Tony Lombardo

It's official, NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization components are no longer super secret NDA.  For those of you who I spoke to recently and told you to tune in for some important announcements around PDC.. here it is.

Ok, in the spirit of having fun at tradeshows, I have a challenge for you.  If you're at PDC and you want to win a free copy of NetAdvantage - read on..

A few times a year, I'm lucky enough to get to spend a week in Las Vegas.  Well, I use the term lucky loosely here.  A week in Vegas can be a huge drain, even if you're not gambling all of your money away, or spending your nights drinking out of glasses that are bigger than you are.  But it's still something that you need to experience to understand.

Believe it or not, I'm more excited than anyone since I no longer have to speak in riddles revolving around what we're doing for Silverlight.  The NetAdvantage Silverlight Roadmap is officially public!  Here's a quick summary.

There has been a steadily growing buzz over jQuery, and many development teams have already introduced it as a standard library in their Ajax applications.  The buzz just got much much louder, when Microsoft announced that jQuery will now be included and officially supported inside of Visual Studio .NET. 

There's been a few changes to products and packages offered by Infragistics lately, read on for the details.

I've decided that the LinqDataSource is my favorite datasource to use these days, because it allows me to consume my LinqToSql classes.  My fondness of Linq to Sql also leads towards frustration when I try to figure out what's going on behind the scenes.  

So here I am, all ready to test out the blazing performance of the new WebDataGrid.  I set up my million row table, and bind the grid to it... the page loads blazingly fast.  Believe it or not, this has more to do with setting up your table indexes properly than anything else.