New Windows Forms Features
Grid Enhancements
CardView Printing – CardView is a display mechanism in the WinGrid that enables the developer to provide an alternate view of data, similar to that of the Microsoft Outlook Business Cards view. This added functionality provides an easy mechanism for the developer to print the grid while in this display mode.
Rotated Column Headers – Developers can now create new visualisations with the WinGrid by rotating the column header. This will come closer to mimicking real life printed forms and make it easier for the readability and transition of the end user from a printed document to a running application.
Row Edit Templates – Provides a dialog box that has knowledge of the underlying WinGrid. This template will provide an easy mechanism for a developer to show additional information to the end-user or provide a new mechanism for a developer to enhance the data-entry experience of the grid.
TreeMap – TreeMap is a chart that provides a visualisation aspect to hierarchical or relational data using nested rectangles. This is effective in showing things like the demographical data or allotment of financial capital.
AutoComplete Mode -- New ways to filter through data in a mechanism that can be compared to the Suggest mode made popular by Google is now enabled on the WinCombo controls.
WinValidator – The WinValidator is an extender control that enhances the experience of editable fields. Traditionally, developers had to write sometimes trivial logic to perform validation on multiple input areas on a form. This control will greatly decrease the amount of code the developer needs to write and increase the validity of data submitted by the end-user.
Visual Studio 2008 Docking Style – Not only does the latest color enhancements make it to the Dock Manager control, but also the addition of the preview pane. End-Users can now CTRL-Tab through their application and get the same rich live preview displayed to developers in their line of business solution.
New ASP.NET Features in 2008 Volume 2
WebSlider
The WebSlider is a light-weight, easy-to-use ASP.NET-based slider (aka TrackBar) control. Designed to enable developers to add another familiar user experience pattern to their application, the WebSlider is a simple but powerful element in the developers toolbox.
WebHierarchicalDataSource
Shaping data for display in a hierarchical user interface can often present significant challenges for a developer. The WebHierachicalDataSource control aims to simplify this by offering the developer a control which leverages the familiar data source control pattern and allows them to construct complex hierarchical data views from standard flat data sources such as the SqlDataSource or the ObjectDataSource. Because the data is exposed using the standard ASP.NET hierarchical data interfaces allowing you to bind the data to any display control which understands hierarchical data display.
Windows Forms Features
- WinGrid
- WinCalcManager
- WinChart
- WinCombo
- WinDataSource
- WinDesktopAlert
- WinDockManager
- WinExtras
- WinAnimation
- WinButton
- WinCalculator
- WinDropdownButton
- WinFormattedLinkLabel
- WinLabel
- WinPopupContainer
- WinProgressBar
- WinScrollBar
- WinStatusBar
- WinTooltipManager WinEditors
- WinTrackBar
- WinCalculatorDropdown
- WinCheckEditor
- WinColorPicker
- WinComboEditor
- WinCurrencyEditor
- WinDateTimeEditor
- WinFontNameEditor
- WinFormattedTextEditor
- WinMaskedEdit
- WinNumericEditor
- WinOptionSet
- WinTextEditor
- WinTrackBar WinExplorerBar
- WinGauge
- WinGroupBox
- WinGridBagLayoutPanel
- WinGridDocumentExporter
- WinGridExcelExporter
- WinInkProvider
- WinLayoutManagers
- WinListbar
- WinListView
- WinNavigationBar
- WinPrinting
- WinPrintDocument
- WinPrintPreviewControl
- WinPrintPreviewThumbnail
- WinGridPrintDocument
- WinSchedulePrintDocument Infragistics.Documents
- PDF Export
- XPS Export
- Infragistics.Excel
- XLS Export
- XLS Import
- WinSchedule
- WinDayView
- WinWeekView
- WinMonthViewSingle
- WinMonthViewMulti
- WinCalendarCombo
- WinCalendarInfo
- WinCalendarLook
- WinSpellChecker
- WinTabbedMdi
- WinTab
- WinToolbars
- WinRibbon
- WinTree
ASP.NET Features
- AJAX WebGrid loading, updating, sorting, scrolling & filtering of flat or hierarchical data - with no code!
- Rich data entry capability, including masked, datetime, numeric and text editors and a full WYSIWYG HTML Editor
- Complete navigation solutions with WebTab, WebTree,
WebMenu, WebNavBar and WebToolbar
- Export WebGrid to major document formats such as PDF, XPS and XLS
- Comprehensive resource scheduling using the WebSchedule controls
- Rich 2D and 3D Charting Engine with over 50 Chart types
- Extensive Client Side Object Model (CSOM)
- Microsoft SharePoint Portal Support
- AJAX controls for ASP.NET are compatible with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX, and they include support for its UpdatePanel, the Microsoft AJAX Library and the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.