ComponentSource Topic | User Interface

Easily tag SharePoint content

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:53:47 GMT

Update Related Content Web Part settings.

Use managed metadata to drive navigation, discovery and reusability of content.

Knowledge Management Suite for Microsoft SharePoint makes it easy to manage tags, tag content and to use tags for knowledge browsing, navigation, content discovery and search. It was developed using the SharePoint Server Enterprise Metadata Management API, and no legacy or other external systems are used. You may include any external data source without any restrictions using Business Data List Connectors.

Features

Tag Suggester for SharePoint - While tagging an item or document a suggestion list is displayed
Auto Tagger for SharePoint - Tag items and documents automatically in the background without any user interaction
Taxonomy Manager for SharePoint - Manage Term Stores with additional managed metadata properties (e.g. tagging rules, related tags)
Tag Navigation Web Part for SharePoint - Use a SharePoint managed metadata taxonomy tree for content discovery and navigation
Tag Directory Web Part for SharePoint - Render a SharePoint managed metadata taxonomy tree as a flat A-Z directory category index
Tag Cloud Web Part for SharePoint - Navigate content by importance using a familiar taxonomy based tag cloud
Related Content Web Part for SharePoint - Automatically display related content in a given context using managed metadata taxonomies

About Layer 2

Layer 2 creates custom components and solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. For almost 20 years Layer 2 has been a reliable partner to customers in central Europe, offering consulting and services in the fields of SharePoint, .NET programming and IT infrastructure. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Layer 2 offers a broad variety of technical knowledge as well as a focus on end users and customers.

Essential Tools improves Calendar Navigation

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:55:50 GMT

Example applications built using Syncfusion Essential Tools.

Browse by day, week, month, year or decade.

Syncfusion Essential Tools is an collection of nearly 80 user-interface components. Easily create robust and usable application interfaces emulating Visual Studio.NET and Microsoft Office. All editor controls have been architected to provide a simple and feature-rich means for capturing data input, validating and displaying appropriate formatting.

Updates in 2012

Calendar Navigation (ASP.NET) - New navigation pane that makes browsing by day, week, month, year or decade easier. This JavaScript implementation is fast and gives users a fluid experience
Rotator Control Improvements (ASP.NET) - An auto-play button can be added to the Rotator control to allow users to automatically scroll up or down, left or right with one click. While in this button mode, the rotator control retains all its other features
AutoComplete Enhancements (ASP.NET MVC) - Client-side data fetching has been added to increase performance
Captcha Control Refresh (ASP.NET MVC) - Refresh button allows regeneration of the code that has to be entered in the verification text box
Dragging and Dropping Tree Nodes (ASP.NET MVC) - With drag and drop support, tree nodes can be repositioned at different levels in the same tree or dropped into a different tree
Splitter Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Create separate panes in a work area that can be resized or collapsed by dragging or clicking
TimePicker Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Four primary fields can be set: hours, minutes, seconds and a.m. or p.m

About Syncfusion

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion provides a broad range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet evolving development needs, whether working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight. Syncfusion strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to customers - from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies.

Prof-UIS updated to V2.93

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:13:58 GMT

PageNavigator, ReportGrid, Skinnable Buttons and RibbonBar samples.

Prof-UIS includes more than 200 C++ classes, templates and interfaces that will help you add rich, up-to-date GUIs to your projects. Create Microsoft Office and Visual Studio look-and-feel interfaces, tabbed docking windows, tab containers with detachable tabs, customizable menus and toolbars.

Updates in V2.93

Windows 7 Ribbon style support
Quick Access Toolbar is now integrated into the Window caption in all UI themes
Printing and preview now supports a header, footer and both left and right gutter areas
Persist a page navigator using MFC archives

About FOSS Software

FOSS Software was founded in 2000 by a group of senior software engineers and managers with a proven track record of success in the IT industry. Since then the company has released a number of FOSS branded products which have gained national and international recognition. Their products have been sold in 34 countries and translated to 14 languages.

SyntaxEditor for WPF adds Code Fragment Editing

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:29:57 GMT

The Code Editor window displaying blocks of many supported languages.

Edit a portion of a document, such as a method body or expression.

Actipro SyntaxEditor for WPF is a control that is packed with features for efficient code editing. It includes syntax highlighting, line numbers, block selection, IntelliPrompt UI, split views and zooming. Custom language definitions can be developed and distributed with your applications as well. Actipro SyntaxEditor for WPF is designed for use in IDE applications, however there are many other applications that can take advantage of such a control.

Updates in 2011.2

IntelliPrompt Parameter Info - Show information about each member signature being edited. This makes it easy to implement parameter info for your own custom languages. Parameter info can handle rich-formatted content display using HTML-like markup tags. Colors and font weights or styles can be used to bring attention to portions of the info tip.
Single-Line Edit Mode - Make the editor appear like a standard TextBox, without scrollbars and where line terminators are not accepted as input. While in single-line edit mode, nearly all the standard UI features found in SyntaxEditor are still available, such as automated IntelliPrompt, adornments, etc.
Code Fragment Editing - Edit a portion of a document, such as a method body or expression. The benefit of using code fragments is that you can set up header and footer text that is appended when used for parsing and resolution. This means automated IntelliPrompt, code outlining and other features work correctly on the fragment being edited.

About Actipro Software

Actipro Software was founded in 1999 and is a provider of .NET controls for developers. Always striving to generate the highest possible return-on-investment for customers, Actipro Software's products are specifically engineered with customizability and productivity as primary design goals. Actipro has been creating user interface control products for Windows Forms and the .NET framework since their inception. Actipro's development staff is highly skilled in .NET and applies its knowledge and experience towards providing the best products possible. Actipro Software is always willing to listen to its users. A firm belief central to the core of the organization is that product development should be driven by the needs of the users.

Actipro WPF Studio adds Themes

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:29:12 GMT

A selection of samples from Actipro WPF Studio.

Professionally designed themes that apply to all Actipro and native WPF controls.

Actipro WPF Studio includes all WPF components produced by Actipro Software including: Actipro Ribbon (Office 2007-like user interface), SyntaxEditor for WPF (syntax-highlighting code editor control), Editors for WPF (masked edit controls with advanced date/time pickers), Actipro Wizard (wizard dialogs), Actipro Navigation, Actipro PropertyGrid, Actipro Bar Code (bar code generation), Actipro Gauge, Actipro Docking & MDI and the Actipro Shared Library.

Updates in 2011.2

App-Wide Themes - Includes professionally designed themes that apply to all Actipro controls and optionally to native WPF controls.
Styles - Enhanced styles and templates for all native WPF controls (TextBox, ToolBox, TreeView, etc.) are included. These styles can be automatically applied app-wide via a single line of code. Or you can choose to use them on specific controls only, accessible via pre-defined style keys.
Common Asset Pool - There are over 800 asset resources for each of the themes supported. All custom and native control styles/templates use the same assets. This ensures that controls placed next to each other always render with similar colors that complement each other.
Advanced Tinting - Supports the tinting of any theme or portion of a theme towards a certain color. This means that you can take a built-in theme like the Office Silver theme and make it red instead.
Appearance Improvements - Updated menu, toolbar and statusbar appearances inspired by Visual Studio 2010's look. The simplified design uses a darker workspace area, with lighter content areas in each docking window.
IntelliPrompt Parameter Info - Show information about each member signature being edited. This makes it easy to implement parameter info for your own custom languages. Parameter info can handle rich-formatted content display using HTML-like markup tags. Colors and font weights or styles can be used to bring attention to portions of the info tip.
Single-Line Edit Mode - Make the editor appear like a standard TextBox, without scrollbars and where line terminators are not accepted as input. While in single-line edit mode, nearly all the standard UI features found in SyntaxEditor are still available, such as automated IntelliPrompt, adornments, etc.
Code Fragment Editing - Edit a portion of a document, such as a method body or expression. The benefit of using code fragments is that you can set up header and footer text that is appended when used for parsing and resolution. This means automated IntelliPrompt, code outlining and other features work correctly on the fragment being edited.

About Actipro Software

NetAdvantage for jQuery enhances Data Grid

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:33:17 GMT

Grids and User Interfaces built using Infragistics NetAdvantage for jQuery.

Users can customize and combine data by dragging and dropping the column header to group/ungroup common values.

Updates in 2011 Volume 2

jQuery Grid - the JavaScript and HTML5 based data grid now has grouping, custom editors, column hiding, resizing and summaries, row selector, tooltips and a user feature chooser.
Infragistics Excel Library - support has been added for shapes, data validation, print titles, print area and page breaks.
jQuery Hierarchical Grid - this new grid control allows users to drill down, as well as add, edit, delete, select, sort, group and filter rows.
ComboBox- fully featured Combo Box control with built-in Auto-Suggest, Auto-Complete and Auto-Filtering.
Web-based Tree - a new jQuery tree control features load on demand, node templates, checkboxes and keyboard navigation.
HTML5 Charts - a full range of business, scientific and financial charts, including bar, line, polar, range, step, spline, OHLC and candlestick.
HTML Editor - a new jQuery WYSIWYG editor which offers rich text formatting, the ability to insert images, links, lists and tables; clipboard support and source and design views.

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in presentation layer components for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, we have 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.

NetAdvantage for Silverlight adds Funnel Chart

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:32:49 GMT

A Funnel Chart showing data.

New Data Visualization chart shows diminishing values which represent data as different portions of 100%.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization includes controls for geospatial mapping, interactive gauges, graphical timelines and animated charting. It allows you to build rich dashboards and visualize business data by simplifying the presentation of your business intelligence.

Updates in 2011 Volume 2

Resource Washer - set the color on groups of resources in an existing ResourceDictionary to update the color of the controls in your applications.
Infragistics Excel Library - support has been added for shapes, data validation, print titles, print area and page breaks.
Geographic Map - create highly detailed, thematic geographical maps.
Funnel Chart - displays data in a funnel shape with a variable number of sections, each representing the data as a portion of 100%.
Sparkline Chart - a data-intense, design-simple graphic that allows end users to spot trends, variations and patterns in data.
Data Chart - now includes the following new features: OLAP axis, error bars, 15 new chart series, weighted moving average trend line and correlation formula.
Pivot Grid - lets your users slice, dice and filter multi-dimensional data of your OLAP cube or data warehouse.
Timeline - now allows the adjustment of labels and tick marks based on the current zoom level (which is the visible area of the chart).
Network Node Diagrams - new features include the ability to choose the relationship type between nodes, support for various visual states and manipulation of individual nodes.

About Infragistics

NetAdvantage for Windows Phone adds Rating Control

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:31:34 GMT

Display rating images and record input when an image is tapped.

Allow users to add customized rating capability to their applications.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone gives you rich, innovative mobile UI controls for Microsoft Windows Phone. The controls come with mobile form factor optimization, touch gesture support and alignment with Metro usability guidelines. It includes charts, bullet graphs, gauges, barcodes, barcode readers, sliders, windows and message boxes.

Updates in 2011 Volume 2

Input Controls - enhance data entry with xamCurrencyInput, xamDateTimeInput, xamMaskedInput and xamNumericInput controls.
Persistence Framework - you can now persist control settings from any WPF dependency object allowing users to save and load their UI preferences.
Rating Control - the new xamRating control allows you to display rating images to the end users and record their input when they tap on an image.
ACS Control - an exciting new control which provides an application with a way to let users log-in with their existing Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or Live ID credentials.

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in presentation layer components for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, they have 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.

NetAdvantage for WPF adds Geographic Map

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:30:33 GMT

User interfaces built using NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization.

Render polylines and polyshapes, add custom shape templates, shape fill, shape styles and conditional formatting shapes.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization includes stylable user interface controls for geospatial mapping, interactive gauges, graphical timelines, animated charting and OLAP pivot grids. Use these UI controls to produce OLAP pivot grids, charts, maps, gauges, timelines, bullet graphs, barcodes and more.

Updates in 2011 Volume 2

Resource Washer - set the color on groups of resources in an existing ResourceDictionary to update the color of the controls in your applications.
Infragistics Excel Library - support has been added for shapes, data validation, print titles, print area and page breaks.
Geographic Map - create highly detailed, thematic geographical maps.
Funnel Chart - displays data in a funnel shape with a variable number of sections, each representing the data as a portion of 100%.
Sparkline Chart - a data-intense, design-simple graphic that allows end users to spot trends, variations and patterns in data.
Data Chart - now includes the following new features: OLAP axis, error bars, 15 new chart series, weighted moving average trend line and correlation formula.
Pivot Grid - lets your users slice, dice and filter multi-dimensional data of your OLAP cube or data warehouse.
Timeline - now allows the adjustment of labels and tick marks based on the current zoom level (which is the visible area of the chart).
Network Node Diagrams - new features include the ability to choose the relationship type between nodes, support for various visual states and manipulation of individual nodes.

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in presentation layer components for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, they have 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.

Silverlight Studio adds code fragment editing

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:31:20 GMT

Sample applications built using Actipro Silverlight Studio.

Version 2012.2 also includes IntelliPrompt parameter info and a single-line edit mode.

Actipro Silverlight Studio includes all of Actipro's Silverlight control offerings, in one easy-to-use bundle. SyntaxEditor for Silverlight - a syntax-highlighting code editor control and parsing suite for creating online IDEs, Views for Silverlight - advanced Silverlight panels that support fluid animated item layout Shared Library for Silverlight - a set of common controls, useful components, and themes for Silverlight applications, Actipro Wizard for Silverlight - everything you need to quickly create wizard dialogs in your Silverlight applications and Actipro Bar Code for Silverlight - vector based 2D and linear barcodes that scale cleanly on any type of media.

Updates in 2011.2

IntelliPrompt Parameter Info - IntelliPrompt parameter info popups show the end user information about the member signature being edited and its parameters, if any. SyntaxEditor 2011.2 adds this highly-requested new UI feature, and makes it easy to implement parameter info for your own custom languages. Parameter info can even be implemented such that the caret properly handles being in nested calls and shows information for the closest containing signature. As with quick info, parameter info can handle rich-formatted content display using HTML-like markup tags. Colors and font weights or styles can be used to bring attention to portions of the info tip. Multiple signature options can be displayed in a single parameter info tip. In those scenarios, arrows automatically appear that can be clicked. Alternatively the end user can use the up/down arrow keys to switch between options. The .NET Languages Add-on has been updated to fully take advantage of the new parameter info feature. Both of the C# and VB language implementations now have parameter info features out-of-the-box, making for a true Visual Studio-like code editing experience. When there are multiple overloads for a signature, the resolver will do its best to show the one that best fits the code that has been typed thus far.
Single-Line Edit Mode - Single-line edit mode is an option you can activate to make the editor appear like a standard TextBox, where there are no scrollbars and no line terminators are accepted as input. While in single-line edit mode, nearly all the standard UI features found in SyntaxEditor are still available, such as automated IntelliPrompt, adornments, etc. This makes for a very nice way to edit small code snippets or expressions.
Code Fragment Editing - Code fragments provide the ability for an end user to edit a portion of a document, such as a method body or just an expression. The benefit of using code fragments is that you can also set up header and footer text to get pre- and post-pended to the text being edited, when it is sent off for parsing and AST-building. Since a complete document is then used for parsing and resolution, automated IntelliPrompt, code outlining, and other features work correctly on the fragment being edited. This is an especially useful feature when combined with languages like the C# and VB languages in the .NET Languages Add-on. Imagine being able to edit a set of C# statements with full automated IntelliPrompt and the user not being able to see or edit the containing class.You can also combine the code fragments feature with single line edit mode to allow for single-line editing of expressions.

About Actipro Software

Actipro Software LLC, founded in 1999, is a cutting-edge provider of .NET controls for developers. Always striving to generate the highest possible return-on-investment for customers, Actipro Software's products are specifically engineered with customizability and productivity as primary design goals. Actipro has been creating user interface control products for Windows Forms and the .NET framework since their inception. Its SyntaxEditor code editing control is widely regarded as the best control of its type on the market today. Its UIStudio and Wizard control products are utilized by many developers to easily add robust professional user interfaces to their applications.

Prof-UIS adds popover scrollbars

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:29:00 GMT

PageNavigator, ReportGrid, Skinnable Buttons and RibbonBar samples.

Version 2.92 also includes improvements to grid controls and the rich content subsystem.

Prof-UIS is an MFC extension library that allows you to create enterprise-class applications in the Visual Studio 2010/2008/2005/NET/6.0 environment. More than 200 thoroughly tested and documented C++ classes, templates and interfaces will help you take the time and complexity out of incorporating rich and up-to-date GUI facilities in your projects: Microsoft Office and Visual Studio look-and-feel interface, tabbed docking windows, tab containers with detachable tabs, extremely customizable data grid and property grid controls, customizable menus, toolbars and keyboard accelerators, multi profile GUI persistence, and more.

Updates in V2.92

Added support for popover scroll bars in all scrollable controls based on the CExtScrollWnd class.
Added a ui-sb-type CSS parameter to specify the type of scroll bars in a scrollable HTML element.
Added support for a content tip in a grid cell. The tip can host either plain text or HTML. It can be displayed even if all parts of a grid cell are visible.
The CExtRichContentScrollWnd control now allows you to attach a window handle to an HTML element by element ID.
The CExtRichContentLayout::Scrolling_GetHorizontalScrollBarHeight()and CExtRichContentLayout::Scrolling_GetVerticalScrollBarWidth()methods now have a new const CExtRichContentItem * pRCI parameter.
Improved the way grid controls filter their data: now when you open a column filter, it contains unchecked items as well as checked ones.
Added an __ECTN_EX_NO_RIBBON_GALLERY_TIP command node style for hiding tooltips in ribbon galleries.
Added a bUseScientificNumberMode parameter to the CExtEditSystemNumber class constructor to support scientific mode in the number editor.
Fixed incorrect mm unit conversion in the CSS subsystem.
Fixed incorrect parsing of font-family and text-decoration CSS parameters.
Fixed a hit testing bug in the CExtRichContentScrollWnd control related to incorrect mouse capture processing.
Fixed a crash when using the print preview on Windows x64 under certain conditions.

About FOSS Software

FOSS Software, Inc. is a software development and consulting company. The company's mission is the optimization of the development process, adaptation and software product maintenance. FOSS Software is committed to lowering the risk of developing unclaimed software and out-of-date technologies, keeping track of up-to-date technologies and supporting companies in upgrading their software in the most efficient way. FOSS Software, Inc., incorporated in November of 2000, was formed by a group of highly qualified programmers and program managers with extensive experience in the high technology field.

Syncfusion Essential Tools adds new MVC controls

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:26:00 GMT

Example applications built using Syncfusion Essential Tools.

Version 2011 Vol 4 includes Header, Footer, Menu, Dialog, ProgressBar, Button, List Box, Tab and Rating controls.

Syncfusion Essential Tools is an extensive collection of nearly 80 user-interface components. You can easily create robust and usable application interfaces such as those emulating Visual Studio.NET and Microsoft Office. All the editor controls have been architected to provide a simple and feature-rich means for capturing data input, validating, and displaying appropriate formatting. Syncfusion Essential Tools includes components for Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC technologies.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 2011

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC Mobile

Header Control - The Header control displays header content for mobile applications. It provides customization options to set captions, show or hide captions, and set custom content as a template for left and right (forward and back) navigation buttons. It features four built-in skins to enhance its look and feel.
Footer Control - The Footer control displays header content for mobile applications. It provides customization options to set captions, show or hide captions, and set custom content as a template for left and right (forward and back) navigation buttons. It features four built-in skins to enhance its look and feel.
Menu Control - The Menu control provides stunning interactive menus. It supports data binding, templates, and even rendering for sub-items to create hierarchical menus. Menu items can be displayed in either horizontal or vertical layout modes. The control has four built-in themes to enhance its look and feel.
Dialog Control - The Dialog control implements a modal dialog box-like window inside which any HTML content can be placed, including form content, messages, images, and text. Dialog boxes can be dragged within a browser, and feature four built-in themes that enhance their look and feel.
ProgressBar Control - The ProgressBar control allows you to graphically represent the progress of an ongoing process. Because it is a client-side control, information can be loaded quickly. The control's orientation, dimensions, and text are customizable, and it features four built-in skins that enhance its look and feel.
Button Control - The Button control allows you to use exactly the kind of button you would want to use. There are four types of buttons available: Normal Button, Toggle Button, Drop-down Button and Split Button.
List Box Control - The ListBox control provides a dynamic and interactive list view interface for displaying data, results lists, and more. The ListBox control supports server data binding, JSON binding, and Web service binding. It also supports client-side filtering, and comes with various built-in skins to enhance the look and feel for end users.
Tab Control - The Tab control provides a dynamic and interactive menu-driven tabbed interface. Tab content can be text, images, graphics, or HTML. If more items are added to the tab bar than can be displayed, a More option automatically appears at the end of the tab bar. When end users touch the More item, all the items that did not fit on the tab bar are displayed. The Tab control supports data binding for tab items and provides two types of tab styles—opened and closed. The tab control comes with various built-in skins that enhance the look and feel.
Waiting Pop-Up Control - This feature allows you to make your website more user-friendly. You can customize the image or use any HTML content to be displayed in the pop-up.
Rating Control - The Rating control provides an intuitive rating experience that allows end users to select a number of stars that represent a rating. Developers can specify the initial rating, the maximum rating to allow, and the alignment and direction of the stars. The Rating control also allows developers to specify a custom shape instead of stars. It ships with four built-in skins, and is rendered on the HTML 5 canvas surface.
Toggle Button Control - This button control indicates a feature with two basic states—on and off. An independent toggle button behaves like a checkbox. You can click toggle buttons, or drag the object inside it, to turn a setting on or off—for instance, to switch between italic and plain style in selected text.
File Upload Control - This control allows you to upload files to a server. It allows uploading multiple files and accepts files of any format. It uses progress bars to show the status of the file upload.
Scroll Panel Control - This feature provides an interactive scroll panel control that wraps all its contents in a scrollable area. Objects with continuous text, pictures, or any other content can be scrolled or viewed even if they don't fit into the space on the mobile display. The scroll panel control supports four built-in skins that enhance its look and feel.
Slider Control - The slider control provides a dynamic and interactive slider bar that allows users to visually select a specific value (or a range of values in the case of a range slider) within a value range. It supports both horizontal and vertical orientations. It also supports various tick marks and different slider handles. It provides HTML 5 ToolTips to display the current value of the slider. The slider control features four built-in skins that enhance the look and feel.
ToolBar Control - This feature allows you to customize and display a list of command items in a standard toolbar interface. Toolbars can be populated from the Items collection. It also supports data binding and templates for toolbar items, and features four built-in themes.
Accordion Control - Allows you to categorize items within multiple panes with the option to expand, collapse, and display them one at a time. Each accordion pane has a template for its header and content. It also supports an auto-size mode that allows it to fit in a variety of layouts.

Essential Tools for ASP.NET

Client-Side Events for the TreeView Control - New client-side events and features have been added to the TreeView control help to control its behavior efficiently.

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC

Rotator Improvements - The Rotator control now features better animation support, data binding, displaying items in a random order, and an integrated pager.
Time Picker Control - The time picker feature allows you to configure which hour convention you prefer to follow (12-hour or 24-hour) and choose which separator you like to use for the time format. You can also choose to turn off the minutes, seconds, or both and configure the display time format (hh:mm tt is the default format of time in the Time Picker, where "tt" refers to the AM/PM designators. This field remains void if time is in the 24-hour format. You can configure it to be hh:mm:ss)

Essential Tools for WPF

Multiple Selection in Property Grid - This feature displays the properties that are common among multiple selected objects, and when a single selected object is bound, property grid will display all the properties of the selected object.

Essential Tools for Windows Phone

Jumplists - This control allows users to jump to a specific category in a list instead of having to scroll through the body of it. For example, when you want to select a contact, you can jump to contacts starting with specific letters. Jump buttons will be enabled or disabled based on the item's availability.
Range Slider Control - Using this control you can set a price range to select products, or specify a time range to filter sale reports for a specific period of time. You can set the range by dragging the thumb or clicking on the slider bar. You can orient the slider vertical or horizontal as needed. You can also customize the appearance of the slider.
Toolbar Control - The toolbar control common in desktop apps is now available for Windows Phone. A toolbar is a graphical presentation of frequently used commands optimized for efficient access.
Color Picker Control - A color picker control enables you to select a desired color from a predefined color palette. You can use this control to customize elements such as background, foreground, image border color, and so on. You can define the colors by editing the RGB or alpha values.
Timespan Picker Control - The Timespan Picker control enables you to provide the option to select a time span in your applications. Supported timespan elements include day, hour, minute, and second. You can customize the timespan format as needed.
ToolTip Control - This control allows you to display more information about a UI element. Since there is no mouse hover event in the phone environment, ToolTips are displayed on tap event. You can customize the content and appearance of ToolTips.
Dialog Control - This control enables you to display modal or non-modal content in your applications. You can also use it to display alert or prompt dialogs.

About Syncfusion

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering real business innovation -- the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you're working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or Silverlight. Syncfusion uncompromisingly strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to our customers - from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies.

CoolControls joins ComponentSource

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:35:00 GMT

An example of the Cool Content Pager product.

.NET Server Controls for Web sites and Web application development.

Features

The following products are available:

Cool Content Pager - an ASP.NET control that allows you to easily divide your static content over multiple pages
Cool URL Input - an ASP.NET control that allows you to get info about a URL that is typed in a TextBox, just like on Facebook or LinkedIn
EU VAT Box - an ASP.NET control that makes it easy for you to check your customers European Union VAT ID
Google E-Commerce Pack - includes ASP.NET controls for AdSense and Analytics
Google GEO Pack 2010 - includes Maps Viewer, Geo Drawer, Location Picker and Route
Social Bookmarks Professional - an ASP.NET control that allows you to add Web 2.0 content sharing to your site

About CoolControls

CoolControls was established in 2009 as part of Aspira BV, The Netherlands. They develop quality software components for the ASP.NET platform. Their main focus is on .NET Server Controls for web sites and web application development. CoolControls' goal is to assist the development community to speed up the development phase and delivering more to end-users. CoolControls products have rich and user friendly functionality and are designed to save you time and money. CoolControls handle the browser compatibility, testing and complexity for you, so you can focus on the job at hand and get it done on time and within budget.

Syncfusion Essential Tools adds rotator control

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:39:12 GMT

Dashboard, Menu and Media Center demos in Syncfusion Essential Tools.

Version 2011 Vol 3 also adds a FileUpload control and form elements & Hyperlinks in the rich-text editor.

Updates in 2011 Vol 3

Rotator Control - The Rotator control supports the following: images, text, and templates, horizontal, vertical, image viewer, circular, auto scroll, and slideshow modes, auto scrolling, button, button hover, and mouse wheel navigation types, data source and load-on-demand loading types, item highlight and resize on mouse hover, customizable animation and background, resize window and border for each item.
FileUpload Control - The FileUpload control makes uploading files easy for users, as multiple files can be uploaded at the same time.
Form Elements in a Rich-Text Editor - Give your end users the ability to insert form elements in a rich-text editor control that provides the control with greater interactivity.
Hyperlinks in a Rich-Text Editor - To apply hyperlinks to text in a rich-text editor, previously you had to enter the URL manually. Now, however, you can apply hyperlinks using a hyperlink manager, which contains properties such as anchor name, URL, and anchor target. Using this method, you can choose how you want to link URLs, and if they should open in a new window or in the same frame.
Clean up HTML - The RichTextEditor control allows you to remove unneeded tags from HTML code. Usually, when you cut and paste text from a Word document to a rich-text editor, unnecessary HTML tags will be generated in the editor. This feature cleans up the code, leaving only the relevant tags.

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering business innovation - the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Syncfusion's award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to grow with you, whether you're using Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight.

ExpressLayout adds automatic group expansion

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:50:00 GMT

Layout manager demo in ExpressLayout Control.

ExpressLayout Control v2011 vol 1 now features automatic tree expansion and tab switching when dragging.

ExpressLayout Control is a native VCL component that provides a new way to design and manage your Windows forms. With ExpressLayout Control, you can construct forms with full runtime customization, allowing end-user to tailor the appearance of your user interface to suit their individual needs. At the heart of the ExpressLayout Control lies a basic concept, you build a layout using 'items', from control containers providing automatically aligned labels to auxiliary items, such as splitters. With ExpressLayout Control, you are freed from manual, pixel-by-pixel positioning of individual controls and liberated from runtime screen resolution problems so common in Delphi/C++ Builder applications.

Updates in v2011 vol 1

Layout Structure Inheritance - All layout elements can now be transferred to descendants of the layout control.
New Layout Settings - New options for tabbed groups. With these settings, you can customize a tabbed group's appearance in various ways. Group buttons can be positioned either on the group's left or right side. You can specify padding for each side of a layout element. Once specified, padding can be quickly triggered by changing individual padding options.
Automatic tree expansion when dragging - In the Customization Form, a collapsed layout group is automatically expanded if a dragged layout element is positioned over the group's caption.
Automatic tab switching when dragging - When the Customization Form is in tabbed View, dragging a layout element over the Layout Tree View or Available Items tabs automatically switches panes.
Lock icon for layout groups - To ensure that end-users can see that a group is locked, the layout control displays a lock icon above the group's icon in the Customization Form.

About DevExpress (Developer Express)

Developer Express is a software development company based in the United States. It produces coding assistance tools and components for Delphi, C++ Builder and Microsoft Visual Studio developers. The major part of its product line is VCL, .NET WinForms and ASP.NET components that replicate the UI of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications. Developer Express has won many industry awards for its products.

NetAdvantage for Windows Phone launched

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:44:00 GMT

Data Chart, Gauge and Barcode sample applications in Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone.

Develop rich, innovative mobile applications for Windows Phone 7 devices.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone provides you with rich, innovative mobile UI controls to build high-end mobile user experiences for Microsoft Windows Phone 7. The controls are high performance with eye-catching data visualizations, mobile form factor optimization, touch gesture support, and alignment with Metro usability guidelines. Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone is a lightweight toolset for building mobile user experiences, interactive data visualizations and mobile dashboards based on the NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization controls. Infragistics controls give you a shared XAML experience from desktop to Web to mobile so your users have the same real-time experience "on the phone" as they would expect from a desktop application.

NetAdvantage for Windows Phone controls deepen your toolbox with the high performance charts, bullet graphs, gauges, barcodes, barcode readers, sliders, windows, message boxes and more that you need to get started today in creating your own rich and vivid Microsoft Windows Phone 7 applications. NetAdvantage for Windows Phone includes an annual subscription to developer support, source code, all updates and upgrades, documentation and samples.

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 Controls - Provides 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
Data Chart - Provides heavy-duty data visualization with the ability to add statistical and technical indicators
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
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 - Allows mobile application developers to have a complete visual theme to create and style modern applications, without relying on the Microsoft Office brand

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.

Elegant Ribbon adds ListBox and CheckedListBox

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:04:10 GMT

Screenshot from Elegant Ribbon.

Version 4.2 also adds support for TextBox, MaskedTextBox, SplitButton, DateTimePicker and NumericUpDown in a popup menu.

Elegant Ribbon is a set of Windows Forms controls that allow you quickly and easily provide your application with a new-generation user interface like that introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. It is written in 100% managed C# and is CLS compliant. The following innovative approaches were used: context-sensitive and windowless controls, command-oriented programming interface, XML-based skinning, and WYSIWYG and rich design-time support in Visual Studio. All the implemented features fully meet 2007 Microsoft Office System User Interface Design Guidelines.

Updates in V4.2

Added ListBox and CheckedListBox controls
Added support for the following controls in a popup menu: TextBox, MaskedTextBox, SplitButton, DateTimePicker and NumericUpDown
Customize QAT dialog now displays proper control labels instead of variable names.
Customize QAT dialog now allows you to add controls from the Backstage View to the QAT.
Group Box control now wraps the text in its label when the text exceeds the label's width.
Screentips can be enabled for disabled controls by just setting a new static property UISettings.MouseForDisabledHandlelessControlsEnabledto true.
Added support for putting MessageBox's content to the Clipboard when hitting Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert.
Help is now Visual Studio 2010 compatible.

About FOSS Software

FOSS Software, Inc. is a software development and consulting company. The company's mission is the optimization of the development process, adaptation and software product maintenance. FOSS Software are committed to lowering the risk of developing unclaimed software and out-of-date technologies and keeping track of up-to-date technologies and supporting companies in upgrading their software in the most efficient way. FOSS Software, Inc., incorporated in November of 2000, was formed by a group of highly qualified programmers and program managers with extensive experience in the high technology field.

XtraEditors 2011 adds support for custom buttons

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:54:54 GMT

A selection of editors including calendar, calculator and tabs.

In addition to default buttons (Close, Next, and Prev), you can display a custom button with any text or image.

XtraEditors Library is a 100% C# based component suite designed and optimized for Visual Studio .NET and all .NET languages. XtraEditors Library includes 15 data edit controls. Every editor in devexpress.xtraeditors is available in both unbound and data-aware mode. With built-in Windows XP Theme support, XtraEditors Library will easily enable the newest look and feel standards in your next .NET application. Like all Developer Express .NET controls, you can also purchase the full C# source code for XtraEditors Library.

Updates in v2011 vol 1

XtraTabControl - Support for Custom Buttons - You now have the ability to display custom buttons within the WinForms Tab Control. In addition to default buttons (Close, Next, and Prev), you can display a custom button with any display text or image (or both), and provide the appropriate tooltip when required.
HyperLink - The WinForms HyperLink Control allows you to launch a link either by clicking a point within the edit box or only the text itself.

About DevExpress (Developer Express)

Infragistics NetAdvantage for jQuery released

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:50:00 GMT

Grids and User Interfaces built using Infragistics NetAdvantage for jQuery.

A full range of commercial class application user interface controls for jQuery development.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for jQuery includes standards-compliant ASP.NET MVC and jQuery controls for HTML5, streaming video and CSS3 Web technologies. This lightweight toolset offers Microsoft Office Integration to create and work with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PDF/XPS files from within their jQuery Web applications running with .NET. Infragistics NetAdvantage for jQuery features client-side controls including the igGrid to examine, filter, page and sort through tabular data, igDataSource to handle heavy lifting data operations, and HTML5 igVideoPlayer to offer streaming online video playback with support for embeddable advertising. Infragistics NetAdvantage for jQuery will help you create exciting cross-platform website experiences in browsers and on devices backed by any server data endpoint—without needing plug-ins or extensions. It's exactly what you need if you're using jQuery and JavaScript to build applications targeting modern Web browsers. Infragistics NetAdvantage for jQuery includes an annual subscription to developer support, source code, all updates and upgrades, documentation and samples.

Features

Data Source - The jQuery data source is the brain behind all data operations and manipulation (i.e., paging, sorting, filtering, etc.) taking place for data bound views (our jQuery grid, for example) in your NetAdvantage for jQuery-powered user interface.
Date Picker - By combining all of the capabilities of the jQuery date picker with all of the enhanced date editing functionality of the date editor control, your Web applications gain a lightweight dropdown jQuery date picker (with accompanying controls for ASP.NET MVC) that's fully stylable and works across browsers.
Editors: igCurrencyEditor, igDateEditor, igMaskEditor, igNumericEditor, igPercentEditor, igTextEditor
File Upload - Upload file contents to your server with this jQuery file upload control with accompanying controls for ASP.NET MVC 2 and 3. Your Web application users can upload single or multiple files simultaneously using AJAX.
Grid - The jQuery data grid control can take the tables on your Web pages and display them with rich interactivity to give your users a far superior user experience compared to what they had with static HTML tables.
Rating - The jQuery rating control provides a lightweight, jQuery control (along with controls for ASP.NET MVC 2 and 3) with HTML5 support for use when collecting ratings from end users.
Video Player - The jQuery video player control (and accompanying controls for ASP.NET MVC 2 and 3) gives you the ability to play streaming video in your Web applications. Using the new HTML5 video tag supported by modern browsers and its ability to play streaming video in many different standard formats, this jQuery video player control lets your users interact with online streaming video content.

About Infragistics

ComponentArt TimeNavigator expands rule-set

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:32:00 GMT

Selecting dates with ComponentArt TimeNavigator.

Customization rule-set expanded to include culture settings, fiscal offset and additional numbering schemes.

ComponentArt TimeNavigator was designed to enable quick and intuitive date range selections. Developers can specify the allowed date range as well as any number of date/time drill levels: decades, years, quarters, months, weeks, days, hours, minute, seconds or milliseconds. The user navigates through time and makes date selections by clicking, dragging, zooming, scrolling, using the mouse wheel or using SHIFT and CTRL keys. All operations are quick, easy and intuitive. ComponentArt TimeNavigator has been optimized to quickly handle many thousands of time nodes: scrolling, zooming and drilling is extremely responsive, even with very large time spans.

The following editions are available:

ComponentArt TimeNavigator is also available as part of ComponentArt Data Visualization for Silverlight, ComponentArt Data Visualization for WPF and ComponentArt Data Visualization for .NET Ultimate.

Updates in 2011

Provides intuitive animated transitions through selection states
The customization rule-set has been expanded to include: culture settings, fiscal offset, first day of week, first week of year and week numbering.

About ComponentArt

ComponentArt is a leading component vendor specializing in the creation of user interface and data visualization software for Microsoft's .NET platform. The company's primary goal is to help developers worldwide advance their software development effort by providing powerful building blocks that allow them to focus on the business logic, core value, and primary function of their application or website. ComponentArt has consistently been at the leading edge of technological innovation - from its first ASP.NET user interface component launch in 2002, parallel with the launch of the Microsoft ASP.NET platform - to the breakthrough release of Web.UI for ASP.NET AJAX, parallel with the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework launch (now a part of ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008).

Create organizational charts in Silverlight

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:44:02 GMT

An application built using Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization.

NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 2011 Volume 1 enhances OLAP Pivot Grid and Data Chart controls.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization lets you create stylable user interface controls for geospatial mapping, interactive gauges, graphical timelines and animated charting. With Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization you can build rich dashboards, visualize business data and empower decision-makers with a toolset for simplifying the presentation of your business intelligence.

Updates in 2011 Volume 1

IG Theme - NEW! - The IG Theme was created to allow application developers a complete visual theme, so modern applications can be created without having to rely on the Microsoft Office brand.
xamPivotGrid - Enhanced! - This release of the Silverlight OLAP pivot grid lets you connect with more data, more easily with support for XMLA with Oracle databases. You can enable the pivot grid to let end users edit the contents of its cells, expand and collapse the data shown in the pivot grid, and limit expansion or contraction of data specifically to the group in which the "+/-" is clicked, rather than all groups within the pivot grid. Columns are now sortable. You can also now customize the data selector display for flat data sources, the definition of calculating rows and columns, and handle an event when a header cell is clicked.
xamDataChart™ Enhanced! - Added these additional types of data series and chart types:

Bubble chart
Polar Scatter series
Polar Spline Area series
Radial Area series
Radial Column series
Radial Line series
Radial Pie series
Radial series

xamPieChart - NEW! - A new Silverlight pie chart control that's visually appealing and extensible. Create simple or exploded pie charts, with a customizable threshold for inclusion in an "Other" category, and text labels and images that can be displayed within or outside of the pie in a manner that avoids overlapping. Users can click or drill down to view underlying data, explode out a section of the pie, and get information via tooltips.
xamBarcodeReader - NEW! - Now you can read and decode barcode images, with support for identifying the following barcode symbologies:

QR Code
EAN/UPC
Code 39
Code 128
MaxiCode
Interleaved 2 of 5

xamBarcode - Enhanced! - Your application's QR Codes can now transform ECI numbers.
xamOrgChart - NEW! - Create high performance, stylable, hierarchical organization charts that represent company, department or workgroup structures and more. Relationships between employees in different departments can be traced, and groups can be expanded or hidden. You can change the orientation of the organization chart, and customize the types of metadata that are displayed and how they are shown.
xamNetworkNode - NEW! - 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.
Drag and Drop Framework - NEW! - User-friendly drag and drop behaviors are now available with any UI element in your Silverlight Data Visualization application through the DragDropManager. By defining what drop operations are permissible, you can enforce business rules with little to no coding. Throughout each drag operation there is a channel of events to which your application can listen, empowering you to add your own rich touches like animation. Everything about the look and feel of your drag and drop experience is within your control through the Infragistics Drag and Drop Framework for Silverlight Data Visualization.

Make Any UI Element Draggable - You can drag all of your items and drop them onto any targets you define
Channel Concept - By simply associating your drag sources and drop targets with "channels" you can enforce many constraints; items can only be dropped on sources if their channels are compatible
Customizable Cursors - You can customize the appearance of the move, copy and "drop not allowed" cursors that appear during a drag operation
Drop Target Marker - When a suitable drop target is near, Infragistics Drag and Drop Framework draws a stylable, semitransparent marker to indicate this target can accept the item being dragged
Events - Since drag and drop is about an action taking place, there are many events enabling you to tap into all stages of the operation

UI Automation - NEW! - Microsoft's UI Automation accessibility framework enables applications to provide and consume information about user interfaces. Microsoft UI Automation also lets developers build automated test scripts for the UI. Many of the Silverlight Data Visualization controls are now built with support for Microsoft UI Automation for greater accessibility.

About Infragistics

Add Network Node Diagrams to your WPF applications

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:42:29 GMT

User interfaces built using NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization.

NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization 2011 Volume 1 also adds new pie chart control and barcode reader.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization includes stylable user interface controls for geospatial mapping, interactive gauges, graphical timelines, animated charting and OLAP pivot grids. Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization includes charts, gauges and tree maps that handle millions of data points with millisecond updates. These WPF data visualization controls let you communicate information clearly by leveraging the superior graphics capabilities of WPF. Use the fully-featured UI controls to produce high-end OLAP pivot grids, charts, maps, gauges, timelines, bullet graphs, barcodes and more. Built-in analytics for statistical and technical studies add value that decision-makers can act on immediately.

Updates in 2011 Volume 1

IG Theme - NEW! - The IG Theme was created to allow application developers a complete visual theme, so modern applications can be created without having to rely on the Microsoft Office brand.
xamPivotGrid - Enhanced! - This release of the WPF OLAP pivot grid lets you connect with more data, more easily with support for XMLA with Oracle databases. You can enable the pivot grid to let end users edit the contents of its cells, expand and collapse the data shown in the pivot grid, and limit expansion or contraction of data specifically to the group in which the "+/-" is clicked, rather than all groups within the pivot grid. Columns are now sortable. You can also now customize the data selector display for flat data sources, the definition of calculating rows and columns, and handle an event when a header cell is clicked.
xamDataChart™ Enhanced! - Added these additional types of data series and chart types:
- Bubble chart
- Polar Scatter series
- Polar Spline Area series
- Radial Area series
- Radial Column series
- Radial Line series
- Radial Pie series
- Radial series
xamPieChart - NEW! - A new WPF pie chart control that's visually appealing and extensible. Create simple or exploded pie charts, with a customizable threshold for inclusion in an "Other" category, and text labels and images that can be displayed within or outside of the pie in a manner that avoids overlapping. Users can click or drill down to view underlying data, explode out a section of the pie, and get information via tooltips.
xamBarcodeReader - NEW! - Now you can read and decode barcode images, with support for identifying the following barcode symbologies:
- QR Code
- EAN/UPC
- Code 39
- Code 128
- MaxiCode
- Interleaved 2 of 5
xamBarcode - Enhanced! - Your application's QR Codes can now transform ECI numbers.
xamOrgChart - NEW! - Create high performance, stylable, hierarchical organization charts that represent company, department or workgroup structures and more. Relationships between employees in different departments can be traced, and groups can be expanded or hidden. You can change the orientation of the organization chart, and customize the types of metadata that are displayed and how they are shown.
xamNetworkNode - NEW! - 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.
Drag and Drop Framework - NEW! -User-friendly drag and drop behaviors are now available with any UI element in your WPF Data Visualization application through the DragDropManager. By defining what drop operations are permissible, you can enforce business rules with little to no coding. Throughout each drag operation there is a channel of events to which your application can listen, empowering you to add your own rich touches like animation. Everything about the look and feel of your drag and drop experience is within your control through the Infragistics Drag and Drop Framework for WPF Data Visualization.
- Make Any UI Element Draggable - You can drag all of your items and drop them onto any targets you define
- Channel Concept - By simply associating your drag sources and drop targets with "channels" you can enforce many constraints; items can only be dropped on sources if their channels are compatible
- Customizable Cursors - You can customize the appearance of the move, copy and "drop not allowed" cursors that appear during a drag operation
- Drop Target Marker - When a suitable drop target is near, Infragistics Drag and Drop Framework draws a stylable, semitransparent marker to indicate this target can accept the item being dragged
- Events - Since drag and drop is about an action taking place, there are many events enabling you to tap into all stages of the operation
UI Automation - NEW! - Microsoft's UI Automation accessibility framework enables applications to provide and consume information about user interfaces. Microsoft UI Automation also lets developers build automated test scripts for the UI. Many of the WPF Data Visualization controls are now built with support for Microsoft UI Automation for greater accessibility.

About Infragistics

IBM ILOG Elixir Standard 3.0 Patch 8 released

Tue, 31 May 2011 12:13:37 GMT

Data visualizations built using IBM ILOG Elixir Standard.

IBM ILOG Elixir Standard V3.0 is a market leading data visualization component set for Adobe Flex 4 and Adobe AIR rich Internet application (RIA) developers (please note you will also get IBM ILOG Elixir 2.5 for Flex 3 when you buy Elixir 3.0). IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 provides 10 graphical data-display components and helps turn raw data into clear, actionable information through a highly graphical and interactive user experience. For a productive design-time experience, IBM ILOG Elixir is tightly integrated with Adobe Flash Builder 4 software. Using a component of IBM ILOG Elixir is easy; just drag and drop it into place and set its properties from within your Flash Builder development environment, add Elixir libraries to your projects in one mouse click; use wizards to create custom gauges; access the Elixir ASDoc reference documentation when you hover over a type in the editors or full documentation set from within your Flash Builder IDE.

Updates in V3.0 Patch 8

Bug fix: A fitted map does not fit completely after window resize

About IBM ILOG

IBM ILOG's innovative solutions help thousands of industry leaders worldwide make crucial business decisions while increasing agility, cutting costs and slashing schedules. For over two decades, ILOG has developed software and technologies that have helped organizations build unparalleled applications. Their research and development team is committed to delivering the most advanced products available to help you stay competitive and profitable; and ILOG Professional Services can create a range of custom solutions that meet your individual needs. Since 1987, ILOG's innovative enterprise-class software components and services have helped companies maximize their business agility and improve operating efficiency. Over 1000 global corporations and more than 300 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's business rules, optimization and visualization technologies to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. ILOG has invested more than a decade creating sophisticated graphics tools and engines that support everything from air traffic control and homeland security, to ensuring the reliability of the most demanding telecommunications networks, providing end-users with the state-of-the-art tools they need to understand and manage the complex data that flow through and drive their business processes.

Syncfusion launch HTML 5 based diagramming package

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Dashboards and Pivot Tables in Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Essential Studio Enterprise 2011 Vol 2 adds an HTML 5 based diagram package and RDL compatible reporting engine.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition includes Syncfusion Essential Tools, Essential Grid, Essential Grouping, Essential XlsIO, Essential Diagram, Essential Chart, and Essential Edit. Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise incorporates a unique debugging support system that allows switching between Debug and Release versions of the library with a single click from inside the Visual Studio.NET IDE. Dynamic and feature-rich, Syncfusion Essential Studio has everything developers need to create enterprise-class applications.

Updates in 2011 Vol 2

HTML 5-based Diagramming Package - Allows developers to create web-based business applications complete with Visio-like diagramming using the HTML 5-based diagramming engine
Report Definition Language (RDL) compatible Silverlight/WPF Reporting Engine - Enables developers to create standards-based RDL reports without being locked into a vendor specific reporting format
Business Intelligence Support for Additional Data Warehousing Servers - Build business intelligence applications that can talk to any XMLA compliant server
Load and display Excel files - WPF and Silverlight grid now supports loading and displaying Excel files
Easily present geographic data - New Essential Maps for WPF and Silverlight allows for representing geographic information in your dashboards

About Syncfusion

Essential Tools for ASP.NET 2011 Vol 2 released

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Image upload demo using Syncfusion Essential Tools for ASP.NET.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for ASP.NET 2011 Vol 2 adds new Ribbon control, ButtonAdv control and Gallery View.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for ASP.NET is a collection of professional user interface components to create interactive ASP.NET applications. Syncfusion Essential Tools for ASP.NET can be used to create robust Web application interfaces using the Menu, Tree View and Editor Package (which includes a Date Picker, Masked-Edit Text Box, Percent Text Box, and others).

Updates in 2011 Vol 2

New Ribbon Control - The Ribbon control is a server control that provides a rich user interface like that of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010. It contains graphical representations of control elements that are grouped by functionality
ButtonAdv Control - The ButtonAdv control is a fully customizable button control that provides a rich user interface. It supports custom styles for an enhanced appearance, and different orientations for greater control of the layout
Gallery View - The gallery view provides a highly interactive user interface, containing multiple items with multiple functionalities. It supports adding extra controls, which allows you to add extra functionality to a page