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Silverlight grid supports RIA Services

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:50:00 GMT

The Agent Management System sample in NetAdvantage for Web Client.

NetAdvantage for Web Client 2010 Volume 2 also introduces RIA Domain Data Source support for all AJAX controls.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Web Client is a comprehensive presentation layer toolset for quickly building and styling polished application UIs and delivering a great user experience, for ASP.NET and Silverlight thin client applications. NetAdvantage for Web Client contains all essential UI controls 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. NetAdvantage for Web Client leverages Infragistics' Web UI Framework: Aikido for faster, lighter ASP.NET controls that have become natively AJAX so you can produce the nimblest Web 2.0 applications and SharePoint WebParts. Infragistics NetAdvantage tools work natively within Visual Studio and include Office 2007 styles and Vista styles. Included with every purchase of NetAdvantage Infragistics provides product support, source code to the controls and frameworks, two releases yearly of customer driven products and features and more.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Win Client is also available as part of Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET.

Updates in 2010 Volume 2 for developers of Silverlight Line of Business applications

Unified XAML Platform Strategy - NEW!

Namespaces re-aligned into a more unified organization for the development of both Silverlight and WPF applications.
Greater parity between the Silverlight for Line of Business Application Development and WPF control offerings.

Support for RIA Services - NEW!

Now in a Silverlight data grid, direct integration with Microsoft's RIA Services which means you can now use a Domain Data Source to access WCF Data Services and more as the ItemsSource for your xamGrid.
Complete support for Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations.
Also supports paging, editing, sorting and grouping through the Domain Data Source.
xamGrid reflects in its user interface any sort operands you define on your Domain Data Source.

xamColorPicker - NEW!

Pick from a prismatic panorama of colors, choosing a color from a dropdown palette or an Advanced Color Editor (ACE) that supports RGB, HSL, and CMYK color models with independent Alpha channel.
Recent Color Palette retains the Most Recently Used (MRU) colors users return to time and time again.
Derived Color Palettes present predicted colors the user might select next.

xamGrid - Enhanced!

Column Chooser - A stylable pop-up window allows users to employ standard gestures such as selection or drag-and-drop to show or hide bound columns in the data grid.
FlowDirection - Supports Right-to-Left (RTL) and Bi-Directional (BiDi) languages.
Tooltips - Display hi-fidelity tooltips for data cells (such as when their content overflows).
Header Text Alignment - We have made it easier to customize the alignment of column header text through a property, it's no longer necessary to apply a style.

xamContextMenu - Enhanced!

Context menus now appear in Silverlight 4 with the click of the right mouse button!
You no longer need to set Windowless on the Silverlight 4 plug-in.

INotifyDataErrorInfo and IDataErrorInfo - NEW!

Supports immediate data validation and error indications on editable controls.

Silverlight 4 Builds of All Control Assemblies - NEW!

Take advantage of the latest run-time features in Silverlight 4 and .NET Framework 4.

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 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 adds Silverlight 4 support

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:07:00 GMT

Tile view delivers a fluid browsing user experience for templated content.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Web Client 2010 Vol 1 includes new Silverlight ribbon and support for Visual Studio 2010.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Web Client 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 and Silverlight 4 support
Visual Studio 2010 gives you the opportunity to deliver even more compelling experiences:

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
Silverlight - WYSIWYG drag and drop design surface
Silverlight - Full Property Browser support
Silverlight - Enhanced debugging
All - Windows 7 support

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.

NetAdvantage WebClient - Silverlight

xamWebRibbon - NEW Office 2007 and Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon
Ribbon for Line of Business Silverlight applications allows you to deliver Aero (Windows 7 Scenic) style of ribbon to users of your Silverlight RIAs.
xamWebGrid - Enhanced
Now features Unbound Column, Microsoft Excel-style Filter Menu, Text and Numeric filters and Conditional Formatting Engine.
xamWebComboEditor - NEW!
New combo box editor in xamWebEditors lets you bind to a flat list of items and have users either enter values into the editable field (these values can be new values not in the list, or constrained to only those values in the list) or select them from a dropdown list.
Control Persistence Framework - NEW!
Persist and restore control settings to an external source such as a file, database or isolated storage, to save user settings such as column widths and positions in xamWebGrid, the selected group in xamWebOutlookBar, or the position of xamWebDialogWindow. You can also persist and restore control settings from Microsoft, third-party, and custom controls.
Virtual Collection - NEW!
Simulate collections of very large sizes without having to load every data element.
UI Automation Support - NEW!
Support for Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) helps the Silverlight Line of Business UI controls interact with Assistive Technology for accessibility by individuals with disabilities.

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.

NetAdvantage for Web Client updated

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ASP.NET showcase using ImageViewer, WebSplitter and WebDialogWindow.

2009 Volume 2 introduces new hierarchical datagrid, six new AJAX editors and full Windows 7 support.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Web Client is a comprehensive presentation layer toolset for quickly building and styling polished application UIs and delivering a great user experience, for ASP.NET and Silverlight thin client applications. NetAdvantage for Web Client contains all essential UI controls 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. NetAdvantage for Web Client leverages Infragistics' Web UI Framework: Aikido for faster, lighter ASP.NET controls that have become natively AJAX so you can produce the nimblest Web 2.0 applications and SharePoint WebParts. 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 Infragistics provides product support, source code to the controls and frameworks, two releases yearly of customer driven products and features and more.

Updates in 2009 Volume 2

ASP.NET controls

WebHierarchicalDataGrid - NEW!

An editable, hierarchical data grid built on the Aikido Framework with high performance ASP.NET AJAX for your data-intensive Web applications.
Data Binds to Master-Detail data relationships, Self-Referencing data relationships, and Multiple Child data relationships displayed in multiple Child Bands.

WebEditors - New ASP.NET AJAX Editing

Six all-new editors built on the Aikido Framework: WebTextEditor, WebMaskEditor, WebDateTimeEditor, WebNumericEditor, WebCurrencyEditor, WebPercentEditor, WebMonthCalendar

WebDatePicker - NEW!
Initially displayed to users like a date editing field, but can drop down a date picker so that users can pick dates from a calendar

WebDataGrid - Enhanced!

Fix Columns so they pin to the Left or Right side
Virtual Scrolling
Auto-Detect Editors identifies the best-fitting editor based on the Column's DataType.

WebSchedule - Enhanced!

Multi-Resource View in all WebSchedule views. See activities attached to multiple resources at once.
Multi-day event banners. Just like Microsoft Outlook 2007 running on the desktop, the banners of multi-day events display un-fragmented and optimized for layout.

WebScheduleGenericDataProvider

New data provider lets you use ASP.NET DataSource controls, custom Collections, DataTables, DataViews and DataSets.

All controls

Global AJAX Indicator that lets you keep users engaged during long-running AJAX operations.
All ASP.NET AJAX controls support Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4, Google Chrome 2.0 and Mozilla Firefox 3.5.
All controls support Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

Silverlight Controls

Drag and Drop Framework - NEW!

You can drag your items, and make any UI element draggable to control and style the entire user experience from drag to drop!
Channel concept makes it easy for you to declare which kinds of items (e.g., Invoices) can be dropped onto other kinds of items (e.g., Accounts Payable).
Events fire off to give you infinite possibilities to control the drag operation's behavior.
Customize the appearance of the Move, Copy and "Drop Not Allowed" cursors.

xamWebSlider - NEW!

Four stylable sliders for dates, times, and numbers, plus a foundation of generic base classes so you can subclass your own slider!
Simple single-thumb sliders, and Range multi-thumb sliders for scenarios such as setting upper and lower limits for data filtering.
Completely custom look and feel, including full templating of the slider track and thumbs.

xamWebHtmlViewer - NEW!

An embeddable viewer that lets you reuse legacy HTML, frame Web content from an arbitrary URL address, hyperlink keywords, and more

xamWebContextMenu - NEW!

Place your menus to pop-up anywhere by click or by our WPF-style Commanding Framework for Silverlight.

xamWebGrid - Enhanced

Customizable Row Summary Calculations with several functions built-in, and the ability for you to add more.
New column types for Images and DateTimes.

xamWebEditors - Enhanced

IME support added to xamWebEditors for Far East data entry.

All Controls

Microsoft Windows 7 operating system is now supported.

For more information visit:
http://www.infragistics.com/about-us/press-room/press-releases/web-client-2009-2.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. Infragistics' 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 products it provides global product support, source code to controls and frameworks, guaranteed multiple releases yearly of customer driven products and features and much more.