Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Third-party Silverlight controls demo

analysis
Mar 17, 20081 min

Infragistics is one of the major ISVs developing controls for Microsoft platforms. I favorably reviewed their NetAdvantage controls for ASP.NET for InfoWorld in 2006. They have also released controls for Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Framework (WPF). It's no surprise that Infragistics has jumped on the Silverlight bandwagon. It is a surprise that they have been able to come up with a significant Silver

It’s no surprise that Infragistics has jumped on the Silverlight bandwagon. It is a surprise that they have been able to come up with a significant Silverlight control sampler site so quickly after Microsoft’s release of Silverlight 2.0 beta 1.

But there it is at top left: see www.faceoutlive.com for the actual site.

According to the company:

“Infragistics Silverlight Showcase Sample, a sales dashboard, called faceOut, is an enterprise mashup that combines enterprise sales records with data from the Windows Live Services, Live Maps and the Live Contacts. faceOut exemplifies how developers can use Silverlight to integrate corporate data with services provided on the internet to create a business-driven mashup experience, while simultaneously providing LOB application users with an engaging and visually appealing user interface.”

According to Devin Rader, Product Manager, going from WPF to Silverlight was an easy transition for Infragistics. That’s consistent with what Microsoft’s Brad Abrams has been saying in his blog, and with my own experience working with the beta.

Stay tuned.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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