Released: Mar 22, 2010

Updates in this release

Updates in 2010 Volume 1

Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 support
Visual Studio 2010 gives you the opportunity to deliver even more compelling experiences:

• Winforms - In process side-by-side hosting enables an application to load and activate multiple versions of the common language runtime (CLR) in the same process
• Winforms/WPF - Multi-touch support for default gestures in Windows 7
• WPF - Establishing improved support for UI Automation to ensure that the controls provide a great experience with the new Visual Studio 2010 test automation
• WPF - Improved accessibility support from the WPF platform
• ASP.NET - A high-performance and standards-compliant JavaScript IntelliSense engine
• ASP.NET - "One Click Deployment" that quickly publishes files and configuration settings from development machines to the final deployed site
• ASP.NET - Full support for integrating Silverlight into ASP.NET projects and solutions
• ASP.NET - Enhanced SharePoint design time integration
• Silverlight - WYSIWYG drag and drop design surface
• Silverlight - Full Property Browser support
• Silverlight - Enhanced debugging
• All - Windows 7 support

NetAdvantage WinClient - Winforms

• WinGanttView
  New fully-featured Gantt View control lets you drop in sophisticated, fully stylable Microsoft® Project functionality right within your own applications.
• Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon - NEW addition to WinToolbarsManager
  Put the latest Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon user interface and Windows 7 Styles into your new and legacy Windows Forms applications, even if they are not running on Windows 7.
• WinMessageBoxManager - NEW!
  Notify users about application messages with this fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for the standard Windows Forms MessageBox.
• WinActivityIndicator - NEW!
  Notify end users of any long-running background processing using the new activity indicator for Windows Forms.
• WinSplitter - NEW! - Partition the user interface up into easily expandable, collapsible and resizable regions using this fully-functional splitter bar.
• WinCombo/WinComboEditor - Enhanced
  A new Auto-Suggest filter criterion has been added: “Contains” which allows the combo to suggest items for which the text typed by the user appears at anyplace within the item (not only text at the beginning or end of the item).
• WinFormattedTextEditor - Enhanced
  Performance enhancement of the rich formatted text editor makes it 1200% faster under most feature settings.
• .NET 4 Client Profile Support
  Build your NetAdvantage Windows Forms-powered applications using the recommended .NET 4 Client Profile build target in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.  Infragistics have designed and written all controls so that they only require this smaller working set of .NET 4 assemblies, dramatically improving the size, portability and performance of the Windows Forms applications you’ll be able to build and deploy.

NetAdvantage WinClient - WPF

• xamTilesControl - NEW!
  Animated, interactive layout container derived from the ItemsControl consisting of collapsible tiles that your users can slide and move around, such as when you want to present them with a faceted user interface.
• xamDataCards - NEW!
  New data card view to present all kinds of data in a high-fidelity, faceted user interface of cards.
• xamDataPresenter - Enhanced - New CardView added to xamDataPresenter so that it can present data just like the new xamDataCards control, giving xamDataPresenter three presentation formats: CardView (newly added), CarouselView and GridView.
• xamEditors - Enhanced
• xamDockManager - Enhanced

NetAdvantage WebClient - ASP.NET

• WebTab - NEW!
  New tab control supports all ASP.NET AJAX controls inside of its template area, comes AJAX-enabled out of the box, and adds significant functionality not found in its predecessor.
• WebExplorerBar - NEW!
  Lightweight yet robust ASP.NET AJAX  multi- style control works superbly in modern browsers including Google Chrome and adds numerous capabilities over and above what used to be possible using the WebListBar.
• WebHierarchicalDataGrid - Enhanced
  Outlook Group-By: Easily group rows by common column values across all levels of the hierarchical data grid by dragging & dropping a column header to the stylable group-by area that can be positioned at the top or bottom of the data grid.
• AJAX Compression - NEW!
  New module enhances performance across all of the ASP.NET AJAX controls in the toolset. AJAX responses are compressed using GZip to make their message size much smaller than before.

NetAdvantage WebClient - Silverlight

• xamWebRibbon - NEW Office 2007 and Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon
  Ribbon for Line of Business Silverlight applications allows you to deliver Aero (Windows 7 Scenic) style of ribbon to users of your Silverlight RIAs.
• xamWebGrid - Enhanced
  Now features Unbound Column, Microsoft Excel-style Filter Menu, Text and Numeric filters and Conditional Formatting Engine.
• xamWebComboEditor - NEW!
  New combo box editor in xamWebEditors lets you bind to a flat list of items and have users either enter values into the editable field (these values can be new values not in the list, or constrained to only those values in the list) or select them from a dropdown list.
• Control Persistence Framework - NEW!
  Persist and restore control settings to an external source such as a file, database or isolated storage, to save user settings such as column widths and positions in xamWebGrid, the selected group in xamWebOutlookBar, or the position of xamWebDialogWindow. You can also persist and restore control settings from Microsoft, third-party, and custom controls.
• Virtual Collection - NEW!
  Simulate collections of very large sizes without having to load every data element.
• UI Automation Support - NEW!
  Support for Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) helps the Silverlight Line of Business UI controls interact with Assistive Technology for accessibility by individuals with disabilities.