New Features in the latest NetAdvantage® for .NET release!

Hierarchical Data Goes Mainstream

Leave no child band behind with the new WebHierarchicalDataGrid™ ASP.NET AJAX data grid. It's packed with the interactivity (selecting, sorting, paging, virtual scrolling, keyboard navigation), data editing (add new row, auto-detection of the best editor, one-key row deletion) and performance that your data-driven Web application requires. Then its Office® 2007 style sets and template support takes it one step further, helping your application look perfect as it races out-of-the-box!

Have We Got a Six-Pack for You

New WebEditors™ will make it look to your users as if you've been working out all-day and all-night on their data editing experience. Building on the Aikido™ Framework for a lightweight footprint with a heavyweight punch, all 6 editors incorporate support for spin buttons, focus styles and null value prompting of your users. They are the ultimate tag team to handle any kind of data from multi-line text, to DateTimes, to numbers, currencies and percentages, even input masks that guide your users into entering formatted values right the first time, every time.

2.6 Million Seconds Never Looked So Good

WebMonthCalendar™ is the last fully-stylable, 100% localizable calendar you will ever need. Its view selection doesn't encompass months only, but let users browse by years, decades, even centuries. Full Windows Vista®-style keyboard navigation is built-in so there are no new key mappings for your users to learn. It doesn’t matter if you need one date or dozens, continuous date ranges or discontiguous dates scattered over months, this calendar control does selection right! When we tell you it supports week number display, and has countless styles, you'll probably think we’re showing-off. We are – and it does!

The Date Picker with the Best of Both Worlds

We discovered WebDatePicker™ after our engineers were working late in the lab one night, and mixed a dash of WebDateTimeEditor™ code with a spritz of WebMonthCalendar™ source. What they got wasn't a new cocktail, but the most highly optimized, dual-use ASP.NET AJAX date picker around. Whether your users prefer to enter dates using their keyboard, or drop down the month calendar to select a date from with an extra-animated bounce, the date picker will satisfy them all.

Scheduling Goes "Multi"

We've enhanced WebSchedule™ with multiple features this time around, so get out your day planner and schedule some time to check each of them out. First, you have the Multi-Resource View that lets your users see activities attached to multiple resources at once, each styled (in an Outlook® 2007 color scheme by default) to appear differently. Second, you have Multi-day Event banners that span continuous days, and auto-layout themselves to make the best use of space, just like in Outlook 2007 running on the desktop. Next, you have the new WebScheduleGenericDataProvider™ control that lets you easily connect any data source to WebSchedule, even multiple data sources (custom Collections, ASP.NET Data Source controls, even ADO.NET objects). Fourth, we have added tremendous support for multiple browsers (Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8, Safari 4, Google® Chrome™ 2, Mozilla® Firefox® 3.5).

But Wait, There's More!

WebDataGrid™ has added fixed columns to its repertoire of rich features, and here's a little secret: you can pin columns to the left and right sides of the data grid! We also didn’t leave WebDataGrid out when it comes to sharing WebHierarchicalDataGrid's virtual scrolling, column hiding and auto-detection of editors features, and if you catch yourself doing a double-take when you see all of its new client-side events – that's no mirage. It doesn't end there, we've enhanced WebDataTree™ and WebDropDown™, and built-in to many of our ASP.NET AJAX controls a new AJAX Indicator that we've exposed to you, too! This is only the beginning, click this button for all of the details.

Sliders Just Have More Fun

We give you xamWebSlider™, 4 pre-built, stylish sliders for dates and numbers, plus a generic foundation so you can Bring Your Own Type (B.Y.O.T.), with a simple or range slider that is just as sleek as ours. Thumbs glide smoothly over a stylized track, and both the thumb and track can take on templates for a surprisingly striking look and feel. Extensive configurability for everything from tickmarks to the behavior exhibited when thumbs collide put these sliders in a league of their own. Next time you need to edit a continuous value, put the old-fashioned text box away, and pull out the slider to play.

Control the User Experience from Drag to Drop

Infragistics Drag and Drop Framework enables you to give your users the most usable drag and drop experience in any Silverlight line of business application. It works with your UI elements, and supports your business semantics (through its concept of channels). You can create applications where Invoices are dragged to Accounts Payable or Image Textures are dragged to a Lightbox with equal ease. With one framework, you gain infinite possibilities.

Summing It Up with xamWebGrid™

In addition to a pair of new column types, for images and dates, xamWebGrid adds row summary calculations with several built-in functions that are only a Σ click away from your users. Summary functions are listed in its dropdown list, and the calculated result can appear formatted in almost any way you wish. While we get you started with a few everyday functions that every Silverlight line of business application needs, the power is in its extensibility–your ability to add your own functions on which to tally the rows of your data grid.

Pops-Up From Any Position

Now your users can pop-up a menu by click or command, anywhere throughout your Silverlight line of business application. We designed xamWebContextMenu™ so that it extends upon the xamWebMenu™ (allowing you to use all of its features like menu icons and templated menu items) while delivering the ideal UX for those places in your application where you need context-sensitive functionality to be exposed.

Reuse that Markup, Recycle that HTML

We've extended green practices to your old, forgotten HTML assets. Maybe they are sitting around in your database, cast away in a string variable, or scattered to the four winds of the Internet. Now your HTML content has value again within our new xamWebHtmlViewer™ which lets you embed HTML content from data, strings, or URLs within your Silverlight line of business application. Imagine the ease with which you can pull hyperlinked online help or What was old is new again with xamWebHtmlViewer.

Scheduling at Any Timescale with WinTimelineView™

With this brand new scheduling UI control joining WinSchedule™ you can arrange activities along points in time on a horizontal axis, on a variety of timescales (from minutes up through the years). It features all of the capabilities of WinSchedule controls: recurrences, multiple owners, drag-and-drop of activities, and more. From business workflows to massive, multi-party project timetables, you'll find plenty of uses for this new view on scheduling.

Add Glanceability and Drilldown Detail to your UI

New WinTilePanel™ container provides you with a ready-made implementation of the popular Focus Tile UX pattern. Users can quickly browse through custom content-filled tiles in summary form with spiffy animated transitions to find what they want. When they want more information, simply expanding a content tile presents it in full detail.

Easily Deliver Custom Editing Experiences

With the addition to WinEditors™ of the WinControlContainerEditor™ component, you can easily embed custom editors and renderers without implementing the IProvideEmbeddableEditor interface. This makes it easy for you to select one control that's especially well-equipped for editing a value, and another control capable of custom rendering that value in a way that makes the best impression on your users.

Control the Finer Details of WinGrid™ Appearance

It's the finer details that distinguish your application from the competition, and we give you fine-grained control with several new enhancements to the WinGrid. By streamlining your handling of active and selected cell appearance to providing you with selection overlays reminiscent of the selection behavior in Excel, we make you the captain of your application UI.

Highlight Cells in a Flash

Alert your users as record or cell values change in any xamDataPresenter™ and in real-time. Optimized for best performance out-of-the-box, we also give you settings for maintaining a value history on cells that let you show its new value in the context of recent history. Know if a new value is hot–or not–and selectively format it so important changes receive immediate attention.

Cut, Copy and Paste in Grids and Carousels

Users can cut, copy and paste from one data presenter to another location in the same data presenter, to another data presenter, or other applications like Microsoft® Excel® using the Windows® clipboard. This gives you the option to make data in your WPF application much more portable with your users' other applications.

Add More Field Flexibility

We've done a lot to improve the flexibility of fields. Your users can now drag fields across bands in hierarchical data to group-by them. Users can pick which fields they want to work with using the new, customizable field chooser. Robust new "star"-sizing lays out fields proportionately for an optimal fit. Increasingly configurable field auto-sizing offers an optimal fit for your data, and several conveniences to your users.

Undo Anything in Data Presenters

Unlimited Undo/Redo extends not only to the clipboard support, but also to most other UI actions your users can take! No more lost productivity if your users have to undo several steps they’ve just completed like sorting, applying filters and editing several cell values–a few undoes takes the user right back in time. You won't find this fine granularity in another WPF grid or carousel.

Consistent, Customizable UI for Error Notification

Whether your business objects implement .NET's IDataErrorInfo interface, or you are using custom validation logic on a ValueEditor in the data presenter, you can use one consistent, customizable UI to present error notifications in data presenters. Errors can be signaled at any of the cell, field and/or record levels.

Fix Data Records In Place

xamDataGrid™ adds fixed records, allowing your users to freeze one or more records in place at their choice of either the top or bottom of the data grid. It's intuitively easy for your users to learn, because it uses the familiar pushpin metaphor. Pushpin, fixed records, and their separation from the rest of the data grid are completely customizable in how they appear.

Export to Microsoft Excel

DataPresenterExcelExporter™ is our new component for exporting the contents of a xamDataPresenter to Excel, with many options and attached properties for customizing the appearance of the resulting workbook. It builds upon our successful Infragistics.Excel class library, which gives you read/write ability to workbooks. You can make data from your WPF line of business applications portable in this highly-interoperable .XLS/.XLSX file format.

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