Released: Oct 17, 2012

Updates in 2012 Volume 2

What’s new in Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Phone 2012 Volume 2?

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. It allows developers to benefit from a powerful UI optimization technique to limit the amount of free text entry by the user. Developers can customize the display of items in the list, use data binding to populate the list, and control how the list items are filtered.

• Custom Layout - Specify your own data objects layout in the drop list.
• Data Binding - Bind the drop list to any collection of objects.
• Filtering - Control how the drop list is filtered based on the input text using the FilterMode property, providing options for case sensitivity and which part of the data items are filtered against (beginning, or any part of the text).

Context Menu - Use the Context Menu to display on demand based on the user interaction. Common scenarios for the context menu typically involve a Tap & Hold gesture by the user on any given screen element to pop the menu open, although it can be associated to other common events as well, such as a button click,. The Context Menu is a very useful tool to recreate a first-party Windows Phone experience where advanced options need to be presented to the user without cluttering the screen with additional application bar buttons, menu items, or controls.

State and Behavior - Controls and 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.

• Data Binding - Populate the context menu with data from any collection using data binding.
• Scroll Menu Items - Scroll menu items within the context menu pop-up window when there are too many items to display at once.
• Styling -Style the context menu and items according to the look & feel of your application.

Date Picker - The Date Picker control is one of three selector controls that allow developers to recreate a popular first-party Windows Phone data input experience. Date Picker is a text box input control that can be tapped by the user to display a separate window used for date selection. The selection window contains three infinite scrolling lists, letting the user easily select a day, month, and year without any typing required.

• Culture Format - Easily provide date selection to your users in your apps without requiring any typing, and do so in any calendar culture supported by Windows Phone.
• Customization - Customize the full-screen date picker page by building your own.

Time Picker - The TimePicker control is one of three selector controls that allow developers to recreate a popular first-party Windows Phone data input experience. TimePicker is a text box input that can be tapped by the user to display a separate window used for time selection. The selection window contains three infinite scrolling lists, letting the user easily select the hour and minutes without any typing required. You can also use the 24 hour time format, otherwise an extra selection is made available for AM/PM.

• Culture Format - Easily provide time selections to your users in your apps without requiring any typing, and do so in any date/time culture supported by Windows Phone.
• Customization - Customize the full-screen time picker page by building your own.

List Picker - The List Picker control is one of three selector controls that allow developers to recreate a popular first-party Windows Phone data input experience. List Picker is a text box input control that can be tapped by the user to display a separate window used for the selection of an item in a custom collection. List Picker is basically the Windows phone equivalent of the Combo Box control.

• List Selection Mode - Use in-place list selection or a full screen selection page in your apps.
• Multiple Selections - Choose between single or multiple item selection.
• Data Binding - Populate the list picker's selection of items from any collection of objects.
• Data Templates - Customize the XAML template to be used for the items in the selection list.

Toggle Switch - The Toggle Switch is a simple control that enables users to turn an application option on or off. It is the Windows Phone equivalent of the check box and has two check states: On and Off.

• Date Templates - Customize the XAML template to be used for the content and the header of the Toggle Switch in each state.
• Customization - Select the foreground color of your choice for the "On" state, or use the default accent color from the user's chosen theme.
• Dynamic State - Dynamically change the content of the Toggle Switch depending on the current state.