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NetAdvantage Select adds WinForm styling

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:50:00 GMT

Adding styles to an application with AppStylist in Infragistics NetAdvantage Select.

2010 Volume 2 release adds also adds WinTimeSpanEditor, plus enhanced support for Visual Studio 2010 features.

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.

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

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.

NetAdvantage Select now supports Win 7

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:07:00 GMT

An Outlook style calendar application with ribbon UI.

2010 Volume 1 introduces Windows 7 multi-touch support and adds compatibility with VS2010 and .NET Framework 4.0.

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 2005 and 2008 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

Special Offer - Upgrade from a lapsed Subscription (from 2007 or later) to the latest version for the price of a Renewal - Expires March 31, 2010.

Updates in 2010 Volume 1

Visual Studio 2010 support
Visual Studio 2010 gives you the opportunity to deliver even more compelling experiences:

Winforms - In process side-by-side hosting enables an application to load and activate multiple versions of the common language runtime (CLR) in the same process
Winforms - Multi-touch support for default gestures in Windows 7
ASP.NET - A high-performance and standards-compliant JavaScript IntelliSense engine
ASP.NET - "One Click Deployment" that quickly publishes files and configuration settings from development machines to the final deployed site
ASP.NET - Full support for integrating Silverlight into ASP.NET projects and solutions
ASP.NET - Enhanced SharePoint design time integration
All - Windows 7 support

NetAdvantage WinClient - Winforms

WinGanttView
New fully-featured Gantt View control lets you drop in sophisticated, fully stylable Microsoft® Project functionality right within your own applications.
Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon - NEW addition to WinToolbarsManager
Put the latest Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon user interface and Windows 7 Styles into your new and legacy Windows Forms applications, even if they are not running on Windows 7.
WinMessageBoxManager - NEW!
Notify users about application messages with this fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for the standard Windows Forms MessageBox.
WinActivityIndicator - NEW!
Notify end users of any long-running background processing using the new activity indicator for Windows Forms.
WinSplitter - NEW! - Partition the user interface up into easily expandable, collapsible and resizable regions using this fully-functional splitter bar.
WinCombo/WinComboEditor - Enhanced
A new Auto-Suggest filter criterion has been added: "Contains" which allows the combo to suggest items for which the text typed by the user appears at anyplace within the item (not only text at the beginning or end of the item).
WinFormattedTextEditor - Enhanced
Performance enhancement of the rich formatted text editor makes it 1200% faster under most feature settings.
.NET 4 Client Profile Support
Build your NetAdvantage Windows Forms-powered applications using the recommended .NET 4 Client Profile build target in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Infragistics have designed and written all controls so that they only require this smaller working set of .NET 4 assemblies, dramatically improving the size, portability and performance of the Windows Forms applications you'll be able to build and deploy.

NetAdvantage WebClient - ASP.NET

WebTab - NEW!
New tab control supports all ASP.NET AJAX controls inside of its template area, comes AJAX-enabled out of the box, and adds significant functionality not found in its predecessor.
WebExplorerBar - NEW!
Lightweight yet robust ASP.NET AJAX multi- style control works superbly in modern browsers including Google Chrome and adds numerous capabilities over and above what used to be possible using the WebListBar.
WebHierarchicalDataGrid - Enhanced
Outlook Group-By: Easily group rows by common column values across all levels of the hierarchical data grid by dragging & dropping a column header to the stylable group-by area that can be positioned at the top or bottom of the data grid.
AJAX Compression - NEW!
New module enhances performance across all of the ASP.NET AJAX controls in the toolset. AJAX responses are compressed using GZip to make their message size much smaller than before.

About Infragistics

Infragistics is a market leader in user interface development tools and expert in User Centric Design. It empowers developers to build and style immersive user experiences and rich data visualization in line of business applications across all .NET platforms - Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET and Silverlight. Infragistics also has a range of value-added services including UI testing tools, support, training and consulting services.