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There has been quite a bit of interest in dark themes recently. This is because more users are finding the white background of applications straining their eyes, especially when they are spending a lot of time in front of the computer screen.

Have you ever needed to create bindings to elements without knowing, or having access to, their DependencyProperty until runtime?

When creating your “Windows Modern Style UI applications” (read: Metro), one difficult aspect of the creation can be finding great icons to help keep a consistent look.

I recently had a good friend of mine send me an email asking how to dynamically generate columns based on a collection of objects with the XamDataGrid.  This seems like a very common task that just about all applications will probably need to do.  It’s definitely not an uncommon task.

This post will concentrate on the workspace that Blend provides when your project is in XAML.

One quick and easy way of making any application or website more usable is to identify primary actions and secondary actions. Primary actions are the most frequently used that guide the user along an intended path to complete a task.

A number of line of business applications use XamDataGrid for its rich feature set, high customizability and performance.

A quick recap: the Checkbox column is a feature that provides default setup to turn Boolean values in the jQuery grid into checkboxes.

The checkbox column (introduced with the last release, see this post on Using Checkbox Columns with the Infragistics jQuery Grid) was created to provide a ‘shortcut’ for transforming columns with Boolean values into checkboxes and mostly became reality due to the great interest in such functionality from customers (and after all it does make perfect sense).