To coincide with the launch of NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization and NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization User Interface component suites, a team of eight Infragistics developers, designers and product managers set in motion the Infragistics Auto Trader sample designed to highlight how custom shape files and filters can be used in a real-world business scenario to deliver business intelligence to key decision makers.


"In Quince we created a private design library to enable real-time collaboration across interdisciplinary teams situated in different locations, whose input and comments were captured and reflected as we refined the sketch and we moved into the mock up and prototype phases," said Peter Meany, Senior Interaction Designer at Infragistics. "Questions like 'should we include the entire U.S. map' and 'what colors should we use to depict KPI's' were easily discussed, debated and chronicled through Quince."

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As a collaboration tool, Quince is a focal point during the design and development of an application. With visual examples and notations, every team member during the project's life-cycle has secure access to the knowledge repository. "Quince made us more efficient," added Meany. "Instead of the review processes taking an undetermined number of weeks, team members logged into Quince as their schedules dictated and provided feedback. The meetings that we did have were focused, based on pre-existing knowledge available to all in Quince."

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With NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization xamMap™ control, the Infragistics team dropped in the U.S. map and tied it to a data source to mark the location of car dealerships. Through the xamDataChart™ component, the application tracks overall performance of the company, specific model performance and each salesperson performance in an easy to read and understand format. A hallmark of Infragistics Silverlight controls, the blazing speed of the xamDataChart is designed to handle high volumes of data ranging into the millions of data points, updated every few milliseconds.
Although the IG AutoTrader sample was designed in Silverlight, Infragistics easily ported it to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Since the first release of NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization, in June 2010, the package delivered parity in features and controls with NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization. The common code base delivers meaningful benefits to developers including faster time to market with controls for both platforms; little to no learning curve for developers moving between the WPF and Silverlight toolsets; and the need for less code if an application uses controls from both the NetAdvantage Data Visualization toolsets and NetAdvantage for .NET. As illustrated by the use of the xamMap™ control from the NetAdvantage Silverlight Line of Business toolkit.
Click here to take a closer look at the details of the Infragistics Auto Trader Sales Dashboard.
The result is an amazing user experience that makes business decision easier. "This sample enabled us truly uncover the power of our controls and showcase how customers can use our UI toolkits to develop amazing applications in real-life scenarios," said Senior Product Manager Megan Sheehan. "Throughout this process, our Infragistics Auto Trader also underwent rigorous testing so when our Silverlight Data Visualization and WPF Data Visualization product suites went to market we knew that they adhered to our best practices standards to ensure that each and every control is feature-rich, lightweight, high-performing and fast. Everything you need to make the user experience exceptional!"
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