Released: Nov 15, 2011

Updates in this release

Updates in 2011 Volume 2

New Features for Reporting Developers:

• Easy-to-use Report Design Interface – the design controls and features are integrated for use with Visual Studio 2010, and provide an easy way to create data reports.
• Flexible Report Viewing - reports can be rendered and viewed locally or remotely (on a server).
• Data Visualization Integration – includes the award-winning charting functionality found in Infragistics Silverlight and WPF Data Visualization products.
• Add Your Own Report Data at Design-time or at Run-time - offers data access support for SQL data sources, and object data sources. You can also easily connect to Entity Framework and RIA Services (using client-side rendering).
• Printing and Exporting - enables printing and exporting to both a PDF file, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel format for easier sharing with end users.
• Write Your Own Custom Expressions – you can conduct an analysis of reported data with "built-in" support for common constants, operators, and functions with the help of the Expression Assistant feature.

New Features for Windows Forms Developers:

• Syntax Parsing Framework – a fully functional parser engine that can take a programming language and parse it into its language specific tokens, keywords and constructs.  
• Enhanced WinGrid – now more in-tune with Excel behaviors, with improved exporting.
• Infragistics Excel Library Enhanced - support has been added for shapes, data validation, print titles, print area and page breaks.
• Custom Columns Added for GANTT View - you can now display additional information about tasks.
• Math Library - provides complex vector and matrix calculations plus all the standard .NET math functions and other commonly used mathematical computation methods.
• Black and Silver Themes - add an Office 2010 look and feel to your applications.

New Features for jQuery Developers:

• Enhanced jQuery Grid - the JavaScript and HTML5 based data grid now has grouping, custom editors, column hiding, resizing and summaries, row selector, tooltips and a user feature chooser.
• Infragistics Excel Library Enhanced - support has been added for shapes, data validation, print titles, print area and page breaks.
• jQuery Hierarchical Grid - this new grid control allows users to drill down, as well as add, edit, delete, select, sort, group and filter rows.
• ComboBox- fully featured Combo Box control with built-in Auto-Suggest, Auto-Complete and Auto-Filtering.
• Web-based Tree - a new jQuery tree control features load on demand, node templates, checkboxes and keyboard navigation.
• HTML5 Charts - a full range of business, scientific and financial charts, including bar, line, polar, range, step, spline, OHLC and candlestick.
• HTML Editor - a new jQuery WYSIWYG editor which offers rich text formatting, the ability to insert images, links, lists and tables; clipboard support and source and design views.

New Features for ASP.NET Developers:

• iPad/iPhone Browser Support - all ASP.NET controls are now fully touch enabled on the iPad and iPhone.
• Infragistics Excel Library Enhanced - support has been added for shapes, data validation, print titles, print area and page breaks.
• Enhanced ASP.NET Data Grid - new features include Microsoft Word exporter, multi-column headers, batch updating, clipboard support and cell merging.
• Image Button Enhanced - now implements the iButtonControl interface so you can enable it as the default button on a page.

New Features for WPF and Silverlight Line of Business Developers:

• XAML Data Chart - add charts with millions of data points, capable of millisecond updates to your applications.
• Funnel Chart - displays data in a funnel shape with a variable number of sections, each representing the data as a portion of 100%.
• Resource Washer - set the color on groups of resources in an existing ResourceDictionary to update the color of the controls in your applications.
• Infragistics Excel Library Enhanced - support has been added for shapes, data validation, print titles, print area and page breaks.
• Input Controls - enhance data entry with xamCurrencyInput, xamDateTimeInput, xamMaskedInput and xamNumericInput controls.
• Multi-Column Combo - new control gives you a more comprehensive display choice for dropdown data.
• Math Library - provides complex vector and matrix calculations plus all the standard .NET math functions and other commonly used mathematical computation methods.
• Tile Manager - users can configure a tiled grid layout by enabling moving, resizing and the ability to change the state of the tiles at run time.
• Calculation Manager - adds Microsoft Excel-like formula support to any XAML control on a form, including native WPF and Silverlight controls

New Features for WPF and Silverlight Data Visualization Developers:

• Resource Washer - set the color on groups of resources in an existing ResourceDictionary to update the color of the controls in your applications.
• Infragistics Excel Library Enhanced - support has been added for shapes, data validation, print titles, print area and page breaks.
• Geographic Map - create highly detailed, thematic geographical maps.
• Funnel Chart - displays data in a funnel shape with a variable number of sections, each representing the data as a portion of 100%.
• Sparkline Chart - a data-intense, design-simple graphic that allows end users to spot trends, variations and patterns in data.
• Data Chart – now includes the following new features: OLAP axis, error bars, 15 new chart series, weighted moving average trend line and correlation formula.
• Pivot Grid - lets your users slice, dice and filter multidimensional data of your OLAP cube or data warehouse.
• Timeline– now allows the adjustment of labels and tick marks based on the current zoom level (which is the visible area of the chart).
• Network Node Diagrams – new features include the ability to choose the relationship type between nodes, support for various visual states and manipulation of individual nodes.

New Features for Windows Phone Developers:

• Input Controls - enhance data entry with xamCurrencyInput, xamDateTimeInput, xamMaskedInput and xamNumericInput controls.
• Persistence Framework - you can now persist control settings from any WPF dependency object allowing users to save and load their UI preferences.
• Rating Control – the new xamRating control allows you to display rating images to the end users and record their input when they tap on an image.
• ACS Control - an exciting new control which provides an application with a way to let users log-in with their existing Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or Live ID credentials.

New Features for Visual Studio LightSwitch Developers:

• UI Control Extensions – provides custom shells, themes and controls for creating code-free dashboards, interactive maps, and other eye-catching data visualizations.
• xamGrid Control - an editable hierarchical data grid control designed for high performance.