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Updates in 2015 Vol. 2
New in WPF
- xamBusyIndicator - makes it easy for a developer to report the progress of a long running, multi-threaded, process to their end-users.
- xamDataGrid - improved filtering, support for INotifyDataErrorInfo interface, enhanced template support.
- xamPropertyGrid - New attributes give you complete control over how properties and categories are sorted.
- xamComboEditor - Now supports the System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute.
- Legends - New properties make it easier to change legend appearance.
- xamDataChart - Easily set a major and minor gridline interval.
- xamSpreadsheet - Validate cell values, provide tooltips and show error messages based on invalid values.
- Excel Engine - New methods make it easier to insert and delete rows and columns from the WorksheetTable class.
- xamRichTextEditor - New method enables users see the nearest valid text insertion location relative to the supplied point.
New in Windows Forms
- New Notification Badges - common in mobile apps for notifications, now you can do the same in your Windows Forms apps.
- DataChart Improvements:
- Save to BMP, EMF, EXIF, GIF, GUID, ICON, JPEG, MemoryBmp, PNG, TIFF and WMF.
- New Gallery Stacked, Bubble, Polar and Radial series.
- Axis intervals (major and minor gridlines).
- Category and single item tooltips.
- Gesture/touch support including pinch and zoom, pan, press and hold.
- Community Technology Preview - introducing CTP release of a new Excel-like control.
- Styling Improvements - To give a modern Office look, Infragistics have included new Style Libraries for all Windows Forms controls such as Outlook Blue and Excel Green.
- Ease of use for Office inspired Apps:
- FormattedTextEditor - Superscript and Subscript support.
- PivotGrid - Simplified Binding - The FlatDataSource class provides a way for the developer to show “non-OLAP” data in the PivotGrid control.
- WinGrid - Summary Rows Height - Summary rows may now have either smaller or larger height than the one need to fit their content.
New in Native Mobile for iOS & Android
Android
- New Android Data Grid - Responsive to device orientation, Columns animations, binding remote data along with the local, live scrolling, row selection, and built-in columns are some of the included features.
- Android Data Chart - fully RTM so all of the charts and visualizations that you've been using are now fully supported.
- Gauges - Radial, Linear and BulletGraph.
- Barcodes - Code 128 and QR barcode support.
iOS
- New Swift 2.0 and Objective-C language support- improved API’s so you get the best Swift 2.0 experience.
- BitCode Enabled - distribute your apps and know that they’ll always be optimized for the latest hardware.
- IGCalendarView - New view added: WeekView plus added the ability to style and set working hours.
- IGFlowLayoutView - New Maximize Item support.
- IGCalendarView - Smart Axis has gotten even better, by supporting text wrapping.
New in Ignite UI: HTML5, jQuery & ASP.NET MVC
- New Editors - re-architected all editors to optimize their usability and also added a new component – the Checkbox widget
- New igNotifier Component - An extension of the popover component that specializes in providing the end user with notification information.
- New igValidator Component - Allows flexible validation on an array of Ignite UI components, as well as standard input form elements.
- IgniteUI Visual Studio MVC Scaffolder -Provides code generation and templates to quickly target standard data scenarios like creating, reading, updating and deleting data.
- Enhanced igTreeGrid - new features include Row Selectors, Column Moving and Resizing, Paging Breadcrumbs, keyboard navigation, Excel Exporter.
- Enhanced igCombo - new features include Autocomplete, Grouping, Header & Footer Templates,Dropdown Orientation, Support for Custom Values, Element Support, ASP.NET MVC 6 support for all UI Widgets.
- igGrid - new Colum Auto Sizin, Advanced Filter dialog - Custom Condition, Accessibility Rendering (ARIA), Excel Exporter (RTM), Selection / Activation with Focus.
- General Enhancements - MVC, Tag Helpers for Ignite UI, Scaffolding templates with Ignite UI.
- igUpload - transmit additional data between client and server.
New in Indigo Studio
- Add Comments to Prototypes - Comments are shown in a side-bar as opposed to on top of the prototype, read and add comments without interfering with the navigation.
- Use Collections to Organize and Share Your UX Prototypes
- Reorder the items in a collection like a playlist.
- Create a single link to the entire collection, which you can then send to someone.
- Deleting a collection does not affect the individual items.
- Rulers and Guides - Add a new guide by either clicking the ruler area or by using the click + drag action. You can also double click on a guide to type in a precise value.
- Download and Import UI Libraries - Explore, download and import UI libraries shared by community users without leaving the Indigo Studio application.
- FontAwesome Icons - Added all icons from the FontAwesome collection, which increases the tally to 800+.
About Infragistics
Infragistics products are used by over a million developers to create Enterprise-ready, user interface toolsets that deliver high-performance applications for Web, Windows and mobile platforms. They have achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics helps developers build and style user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight, iOS, JQuery and HTML5 applications. They also offer user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.
