WPF New Features - 2008 Volume 2

In this newest release of our NetAdvantage® WPF controls, we continue to expand the most comprehensive UI component toolset available for WPF. You get even greater breadth to what you can achieve in your WPF-powered user interfaces. Along with increasing the powerful feature set of the xamDataGrid™, we’ve added advance calendar features and innovative printing and exporting functionality!

 

Outlook® 2007-Style Bar Control - NEW!

Many professional line of business applications share a great deal in common with Outlook, so it's no surprise that many developers have demanded a navigation bar following the Outlook 2007 look and feel. xamOutlookBar™ delivers on those wishes, giving you the ability to create a modern Office® 2007 feel for your application without having to involve yourself in any of the intricacies of WPF styling. Easily drag-and-drop your way to user interfaces like Outlook without having to enter any code.

Create a modern Office® 2007 look and feel for your applications without having to get involved with complex styling.

 

Tabbed Interfaces on Steroids - NEW!

Countless end users are already familiar with tabbed interfaces which they encounter in their daily work, and now you can create similar functionality using xamTabControl™ in your application.

Although there is a vanilla TabControl found in WPF's System.Windows.Controls namespace, you get so much more functionality from the xamTabControl:

Well organized user interface that includes professional-looking, scrollable, stackable, and closable tabs.


  • Close Tab Button like in Internet Explorer® or Mozilla® Firefox® browsers
  • When there are too many Tab Headers, they can be Scrolled
  • Fine-Grained Control over Tab Layout including multiple rows of tabs

xamTabControl sample displaying multiple horizontal and vertical tabs and the ability to close and scroll those tabs.

 

 

Vista®-Style Calendar for Months through Millenia - NEW!

With the new monthly calendar control, xamMonthCalendar™, you get the functionality found in Windows® Vista's calendars with no coding! Users can navigate to different dates from a level of detail that ranges from all the way out in millenia view straight through to month view.

 

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Dropdown Editing for xamDateTimeEditor™ - This WPF calendar works with the xamDateTimeEditor control so that you can dropdown the monthly calendar when users click the drop-down arrow on their edit field. This can dramatically simplify date selection in all of your applications.

Click a dropdown to access monthly calendars for ease of selecting specific dates.
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 Views for Every Timescale – By default, the xamMonthCalendar displays days within months. However, end users can zoom out to view months within years, years within decades, decades within centuries, or even centuries within millenia allowing you to use the xamMonthCalendar in applications for genealogy, archaeology and other applications having a long-term view.
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Support for Multiple Months – The XamMonthCalendar has the ability to span across multiple months. This allows for scenarios like having the entire year displayed at once.

Span across multiple months to view specific dates.
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Single/Multiple Date Selection – End users can select single dates as well as contiguous or non-contiguous multiple dates.

Select single or multiple dates from within single or multiple calendars.
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Support for WorkDays – Developers can specify which days of the week are considered work days as well as disable dates.

Display work days and non-work days within calendars.
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Support for Holidays – Developers have full control over specifying special icons for holidays or any other occasion.

Insert icons to indicate holidays or other special occurrences throughout the year.
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Support for Week Numbers – This feature enables the end-users to see the actual calendar week number for a given week.

Visible week numbers within the calendar makes it easy for users to know which week they are in.

 

WPF Printing and Exporting Support – NEW!

The all new WPF Printing and Exporting engine gives you the ability to print the xamDataGrid control with a couple of lines of code, display rich print previews of the WPF data grid with the included report preview window control and its GeneratePreview method, and export tabular reports to the Extensible Paper Specification (XPS) file format.

  • Prints to XPS File Format – Enables an effective medium for developers to create printed documents that can then be shared via e-mail.
  • Supports Printing any Visual Element – Whether it's a DataGrid or a Chart, the printing engine understands how to position that in a document.
  • Print Preview Control – Enables Developers to give their end-users a preview of what their printed document will look like.
  • Multiple Section Documents – The flexibility in the printing engine allows developers to build full printed documents with multiple pieces of content. Also, functionality like headers and footers are easily added to construct professional reports.

Print, display, and export content from the data grid in a professionally rich layout.

 

Movable Fields – Enhanced

The xamDataPresenter™ control (when in its WPF grid view presentation format) and the xamDataGrid control allow end users to move fields around at run-time so they can customize the view for greater readability. New methods to save and load customizations to how the fields have been custom-positioned by your users enable you to transparently preserve and restore their preferred field layout when they restart your application.

Preserve and restore users customized layout, for fields they moved around, so that it can be implemented when they restart the application.