Infragistics NetAdvantage for ASP.NET

What’s new in Infragistics NetAdvantage ASP.NET 2011 Volume 2?
NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2011 Volume 2 brings fully supported touch gestures on iPhone and iPad devices. This release also includes some features for the grid, like batch updating and multi-column headers. The Infragistics Excel library has also been enhanced to enable your web applications to construct more capable Microsoft Excel documents.

iPad/iPhone Browser Support
All ASP.Net controls have been tested on iPad/iPhone browsers and are now fully touch enabled on these devices. A user of your application can now perform actions that they would normally perform on a desktop machine with a keyboard and mouse simply using touch on their iPad or iPhone.

Infragistics Excel library
Import and export Microsoft Excel workbooks in high-fidelity in the XLS/XLSX file format. With absolutely no Excel dependency, your Web applications can run completely independently of Excel. Microsoft Excel doesn’t even have to be installed.

• Shapes Support - Flip simple shape types - such as rectangles, right triangles and line shapes - horizontally or vertically, or change their outline or fill colors.
• Data Validations - Constraints can now be placed on the values entered by users in Microsoft Excel. All data validations, including drop down lists and custom formula validations, are supported.
• Print Titles - Groups of rows and columns can now be set to be repeated on each printed page, when a user prints the worksheet in Microsoft Excel.
• Print Area - Rectangular ranges of cells can now be set to be printed on their own pages, when a user prints the worksheet in Microsoft Excel.
• Page Breaks - Horizontal and vertical page breaks can now be added to the worksheets.
• Extensive Excel Object Model - An intuitive object model designed to mirror the layout, formatting and behavior of Excel spreadsheets including worksheets, formulas, frozen panes, formatted strings and much more.

Data Grid
NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2011 Volume 2 has been enhanced with some of the most requested features.

• WordExporter - With just one line of code, the contents of the WebDataGrid can be exported to Microsoft Word.
• Multi-Column Header - Create column groups in your WebDataGrids to customize the layout of the information that is being displayed.
• Batch Updating - Retain user updates within the grid’s temporary storage on the client-side until the user is ready to commit it to the data store.
• Clipboard Support - Cut, copy and paste data rows and data cells from within your grid to Microsoft Excel sheet, or vice versa.
• Cell Merging - When a user sorts, cells with like values merge together to form a single cell area, giving a visual grouping across rows.

Image Button
Image Button now implements the iButtonControl interface, enabling it to be used as a default button on the page, giving you the ability to set the validation group for it, and even the PostBackUrl property. This makes the control function more in-line with the stock ASP.NET button control, but comes with a much more comprehensive feature set.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for ASP.NET features customer-driven features like interoperability with Microsoft Excel through XLS/XLSX/ExcelML file formats, Adobe PDF and Microsoft XPS export, and Outlook Web Access-style scheduling make it easy for developers creating rich applications. Great performance across data grids and trees with a comprehensive feature set make for robust applications atop the lightweight Infragisitcs Aikido Framework. Infragistics NetAdvantage for ASP.NET includes an Application Styling Framework that enables you to globally style your applications running on ASP.NET with little to no code. NetAdvantage AppStylist allows designing global style sets, or you can use one of the many professionally-designed style sets included. NetAdvantage for ASP.NET includes an annual subscription to developer support, source code, all updates and upgrades, documentation and samples.

NetAdvantage for ASP.NET includes:

• Seamless ASP.NET AJAX integration – Built on the Aikido Framework, every ASP.NET AJAX control leverages the capabilities in ASP.NET like AJAX, and follows W3C standards including XHTML and CSS.
• Optimized high performance controls – Fine-tuned for the best server- and client-side code execution, and for rendering minimal control markup, to produce the highest performance, most scalable Web applications.
• Full support for Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4 and Office 2010 Styles – Get deeper integration into the integrated design experience with JavaScript IntelliSense - create client-side event handlers without having to memorize function names. RIA Services support allows you to quickly handle CRUD operations with all of our Aikido Framework-based controls.
• Faster page loads and less bandwidth consumption with support for Microsoft’s jQuery Client Templating – Developers can quickly cut down overall page size which reduces bandwidth consumption, and makes the page load faster. They can even exchange data as JSON arrays, without having to change their existing codebase, such as when making calls to Web services using JSON.
• Transparent support for all major browser platforms – Major browsers are supported, and all ASP.NET AJAX controls.
• Web accessibility - Support for Section 508 accessibility standards.
• Simplified deployment – Support for a single runtime assembly for ASP.NET AJAX controls, GZip-compressed and minified CSS, and ASP.NET 2.0 embedded resources make for simpler deployments.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for ASP.NET includes the following controls:

• WebCalcManager
• WebCaptcha
• WebChart
• WebDataGrid
• WebDataMenu
• WebDataTree
• WebDatePicker
• WebDialogWindow
• Drag and Drop Framework
• WebDropDown
• WebExcelExporter
• WebGauge
• WebGroupBox
• WebExplorerBar WebEditors
• WebCurrencyEditor
• WebDateTimeEditor
• WebMaskEditor
• WebNumericEditor
• WebPercentEditor
• WebTextEditor
• WebHierarchicalDataSource
• WebHierarchicalDataGrid
• WebHtmlEditor
• WebImageButton
• WebImageViewer
• WebMonthCalendar
• WebProgressBar
• WebRating
• WebResizingExtender
• WebSlider
• WebSpellChecker
• WebSplitter
• WebTab
• Infragistics.Documents
• PDF Export
• XPS Export
• Infragistics.Excel
• XLS Import
• XLS Export WebSchedule
• WebCalendarView
• WebDayView
• WebMonthView
• WebScheduleInfo
• Generic Data Provider
• OLE DB Provider
• SQL Server Provider
• WebScriptManager