Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone

What’s new in Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone 2012 Volume 1?

List Control
Search, filter, group, sort, or drill down and more - with a Metro-themed UI, use the list control to work with simple lists with minimum effort, or huge lists of different items with multiple levels of hierarchies.

• List Items with Minimum Effort - You can list items based on their default string conversion, display a property value by setting the DisplayMemberPath property, or change the items visual appearance by setting a DataTemplate in the ItemsTemplate property.
• Keyword Search - Quickly and easily filter items based on the user text input.
• Filter Items - You can define multiple sort options based on a predefined condition or by using custom logic in code-behind.
• Group Items - Group items based on equal values for a property, alphabetically, by date (same year, quarter, month, day of the week), or by using custom logic in code-behind.
• Type Defined Layout - It's easy to apply different templates for different data types that the items source could contain. It allows you to define different templates based on the device orientation.
• Quick Setup - Easily setup a template-less configuration that could include a thumbnail, title, and description per item.
• Drilldown Detailed Data - Navigate through multiple levels of hierarchies. Open detailed data per item on demand, or open another collection if necessary.

Point Chart
Use the Point Chart to show the changes in a data series over time or compares multiple items. Types of items are arranged horizontally and data values are plotted vertically to emphasize variation over time.

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.

What’s new in Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone 2011 Volume 2?
This release expands intelligent controls from the Data Visualization suites, such as the Financial Charting control. Shared XAML controls such as xamCurrencyInput, xamMaskedInput, xamNumericInput and Persistence Framework have been introduced.  New Social Media capabilities with the ACS Control have also been added. They easily let you integrate Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or Windows Live authentication into your applications.

Inputs Control
The new xamInputs control offers a complete XAML cross- platform experience with key controls. The Inputs control can also be used with the cross-platform xamGrid cell to enhance data display and data entry. Controls include xamCurrencyInput, xamDateTimeInput, xamMaskedInput and xamNumericInput.

Persistence Framework
With the Persistence Framework, you can persist control settings from any Silverlight dependency object (including non-Infragistics controls) using Infragistics’ Control Persistence Framework to manage saving and loading of those settings you want persisted to any external source, like a file or database. This framework makes it very easy for you to give your users the ability to save off their preferences and the layout of your application’s user interface down to the most detailed settings  - such as which grid columns are fixes - and then re-load the same layout when they come back again.

• Streams of XML – Control settings are serialized and deserialized to industry-standard XML, and made available to you with Stream that you can direct to any external source like IsolatedStorage, a database, or the local file system.
• Save and Load User Preferences – When the user has setup the user interface the way they like, the Control Persistence Framework can be used to preserve the end users preferred layout and settings, and then reload them at a later point.
• Easily Restore Defaults – Need a way to instantly re-apply default setting to your controls? Using the Control Persistence Framework to restore default setting is a great solution.
• Tap into Persistence Events – Numerous events exposed by the framework give you the opportunity to fine-tune and control the saving and loading of persistent control settings.

Rating
The xamRating control allows your users to add customized rating capability to their applications. The control allows you to display rating images to the end users and record their input when they tap on an image.

• Rating - It stores the current rating (value). It is set when the user tap on a RatingItem (usually displayed as a star). It also can be set by code, for example, to show decimal values.
• RatingAverage - It stores the user’s average rating. The average value is determined by the value specified for each rating item. This is determined by setting the Value property for each RatingItem object in the RatingItems collection. The average value is then calculated based on which item was clicked and the number of clicks (RatingCount).
• RatingCount - The count of how many times the user has voted.
• Orientation - Display the Rating control horizontally or vertically.

ACS Control
This control allows developers to use various social media authentication capability to authenticate their own applications. The main scenario for the control is to provide an application a way to let users log-in with their existing Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or Live ID credentials. The control implements the oAuth 1.0x protocol for Twitter and oAuth 2.0 protocol for Facebook, Gmail and Live ID, providing a way to retrieve additional user-data at log-in time. You can also use the returned Authentication Token to make subsequent calls to each service, using the service’s specific APIs. You can use directly the authentication provider you want or you can use the control to prompt the user for which of the supported providers he wants to use.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone Features

• Mobile UI Controls - lightweight mobile user interface controls and vibrant data visualization controls optimized for the mobile form factor of a Microsoft® Windows Phone® 7 device:
• Barcode – Barcode controls provide you with the ability to render on-screen barcode images in Code 128, UCC/EAN-128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 (ITF-14), GS1 DataBar, MaxiCode, PDF 417, Royal Mail (RM4SCC), Intelligent Mail, EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A and UPC-E.
• Barcode Reader – Supports reading many standard and widely used barcode symbologies from a webcam-equipped Microsoft Windows Phone 7 device.
• Bullet Graph – Displays a simple and concise view of key performance indicators (KPI) so you can create next generation mobile dashboards in no time.
• Data Chart – When your mobile application needs heavy-duty data visualization with the ability to add statistical and technical indicators with ease, the data chart control is there to help.
• Treemap – Show the relative weight of data points at more than one level of detail without requiring users to drilldown into the graphic, giving mobile users a top-down look into the hierarchical relationships of their data.
• Gauges – Build relevant business scorecard-style applications and rich, informative mobile dashboards with radial, linear, digital and hybrid (combination) gauges.
• Info Box – Display informational “hints” to end users within your Microsoft Windows Phone 7 applications.
• Message Box – Stylishly convey your messages and display various dialog options that can be customized.
• Window – Display modal and non-modal windows in specific positions or areas with application bar hiding, full screen mode, and outside-tap closing.
• IG Theme - The IG Theme was created to allow mobile application developers to have a complete visual theme that allows them to create and style modern applications, without relying on the Microsoft Office brand.