What can NetAdvantage® Silverlight Controls for Line of Business Applications do for me?
Our latest May 2009 Community Technology Preview (CTP) brings the future of Silverlight application development to you now. Design your RIAs around the capabilities of the new Infragistics.Excel class library for Silverlight, and an enhanced Silverlight grid built on Microsoft's Silverlight 3 platform. We have some ideas to get you started:
- Rival the desktop user experience with all new tile views and dialog windows, plus new editing and paging functionality in our Silverlight grid.
- Push the envelope of performance with a Silverlight grid that has data and UI virtualization, and a Silverlight tree that has lazy loading integrated into its core.
- Embed islands of richness into your existing ASP.NET applications like Silverlight tag clouds that give end-users an experience beyond what HTML can achieve.
- Create powerful designs for your next generation Web application through Silverlight's native styling and templating, supported by each control.
- Build the best business applications imaginable. PERIOD.
Explore these Silverlight Controls for Line of Business Applications
Many More Silverlight Controls Planned
The Silverlight controls listed above that have been released as part of the May 2009 CTP are just the beginning. We will be delivering future Silverlight 3 controls to add to your Visual Studio® 2008 toolbox, including:
- More Power to the Grid with filtering and features that will make xamWebDataGrid™ the unrivaled choice for Silverlight line of business applications worldwide.
- Basic Charting with pie, bar, line and scatter charts supporting animation and more. NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization includes more advanced Silverlight charting.
- SharePoint® WebParts for select Silverlight controls, enabling you to combine ASP.NET, SharePoint and Silverlight user interfaces.
What is the Roadmap to NetAdvantage Silverlight Controls for Line of Business Applications?
Foremost in our mind is getting your hands on these bits, so we can get your feedback. Tell us if we're there yet. We know that if you're planning your line of business RIAs, you need to know when these bits will finally be released. Here is our roadmap of deliverables on the road to release of our Silverlight 3 controls for Line of Business Applications:
| Milestone |
Date |
| Roadmap Announced |
October 2008 |
| First Community Tech Preview (CTP) |
December 2008 |
| Second Community Tech Preview (CTP) |
February 2009 |
| Third Community Tech Preview (CTP) |
March 2009 |
| Fourth Community Tech Preview (CTP) |
Now Available |
| 2009 Vol. 1 Release |
Q2 2009 |
These Silverlight controls for Line of Business Applications are part of the NetAdvantage® for Web Client toolset which also includes ASP.NET; they are also included in the complete NetAdvantage for .NET package — which includes all four .NET platforms — Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET and the Silverlight controls for Line of Business Applications.