Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization

What’s new in Infragistics Silverlight Data Visualization New Features 2011 Volume 2?
The latest release includes feature enhancements to existing controls, as well as many brand new features. Multiple new chart series and chart types have been added, as well as a new OLAP capability to include native OLAP support in charting. You also get more styling capability with Resource Washing on all controls, and robust new geospatial and geographic thematic mapping.

Resource Washer
With Resource Washing, you can set the color (the WashColor) on groups of resources (WashGroups) in an existing ResourceDictionary to update the color of the controls in your applications. Now, you can take a basic looking application and re-brand it to your corporate colors. Or, you can set a WashColor at runtime to change the look of an application. There are two wash modes which determine how the original color in the resource and the wash color are blended: SoftLightBlend and HueSaturationBlend.

Infragistics Excel
Import and export Microsoft Excel workbooks in high-fidelity XLS/XLSX/ExcelML file formats. With absolutely no Excel dependency, your application can run completely independently of Excel, and Excel does not have to be installed alongside your application.

Geographic Map
Create highly detailed, thematic geographical maps using an innovate feature set that includes custom shape templates, the ability to render polylines and polyshapes, Map Progression, Scatter Area Plots, an intuitive Overview Pane and much more. It enables many new, innovative features such as the ability to render polyline/polyshapes; custom shape templates; shape fill, shape styles and conditional formatting shapes; symbol series with the ability to add a custom Symbol Template; contour area series; scatter area series; multiple series; and panning and zooming.

Funnel Chart
Visually showcase diminishing values with the new funnel chart, a single series chart that displays data in a funnel shape with a variable number of sections, each representing the data as different portions of 100%. The funnel chart makes it easy for end users to illustrate value "fallout" in the sales process or bottlenecks in the flow of a multi-step process.

Sparkline Chart
The new Sparkline control is a data-intense, design-simple graphic that allows end users to spot trends, variations and patterns in data in a clear and compact representation.

Data Chart
Render charts with millions of data points that are capable of millisecond updates. Enable heavy-duty data visualization and analysis on large volumes of data with high performance. The Data Chart control includes the following new features:

• OLAP Axis
• Error Bars
• 15 New Chart Series, including Custom Series/Series Inheritance, Bar, Stacked Bar, StackedColumn, Point, StackedArea, StackedLine, StackedSpline, StackedLineArea.
• Weighted Moving Average Trend Line
• Correlation Formula

Pivot Grid
The Pivot grid that lets your users slice, dice and filter the multidimensional data of your OLAP cube or data warehouse. The latest version of the xamPivotGrid improves performance and usability. Several performance enhancements that deliver support for higher volume data and query parsing have been added:

• Improved support for data with large number of members in hierarchy
• Improved the MDSX query that are executed against the SQL Server Analysis Server
• Tested against millions of records in SQL Server Analyses Server
• The Pivot Grid control includes the following new key features: IsBusy Property and Slicers

Timeline
An important interaction feature to the Timeline control has been added – the control's ability to adjust labels and tick marks based on the current zoom level (which is the visible area of the chart). The Unit property is adjusted so it shows a moderate number of labels - not too few, not too many (perhaps prevent the same labels appear twice). If the visible area spans over a few days the UnitType becomes Hours, if the visible area spans over a few weeks UnitType becomes days, if it spans a year UnitType becomes month, etc.

Network Node Diagrams
The network node diagram control helps you create visual representations of simple or complex network relationships, similar to a cluster diagram in which each node represents a unique data point related through its connectedness to other data points. End users can easily pan and zoom, and you can customize the types of metadata that are displayed and how they are shown. New features in this release include the ability to choose the relationship type between nodes, support for various visual states, including Normal, MouseOver, Pressed, Disabled, and ReadOnly, and manipulation of indivdiual nodes.

NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization is a comprehensive collection of user interface controls to build rich dashboards, visualize business data and empower decision makers.  Developers can quickly create high-end BI applications without writing a lot of code. You can present data clearly and cleanly.  NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization gives developers controls that simplify the visual representation of large quantities of information in non-schematic ways.

NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization includes the sophisticated mapping of xamWebMap that reads de facto industry-standard shape files (.shp) to present rich geographical information in familiar map form to users, and opens the world to them through your applications.

Embrace Silverlight features for high-end, high performance Web-based data visualization experiences - NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization controls take maximum advantage of the Silverlight browser plug-in’s capabilities to dynamically react to the user (such as dragging the gauge needle within the browser), off-load what would ordinarily be server-side processing to the client, and minimize client-to-server network traffic leading to greater responsiveness and scalability.

Create “Islands of Richness” in existing ASP.NET applications - NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization controls empower ASP.NET developers to easily embed regions of interactivity and rich styling for normally graphically-demanding data visualizations into existing Web applications or as SharePoint WebParts. Islands of richness enable existing investments in ASP.NET to incrementally enhanced Silverlight as needed, where the use of Silverlight delivers the greatest payback such as in data visualization scenarios.

This inaugural release of NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 2009 Volume 1 features the following controls for the Silverlight 2 browser plug-in:

Infragistics xamWebMap - Present end users with your business intelligence data in rich and interactive maps featuring panning, zooming, mouseover effects and tooltips.

Modularly constructed around the following key components:

• Map Layer(s)
• Navigational Pane(s)
• Color Swatch Pane(s)
• Scale Pane(s)

Reads maps in the de facto industry-standard shape file (.shp) format. Displays shapefiles that are polygon, polyline or point-based, and allows programmatic customization of what is displayed to the end user.

Infragistics xamWebChart - Rich data visualization can fit into any scene, SharePoint WebPart or legacy ASP.NET application (as an island of richness) with this stylable Silverlight control that supports animation, storyboards, data binding and 28 chart types.

Infragistics xamWebGauge- Create highly interactive, high performance business scorecards and information dashboards using the xamWebGauge’s astonishing designability and client-side interactivity.

Infragistics xamWebTimeline - Enable users to quickly understand and visualize a sequence of events. These events may be historical events, steps in the narrative of some business process or workflow, project milestones, key frames in a video being edited, or a representation of any time-series data. Users can select elements in the timeline to display a greater level of detail about that timeline element.

Infragistics xamWebZoombar - The zoom bar plugs into other Silverlight controls – like the chart, map or timeline – to provide an intuitive user interface for dynamically scaling and scrolling an associated control’s view of data. It is the ideal user interface element for use when your users need to zoom-in or zoom-out of your data visualizations.