As part of the Infragistics WPF product, we already offer a substantial array of data visualization controls such as a high-speed chart, map, pivot grid, timeline, treemap and others. These have been applied to numerous applications displaying financial, geographical and OLAP data to produce interactive dashboards and rich data displays.

For quite a while, there was a freely available prototype on this blog post, but…

The increasing amounts of data that users need to consume before they make a decision places increasing demands on presenting it in a way that’s easy to understand. One of the controls used to visualize 3D data is to use a heatmap. Our NetAdvantage for WPF product contains many advanced UI data visualization controls such as a chart, map, timline, treemap, but until this point lacked a heatmap control. Fully-functional…

Overwhelmingly, WPF has been the platform of choice for desktop applications over the course of the last couple of years. It enables developers to quickly build flexible desktop applications which can be easily customized and styled. However, due to the fact that the platform enables customization on such a granular level, very often such extensive customization starts having a negative impact on performance. In this…

There has been quite a bit of interest in dark themes recently. This is because more users are finding the white background of applications straining their eyes, especially when they are spending a lot of time in front of the computer screen. The convenience of having a darker theme was also recognized by Microsoft in Visual Studio 2012, which comes with such a dark theme built-in. We have received a number of requests…

A number of line of business applications use XamDataGrid for its rich feature set, high customizability and performance. If there’s been one constant development in the use of the XamDataGrid across all industries, it’s been the increasing amount of data displayed in the XamDataGrid. Traditionally, grid controls perform data operations such as sorting, filtering and grouping by themselves on the UI thread…

Thank you for attending our webinar on August 23rd. I presented the NetAdvantage for WPF product briefly, showed one of the showcase applications which ship as part of the free trial, and built a simple LOB application which uses the Ribbon, DockManager, Grid, Chart and PivotGrid controls.

You can download the webinar slides here, and the source code of the finished application I built during the webinar here.

The project…

The vast majority line of business application rely on grids for showing record data. In your WPF applications, you can find the XamDataGrid (a part of NetAdvantage for WPF) especially useful for showing such data – it is a high-performance, fully-featured, richly stylable control. In many cases, the data you need to display is changing, showing the user an up-to-date status on a measurement value on a piece of equipment…

The heart of the vast majority of Line of Business applications is the grid control. The XamGrid is a fully-featured, high-performance, highly-customizable grid control which is available as part of our NetAdvantage for Silverlight and NetAdvantage for WPF products. As the users spend a lot of their time examining lists of records, the perceived performance of an application is directly related to the performance of the…

The XamDataGrid control is a highly-functional high-performance grid control that’s a part of the NetAdvantage for WPF (samples), along with other controls for line of business applications, such as editors, docking, ribbon, scheduler, and others. These controls have been used in a number of industries to build richly-styled and highly-functional applications. However, users are using increasing quantities of data…

The XamDataGrid , the grid control which comes as a part of the NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business product, has been in use for a few years in a variety of scenarios – from customizability and rich templating, to high data density and high-performance. Recently, we have made an important addition to its API, which lets developers handle sorting in update scenarios without sacrificing any aspect of performance (detailed…

WPF and Silverlight give developers the technology to easily create highly interactive UI. Our NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization (trial) and NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization (trial) products make use of that, and include a number of controls which allow you to visualize your data in an interactive way, such as a chart, geographic map, treemap, and so on (samples).

Another area where applications can clearly…

The Infragistics Sales Reporting showcase, which is available here illustrates how to build a simple application using Silverlight. It implements the functionality found in a simple reporting system, and is built using Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Line of Business (download) and Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization (download) suite of controls, showcasing their advantages over toolbox…

XamChart (samples no longer available as control has been retired since the 2012.1 release) is a charting control for Silverlight and WPF, available as a part of both the Line of business and Data Visualization products. With its support for interactive data browsing and a rich set of series, it has been a choice for a variety of charting scenarios for developers. However, to better handle scenarios with large amounts…

WPF allows developers to build highly interactive UIs, enabling users to browse large data sets displayed in charts using hardware-accelerated panning and zooming. However, when you’re building UIs featuring charts, your users will often request to have annotations displayed together with quantitative data. Even though the fast charting component XamDataChart (available both in Silverlight and WPF), doesn’t at this…

The XAML platform allows us to deliver controls offering much richer interaction and flexibility when compared against Windows Forms. However, the many complex controls and elaborate themes, can increase the initial start up time in WPF applications, demanding specific attention to ensuring that users don’t have to wait when opening a form. One way to improve initial loading time of forms is to preload complex controls…

Many customers are choosing Silverlight for building line of business applications because of the productivity of the platform and the rich interaction it enables. We offer fully-featured products in the Silverlight area, including standard line of business controls such as a grid, menu, ribbon, outlook bar, chart, scheduler, as well as data visualization controls such as a chart, map, pivot grid, among others. Recognizing…

The XAML platform allows us to deliver rich interaction to our users much cheaper when compared against Windows Forms. One of the areas this is most useful is data visualization. At Infragistics we’ve recognized the ability of the XAML platform to power amazing visualizations and we’ve implemented a number of data visualization components (chart, map, pivot grid, heatmap, gauge) in our NetAdvantage for Data…

Integrating a chart with a zoombar control allows users to easily navigate the chart and to quickly locate the exact data they need. One scenario where this functionality is particularly valuable is financial charting. It is one of the most demanding scenarios because of the amount of data to be visualized, and the level of interactivity and responsiveness required. Implementing such scenarios requires high-speed charting…

All too often you’d like to give your users a way to theme your applications at runtime. Theming entire screens containing multiple Infragistics NetAdvantage WPF LIne of Business controls is easy to implement and could be a valuable addition to your applications. It involves setting the value of the Theme property to the currently set theme on the application level.

The Approach

For all Infragistics WPF Line of…

Say you've just downloaded the trial version of Infragistics WPF Line of Business product, featuring our fully-featured and high-performance XamDataGrid. Every scenario you implement with it would involve CRUD operations. We recognized the importance of this topic by a webinar we held. Please view our webinars page for information on upcoming webinars, and recordings of past ones.

Here's a brief summary of the types…

Infragistics Motion Framework is an innovative technology, which allows you to build highly engaging visualizations of time-series data using data visualization controls from the NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization product. These visualizations present changes in tracked series using transitions, which makes for a smooth playback of your data, allowing your users to quickly see patterns emerging and compare different…

Data visualization has been getting increasing attention in line of business applications, because it’s not just about visualizing static data, as in a report. The advanced interaction capabilities that rich platforms such as Silverlight and WPF made possible allow easy implementation of data analysis features such as zooming, panning and formatting. The next level of experience you can deliver is visualizing multiple…

All too often, the XamDataGrids you use are bound to thousands of records. In order to allow your users to get actionable insights based on this data, you allow them to manipulate it – filter, sort, group, compute summaries, and so on. Even though filtering is one of the most often used operations on grids, it could be made more accessible to your users. In the most general case, you would use the so-called Excel-style…

When you’re dealing with real-time or large volumes of data, the three most critical factors for the user experience of your application are performance, performance and…performance. Customers are often interested in what’s the performance of the XamDataGrid (the grid component in our NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business product – free trial available) and XamDataChart (the fast chart component…

The XamDataGrid component, one of the controls in the NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business product (free trial version available here) is the most frequently-used component from our WPF product. It presents your tabular data, and allows you to group, sort, filter, compute column summaries, as well as control its layout by column grouping, reordering, pinning and many more. The XamDataGrid is also capable of handling…