Silverlight Data Visualization New Features – 2011 Volume 2

Our latest release includes feature enhancement to existing controls, as well as many new features. You’ll be impressed with the multiple new chart series and chart types we’ve delivered, as well as the incredible new OLAP capability to include native OLAP support in charting. You also get more styling capability with Resource Washing on all controls, and robust new geospatial and geographic thematic mapping.

 

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.

Silverlight for Data Visualization - Resource Washer

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.

Silverlight for Data Visualization - Infragistics Excel

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.

Silverlight for Data Visualization - Geographic Map

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.

Silverlight for Data Visualization - Funnel Chart

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.

Silverlight for Data Visualization - Sparkline Chart

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 visualization and analysis on large volumes of data with high performance.

Silverlight for Data Visualization - Data Chart

The Data Chart control includes the following new features:

  • OLAP Axis
  • Error Bars
  • 15 New Chart Series, including Custom Series/Series Inheritance, Bar, Stacked Bar, StackedColumn, Point, StackedArea, StackedLine, StackedSpline, StackedLineArea.
  • Weighted Moving Average Trend Line
  • Correlation Formula

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.

Silverlight for Data Visualization - Pivot Grid

We've made several performance enhancements that deliver support for higher volume data and query parsing:

  • Improved support for data with large number of members in hierarchy
  • Improved the MDSX query that are executed against the SQL Server Analysis Server
  • Tested against millions of records in SQL Server Analyses Server

The Pivot Grid control includes the following new key features:

  • IsBusy Property 
  • Slicers

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).

Silverlight for Data Visualization - Timeline

For example:

  • The Unit property is adjusted so it shows a moderate number of labels - not too few, not too many (perhaps prevent the same labels appear twice).
  • If the visible area spans over a few days the UnitType becomes Hours, if the visible area spans over a few weeks UnitType becomes days, if it spans a year UnitType becomes month, etc.

Silverlight 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 customize 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 for Data Visualization - Network Node

 

See What's New in Prior Releases

Every release of Silverlight controls for data visualization adds value and features onto the release that came before. You can find out more about what was new in previous volume releases here, or by consulting the "What's New" page in the accompanying documentation.