Infragistics NetAdvantage for Win Client is a comprehensive presentation layer toolset for quickly building and styling polished application UIs and delivering a great user experience, for Windows Forms, rich client applications. NetAdvantage for Win Client contains all essential UI controls 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. NetAdvantage for Win Client also includes business-grade developer components for WPF, including datagrids, carousels and editors, with built-in visual themes including Windows Vista Aero and Office 2007. Developers can start building with WPF toolset now and can take advantage of the pure WPF platform features including: high resolution graphics, rich styling and animation capabilities and integrated UI virtualization technology. NetAdvantage for Win Client works natively within Visual Studio and includes Office 2007 styles, Vista styles. Included with every purchase of NetAdvantage for Win Client, Infragistics provides product support, source code to the controls and frameworks, two releases yearly of customer driven products and features and more.
Infragistics NetAdvantage for Win Client 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 WPF developers
Unified XAML-based Platform - NEW!
- Namespaces re-aligned into a more unified organization for the development of both WPF and Silverlight applications.
- Greater parity between the WPF and Silverlight for Line of Business Application Development control offerings.
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.
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.
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
xamContextMenu - NEW!
- Built on the same successful model as xamMenu, the WPF context menu lets you place menus that pop-up anywhere by the click of a mouse button, or by Routed Command.
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 modal windows.
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.
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.
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 the 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 and Expression Blend 3 across the 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 ?-mark icons next to the property.
CLR 4 Builds of All Control Assemblies - NEW!
- Take advantage of the latest run-time features in WPF 4 and .NET Framework 4.
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About Infragistics
Infragistics has been a market leader in the presentation layer components industry for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, it has achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build and style great application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF, and additionally offers user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.
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.
