Released: Oct 16, 2012

Updates in this release

Updates in 2012 Volume 2

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.