DXperience DXv2 Silverlight

What’s New in DXv2 Silverlight?

• Metro Inspired Touch Controls Silverlight Tile - The DevExpress Layout Control has been extended with a new Tile Layout option, allowing you to replicate the look, feel and behavior of Windows 8 and thus target next generation devices with ease. Whether using WPF or Silverlight, the Tile Layout Control allows you to re-imagine the way in which an application interacts with end-users and build dashboards that are ultra-efficient and fully customizable.
• Touch Support - DevExpress has taken key steps to enable touch support on the Silverlight platform. Yes, that means your end-users can use touch to interact with the Silverlight Tile Control and Silverlight Grid.
• Fully Customizable Ribbon-  The DXRibbon ships with new end-user customization and integrated MDI merging options, so you can deliver flexible business solutions to meet the needs of your most demanding customers.
• Hybrid Tree-List - Whether used as a standalone control or embedded as a view within the DXGrid, the DXTreeList has been extended with key productivity features including integrated clipboard, serialization and data template support.
• New All-Inclusive Scheduler - The Silverlight Scheduler from DevExpress allows you to incorporate Microsoft Outlook® Style scheduling/calendar functionality with ease.
• Fast Grid - From the Instant Feedback UI Mode for WCF Data Services to PLINQ data source support, the DXGrid continues to extend its market-leading performance and usability feature set.
• Intuitive Map Control - Supporting both Bing and Open Street data providers, the new Silverlight Map Control empowers your end-users with key productivity features including, zooming, scrolling, shapefile support, and map layers.
• PivotGrid - The newest member of the Business Intelligence product line, the Silverlight PivotGrid is easy-to-use and ships with a powerful data access architecture - able to slice and dice information efficiently and provide customers with an extremely intuitive end-user experience.
• End-User Report Designer - DXv2 includes a, XtraReports for Silverlight features a new easy to use WYSIWYG end-user report designer for in-browser report editing. To help simplify the report generation process, DXv2 ships with a End-User Report Wizard.
• Robust Collection of Editors - Most data centric applications require the use of editors and no Silverlight package offers a richer collection of data editors than DXv2.
• Refined Gauge Controls - Compelling business intelligence and data analytics solutions require innovative ways in which to present information to end-users. The DXGauge Control helps you address a wide range of scenarios with new models and custom symbol mapping features.
• Charting - From new chart types to multi-pane support, DXChart maintains its commitment to you and your customers: High performance and visual elegance in one comprehensive chart package.

DXperience DXv2 Silverlight includes all Silverlight components engineered by Developer Express. This subscription type does not include source code nor priority support.

Components designed for Silverlight platforms

• Data Grid for Silverlight
• Menu-Toolbar for Silverlight
• Layout Manager for Silverlight
• Rich Text Editor for Silverlight
• Data Editors for Silverlight
• Spell Checker for Silverlight
• Book Control for Silverlight
• Window & Dialog for Silverlight
• Tab Control for Silverlight
• Transition Animator for Silverlight
• DXGauges for Silverlight
• DXTreeList for Silverlight

AgDataGrid Suite

• The AgDataGrid Suite includes a Silverlight Grid Control accompanied by data editors that can be used standalone or for in-place cell editing. The grid's main features include the following:
• Unlimited data grouping and sorting against multiple columns.
• Total and group summaries for any grid column.
• Sorting group rows by corresponding summary values.
• Microsoft Excel style data filtering.
• Built-in data editing capabilities.
• Row preview sections (with animation).
• Full support for templates (for cell content, cell editing, row preview and headers).
• Virtual StackPanel Row Container (simply means we are able to handle an unlimited number of rows)
• Multi-row and muti-cell selection.
• End-user column movement and resizing.

Smart UI Element Management

• AgDataGrid implements a smart loading and re-organization of the grid's inner UI elements to provide smaller control load times and faster data operations.
• Designed for Future Performance Enhancements

Higher-Level abstractions

• With the measurement routines you don't have to think in terms of pixels - which you do with the standard Silverlight grid. Just like other advanced controls for older platforms, you simply specify styles and fonts and all element sizes are automatically modified.

Full Animation Support

• AgDataGrid fully supports animations for group row expansion, preview row display and other operations.

AgRichEdit

The DevExpress Rich Text Editor allows you to introduce Microsoft Word like text editing features into your next Silverlight application with ease. The AgRichEdit provides advanced text formatting capabilities and delivers numerous end-user options helping you deliver compelling business solutions for the Silverlight platform.

Text Formatting Features

• Character and Paragraph Formatting - Provides all formatting features you would expect from a word processor. Characters can be formatted using different settings for font, font size, character style - bold, italics, underlined, strike-through style and different colors for background and foreground. Formatting options for paragraphs include alignment, indentation, variable paragraph and line spacing.
• Bulleted and Numbered Lists
• Styles - Document formatting can be stored and applied by using styles. Styles facilitate quick modification of a document's formatting and allow centralized control of formatting options. The editor supports both paragraph and character based styles, as well as multiple style inheritance. Stylesheets are compatible with MS Word.
• Multi-column Document Layout - This functionality allows you to flow text across multiple columns.
• Document Sections - Documents can be partitioned into a number of different sections with individual page settings.

Text Editing Features

• Clipboard - ASCII and RTF formats are used by built-in clipboard operations.
• Find and Replace - The AgRichEdit allows you to initiate these operations via code and also provides a complete UI solution available to your end-users without having to write a single line of code.
• Unlimited Undo and Redo Operations
• Images - The AgRichEdit allows you to embed images the following formats: JPEG, PNG and BMP.
• Built-in Spelling Checker - The AgRichEdit control has built-in support for spell checking.

Document View

• Predefined Views - Like in Microsoft Word, AgRichEdit provides multiple predefined document layouts and allow you to freely switch between them while working on your document. You can be editing, reading or formatting a document.
•  Zooming Documents In and Out - All text processing features are available at any zoom level.

Miscellaneous Features

• Full Localization Support - Every UI element can be translated to another language.
• Load and Save Documents - RTF and Plain Text (TXT) formats are supported.
• Multi-threaded Formatting - Document formatting is implemented as a multi-threaded job. This significantly enhances the editor’s performance when loading a document or making substantial modifications to it, resulting in a more responsive application.