NetAdvantage Select adds WinForm styling

2010 Volume 2 release adds also adds time span editor, plus enhanced support for Visual Studio 2010 features
June 16, 2010
Feature Release

Infragistics NetAdvantage Select is a comprehensive presentation layer toolset for quickly building and styling polished application UIs and delivering a great user experience, for Windows Forms, ASP.NET and Tablet PC. NetAdvantage Select contains all essential UI controls (over 100 in all) for applications built using Visual Studio: grids, scheduling, charting, gauges, navigation, ribbon, toolbars, menus, listbars, trees, tabs, explorer bars, UI and many other editors, as well as Application Styling, Excel import/export and a Document Export Engine for PDF and XPS formats. Infragistics NetAdvantage tools work natively within Visual Studio and include Office 2007 styles, Vista styles and Vista support. Included with every purchase of NetAdvantage for (.NET, Windows Forms, ASP.NET,) Infragistics provides product support, source code to the controls and frameworks, two releases yearly of customer driven products and features and more.

Infragistics NetAdvantage Select is also available as part of Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET.

Updates in 2010 Volume 2 for Windows Forms developers

WinFormManager - NEW! - 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.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

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 the other WinEditors into 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.

Dropdown Controls - Enhanced - The dropdown now 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

Restyled Run-Time Dialogs - NEW! - Re-styled several run-time dialogs for a better visual layout with more complete usability, including the following:

  • All run-time dialogs in WinToolbars
  • Custom Row Filters dialog in WinGrid
  • Select Summaries dialog in WinGrid
  • Print Status dialog in WinPrinting

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.

Updates in 2010 Volume 2 for ASP.NET developers

Enhanced Support for Visual Studio 2010 Features - NEW!

  • JavaScript IntelliSense
  • "Add new handler..." for Client-side Events
  • Design Surface for SharePoint
  • Code Snippets

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.

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.

WebRating - NEW!

  • More Users Rate This 5-Stars!
  • Crowdsource 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.

WebExcelExporter - NEW!

  • Exports the 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.

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®.

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.

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.

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.

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http://www.infragistics.com/about-us/press-room/press-releases/dotnet-2010v2-announcement.aspx

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Infragistics NetAdvantage provides the most comprehensive set of components for quickly building and styling commercial class user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, JSF and WPF applications. The company's advanced user interface controls allow developers to produce all of the familiar interfaces your users expect, such as Office 2007 UI, Windows XP, and Vista. Its controls are widely deployed for use in the hottest architectures such as Web 2.0, SharePoint and Microsoft’s Composite Applications Block (CAB). Within every NetAdvantage product, Infragistics provide global product support, source code to controls and frameworks, guaranteed multiple releases yearly of customer driven products and features and much more.

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