NetAdvantage for .NET provides a complete collection of robust, high performance controls for the whole .NET platform. Developers can take advantage of unique, stylable controls for ASP.NET websites, create line of business applications with advanced feature sets using WinForms, create advanced user interfaces on the new WPF platform and create sophisticated Rich Internet Applications using the Silverlight controls.

NetAdvantage for .NET comes with a 1 year subscription which provides access to any product updates during that time, complete access to the C# source code, documentation, demos and the Infragistics community. Optional priority support comes with phone support, 24 hour chat and rapid response online support.

If you require 10 or more licenses, but still wish to have a single licence key, you can purchase on the corporate licence programme.

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New Features

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New Windows Forms Features in 2009 Volume 2

WinTimelineView - NEW!

• Arrange dates and times on a horizontal axis - easily display appointments in date/time order
• Builds on WinSchedule - supports recurring events, appointment dragging and resizing, multiple owners and other features
• Support for different timescales - shows dates and times on a scale less than an hour, up to days, weeks, months or longer
• Visual Studio design time support - set the DateTimeInterval at design time

WinTilePanel - NEW!

• Uses the Tile UX Pattern - a user experience pattern that displays a summary of a selection of content as tiles that can easily be expanded to show additional content
• Drag and drop tiles around to reorder them and save and load tile layouts to restore them after the application has closed
• Completely customisable - supports displaying other controls within the tiles header and content sections and supports different pane styles
• Add content and other controls at either design time or run time

WinControlContainerEditor - NEW!

• Easily add controls to any editor that supports embeddable editors using this container
• Create a separate custom visual rendering control to visualise a value - e.g. easily embed a WinChart in a WinGrid

WinGrid - Enhanced

• New features in WinGrid help to improve its appearance - including column moving arrows to help show where columns will be if they are moved via dragging and dropping
• Blend highlighted selection overlay with the background colour of the cell
• Modify the active cell border thickness
• Customise the selected row images
• Create customised styles for the group-by row connector appearance

WinGridDocumentExporter - Enhanced

• Improved appearance matching from what is shown on screen to what is exported for group-by summary displays

New WPF Features in 2009 Volume 2

xamDataGrid and xamDataPresenter - Enhanced

• Real time record and cell highlighting - easily implement changes to a cells appearance when their values change
• Record and cell value change history - maintain a pre-defined list of previous cell values
• Cut, copy and paste data from the data grid
• Support for unlimited undo's and redo's - reverse most common operations including editing and deleting records, hiding and unhiding, sorting and resizing cells and much more
• Allow users to auto resize fields by double clicking the edge of the field, with full customisation options
• Star sizing of fields to proportionally control field dimensions
• Display the grid as a flat list of records for faster viewing
• Fix records in place when scrolling at the top or the bottom
• Group records, even in different hierarchies, when they share a common value by dragging fields into the new, stylable group-by area
• Supports IDataErrorInfo interface to notify users, through the UI, that an error has occurred (you can optional create your own validation logic) - can then display both a tooltip and a visual indictor in the cell/field/record

xamDataCarousel and xamDataPresenter - Enhanced

• The new features in xamDataGrid have been carried over to the xamDataCarousel where possible - this includes the real time record and cell highlighting, record/cell change history, clipboard support, unlimited undo and redo, field chooser, field auto sizing and support for IDataErrorInfo

DataPresenterExcelExporter - NEW!

• Export data in any of the Data Presenter controls to Excel .XLS/.XLSX (note: not all of the powerful visual functionality in WPF can be carried over to an Excel worksheet)
• Customise the appearances of exported cells
• Only export what you want - easily exclude sorting, filtering and grouping

New ASP.NET Features in 2009 Volume 2

Enhancements across all controls

All controls based on the Infragistics Aikido framework now support minimalised Javascript which reduces Javascript file sizes, thus decreasing loading times. Additionally all controls now work in Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4, Google Chrome 2.0 and Firefox 3.5 and support Windows 7.

WebHierarchicalDataGrid - New Control

Provides drill-down functionality and master-detail views of data. The powerful grid control supports sorting, paging, in-place editing, adding and deleting of records, column hiding, keyboard shortcuts and much more. Expand and collapse child records with load-on-demand support to reduce load on both the client and the server.

Bind data to the grid control from a variety of sources including IDataSource, IEnumerable, ASP.NET data source controls, ADO.NET data sets and data already bound to Infragistics WebHierarchicalDataSource control.

WebEditors - New Controls

This release introduces 6 new editor controls based on Infragistics' own Aikido framework. The controls are: WebMaskEditor, WebDateTimeEditor, WebNumericEditor, WebCurrencyEditor, WebPercentEditor and WebTextEditor.

The editor controls support spin buttons with custom data binding support (e.g. bind a specific range of values to the new WebNumericEditor), prompt text within unfocused controls, ASP.NET validators and easy localisation.

WebMonthCalendar - New Control

This new calendar control, built on Infragistics' own Aikido framework, has full support for localisation and ships with a range of styles, as well as being completely customisable. It supports selecting any period of time (from a day, onwards) and keyboard shortcuts.

WebDatePicker - New Control

Provides a drop down calendar for using entering dates. Builds on the functionality of WebDateChooser but uses the new WebMonthCalendar control to provide enhanced functionality.

WebScheduleGenericDataProvider - New Control

Provide data to the WebSchedule controls from any data source using a separate schema. It supports the use of ASP.NET DataSource controls, custom Collections and even ADO.NET objects such as DataTable, DataView and DataSet and supports additional custom data fields.

AJAX Indicator - New Control

Brings a loading indication for long running AJAX operations. Optionally disable interaction with underlying page until loading is complete.

WebDataGrid - Updated

The standard data grid control has been enhanced to provide support for pinning columns to the left or right of the grid pane, auto detection of editors depending on the column's DataType, new client-side events and column hiding.

Additionally grid performance has been improved with support for virtual scrolling. This loads data asynchronously as the user scrolls through the grid.

WebSchedule - Updated

Support for multi-day event banners to provide an unfragmented view of appointments that extend for more than one day, increased browser compatibility and support for displaying multiple resources on the same view.

New Silverlight 3 Features in 2009 Volume 2

xamWebSlider - New Control

New slider controls support the Double datatype, DateTime datatype and a generic datatype to create your own slider. Create sliders that just use a single value or sliders that can use both a lower and upper value. The slider's style is completely customisable and supports multiple interaction modes.

xamWebHtmlViewer - New Control

Display HTML web pages in your Silverlight application. Hide or show the scrollbars and customise the size of the browser window. The browser renders markup just as the parent browser does.

xamWebContextMenu - New Control

Popup menu useful for context-sensitive actions. The menu is completely customisable, supports templating, triggers and can be attached to any UI control or element.

Infragistics Drag and Drop Framework - New Control

The new drag and drop framework make it easy to add drag and drop functionality into your Silverlight 3 application by just setting a few properties on elements you want to drag from and drop to. Prevent certain draggable items getting dropped into the wrong zones through specifying 'drag and drop channels'. Use custom cursors to indicate user actions and set drop markers to highlight available areas to drop items. Finally there is a comprehensive range of events including drag start, drag over and drag cancel.

xamWebGrid - Updated

New summaries functionality supports the creation of summary calculations at the bottom of the grid. Use standard functions such as average, count and sum or create your own. And 2 new column types - image columns and DateTime columns help make it easier to display your data.

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Windows Forms

The NetAdvantage Windows Forms controls provide a wide variety of different controls including grids, trees, ribbons, tabs, calendars, editors, charts and more. The controls have full toolbox support and can simply be dragged and dropped onto the form designer. For a full list of controls included in this package please see below.

NetAdvantage for Windows Forms also comes bundled with a selection of themes to give applications a modern appearance including Office 2003 and Office 2007 styles.

The included NetAdvantage AppStylist application makes it easy to create professional CSS-like styled themes that can be easily applied globally to your application controls using Infragistics own Application Styling Framework (ASF).

Controls included in NetAdvantage for Windows Forms

• WinGrid – hierarchical data grid control that can bind to a variety of data sources. Top features include advanced data entry scenarios, row edit templates, full ability for custom styles, rich printing and previewing and complete interoperability with Excel and PDF formats.
• WinChart – Numerous 2D and 3D charts such as bar, line, area, as well as more complex financial candle, Gantt and radar charts.
• WinDockManager & WinLayoutManagers – Visual Studio style docking with WinDockManager means windows can be pinned, tabbed, split or set to autohide. With WinLayoutManager controls can freely flow around the window based on window size and can be set to developer specified constraints.
• WinGauge – Radial, digital and linear gauges that can be bound to numerous data sources.
• WinPrinting – Drop in replacement for the native Microsoft control with the ability to print the Infragistics grid and schedule controls without a line of code as they appear on screen.
• Infragistics.Documents – Write to PDF and XPS document formats with the option of custom tailored margins and sections, rich text formatting and the insertion of graphics.
• WinToolbars – Use the Office 2007 ribbon in your applications as well as standard toolbars and toolstrips. Please familiarise yourself with Office Ribbon Licence before using the Office ribbon in your applications.

Other controls also included:
WinCalcManager, WinExplorerBar, WinCombo, WinDataSource, WinDesktopAlert, WinExtras, WinEditors, WinGroupBox, WinInkProvider, WinListbar, WinListView, WinNavigationalBar, WinPanel, Infragistics.Excel, WinSchedule, WinSpellChecker, WinTabbedMDI, WinTree, WinTimelineView, WinTilePanel, WinControlContainerEditor.

ASP.NET

The NetAdvantage ASP.NET control collection contains over 45 controls including AJAX grids, charts, toolbars, menus, listbars, trees, tabs, rich WYSIWYG editing control, spelling checking, explorer bars, scheduling, data entry editors and more. Infragistics are also in the process of converting their controls to their own AJAX framework. These lightweight, high performance controls leverage Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1 with support for its UpdatePanel and also provide full support for ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX.

Controls included in NetAdvantage for ASP.NET

• WebChart - Numerous 2D and 3D charts such as bar, line, area, as well as more complex financial candle, Gantt and radar charts. Charts can be rendered in multiple formats as well as SVG and SWF.
• WebDataGrid – High performance, scalable, ASP.NET AJAX grid that can rapidly display and edit tabular information. WebDataGrid provides data paging, single and multi column sorting, column moving, row filtering and much more. WebDataGrid is the AJAX based cousin to WebGrid.
• WebHierarchicalDataGrid - display and edit data that has multiple parent-child relationships. Drill down into master-detail views, use keyboard shortcuts, sort and page data and more, in the highly stylable WebHierarchicalDataGrid.
• Drag and Drop Framework – Comprehensive framework for drag and drop behaviours, which can enrich any HTML element. This control is fully customisable, from the mouse pointer when the user hovers over a dragable item to custom drag elements.
• WebGauge - Radial, digital and linear gauges that can be bound to numerous data sources.
• WebHtmlEditor – Powerful editing tool to provide your end users with a rich HTML editing experience with full What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) support.
• Infragistics.Documents - Write to PDF and XPS document formats with the option of custom tailored margins and sections, rich text formatting and the insertion of graphics.
• WebToolbar – Similar to Windows Client toolbars, WebToolbar provides buttons, labels, text boxes, separators, button groups and custom items.

Other controls also included:
WebAsyncRefreshPanel, WebCalcManager, WebCombo, WebDataMenu, WebDataTree, WebDateChooser, WebDialogWindow, WebDropDown, WebEditors, WebGridDocumentExporter, WebGridExcelExporter, WebGroupBox, WebHierarchicalDataSource, WebImageButton, WebImageViewer, WebListbar, WebMenu, WebNavBar, WebPanel, WebProgressBar, WebResizingExtender, WebSlider, WebSpellChecker, WebSplitter, WebTab, WebTree, Infragistics.Excel, WebSchedule, WebMonthCalendar, WebDatePicker, WebScheduleGenericDataProvider, AJAX Indicator

WPF

Windows Presentation Foundation is Microsoft’s next generation framework for creating User Interfaces. Infragistics have developed a complete toolset for this framework which makes it easy to create stunning applications. WPF includes 15 different themes including XP, Vista and Office styles.

Controls included in NetAdvantage for WPF

• xamDataGrid – Create tables, reports, listings and more with the advanced data grid control that supports editing, sorting and filtering of data and master-detail view display.
• xamChart – Create stunning 2D and 3D charts from bar, pie and line charts to more advanced charts such as financial charts. xamChart is completely stylable, supports multiple data binding methods and supports animation.
• xamDockManager- Replicates familiar docking functionality with the ability to dock and layout windows. This control supports draggable content panes, docking indicators, previews and more.
• xamRibbon - Use the Office 2007 ribbon in your applications. Please familiarise yourself with Office Ribbon Licence before using the Office ribbon in your applications.
• WPF Reporting – Print and export from the xamDataGrid with little code. This control supports auto-pagination and the XPS file format.

Other controls also included:
xamDataCarousel, xamDataPresenter, xamCarouselListbox, xamCarouselPanel, xamMonthCalendar, xamOutlookBar, xamTabControl, xamEditors, DataPresenterExcelExporter

Silverlight Line of Business Controls

The Silverlight Line of Business Controls provide a suite of feature packed controls for building Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIA's). The controls have been optimised for high performance and the lazy loading ability means only the data the end user is viewing gets loaded at runtime. Additionally the controls are fully stylable using Silverlight's styling capabilities.

Controls included in Silverlight Line of Business Controls

• xamWebChart - Fast, lightweight chart control with rich interactivity and common chart types.
• xamWebGrid - Advanced datagrid with capability of displaying thousands of rows.
• xamWebSpellCheck - Comprehensive, multi-lingual spell checking capability.
• xamWebEditors - xamWebNumericEditior and xamWebMaskedEditor simplify data entry and editing.
• xamWebMenu - Create popup, drop-down and nesting menus.

Other controls also included:
xamWebDialogWindow, Infragistics.Excel, xamWebOutlookBar, xamWebTree, xamWebTagCloud, xamWebTileView, xamWebSlider, xamWebHtmlViewer, xamWebContextMenu, Drag and Drop Framework.