The SOA.UI library has, since its introduction, defined its standard UI-serving services not only in terms of interfaces and DataContract s, but as a set of base classes to be inherited. This approach provides the automatic inheritance of the relevant...
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 Silverlight , but our AJAX controls also contain quite a bit...
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 and the addition of a new "ultra-light" rendering...
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 UI, we set DataGrid's ShowColumnFilters property to true...
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. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that...
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the annual AZGroups event in Phoenix, Arizona headlined by Scott Guthrie of Microsoft. Other speakers included Tim Heuer, Jaime Rodriguez (on WPF) and Glenn Block (on MEF). All the sessions were very informative...
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 their applications. One question which seems to pop up frequently...
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 play with a new user interface technology, not least...
Now that Web.UI 2008.2 is officially out the door, I can take some time to sit back and reflect on what's been done. There are some great new controls, as usual, and major enhancements to our Grid control. I'm particularly excited about that last...
Since the introduction of the WebService running mode in ComponentArt Grid, and related functionality (like the client-side load method), we have seen this approach rapidly gain popularity and, naturally, produce demands for more features and more versatility...
Web.UI vNext (preview build included in attached project packages) will include, among other things, a new feature of the CallBack control which will allow it to become extremely useful for integrating AJAX functionality in web applications build on Microsoft’s...
In my previous post , I talked about the web service functionality that's common to all ComponentArt navigation controls. I focused on common features that are present in many different controls, especially in this case, but this approach was unfair...
It's been some time now since we first started introducing client-side integration with ASP.NET AJAX web services into our controls. The first foray was the ability of Grid to bind directly to JavaScript object arrays, allowing it to directly load...
ComponentArt Web.UI 2008.1 includes one new addition to the library of controls: Upload . ComponentArt Upload is a file upload control with all the high-end AJAX and client-centric functionality one should expect from a Web.UI control. The control comes...
Two days ago, on Saturday, I attended Toronto Code Camp 2008 , the third such event organized in our fair city. It was my first time at a Code Camp and I had a good time and learned a lot. In addition to attending some very interesting presentations and...