Released: Oct 13, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in 2015 Vol. 2

Infragistics WPF

• xamBusyIndicator - Report the progress of a long running, multi-threaded, process to end-users. The xamBusyIndicator supports both determinate and indeterminate states and ships with eight built-in animations.
• xamDataGrid Excel Style Filtering - Provide familiar Excel style filtering to your end users
• New xamDataGrid Methods - RefreshCellValue and RefreshCellValues - These new methods allow you to manually refresh data without the need for the INotifyPropertyChanged interface.
• xamPropertyGrid
  • New attributes give you complete control over how properties and categories are sorted.
  • Support for the System.ComponentModel.ICustomTypeDescriptor interface has been added to give you more control on how properties are displayed by providing dynamic custom type information.
• xamComboEditor - Now supports the System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute. This means that when binding to an Enum, it displays the descriptions declared via the attribute rather than the actual Enum values. 
• Legends - New properties make it easier to change legend appearance.
• xamDataChart - Easily set a major and minor gridline interval.
• xamSpreadsheet - You can now 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.

Infragistics Windows Forms

• New Notification Badges - Add notifications to the Toolbar. When you click on the tool item with the notification, you are shown the items that require attention.
• 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.
• Styling Improvements - New Style Libraries for all Windows Forms controls.
  • Outlook Blue
    • Outlook 2013 - Dark Gray.
    • Outlook 2013 – Light Gray.
    • Outlook 2013 – White.
  • Excel Green
    • Excel 2013 - White
    • Excel 2013 - Dark Gray
    • Excel 2013 - Light Gray
• 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.

Infragistics Android

New Android Data Grid

• Data Source - The Grid's data can be Local, available on the device already, or the grid can retrieve data from a Remote store, e.g. from a web service.
• Built-in Columns - Create a Grid with auto-generated columns or select the column types among the built-in Columns: Text, Numeric, Image, DateTime, and Template.
• Responsive layout - The Grid dynamically changes visible columns based on available width.
• Animation - Animations can be configured to slide from the left, right, top, bottom or to fade in.
• Live scrolling - Data is retrieved on-the-fly over the web, as you scroll.
• Selection - Single and multi-row selection is supported.

New Android Data Chart

Chart Features

• Area
• Bar/Column
• SplinePoint
• Line
• Step Line
• Waterfall
• Scatter
• BulletGraph
• Trendlines
• Financial Series
• Crosshair
• Legend
• Markers
• Axis
• Panning
• Zooming

New Gauges Component

• Radial - The Radial Gauge contains a number of visual elements, such as a scale with tick marks and labels, a needle, and a number of ranges.
• Linear - The Linear Gauge is useful for showing a single measure on a linear range.
• BulletGraph - The Bullet Graph displays a single primary measure and compares it to one or more other measures to create a concise data visualization.

BarCode - Generate Code 128 and QR barcodes.

NUCLiOS

• New Swift 2.0 and Objective-C language support.
• All of the frameworks have Bitcode enabled, so you can distribute your apps and know that they’ll always be optimized for the latest hardware.
• IGCalendarView - New view added (WeekView) and also added the ability to style and set working hours.
• IGFlowLayoutView - New maximize item support.
• IGCalendarView - Smart Axis now supports text wrapping.

Ignite UI

• New Editors – igCheckboxEditor, igTextEditor, igNumericEditor, igPercentEditor, igCurrencyEditor, igMaskEditor, igDateEditor and igDatePicker.
• 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 - Brand new Scaffolder for Ignite UI widgets. Provides code generation and templates to quickly target standard data scenarios like creating, reading, updating and deleting data.
• igTreeGrid
  • Row selectors
  • Column moving and resizing
  • Paging breadcrumbs
  • Accessibility rendering (ARIA support)
  • MVC remote sorting/paging/filtering on all levels
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Excel exporter
• igCombo
  • Autocomplete
  • Grouping
  • Header and footer templates
  • Dropdown orientation
  • Support for Custom Values
  • Full element support
  • Full support for ASP.NET MVC 6 for all Ignite UI widgets
• igGrid
  • Column auto sizing
  • Accessibility rendering (ARIA)
  • Excel exporter
  • Selection/activation with focus.
• HierarchicalGrid
  • Selection/activation with focus.
  • Excel exporter

Indigo Studio

• Add Comments to Prototypes - Comments are shown in a side-bar as opposed to on top of the prototype. This way, you can read and add comments without interfering with the navigation.
• Use Collections to Organize and Share Your UX Prototypes
  • You can reorder the items/shares in a collection like a playlist.
  • You can grab a single link to the entire collection, which you can then send someone
  • Deleting a collection does not affect the contained shares
  • You can password-protect a collection, and bypass passwords on individual shares.
  • Inline text formatting and Rich Text support.
• Docking Properties Panel - You can now dock/pin the properties panel to the right of the design surface, so that it’s integrated with the toolbox.
• 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 from indigodesigned.com - You can explore, download and import UI libraries shared by community users without leaving the Indigo Studio application.
• All Icons from FontAwesome - Added all icons from the FontAwesome collection, which increases the tally to 800+ icons ready for use whether you are offline or online. All icons are vector, so you can be assured that these will render perfectly irrespective of screen resolution.
• Flip and Rotate Icons - You now have new options to quickly mirror icons vertically or horizontally in addition to rotating them clockwise or anti-clockwise.
• Text Value Based Interactions - Specify interactions based on a value specified in a text field.