New Features - NetAdvantage for .NET 2011 Volume 2

ASP.NET

WebDataGrid - Enhanced!

We have added the following features to our hierarchical ASP.NET AJAX data grid:

WebImageButton - Enhanced!

WebImageButton now implements the IButtonControl interface, enabling it to be used as a default button on the page, ability to set the validation group for it, and even the PostBackUrl property. This makes the control functions more in-line with the stock ASP.NET button control, but comes with a lot richer feature set.
 

Windows Forms

JQuery

jQuery Grid

ASP.NET MVC Helpers

Heirarchical DataSource
Fully jQuery based client- side data store for hierarchical data structures, the hierarchical data source is best suited for views that can display a child parent relationship. E.g. a Hierarchal grid or a tree control. It is built on top of the base igDataSource component, so it gets all client data source features and benefits from it. It also extends the oData $expand operation to grab related child records.

ComboBox
Using this fully featured combo box control with intuitive auto-suggest, auto-complete & auto-filtering built-in, your users will be able to find the choices they are looking for much more quickly. Single/Multi select capabilities are also available with the combo box.

Tree Control
Simplify the display of hierarchical data into a Web-based tree depicting familiar parent-child relationships between nodes of information. Sporting a responsive user experience and high performance design, your users will love its rich functionality like checkbox selection, node templates and more.

Excel Library

HTML5 Charts - CTP
Let your data tell the story, with the broadest range of interactive, high-performance HTML5 data charts that include support for a full range of business, scientific and financial charting scenarios, and animation and trend line capabilities “right out of the box”.

HTML Editor - CTP
Put the power of a jQuery WYSIWYG editing tool into your Web application to give end users a rich HTML editing experience within their Web browser.

Silverlight Line Of Business

Data Chart – NEW!
Having made its mark with NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualisation, our market-leading XAML Data Chart is now available for customer of our Silverlight Line of Business products.
Render Silverlight charts with millions of data points that are capable of millisecond updates, sparing nothing to achieve blazing speed. Enable heavy-duty data visualisation and analysis on large volumes of data with high performance.

Funnel Chart – NEW!
Visually showcase diminishing values with our new funnel chart, a single series chart that displays data in a funnel shape with a variable number of sections, each representing the data as different portions of 100%. The funnel chart makes it easy for end users to illustrate value "fallout" in the sales process or bottlenecks in the flow of a multi-step process.

Resource Washer - NEW!
With Resource Washing, you can set the color (the WashColor) on groups of resources (WashGroups) in an existing ResourceDictionary to update the color of the controls in your applications. Now, you can take a basic looking application and re-brand it to your corporate colors. Or, you can set a WashColor at runtime to change the look of application. There are two wash modes which determine how the original color in the resource and the wash color are blended: SoftLightBlend and HueSaturationBlend.

Infragistics Excel – Enhanced!
Import and export Microsoft Excel workbooks in high-fidelity, with the compiled assembly that reads and writes in the widely-interoperable XLS/XLSX/ExcelML file formats. With absolutely no Excel dependency, your Silverlight application can run completely independent of Excel, and Excel does not have to be installed alongside your application.

Inputs – NEW!
The new xamInputs control offers a complete XAML cross- platform experience with key controls. The Inputs control can also be used with the cross-platform xamGrid cell to enhance data display and data entry. Controls include xamCurrencyInput, xamDateTimeInput, xamMaskedInput and xamNumericInput.

Multi-Column Combo – NEW!
The xamMultiColumnComboEditor is designed to give you a more comprehensive display choice for dropdown data. The Multi-Column Combo acts just like a grid; it can automatically generate columns for every property on the data object contained in the IEnumerable that is set on the control’s ItemsSource property. The control’s AutoGenerateColumns property (which defaults to true) controls this behavior.

Infragistics Math Library – NEW!
Now, you can access an extensive library of mathematical and statistical structures and functions that you can use with all our NetAdvantage® Line of Business Controls and Data Visualisation toolsets.
 
The Math Library provides you with a unified set of core functions that will allow you to perform a large range of mathematical operations with ease. Perform mathematical calculations that are fast, accurate and memory efficient. Build your own math-driven applications without having to translate your data structures across multiple formats.

Tile Manager – NEW!
The xamTilesManager displays templated content tiles based on any ItemsSource you provide in the rows and columns of an animated, engaging, and interactive layout panel. Let your users browse tiles, maximise one or more tiles (automatically minimising remaining tiles), collapse tiles, drag-and-drop tiles so as to rearrange their layout, and more using its glanceable user interface.

Calculation Manager – NEW!
The xamCalculationManager adds Microsoft Excel-like formula support to any control on the form, including native WPF & Silverlight controls and Infragistics XAML controls. It manages all formulas as well as getting values from sources and setting values on targets of those formulas. The Calculation Manager has many pre-defined functions that emulate Excel functions as well as allowing developers to register custom functions. In addition, the Calculation Manager automatically determines the order in which to solve formulas based on the dependencies of sources and targets.

WPF Line Of Business

Data Chart – NEW!
Having made its mark with NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization, our market-leading XAML Data Chart is now available for customer of our WPF Line of Business products.
Render WPF charts with millions of data points that are capable of millisecond updates, sparing nothing to achieve blazing speed. Enable heavy-duty data visualisation and analysis on large volumes of data with high performance.

Funnel Chart – NEW!
Visually showcase diminishing values with our new funnel chart, a single series chart that displays data in a funnel shape with a variable number of sections, each representing the data as different portions of 100%. The funnel chart makes it easy for end users to illustrate value "fallout" in the sales process or bottlenecks in the flow of a multi-step process.

Resource Washer - NEW!
With Resource Washing, you can set the color (the WashColor) on groups of resources (WashGroups) in an existing ResourceDictionary to update the color of the controls in your applications. Now, you can take a basic looking application and re-brand it to your corporate colors. Or, you can set a WashColor at runtime to change the look of application. There are two wash modes which determine how the original color in the resource and the wash color are blended: SoftLightBlend and HueSaturationBlend.

Infragistics Excel – Enhanced!
Import and export Microsoft Excel workbooks in high-fidelity, with the compiled assembly that reads and writes in the widely-interoperable XLS/XLSX/ExcelML file formats. With absolutely no Excel dependency, your WPF application can run completely independent of Excel, and Excel does not have to be installed alongside your application.

Inputs – NEW!
The new xamInputs control offers a complete XAML cross- platform experience with key controls. The Inputs control can also be used with the cross-platform xamGrid cell to enhance data display and data entry. Controls include xamCurrencyInput, xamDateTimeInput, xamMaskedInput and xamNumericInput.

Multi-Column Combo – NEW!
The xamMultiColumnComboEditor is designed to give you a more comprehensive display choice for dropdown data. The Multi-Column Combo acts just like a grid; it can automatically generate columns for every property on the data object contained in the IEnumerable that is set on the control’s ItemsSource property. The control’s AutoGenerateColumns property (which defaults to true) controls this behavior.

Infragistics Math Library – NEW!
Now, you can access an extensive library of mathematical and statistical structures and functions that you can use with all our NetAdvantage Line of Business Controls and Data Visualization toolsets.
 
The Math Library provides you with a unified set of core functions that will allow you to perform a large range of mathematical operations with ease. Perform mathematical calculations that are fast, accurate and memory efficient. Build your own math-driven applications without having to translate your data structures across multiple formats.

Tile Manager – NEW!
The xamTilesManager displays templated content tiles based on any ItemsSource you provide in the rows and columns of an animated, engaging, and interactive layout panel. Let your users browse tiles, maximise one or more tiles (automatically minimising remaining tiles), collapse tiles, drag-and-drop tiles so as to rearrange their layout, and more using its glanceable user interface.

Calculation Manager – NEW!
The xamCalculationManager adds Microsoft Excel-like formula support to any control on the form, including native WPF & Silverlight controls and Infragistics XAML controls. It manages all formulas as well as getting values from sources and setting values on targets of those formulas. The Calculation Manager has many pre-defined functions that emulate Excel functions as well as allowing developers to register custom functions. In addition, the Calculation Manager automatically determines the order in which to solve formulas based on the dependencies of sources and targets.

WPF Data Visualization

Resource Washer – NEW!
With Resource Washing, you can set the color (the WashColor) on groups of resources (WashGroups) in an existing ResourceDictionary to update the color of the controls in your applications. Now, you can take a basic looking application and re-brand it to your corporate colors. Or, you can set a WashColor at runtime to change the look of application. There are two wash modes which determine how the original color in the resource and the wash color are blended: SoftLightBlend and HueSaturationBlend.

Infragistics Excel - Enhanced!
Import and export Microsoft Excel workbooks in high-fidelity, with the compiled assembly that reads and writes in the widely-interoperable XLS/XLSX/ExcelML file formats. With absolutely no Excel dependency, your WPF application can run completely independent of Excel, and Excel does not have to be installed alongside your application.

Geographic Map – New!
Create highly detailed, thematic geographical maps using an innovate feature set that includes custom shape templates, the ability to render polylines and polyshapes, Map Progression, Scatter Area Plots, an intuitive Overview Pane and much more. Since the thematic map is a specific type of chart that is rendered with a special coordinate system, the approach of “layer” a map system over the chart’s area makes perfect sense. It enables us to offer many new, innovative features to the map, such as the ability to render polyline/polyshapes; custom shape templates; shape fill, shape styles and conditional formatting shapes; symbol series with the ability to add a custom Symbol Template; contour area series; scatter area series; multiple series; and panning and zooming.

Funnel Chart - NEW!
Visually showcase diminishing values with our new funnel chart, a single series chart that displays data in a funnel shape with a variable number of sections, each representing the data as different portions of 100%. The funnel chart makes it easy for end users to illustrate value "fallout" in the sales process or bottlenecks in the flow of a multi-step process.

Sparkline Chart - NEW!
The new Sparkline control is a data-intense, design-simple graphic that allows end users to spot trends, variations and patterns in data in a clear and compact representation.

Data Chart - Enhanced!
Render WPF charts with millions of data points that are capable of millisecond updates, sparing nothing to achieve blazing speed. Enable heavy-duty data visualisation and analysis on large volumes of data with high performance
 
The Data Chart control includes the following new features:

Pivot Grid – Enhanced!
Get the facts straight with a WPF pivot grid that lets your users slice, dice and filter the multidimensional data of your OLAP cube or data warehouse, putting the full power of online analytical processing within your WPF applications. Our latest version of the xamPivotGrid improves performance and usability.
 
We've made several performance enhancements that deliver support for higher volume data and query parsing:

Timeline - Enhanced!
We've added an important interaction feature to the Timeline control – the control's ability to adjust labels and tick marks based on the current zoom level (which is the visible area of the chart).

Network Node Diagrams – Enhanced!
Our WPF network node diagram control helps you create visual representations of simple or complex network relationships, similar to a cluster diagram in which each node represents a unique data point related through its connectedness to other data points. End users can easily pan and zoom, and you can customise the types of metadata that are displayed and how they are shown. New features in this release include the ability to choose the relationship type between nodes, support for various visual states, including Normal, MouseOver, Pressed, Disabled, and ReadOnly, and manipulation of indivdiual nodes.

Silverlight Data Visualization

Resource Washer – NEW!
With Resource Washing, you can set the color (the WashColor) on groups of resources (WashGroups) in an existing ResourceDictionary to update the color of the controls in your applications. Now, you can take a basic looking application and re-brand it to your corporate colors. Or, you can set a WashColor at runtime to change the look of application. There are two wash modes which determine how the original color in the resource and the wash color are blended: SoftLightBlend and HueSaturationBlend.

Infragistics Excel - Enhanced!
Import and export Microsoft Excel workbooks in high-fidelity, with the compiled assembly that reads and writes in the widely-interoperable XLS/XLSX/ExcelML file formats. With absolutely no Excel dependency, your Silverlight application can run completely independent of Excel, and Excel does not have to be installed alongside your application.

Geographic Map – New!
Create highly detailed, thematic geographical maps using an innovate feature set that includes custom shape templates, the ability to render polylines and polyshapes, Map Progression, Scatter Area Plots, an intuitive Overview Pane and much more. Since the thematic map is a specific type of chart that is rendered with a special coordinate system, the approach of “layer” a map system over the chart’s area makes perfect sense. It enables us to offer many new, innovative features to the map, such as the ability to render polyline/polyshapes; custom shape templates; shape fill, shape styles and conditional formatting shapes; symbol series with the ability to add a custom Symbol Template; contour area series; scatter area series; multiple series; and panning and zooming.

Funnel Chart - NEW!
Visually showcase diminishing values with our new funnel chart, a single series chart that displays data in a funnel shape with a variable number of sections, each representing the data as different portions of 100%. The funnel chart makes it easy for end users to illustrate value "fallout" in the sales process or bottlenecks in the flow of a multi-step process.

Sparkline Chart - NEW!
The new Sparkline control is a data-intense, design-simple graphic that allows end users to spot trends, variations and patterns in data in a clear and compact representation.

Data Chart - Enhanced!
Render Silverlight charts with millions of data points that are capable of millisecond updates, sparing nothing to achieve blazing speed. Enable heavy-duty data visualisation and analysis on large volumes of data with high performance.
 
The Data Chart control includes the following new features:

Pivot Grid – Enhanced!
Get the facts straight with a Silverlight pivot grid that lets your users slice, dice and filter the multidimensional data of your OLAP cube or data warehouse, putting the full power of online analytical processing within your Silverlight applications. Our latest version of the xamPivotGrid improves performance and usability.
 
We've made several performance enhancements that deliver support for higher volume data and query parsing:

Timeline - Enhanced!
We've added an important interaction feature to the Timeline control – the control's ability to adjust labels and tick marks based on the current zoom level (which is the visible area of the chart).

Network Node Diagrams – Enhanced!
Our Silverlight network node diagram control helps you create visual representations of simple or complex network relationships, similar to a cluster diagram in which each node represents a unique data point related through its connectedness to other data points. End users can easily pan and zoom, and you can customise the types of metadata that are displayed and how they are shown. New features in this release include the ability to choose the relationship type between nodes, support for various visual states, including Normal, MouseOver, Pressed, Disabled, and ReadOnly, and manipulation of indivdiual nodes.

Windows Phone

Inputs Control – New!
The new xamInputs control offers a complete XAML cross- platform experience with key controls. The Inputs control can also be used with the cross-platform xamGrid cell to enhance data display and data entry. Controls include xamCurrencyInput, xamDateTimeInput, xamMaskedInput and xamNumericInput.

Persistence Framework – New!
With the Persistence Framework, you can persist control settings from any Silverlight dependency object (including non-Infragistics controls) using Infragistics’ Control Persistence Framework to manage saving and loading of those settings you want persisted to any external source, like a file or database. This framework makes it very easy for you to give your users the ability to save off their preferences and the layout of your application’s user interface down to the most detailed settings  - such as which grid columns are fixes - and then re-load the same layout when they come back again.

Rating – New!
The xamRating control allows your users to add customised rating capability to their applications. The control allows you to display rating images to the end users and record their input when they tap on an image.

ACS Control – New!
This is an exciting new control which allows developers to use various social media authentication capability to authenticate their own applications. The main scenario for the control is to provide an application a way to let users log-in with their existing Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or Live ID credentials.

Visual Studio Lightswitch

UI Control Extensions
NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch extends applications built in Visual Studio LightSwitch with custom shells, themes and controls for creating code-free dashboards, interactive maps, and other eye-catching data visualisations.

xamGrid Control - Ported from the market-leading Silverlight xamWebGrid, the new LightSwitch xamGrid control is the fastest grid available when performing the most common business usage scenarios. With xamGrid enabled as a LightSwitch extension, a LightSwitch developer can swap the existing Microsoft default grid with our high-performance, feature-laden Grid control, which enhances the overall productivity in the product.

Reporting

Easy-to-use report design interface
Design controls and features are integrated for use with Visual Studio 2010, and provide an easy way to create data reports. Since design controls are based in Visual Studio, all members of your team can work together building reports that optimise data presentation and visual appeal.

Flexible report viewing
Reports can be rendered and viewed locally or even remotely (on a server) with our Report Viewer feature. This feature can even be hosted within Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications for reuse.

Data visualization integration
To help you bring your data to life, we have included our award-winning charting functionality already incorporated into our NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization and NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization products.

Add your own report data at design-time or at run-time
Our reporting solution offers data access support for SQL data sources, and object data sources. You can also easily connect to Entity Framework and RIA Services (using client-side rendering).

Export to PDF and Excel
Even from the client side in Silverlight, we alleviate traditional "round trips" to the server to provide basic PDF and Excel exports.

Designed from UX expertise and extensive user research
Our UX and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) teams worked together closely, and conducted extensive user testing, to integrate the most intuitive controls and features, and ensure that the design-time experience is seriously easy to use.

Write your own custom expressions
Conduct an analysis of reported data with "built-in" support for common constants, operators, and functions with the help of our Expression Assistant feature.

Printing
Print full fidelity reports directly from Silverlight and WPF clients with the ability to customise page sizes and margins before printing

 


 

New Features - NetAdvantage for .NET 2011 Volume 1

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  3. HTML 5.0 Video Player
  4. File Upload
  5. Editors
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Windows Forms:

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WPF Line Of Business:

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WPF Data Visualization:

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ASP.NET:

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Silverlight Line of Business:

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