Released: Oct 16, 2012
Updates in this release
Updates in 2012 Volume 2
Windows Phone
- Auto-Complete Box
- The Auto Complete Box is a control that combines a text box and a drop list, providing item suggestions to the user as they type text in the control.
- Context Menu - Use the Context Menu to display on demand based on the user interaction.
- State and Behavior - Controls that test the visible state of the pop-up context menu in code, and affect the zoom and fade behavior of the background when the context menu is visible.
- Date, Time and List Picker - Controls that allow developers to recreate a popular first-party Windows Phone data input experience.
- Toggle Switch - Enable users to turn an application option on or off. It is the Windows Phone equivalent of the check box and has two check states.
Ignite UI - 17 new Mobile Input, Mobile Navigation, and Mobile Layout controls
- Button/Submit Button
- CheckBox
- CheckBox Group
- RadioButton Group
- SelectMenu
- Slider
- TextBox
- ToggleSwitch
- Link
- NavBar
- Page
- Page Content
- Page Header
- Page Footer
- Collapsible
- Collapsible Set
- Popup
Grid
- Column Moving
- Multi-Column Headers
- Row-Edit Template
- Unbound Columns
- Default Group for Date Columns
WYSIWYG Editor
- A rich client-side text editor control that allows you to perform text manipulation (bold, italic, underline), insert tables images and links, change fonts, and perform various indentations and header settings.
ComboBox
- New features include a cascading ComboBox.
Data Chart
- New features include Financial Price Series.
Data Source
- New features include WebAPI/RE ST Support.
Silverlight and WPF
- Gantt Control - Gantt charts are scalable from daily to weekly to monthly time frames, with the ability to customize to specific user preferences.
- Syntax Editor - Inspired by Microsoft’s Visual Studio code editor, the new Syntax Editor brings an extended code editing experience to your applications.
- Syntax Parsing Engine - Process text based on grammar rules provided to the engine.
- Geographic Map - Illustrate not only geographic data, but also thematic data such as climate, economic conditions and resources.
- Grid - Support for data annotation, including specifying validation rules, determining how data is displayed and allowing them to set relationships between classes.
- Data Chart - Create Data Charts with multi-dimensional data (OLAP data), enabling heavy-duty data visualization.
- Pivot Grid - Excel-style filtering and a new compact layout that displays hierarchies in a tree-like structure.
- Visual Studio 2012 Support - Design incredible user experiences with data visualizations for virtually any business scenario.
ASP.NET
- Data Grid and Hierarchical Data Grid - Excel-Style Filtering capability echoes Excel as much as possible. You can now file by unique values and set-up custom filters for columns.
- MaskEditor - Developers have the ability to set the mask of the control in JavaScript on the client.
Windows Forms
- Coded UI Support - Verify that your application, including its user interface, is functioning correctly with coded UI tests, or CUITs.
- Syntax Parsing Engine - Process text based on grammar rules provided to the engine.
- Syntax Editor - Inspired by Microsoft’s Visual Studio code editor, the new Syntax Editor brings an extended code editing experience to your applications.
- Visual Studio 2012 Support - Design incredible user experiences with data visualizations for virtually any business scenario.