NetAdvantage for .NET New Features - 2010 Volume 2

We have included an incredible set of features in the .NET controls of our latest release to enhance your toolbox and empower your development. We have listed only the highlights from each platform in the NetAdvantage® for .NET suite, so that you can drill into each one for a more complete list of feature additions in greater detail.

Check out our new ASP.NET Features!

ASP.NET New Features - 2010 Volume 2

  • Enhanced Support for Visual Studio 2010 Features – NEW!
    • JavaScript IntelliSense
    • "Add new handler…" for Client-side Events
    • Design Surface for SharePoint®
    • Code Snippets
       Be more productive when using all client-side properties, methods and events without consulting our client-side API documentation with the use of the JavaScript IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2010.

 

  • Infragistics Content Delivery Network (CDN) – Community Tech Preview!
    • Our global 24/7 CDN solution to provide your NetAdvantage ASP.NET-powered applications with the correct versions of JavaScript, image and CSS resources faster and with less latency for your users.
    • Save money by not having to pay for the network transfer of these JavaScript, image and CSS resources to all of your end users.
    • You'll always have the correct version of these resources (no more version mis-match errors and tricky deployments), as you leverage script combining and GZip compression to optimize performance.
       Let Infragistics manage the distribution and versioning of JavaScripts, images, and CSS files for the compiled assemblies you have deployed within your ASP.NET-powered applications.

 

  • RIA Domain Data Source Support – NEW!
    • All ASP.NET AJAX controls of the Aikido™ Framework support binding to the DomainDataSource component either directly or through the use of Infragistics WebHierarchicalDataSource™ control.
    • Enables integration to WCF RIA domain services for create, read, update and delete (CRUD) data operations through the user interface.
  • Windows® 7 Style Sets – NEW!
    • Professionally-designed style sets give your Web-based applications the look and feel of the Windows 7 operating system shell.
       Create web applications that have the same look and feel as the Windows 7 operating system with the new Infragistics Windows 7 style sets.

 

  • WebCaptcha™ – NEW!
    • CAPTCHA that's Easy on Humans, but Tough on Bots!
    • Protects your Web-based applications against automated form submissions.
    • Fully accessible, supports reading CAPTCHA text aloud for users with disabilities.
       Protect your applications against computer-generated submissions with the Infragistics ASP.NET captcha control. Easy on humans, tough on bots!

 

  • WebRating™ - NEW!
    • More users rate this 5-stars!
    • Crowd source feedback from users on products, services and points of interest.
    • Specify custom images and styles, continuous or discrete-precision ratings.
    • Robust support for HTML 5 rendering built-in.
       The ASP.NET rating control can have qualitative ratings assigned that can be averaged based on the number of users providing the feedback.

 

  • WebExcelExporter™ - NEW!
    • Exports our WebDataGrid™ and WebHierarchicalDataGrid™ to Excel file format for offline data access.
    • Supports XLS and XLSX workbook formats, and XLT, XLTM and XLTX template file formats.
       allow your users to work with tabular data offline in high-fidelity, exportable Excel workbooks.

 

  • WebScriptManager™ - NEW!
    • Extends Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX ScriptManager with knowledge of all of your Infragistics controls' script resources, registering these references for you automatically.
    • Enhances your design-time experience with support for JavaScript IntelliSense®.
       The ASP.NET script manager control automtically registers references needed by ASP.NET AJAX components.

 

  • WebDataTree™ - Enhanced
    • Drag and Drop – Completely client-side drag-and-drop behavior allows your users to drag one or more nodes from one tree to another position in the same tree or to a different tree. Supports move and copy (like when the Ctrl-key is pressed) modes, the display of suggestive prompts to clearly show a tree node’s drop target, and many new client-side and server-side events.
       Drag one node or many nodes from one position to another in a WebDataTree or drag them to a completely different WebDataTree.

 

  • WebDataGrid™ - Enhanced
    • Export to Excel – Using the new WebExcelExporter control.
  • WebHierarchicalDataGrid™ - Enhanced
    • Filtering – Users can apply their own filter criteria to the rows and child bands of the hierarchical data grid, hiding records that do not match their filter criteria. There are many built-in operations available to you automatically, based on the data type of the column, and you can add your own.
    • Export to Excel – Using the new WebExcelExporter control.
       Allow users to filter data so they can work with the data they want by utilizing the enhanced WebHierarchicalDataGrid control.

 

  • WebTab™ - Enhanced
    • Left/Right Orientation – New left- and right-side tab locations for all tab styles except multi-line tabs let you position tabs top or bottom on either the left- or right-sides with fixed width.
       Multiple tab orientations on a data grid provide users the flexibility needed to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

 


Click here to access the ASP.NET New Features page to take a closer look at the new features added in 2010 Volume 2.

 

Check out our new Windows Forms Features!

Windows Forms New Features - 2010 Volume 2

  • WinFormManager™ - NEW!
    • Style the Hard-to-Style parts of any individual Windows Form more easily with this new component:
      • Captions
      • Borders styles
      • Close, Restore, Maximize and Minimize buttons
      • Non-client areas
      • OS themes
      • Glass
    • Ensure a consistent application appearance – if your application has an Office® 2007 look and feel now you can cascade that same look and feel to all of your child dialogs.
    • Add support for the Application Styling Framework™ to any Form.
       Many areas and aspects of your Form that would typically not be available to styling become stylable when your drop the Windows Forms FormManager control into your application.

 

  • WinTimeSpanEditor™ - NEW!
    • Edit durations (TimeSpans) just like the Task Duration field editor in Microsoft® Project, with spin buttons and formatted in a preferred unit of time such as "1 day" or "8 hrs".
    • Embeds like our other WinEditors™ into our other controls, like WinGrid™ for instance.
  • WinGanttView™ - Enhanced
    • Auto-Adjust setting of TaskWorkingHourMode now lets you exclude non-working days and non-working hours from the task duration calculation.
    • New CalendarDateSettings Collection lets you customize workday status and working hours for a particular date through the calendar info component.
       Exclude non-working days and hours from your task duration with the enhanced Windows Forms WinGanttView control.

 

  • Dropdown Controls – Enhanced
    • We have made the dropdown user-resizable with a drag handle on the following controls:
      • Drop down editor button control
      • Popup control container
      • Combo box control
      • Drop down control
      • Combo box editor control
       Dynamically resize dropdown containers via a drag handle located at the bottom right corner.

 

  • Restyled Run-Time Dialogs – NEW!
    • We have re-styled several run-time dialogs for a better visual layout with more complete usability, including the following:
      • Custom Row Filters Dialog in WinGrid
      • Select Summaries Dialog in WinGrid
      • Print Status Dialog in WinPrinting™
      • All Dialogs in WinToolbars™ including:
        • Customize Dialog
        • Customize Dialog for Add Command
        • Customize Dialog for the Keyboard
        • Customize Dialog for New Toolbar
        • Customize Dialog for Rearrange Command
        • Customize Dialog for Rename Toolbar
        • More Items Dialog
        • More Windows Dialog
  • Infragistics.Excel – Enhanced
    • Added support for reading and writing Workbooks in the XLT, XLTM and XLTX template file formats.
  • Version-Free Assembly Names – NEW!
    • Upgrade from one NetAdvantage version to another without having to rebuild your application, just by updating the assembly binding redirects in your application configuration file.

Click here to access the Windows Forms New Features page to take a closer look at the new features added in 2010 Volume 2.

 

Check out our new WPF Features!

WPF New Features - 2010 Volume 2

  • Unified XAML Product Strategy - NEW!
    • Namespaces re-aligned into a more unified organization for the development of both WPF and Silverlight applications.
    • Greater parity between our WPF and Silverlight for Line of Business Application Development control offerings.
    • Shared Code…
      • Simplifies your development so you can get-to-market faster!
      • With Shared APIs that lessen your learning curve!
      • Facilitates easier migration to/from Silverlight!
  • xamColorPicker™ – NEW!
    • Pick from a prismatic panorama of colors, choosing a color from a dropdown palette or an Advanced Color Editor (ACE) that supports RGB, HSL, and CMYK color models with independent Alpha channel.
    • Recent Color Palette retains the Most Recently Used (MRU) colors users return to time and time again.
    • Derived Color Palettes present predicted colors the user might select next.
       The WPF color picker control provides the ability to change the colors within an application by choosing from a color dropdown pallette.

 

  • xamSlider™ - NEW!
    • Four stylable sliders for dates, times, and numbers, plus a foundation of Generic base classes so you can subclass your own slider!
    • Simple single-thumb sliders and Range multi-thumb sliders for scenarios such as setting upper and lower bounds for data filtering.
    • Completely customizable look and feel, including full XAML templating of the slider track and thumbs.
       Use the WPF slider control to specify ranges to filter down information.

 

  • xamMenu™ - NEW!
    • Include traditional drop-down or pop-out style menus in your own WPF applications, with features like:
      • Cascading menus with image icons
      • Horizontal and Vertical orientations
      • Custom templating
       The WPF menu control is used to logically organize menu options.

 

  • xamContextMenu™ - NEW!
    • Built on the same successful model as xamMenu, our WPF context menu lets you place menus that pop-up anywhere by the click of a mouse button or by Routed Command.
       The WPF context menu control provides additional pop-up options for your users.

 

  • xamDialogWindow™ - NEW!
    • Create that rich, hi-fi dialog window UI your users demand with complete stylability.
      • Windows can be maximized, minimized, restored and closed.
      • Support for modeless and model windows.
       The WPF dialog window control notifies users of any application-level messaging.

 

  • xamSpellChecker™ - NEW!
    • Compiled assembly and corresponding UI control allowing your WPF application to easily perform spell-checking on one or more input fields in any of 9 different languages.
      • Spell check complete documents or any text input field.
      • Suggests corrections when that inevitable typo or misspelling is found.
       Spell check information within your application with any of the multiple languages included in the dictionary.

 

  • xamTagCloud™ - NEW!
    • Displayed tags that are weighted relative to everything else in an ItemsSource in a cloud that lets users see what tags are most prevalent.
       The WPF tag cloud control organizes keywords and phrases so that the most important ones are more prominently displayed.

 

  • xamRibbon™ - Enhanced!
    • Windows® 7 scenic ribbon (AERO theme) appearance added under specific Themes.
  • xamDataGrid™ and xamDataPresenter™ Performance – Enhanced!
    • Cells in View – Target cell updates to affect only the cells that are currently within the user's view.
    • Burst Insertions – Optimized performance when you have a burst of new data records to insert at the beginning of the data grid.
    • Hybrid Scrolling – New heuristics added to the scrolling logic to defer displaying scroll tips until the user pauses any long-distance thumb drags.
    • Overall Performance – Greatly improved performance with large volumes of data when sorting, grouping, filtering or updating summary titles that have been recalculated.
  • Visual State Manager – NEW!
    • All WPF 4 controls now support the new Visual State Manager that enables you to specify streamlined visual state transitions and styles when the user interface changes state.
    • Default templates of our WPF controls retain their previous WPF trigger support so that your development (and design) experience doesn’t change, just know that the support for the new Visual State Manager way of doing things is there for your advantage.
  • Smart Tag Adorners – NEW!
    • Smart Tags provide an even better design-time user experience in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, the latest version of Expression Blend across our major controls.
      • Smart tags are quick to use – set the property without having to search for it in the property browser and see the result immediately.
      • Smart tags are informative – set properties you never knew about before, and get information about them from the small question mark icons next to the property.
       WPF smart tag adorners provide VS2010 and Expression Blend 3 users a better user experience.

 

  • German Language XAML Satellite Assemblies – NEW!
    • Expand the market for your software with all static text appearing in our controls' WPF run-time dialogs, buttons and other UI elements localized in the German language.
       Localize your software into the German language with WPF controls.

 

  • CLR 4 Builds of All Control Assemblies – NEW!
    • Take advantage of the latest run-time features in WPF 4 and .NET Framework 4.

Click here to access the WPF New Features page to take a closer look at the new features added in 2010 Volume 2.

 

Check out our new Silverlight Features!

Silverlight New Features - 2010 Volume 2

  • Unified XAML Product Strategy - NEW!
    • Namespaces re-aligned into a more unified organization for the development of both Silverlight and WPF applications.
    • Greater parity between our Silverlight for Line of Business Application Development and WPF control offerings.
    • Shared Code…
      • Simplifies your development so you can get-to-market faster!
      • With Shared APIs that lessen your learning curve!
      • Facilitates easier migration to/from WPF!
  • Support for RIA Services – NEW!
    • Finally in a Silverlight data grid, direct integration with Microsoft's RIA Services which means you can now use a Domain Data Source to access WCF Data Services and more as the ItemsSource for your xamGrid™.
    • Complete support for Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations.
    • Also supports paging, editing, sorting and grouping through the Domain Data Source.
    • xamGrid reflects in its user interface any sort operands you define on your Domain Data Source.
       Use the RIA Services to sort, edit, paginate, and group your data within your Silverlight data grid.

 

  • xamColorPicker™ - NEW!
    • Pick from a prismatic panorama of colors, choosing a color from a dropdown palette or an Advanced Color Editor (ACE) that supports RGB, HSL, and CMYK color models with independent Alpha channel.
    • Recent Color Palette retains the Most Recently Used (MRU) colors users return to time and time again.
    • Derived Color Palettes present predicted colors the user might select next.
       Select a color from this Silverlight dropdown control color pallette similar to how you would in Microsoft Office by either pointing and clicking or by setting the RGB, HSL, and CMYK values.

 

  • xamGrid™ - Enhanced!
    • Column Chooser – A stylable pop-up window allows users to employ standard gestures such as selection or drag-and-drop to show or hide bound columns in the data grid.
    • FlowDirection – Supports Right-to-Left (RTL) and Bi-Directional (BiDi) languages.
    • Tooltips – Display hi-fidelity tooltips for data cells (such as when their content overflows).
    • Header Text Alignment – We have made it easier to customize the alignment of column header text through a property, it's no longer necessary to apply a style.
       Customize the Silverlight xamGrid to only display the columns you want to see with the Column Chooser feature.

 

  • xamWebChart™ - Enhanced!
    • Many More Chart Types – Added 22 new chart types to the Line of Business chart including stacked, stacked 100%, financial and other kinds of charts that will help you create much more expressive applications.
    • Integrated Pan and Zoom – Zoom bar integration when scrolling allows users to pan and zoom over large data series. Advanced zooming scenarios similar to Google® Finance are now possible.
  • xamContextMenu™ - Enhanced!
    • Context menus now appear in Silverlight 4 with the click of the right mouse button!
    • You no longer need to set Windowless on the Silverlight 4 plug-in.
       The Silverlight xamContextMenu control now supports the usage of a right mouse click to open a menu, providing additional options to users.

 

  • INotifyDataErrorInfo and IDataErrorInfo – NEW!
    • Supports immediate data validation and error indications on editable controls.
       Notify users of data entry errors as they occur.

 

  • German Language XAML Satellite Assemblies – NEW!
    • Expand the market for your software with all static text appearing in our controls' Silverlight run-time dialogs, buttons and other UI elements localized in the German language.
       Localize your software into the German language with Silverlight controls.

 

  • Silverlight 4 Builds of All Control Assemblies – NEW!
    • Take advantage of the latest run-time features in Silverlight 4 and .NET Framework 4.

Click here to access the Silverlight New Features page to take a closer look at the new features added in 2010 Volume 2.

 

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