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.
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New Windows Forms Features in 2010 Volume 2
WinFormManager - NEW!
Style all parts of your application including close, restore, maximise and minimise buttons, captions and non-client areas. Cascade application styles down into your child dialog windows and add support for the Application Styling Framework.
WinTimeSpanEditor - NEW!
Add this easily embeddable control to edit durations of time using spin buttons with similar functionality to that of Microsoft Project.
WinGanttView - Enhanced!
Now you can automatically exclude non working days/hours from the task duration calculation and can customise the workday status and working hours for a particular date.
Infragistics.Excel - Enhanced!
New file format support for reading and writing workbooks in XLT, XLTM and XLTX formats.
And more!
- Dropdown controls are now user resizable
- Restyled run-time dialogs enhance usability with a better visual layout
- Version free assembly names makes it easier to upgrade your NetAdvantage controls from version to version
New WPF Features in 2010 Volume 2
WPF 4 support
The new WPF 4 build of all the controls means you can take advantage of the latest features in WPF 4 and .NET Framework 4.
Unified code base
The latest controls share namespaces, methods and properties between the WPF controls and Silverlight controls which makes it easy to write similar WPF applications for the desktop and Silverlight applications for the Web.
xamColorPicker - NEW!
Pick colours from a range of colour models including RGB, HSL and CMYK. You can retain the user's most recently used colours and use derived colour palettes to predict colours a user might use next.
xamSlider - NEW!
Sliders for dates, times, numbers and a generic base class for creating your own slider. Has a completely customisable look and feel.
xamMenu - NEW!
For creating drop down/pop-out style menus in your WPF applications.
xamContextMenu - NEW!
For creating pop-up context menus anywhere by the click of the mouse or by a Routed Command.
xamDialogWindow - NEW!
Create dialog window's (either modeless or modal) that can be maximised, minimised, restored or closed.
xamSpellChecker - NEW!
Spellcheck input fields in any of 9 different languages. Get suggestions for corrections when a spelling error is found.
xamTagCloud - NEW!
Display tags is a cloud like view with tags weighted relative to each other.
Visual State Manager - NEW!
All WPF 4 controls support the new Visual State Manager that enables you to specify streamlined visual state transitions and styles.
Smart Tag Adorners - NEW!
Improve the design-time experience and enhance your productivity by using the new Smart Tags in Visual Studio 2010 and Blend 3/4.
xamRibbon - Enhanced!
Windows 7 scenic ribbon (AERO theme) appearance added under specific themes.
xamDataGrid and xamDataPresenter - Enhanced!
Performance enhancements include:
- Cells in view - only target updates to cells that are in view of the user
- Burst insertions - improved performance when new records are inserted at the start of a data grid
- Hybrid scrolling - displays scrolling tips only when the user pauses over long distance scrolling
- General performance enhancements
New ASP.NET Features in 2010 Volume 2
Visual Studio 2010 support
Infragistics ASP.NET controls take advantage of the new features available in Visual Studio 2010 such as improved Javascript IntelliSense support, code snippets and more.
Infragistics Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Use the Infragistics servers to provide your website or web application with the required JavaScript, image and CSS resources. This reduces network requests to your own server thus improving performance and ensures you are always using the correct versions of the resources.
RIA Domain Data Source support - NEW!
Bind data to the new DomainDataSource component. Enables integration to WCF RIA domain services for create, read, update and delete (CRUD) data operations through the user interface.
Windows 7 Styles
Add Windows 7 styles to give your applications the look and feel of the Windows 7 OS.
WebCaptcha - NEW!
Protect your forms from bot-based submissions using the new CAPTCHA control that is easy for humans but difficult for bots. Along with a visual CAPTCHA is also supports audio CAPTCHA's.
WebRating - NEW!
Get ratings on any of your content with this completely customisable 5-star rating system. It supports custom images, styles and supports HTML 5 rendering for compatible browsers.
WebExcelExporter - NEW!
Exports data within the WebDataGrid or WebHierarchicalDataGrid to Microsoft Excel. Supports XLS and XLSX workbook formats and XLT, XLTM and XLTX template file formats.
WebScriptManager - NEW!
The new WebScriptManager extends the ASP.NET AJAX ScriptManager with knowledge of all of your Infragistics controls’ script resources, registering these references for you automatically.
WebDataTree - Enhanced!
Now supports drag and drop capabilities completely on the client side. This ability includes support for multiple moves, suggestive prompts to show where a node will move to and new events both client and server side.
WebHierarchicalDataGrid - Enhanced!
New filtering capabilities allow users to apply their own filter criteria to rows and child bands. There are numerous ready-to-use filtering options available or users can add their own.
WebTab - Enhanced!
New left and right orientations for tabs (except for multi-line tabs).
New Silverlight Line of Business Features in 2010 Volume 2
Silverlight 4 support
The new Silverlight 4 build of all the controls means you can take advantage of the latest features in Silverlight 4 and .NET Framework 4.
Unified code base
The latest Silverlight controls share namespaces, methods and properties between the newly released WPF Data Visualization controls which makes it easy to write similar WPF applications for the desktop and Silverlight applications for the Web.
RIA Domain Data Source support - NEW!
Bind data to the new DomainDataSource component. Enables integration to WCF RIA domain services for create, read, update and delete (CRUD) data operations through the user interface. Also supports paging, editing, sorting and grouping through the Domain Data Source.
xamColorPicker - NEW!
Pick colours from a range of colour models including RGB, HSL and CMYK. You can retain the user's most recently used colours and use derived colour palettes to predict colours a user might use next.
xamGrid - Enhanced!
The enhanced grid now supports:
- Column Chooser - a dialog window which allows users to re-order columns via drag and drop or show/hide columns
- FlowDirection - supports Right-to-Left and Bi-Directional text for other languages
- Tooltips for data cells - display tooltips at the data cell level
- Header text alignment - now you can modify the alignment via a property rather than via a style
INotifyDataErrorInfo and IDataErrorInfo - NEW!
Supports immediate data validation and error indications on editable controls.
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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 2007/2010 ribbon in your applications as well as standard toolbars and toolstrips. Please familiarise yourself with Microsoft Office Ribbon Licence before using the Office ribbon in your applications.
Other controls also included:
WinCalcManager, WinExplorerBar, WinCombo, WinDataSource, WinDesktopAlert, WinExtras, WinEditors, WinGanttView, WinGroupBox, WinInkProvider, WinListbar, WinListView, WinNavigationalBar, WinPanel, Infragistics.Excel, WinSchedule, WinSpellChecker, WinTabbedMDI, WinTree, WinTimelineView, WinTilePanel, WinControlContainerEditor, WinSplitter, WinMessageBoxManager, WinActivityIndicator, WinFormManager, WinTimeSpanEditor.
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 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, WebExplorerBar, WebGridDocumentExporter, WebGridExcelExporter, WebTab, WebGroupBox, WebHierarchicalDataSource, WebImageButton, WebImageViewer, WebListbar, WebMenu, WebNavBar, WebPanel, WebProgressBar, WebResizingExtender, WebSlider, WebSpellChecker, WebSplitter, WebTab, WebTree, Infragistics.Excel, WebSchedule, WebMonthCalendar, WebDatePicker, WebScheduleGenericDataProvider, AJAX Indicator, WebCaptcha, WebRating, WebExcelExporter, WebScriptManager
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 over 10 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, xamTilesControl, xamDataCards, xamColorPicker, xamSlider, xamMenu, xamContextMenu, xamDialogWindow, xamSpellCheck, xamTagCloud
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 advanced 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, xamWebRibbon, xamWebComboEditor, Drag and Drop Framework, xamColorPicker.