Bar chart (Simple) illustrates how to create and customize a Wijmo bar chart widget.

Column bar chart (Simple) explains how to convert a regular Wijmo bar chart to a column bar chart widget.

Stacked bar chart (Simple) shows how to create and customize a stacked bar chart widget.

Animation and live data (Intermediate) illustrates how to stream live data and also have an animated presentation.

Bubble chart (Intermediate) shows how to create and customize a bubble chart widget.

Calendar (Intermediate) illustrates how to create and customize a calendar widget.

Grids (Advanced) explains how to create and customize a grid widget. It also shows how to make the grid have editable fields on the fly.

Data source (Advanced) shows how to retrieve and display data from a given data source.

Using Wijmo with KnockoutJS (Advanced) illustrates how to integrate Knockout JS in Wijmo to facilitate widget functionality. This is very useful in binding events to a grid widget.

ThemeRoller (Advanced) explains via a step-wise process, how to create and customize themes.

You will need some knowledge of HTML, CSS, native JavaScript, and jQuery.

It is also necessary to know how to use any code editor and how to run code files on a browser.

This book is for web developers, user interface (UI) enthusiasts, and anyone interested in getting fully acquainted with the Wijmo library and widgets.

The book will be an invaluable asset to anyone who is in need of UI widgets to beautify or create aesthetic features on their web application.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

$("table").wijgrid({
    columns: columns,
    data: content,
    allowEditing: true
});

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

$("table").wijgrid({
    columns: columns,
    data: content,
    allowEditing: true
});

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen".

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