Infragistics

08/04/2026

57% of technology leaders say integrating AI is their hardest development challenge of 2026.

Not adopting it. Integrating it.

That’s according to the Reveal 2026 Top Software Development Challenges Survey.

In a new article for UX Matters, Zdravko Kolev, Manager of Product Development at Infragistics, argues that this shift turns AI into a design constraint rather than just a tooling decision.

He points to a Stanford study where a 350-person team saw pull requests rise 14% after adopting AI tools — while codebase maintainability dropped 9% and rework spiked 2.5x.

Activity went up. Clarity went down.

His position is clear: the teams that win in 2026 won’t be the ones generating the most code. They’ll be the ones who define when AI gets used, make its output explainable, and put review guardrails in place before velocity becomes the only metric that matters.

Clarity over novelty.

Full article in the comments.

07/28/2026

Nothing beats talking through real problems with other builders and our Team is ready at Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ. - Booth #2 ✔️😎

Developers stopping by to talk about what they’re building and the real challenges they’re running into.

Brian Lagunas & Nicole Boyer are here through tomorrow. Come say hi, ask anything and grab some swag.

Tomorrow at 9:30am, Jason Beres (COO) presents session W08: Create Enterprise Apps with AI, MCP, and Embedded Analytics.

Come find us on the floor, we’d love to meet you. 😊

07/27/2026

Day one at Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ. Hands-on labs are running today at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, WA, and the conference runs through July 31. Infragistics is a Platinum Sponsor this week.

Here's where to find us:

✔️ Booth #2, opening tomorrow morning and running through Wednesday

✔️ AI, MCP, and embedded analytics working inside a real enterprise application

✔️ Jason Beres, COO, presenting session W08 on Wednesday at 9:30am

✔️ Brian Lagunas, Director of Product Development, 14x Microsoft MVP and owner of Prism, at the booth

Come find the team on the floor.

Are you on the Microsoft campus this week?

Session details: https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2026/sessions/wednesday/w08-enterprise-apps.aspx

07/24/2026

AI can spin up a quick grid. But enterprise software has to do more than look right in a demo.

In a recent talk with Brad Weimert, Infragistics Founder and CEO Dean Guida breaks down what data-intensive apps still depend on, the parts a fast prototype skips:

✅ Virtualization that scrolls through millions of rows
✅ Accessibility that meets government and enterprise requirements
✅ Security built into the architecture
✅ Column pinning, Excel export, and real filtering
✅ Components you can still maintain years later

After 37 years building the UI inside trading platforms, transit systems, and financial apps, Infragistics now brings that engineering into AI workflows through Ignite UI MCP servers.

Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hogPdPFiX8

Where do you draw the line between what AI generates and what you build on a trusted framework?

Dean Guida started Infragistics at 23 to build UX/UI tools for prof...

07/23/2026

Can a free AI model write production-quality Ignite UI code, or do you need to pay for a frontier one?

We put it to the test: a 32-test benchmark building the same authentication UI across Angular, Blazor, React, and Web Components, with and without our AI context tooling.

✅ The same build, tested four ways per framework
✅ MCP servers supply live, valid component APIs and icon names
✅ Agent Skills orient the model on the right patterns
✅ The context layer is what closes the gap on a niche component library

The takeaway holds regardless of which model you use: the durable investment is the tooling layer, not the model you pick this quarter.

📊 Read the full benchmark: https://www.infragistics.com/blogs/free-ai-model-ignite-ui

07/22/2026

A code-focused session at VS Live @ Microsoft HQ.

Wednesday, July 29, 9:30am. Infragistics COO Jason Beres builds a real enterprise application with AI that generates against your actual component APIs, not invented ones. Here's what the session covers:

✅ Data-rich screens generated across React, Angular, Blazor, Web Components, WinUI, and .NET MAUI
✅ Design-system themes applied automatically
✅ A chat-style experience built in
✅ Interactive dashboards delivered inside the app with Reveal, no separate analytics platform

Session W08, Create Enterprise Apps with AI, MCP, and Embedded Analytics. Find the team at Booth 2, July 28-29.

Which framework would you want to see it build in first?

Session details from VS Live: https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2026/sessions/wednesday/w08-enterprise-apps.aspx

Create Enterprise Apps with AI, MCP, and Embedded Analytics

07/15/2026

Every developer working with an AI assistant knows the moment.

The code comes back clean and confident. It looks exactly like what you asked for, so you trust it. Then it breaks. The import points to a component that never existed, and you are back to reading docs and checking every line the tool just wrote.

It isn't the assistant's fault. It is fast, but it doesn't know your components, your APIs, or your design system. So it guesses.

Ignite UI stops the guessing. Its MCP server lets the agent read your real component API before it writes a line, so the import resolves, the props are real, and the code compiles the first time. The same GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or JetBrains AI your team already uses. It just stops inventing.

See it happen live. Infragistics is a Platinum Sponsor at Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ in Redmond, July 27-31. Find us at Booth 2 on July 28-29, where COO Jason Beres shows how enterprise teams cut development costs with low-code and AI.

Join us on the Microsoft campus 👉 https://vslive.com/events/microsofthq-2026/home.aspx

See how it works. Link in first comment.

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07/14/2026

Ever spent more time fixing AI-generated UI code than it would've taken to write it yourself?

Wrong imports, invented props, output that nearly works. The Ignite UI CLI MCP takes a different approach.

✅ Your AI assistant sends the request to igniteui-cli
✅ The CLI scaffolds with the correct patterns
✅ The MCP server routes & validates against real Ignite UI APIs
✅ A ready-to-use component lands in your project

Where does AI-generated code cost you the most time today? 👇

📦Explore Ignite UI CLI + MCP on GitHub: https://github.com/IgniteUI/igniteui-cli

07/10/2026

How much of your last project went to rebuilding the same grid features for the hundredth time?

This demo shows another path. An AI assistant connected to the Ignite UI MCP server scaffolds an Ignite UI for React grid, pulling real component APIs and grid config from the server instead of guessing.

✅ Sorting, filtering & grouping, built in
✅ Row selection out of the box
✅ Generated against real Ignite UI APIs, so the code runs
✅ Want more features? Ask the agent

How much time would you get back if grid features came standard? 👇

🎥 Watch the full session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQJ43Fdoq0

💻 Browse Ignite UI for React on GitHub: https://github.com/IgniteUI/igniteui-react

07/07/2026

Building a React app where the data grid actually talks to your backend?

This walkthrough shows how to connect an Ignite UI for React data grid to a live REST API — for real, two-way CRUD.

✅ Load grid rows straight from your API endpoints
✅ Edit, add & delete in the grid — persisted back via post / put / delete
✅ A typed service layer per resource (orders, products, salespeople)
✅ Grid edit & selection events wired to those services
✅ Excel-style filtering and row editing on top

All real React — bound to a real backend, not mock data.

🎥 Watch the full session + 💻 browse the sample code — links in first comment 👇