Xceed Ultimate ListBox for Silverlight is a listbox component for Silverlight applications. It performs intelligent, virtualized background data retrieval - the remote data engine only gets records as needed, reducing the amount transferred. Xceed Ultimate ListBox for Silverlight is a drop-in replacement of the standard control. Get a superior listbox without wasting any time, thanks to an API design that lets you integrate it into any project using the stock Silverlight listbox. Xceed Ultimate ListBox for Silverlight supports grouping, navigation, and filtering. It takes users directly to the group they’re looking for, and a search box filters data quickly and easily. With smooth scrolling and fluid animations, these effects reduce the perception of lag, thanks to the time required to execute them. Because items fade in/out and glide fluidly, visual tracking of items is improved. Xceed Ultimate ListBox for Silverlight includes priority support and updates with a Vanguard subscription. The Blueprint Edition goes further and includes the component’s full source code. Full documentation and samples is also included.
Features available in Xceed Ultimate ListBox for Silverlight
- Drop-in replacement for the standard Silverlight listbox - Its API is designed so that it will fit easily into any project already using the stock Silverlight listbox control. If you know the Silverlight ListBox interface, you can be up and running in minutes.
- Intelligent virtualized background data retrieval - Automatic data retrieval only gets records from the remote data source if they are visible (data virtualization). This greatly reduces the amount of data to be transferred, which increases the perceived speed of the listbox. Also reduces strain on the server.
- Optimized network communications and data source queries - No discovery. The listbox doesn't need to know anything about the data source. Other controls need to send a sizable query to the source to learn about it, wait for the response, and then handle it. Xceed's Silverlight listbox doesn't do this, letting it load faster.
- Item grouping - Provides powerful grouping with customizable headers. Supports UI virtualization, preserving memory and reducing load time, even when grouping.
- A UI experience that will make your Silverlight application seem faster - Provides configurable animations for tasks such as adding/removing items, changing item size, and line/page/thumb scrolling. Fully asynchronous architecture ensures the UI remains responsive at all times.
- Panels and views - Provides a multi-view panel that allows effortless, animated switching between multiple views.
- Themes - Comes with six themes to match the style of your application, whatever it may be. Silverlight, Excel 2007 (black, blue, and silver), Metro Dark and Metro Light (inspired by Microsoft's Metro design philosophy, as seen in Windows Phone 7)
- Data binding - Supports binding to any local list implementing IEnumerable (and generics too), WCF Data Services Web services, WCF RIA Services Web services, and custom Web services. Data virtualization also supports caching, pre-emptive data loading, and delayed triggering of events to avoid needless querying during scrolling.
- Filtering - Provides a search box object for filtering. Complex filters can be created using the listbox's filter expressions.
- Drag-and-drop support - The drag-drop interface lets you develop controls that work seamlessly with the listbox!
- Fully asynchronous architecture - Designed from the ground up to take full advantage of background operations to make sure the listbox, and therefore the application, remains responsive at all times.
- Silverlight technology - Object-oriented design created specifically for Silverlight 4, written in C# and XAML. Based on a flexible and extensible object model, with modular and reusable visual elements. The listbox's items are true Silverlight content controls, so they can contain anything. Supports Right-To-Left text. Complete source code (C# and XAML) available in the Blueprint Edition. Includes a variety of VB.NET and C# sample applications to get you started. Design-time support in Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend. Can be used in conjunction with the MVVM and MVC design and architectural patterns.
About Xceed Software
Xceed Software creates, markets and distributes quality software components for Microsoft Windows developers. Since its launch in 1994, Xceed has been devoted exclusively to the Microsoft platform. The company's very first product, Xceed Zip Compression Library, was first offered as a VBX for Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 and has been so successful that it has been migrated to every Microsoft platform since, including ActiveX, the .NET Framework, and the .NET Compact Framework. Today, Xceed's product line can be grouped into two main categories: Data Manipulation components and User Interface components. The Data Manipulation components include Compression, Encryption and File Transfer libraries. The User Interface components include Grid, Chart, Menus, Toolbars, Treeviews, Explorer Panes and other interface controls.
