Raise the Bar on Both Business Intelligence and Web UI with Silverlight

NetAdvantage for Silverlight provides breadth and depth in enabling developers to bring modern, trend-setting applications to market while shortening development time. If you need gesture/touch support, dynamic themes, and lightning fast performance in one Silverlight package, look no further.

Windows UI Ready

With slick looking themes and touch-friendly controls, you can easily create modern, beautifully styled Silverlight applications that are intuitive and interactive for your end-user.

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Silverlight Data Visualization Map 

Get the Ultimate Data Visualization Integration

To best derive insight from your data, NetAdvantage for Silverlight offers over 50 different types of charts - including bar, bubble, Gantt, line, radial, scatter, spline charts, and introducing the doughnut chart, so you can visually represent multiple data series. Animate data over time using the innovative Motion Framework and glean further intelligence from gauges and bullet charts. Plot and interact with geospatial data using rich new features typically reserved for dedicated geospatial developers, thanks to a partnership with the premier supplier of Geographic Information System software.

The Fastest Data Grid on the Silverlight Market

Render millions of data points within milliseconds. With proven unrivaled data and UI virtualization on rows and columns, your users get superior performance and responsiveness.

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Visual Studio 2012

Our Silverlight toolset is compatible with the latest Visual Studio release, so your projects can be carried seamlessly into the future. For example, our new Syntax Editor control mimics the code editing experience in Visual Studio.

Resources Beyond What You'll Find in the Box

Get a rapid response and immediate support when you need it, 24 hours a day/5 days a week – via phone, email, or by chat. When you need to brainstorm, join our community of over 850,000 developers from the most popular software companies to the most data-demanding enterprises. You can also tap into our sample code, videos, and documentation to keep your project on - or ahead of - target.

SL Overview Beyond the Box 

Controls At A Glance

Grids

Charts

Menus

 

Layouts

Editors

Frameworks

 

Barcodes

Interactions

Maps

Schedules

Timelines

 

Getting Started with NetAdvantage for Silverlight

Once you've downloaded NetAdvantage for Silverlight, you can start using it quickly and easily. Check out our video below to learn how you can start coding Excel Imports & Exports.

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Getting Started - Installation, QuickStarts, and the Version Utility

Download and Installation

 

To start using the product, you need to get the latest bits and install either the trial version or the licensed version of the product.

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Make sure you have the following tools and products from Microsoft installed as well:

  • Visual Studio 2010 or higher
  • Silverlight 5 runtime
  • Silverlight 5 Developer Tools for Visual Studio

These can be downloaded from this summary page on the Microsoft Silverlight web site.

http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted 

Using the QuickStart Solutions

 

Once the product is installed, you can start to explore the product in several ways:

1) Open the Quick Start Solutions, and learn by walking through pre-defined samples with hints in the source code and XAML

Browsing the Samples & Source Code

 

2) Browse the local samples, and review the code for the samples you are most interested in.  If you haven't installed the product, you can always view the samples and source code online. 

Finding and Using Help

 

3) Review the product documentation, and learn from the How To articles or the API documentation

Upgrading a Project or Solution

 

If you have an existing application, you can use the Version Utility to upgrade your project to the latest version.

Start Coding Import and Export

Export Grid to Microsoft Word

 

Introduction to the xamGridWordWriter component. Learn how to export a xamGrid control's records into a Microsoft Word Document.

Using xamGrid Column Chooser

Using xamGrid Column Chooser

 

Infragistics provides you with a great and convenient column chooser built into xamGrid. Learn how to enable this great UI feature!

Start Coding Editable Forms

Using xamGrid Clipboard Support

 

Another built in feature is clipboard support. Learn about it in this video and provide your end users with copy, cut, and paste functionality.

Using xamGrid Group Column Headers

 

Do you have MANY column headers? Use the xamGrid Group Column feature to create several higher-level headers that help your end users make sense out of a multiple-column layout.

Using xamGrid Tooltips

Using xamGrid Tooltips

 

Learn how to use xamGrid ToolTips to provide information to your end users.

Fastest Silverlight® Data Grid Available

The Infragistics Silverlight Grid is the fastest Silverlight data grid control available, with the blazing speed you need for data-intensive line of business applications. Here is a brief excerpt of our performance testing. To get the complete test results, download the Silverlight performance whitepaper today! 

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Data Binding

To evaluate the performance of basic data binding, we created tests that measure the amount of time needed to bind the xamGrid to different ItemSources and render up to the LayoutUpdated event (or similar event). We believe this most accurately represents what an end user experiences when waiting for data to load.

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Vertical Scrolling

xamGrid offers two options when it comes to scrolling with the scrollbar thumb – Deferred or Real Time (Immediate). When you have hundreds of thousands of rows, deferred scrolling lets your users preview the record's value as they scroll (for example, in a tool tip) without having to populate all of the cells until the user has reached the point in the data grid where they want to go.

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Deferred Scrolling

We could only test one competing grid with deferred scrolling, as it was the only one that offered this feature.

 

SL Realtime Scroll

Real-time Scrolling

Real time (or immediate) scrolling is a big problem in Silverlight. Most vendor samples load limited amounts of data because the scrolling performance of the control is very poor.

 

 

 

 

 

Download the Silverlight Performance Whitepaper 

Silverlight Success Stories

TDK Lambda

TDK Lambda

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization saved information system developers from building Silverlight-based BI dashboards from scratch, allowing them to visualize sales data, inventory data and industrial production more effectively.

Windows Embedded

Windows Embedded

Infragistics finds transition to Windows Embedded simple and rewarding.

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Infragistics - Design Develop Experience

See how Infragistics used all of its solutions to design and develop an amazing user experience with our AutoTrader sample app.

Supported Environments

The latest release of our Silverlight controls support the following operating systems and environments:
Detailed view of the Silverlight supported operating systems and environments.

Browsers       Environments       Operating Systems
    Windows 8
Firefox 3.0+   C# .NET   Windows 7 - 32, 64 bit
Internet Explorer 6.x+   Visual Basic .NET   Windows Server 2008 (R2)
Safari 3.2+   Visual Studio 2010+   Windows XP - 64 bit (SP1, SP2)
Chrome       Microsoft Expression Blend 5.0    
    Silverlight 5