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Developing Mobile Dashboards for ComponentArt Dashboard Server

  What is ComponentArt Dashboard Server?   Since our recent announcement of ComponentArt Dashboard Server, there has been a lot of interest and excitement about the technology, and understan...

ComponentArt's Technology is Ready for Windows 8 Today

Last week at the 2011 BUILD conference Microsoft unveiled their grand strategy for Windows 8. In the process they really set the direction for all Microsoft-based client technologies for the next deca...

Introducing Mobile Dashboards for Windows Phone 7

I am very pleased to announce our latest release -- ComponentArt Data Visualization for Windows Phone 7 -- the industry's first complete framework for building interactive mobile dashboards target...

Getting Started with DataVisualization for Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 represents a huge advance in mobile technology from Microsoft, ComponentArt is proud to support this exciting new platform with a full suite of DataVisualization controls for Windows P...

Hosting a ComponentArt Dashboard in SharePoint 2010

Hosting a ComponentArt dashboard in SharePoint 2010 is a scenario which comes up a lot in conversation with clients here at ComponentArt.  This is very possible using our DataVisualization packag...

HOWTO: Plotting Points on a Map

A common scenario faced when building maps into data visualization apps is the need to plot points at specific locations on a base map. Visually, these are usually not simple points, but are templated...

XYChart's X-Coordinate Popups

XYChart's XCoordinatePopup is a popup that is shown when the user's cursor hovers over the main area i.e. the rectangular region where datapoints are rendered. The popup's contents genera...

An Overview of XYChart Areas

The visual layout for ComponentArt's XYChart for DataVisualization control is composed of five regions called Areas.  This article aims to give an idea of what these regions are, so that you ...

Using CalcEngine for Design-Time Data

There are times during development when it is not possible for controls to access live data from within the Visual Studio Design-Time environment. When this occurs it can be advantageous to have sampl...

Coloring a Map with Data

This tutorial will walk you through the steps necessary to get a ComponentArt DataVisualization for Silverlight Map control up and running. 1. Create a new Project In Visual Studio, create a new "...

ComponentArt DataVisualization & Visual Studio Design-Time

With the full release of ComponentArt DataVisualization now in the hands of the public I thought I'd take a minute and talk about some of the features we've added in regards to Visual Studio D...

Dashboards Made Easy - The DrillDownManager Control

The usability and value of most modern dashboards becomes seriously questioned if the data shown is fixed, and the user does not have the ability to zoom in or drill-down into the data to a more detai...

Simplifying the WCF Service Connection - The WcfServiceDataProvider control

WcfServiceDataProvider is a handy new control introduced to the Silverlight and WPF suite of controls in the 2010.1 release.  The control is somewhat different from most of the other co...

Simplifying the WcfService Connection - The WcfServiceDataProvider control

WcfServiceDataProvider is a handy new control introduced to the Silverlight and WPF suite of controls in the 2010.1 release.  The control is somewhat different from most of the other co...

ItemFlow: Live XAML Content

  Along with ComponentArt UI Framework 2010.1 for Silverlight and WPF comes fantastic new funtionality for our ItemFlow control, the ability to utilize live XAML content within ItemFlowItem...

HOWTO: Using ComponentArt Themes with your Web.UI AJAX/MVC controls

With Web.UI 2010, ComponentArt has introduced the ability to quickly apply a pre-built stylized design to UI controls in the form of Themes.  This allows developers to concentrate on the function...

Silverlight Chart: Overview of Chart Types

  This blog post lists all the chart types that Silverlight Chart supports. They are divided into several sections: bar charts, pie and doughnut charts, area charts, line charts, marker and bubbl...

Customizing Axis Annotation Schemes in Silverlight Charts

As my previous blog post mentioned, the sophisticated axis annotation mechanism is one of the most useful features of the Silverlight Chart control released with Web.UI 2009.3.  It allows the pro...

Default Axis Annotation Schemes in Silverlight Charts

One of the most sophisticated and exciting features of the Silverlight Charting control released with Web.UI 2009.3 is the Axis Annotation mechanism that prevents overlapping of long labels. The mecha...

Adding Labels and Additional Controls to Silverlight Gauges

As most people reading these blogs are aware by now, the recently released Web.UI 2009.3, introduces a powerful Silverlight Charting control.  One of the features that makes this control really p...

Silverlight Chart Drilldown, Part Two: Adding a BreadCrumb Control

In my previous blog post, Silverlight Chart Drilldown: Part One, I described the steps necessary to create a drill-down chart using ComponentArt's Silverlight Chart. To navigate backwards to highe...

One Size Doesn't Fit All: RangeSlider and Its Motley Crew of Axii

Standard Silverlight Slider comes with the baked-in numeric axis. While this is sufficient for working with, well, numeric data, it requires extra plumbing to map numeric values to any other data typ...

Introducing SOA.UI Helpers

  The SOA.UI library has, since its introduction, defined its standard UI-serving services not only in terms of interfaces and DataContracts, but as a set of base classes to be inherited. This a...

Implementing TreeView in a NavBar

One question that pops up surprisingly often is how to embed a TreeView control (or any other, but TreeView owes its dominant popularity to Outlook navigation pane) inside a NavBar panel and have it...

Embedding Silverlight Upload in the page

The Silverlight Upload control has, up until 2003.3 SP 1 required the inclusion of System.Web.Silverlight.dll and the use of the Silverlight ASP control. This requirement is due to the fact that Silve...

Constrain the Silverlight Menu

  By default the Menu will attempt to position all sub-menu drop-downs inside of the Silverlight plug-in area.  Sometimes this is not the desired behaviour, in this example the Menu.Clip fea...

SOA.UI with DataGrid for AJAX

  A bit of time has passed since we introduced the SOA.UI framework for writing web services that drive the UI. Integration with this elegant framework has become an important part of Web.UI for...

Customizing Axis and Annotations in Silverlight Charts

We just shipped Web.UI 2009.3, which introduces the Silverlight Charting control.  Besides the obvious advantages of client-side rendering and many new look and animation related configurations, ...

Performance Improvements in DataGrid for AJAX 2009.3

  In the recently published 2009.3 release of Web.UI for AJAX, one of the major enhancements to the ever-popular Grid control (now officially named DataGrid) is optimized client-side rendering an...

Creating Custom DataPoint Annotations in Silverlight Charts

As most people are by now aware, the recently released Web.UI 2009.3, introduces a Silverlight Charting control.  Although the main reasons for using the charting control is to visually display t...

Silverlight Chart Data-Point Markers and Mouse Events

When using line charts, it is often desirable to further highlight the data-point in context by superimposing a marker on top. In this post, I will illustrate how to easily display data-point markers ...

Filtering and Searching with DataGrid for Silverlight

  As of version 2009.3, ComponentArt DataGrid for Silverlight has out-of-the-box support for searching and filtering, with all the accompanying UI and API control. To enable filtering through the...

Silverlight Chart Drilldown: Part One

    This blog post will demonstrate how to use the drilldown capability of the Silverlight Chart control. Parts two and three will show how to integrate Chart drilldown with a BreadCrumb co...

Lone Programmer Wins Our Silverlight Coding Competition

When we launched our 2009 Silverlight Coding Competition back in June, we didn't quite know what to expect. Silverlight was still relatively new and participation required real effort on the part ...

VIDEO: Charting and Visualization for Silverlight

As you may know by now, late on Friday (or more precisely early on Saturday) we shipped a major release, UI Framework 2009.3, containing our brand-new suite of Silverlight Charting and Visualization c...

ComponentArt UI.Framework 2009.3 and .NET RIA Services

  What is .NET RIA Services? To quote Microsoft: Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. ...

Introducing Recurring Appointments for Web.UI Scheduler ASP.NET AJAX

    Web.UI 2009.2 saw the addition of the Scheduler for ASP.NET AJAX control, which handled one-time Appointment objects.  With 2009.3 we have implemented RecurringAppointment obje...

ComponentArt Sponsors 2 Events in September

We had the pleasure of sponsoring two great community events in the month of September: a Code Camp in South Jordan, Utah, and another Code Camp in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Both events were a...

Let us know what you want!

ComponentArt UI Framework 2009.2 Beta is now available for download. It includes the much-anticipated Scheduler control for ASP.NET AJAX as well as a number of new Silverlight controls.While the first...

$10,000 for the Best Silverlight App!

Ok, this should be a lot of fun! ComponentArt has just announced the official beginning of the 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition. Starting immediately and throughout the summer (until Septe...

Web.UI ASP.NET Grid: Synchronize Checkbox States with Row Selection

One can use the Grid's itemBeforeCheckChange and itemBeforeSelect client events to synchronize the state of checkboxes and row selection. Some extra logic is required since checkbox clicks also t...

Securing Applications Built on Silverlight and WCF

Having recently released our initial offering of Silverlight controls, we are starting to get a feel for the sorts of issues Silverlight developers commonly encounter in designing and developing thei...

ComponentArt: Past, Present and Future

Shipping UI Framework 2009.1 was a lot more than a software release here at ComponentArt. In many ways, it was a re-launch of the company itself. Now that the big release is out in the wild, I thought...

Hey, nice package!

So many things have changed with the UI Framework 2009.1 release it's mind-boggling.  One thing that often gets overlooked in product changelogs or feature lists is the installation package i...

Web.UI ASP.NET Grid: Retrieve the filtered set of rows in Client RunningMode

Currently the Grid doesn't expose the filtered set of GridItems after a search/filter action, preventing operations from being applied exclusively to that set of rows. Until Grid provides a metho...

Retrieve the filtered set of rows in Client RunningMode

Currently the Grid doesn't expose the filtered set of GridItems after a search/filter action, preventing operations from being applied to that set of rows. Until Grid provides a method to access ...

Convert Web.UI Grid into a data entry spreadsheet

Q10111 - HOWTO: Create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet-like Grid and added keystroke handling for adding new rows and moving up and down between editable cells (Up Arrow and Down Arrow to go up and down...

Tapping Into the Raw Power of Silverlight

We are excited to announce the availability of ComponentArt Web.UI for Silverlight Beta - our latest suite of controls for Rich Internet Application development. The initial release will feature eight...

Gauges to join ComponentArt's expanding list of controls

One of the most frequently asked questions our sales and support teams have been getting over the past year or two is if we are going to make a gauges control that is on par with the rest of our contr...

ComponentArt Silverlight Preview

If you are wondering what we here at ComponentArt have been up to in the last while, wonder no more: we have been busily working on a foray into the world of Silverlight. It'a always exciting to p...

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