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That's a Silverlight 2.0 data grid of course. They won't just ship agDataGrid for free, they'll include full source code, too. Looks like WPF and Silverlight are making companies to give away their grids for free (first Xceed with their DataGrid for WPF, now this). Nice trend, isn't it. And no, unfortunately isn't available just yet but it will ...

Developer Express, my favorite 3rd party .net component vendor, has just made its first public step into Windows Presentation Foundation world. They released a beta version of their charting product DXCharts for WPF (hey, where are those Xtra, Xpress, Express prefixes - ''DX for WPF'', shhh, boring ;-)). Anyway, everything is as one would expected ...

If you use Developer Express ASPxGridView within MS Ajax' UpdatePanel (ASPxGridView.EnableCallBacks="False") you should be aware that you should perform DataBind() method within OnInit method (Init event). Otherwise editing just won't work, or better, it works, just the modifications aren't persisted. It took me some time to ...

Recently I've came across this forum thread regarding the future of Developer Express' eXpress Persistent Objects for .NET (XPO) ORM product. Customers (actual ones, not potential) are asking whether XPO will someday support n-tier development. They are happily using XPO but they miss a vital part, which is n-tier development. Note that XPO never ...

As a (late) new year gift I've removed annoying expiration restriction from my dataset debugger visualizer. Find the 0.9.12 update here. I've also rebuilt it for Visual Studio 2008 version which will be the only one supported from now on. Find the 0.9.12 version for 2008 here. Read more about Righthand Dataset Debugger Visualizer.

RightHand.DataSet.Visualizer is an MDI application that lets you inspect DataSet structure and its data plus tons of other useful operations on DataSet. Why would I need a DataSet visualizer?How often does a programmer wonder what data a dataset holds? It is certainly not easy to see the data in regular debugger windows. It is even harder to check ...

It happened that I had to embed plenty of asp.net elements into tables, i.e: <table> <tr> <td> <asp:Label ... /> <asp:TextBox ... /> </td> <td> <asp:Label ... /> <asp:TextBox ... /> </td> ...

I often wonder why is everybody jumping on the (Office like) ribbon wagon. Ribbon UI is clumsy if it isn't done properly and furthermore, if you ask me, it just isn't suited for all applications. So I came across this example of application:The image is taken from this "Case Study: Itagent chooses DXperience" blog ...

Developer Express improved public insight into DXperience next versions - they created a forum where their employees post news about forthcoming versions. So, if you curious what's next by Developer Express or you want to ask something (current license holders only) make sure you take a peek into DXperience v2007 vol 3 Release Candidate ...

Here is an output from Intel's Matrix Storage Console when repairing a RAID array: Yep, it says Verifing instead of Verifying. This is a common harmless error that happens in an application. While it is a harmless one it makes you feel uncomfortable though - if developers are producing such obvious errors they also might ... if there ...