenBluePurpleBlackBrownYellowRed BluePinkOrangePiece of...
View ArticleA guide to modal windows and mobile design
Who do you design for? Is your end user a mobile centric startup, a desktop heavy corporation, a regular consumer or a store clerk? How old is your typical user, what do they do with your app and when...
View ArticleWriting Tests doesn't have to be extra work
Writing automated tests is sort of like the kale of the software development community. With the exception of a few outlying "get off my lawn" types, there's near-universal agreement that it's "the...
View ArticleHow to Implement the Repository Pattern in an ASP.NET MVC Application -...
On January 29th we hosted a webinar titled “How to implement the Repository Pattern in an ASP.NET MVC Application” for the Indian region and we’d like to share the presentation and recorded webinar...
View ArticleWhat is UI Automation testing, and why you should use it?
So, what is UI Automation testing? Well, let's start off with breaking it down, UI or User Interface, is the front end of your application that your users interact with on their screens.What is UI...
View ArticleUX Changes and Improvements to Office 365 and SharePoint 2016
A lot has been said about how the changes to Office 365 and SharePoint will affect developers and IT professionals. However, there’s been rather less attention paid to how improvements in user...
View ArticleDeveloper Humor: Intention
Happy Hump Day! Here's to hoping I can make your day a little brighter with this week's installment of "Developer Humor!" If you have any ideas for a great dev comic, please don't hesitate to leave a...
View ArticleUniversal Windows Apps: A health check
Last year, we wrote about Microsoft’s new Windows Universal Apps (WUA). WUAs are Microsoft’s recognition that their separate and non-compatible app stores for the Windows 8 PC and Windows Phone weren’t...
View ArticleA Step-by-step Introduction to JavaScript Sets
As mentioned previously, we have a new JavaScript standard commonly known as ECMAScript 6 (ES6). I've spent quite a bit of time recently reading around the new features outlined in the standard that...
View ArticleMicrosoft Edge: A closer look
Microsoft Edge, quite simply, is the modern Internet Browser now available with Windows 10. Microsoft has decided to do away with the much loved (in some parts) and much demised Internet Explorer on...
View ArticleUX design patterns and where to find them
It was likely that Christopher Alexander was the annoyance of many an architect during the 1970s. An architect himself, Alexander is noted for his theories on design – in particular his insistence that...
View ArticleEvent Recap: Open Source Give Back Day
This is a guest post by Sam De La Torre Baba, an Associate Software Developer with Infragistics. Read on to hear about Sam’s experience with Open Source Give Back Day.This past January Infragistics...
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