Infragistics matures .NET controls platform
April 6, 2009 —
In its first major release of the year component maker Infragistics has added new controls and features across the entire .NET Framework and its supported platforms.
Today, Infragistics announced the availability of NetAdvantage 2009 Volume 1. The suite combines the company's controls for three platforms: ASP.NET, Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
For ASP.NET, the focus was on making its controls more "Web 2.0 friendly," said Anthony Lombardo, Infragistics' lead technical evangelist. With this release, the company's goal is to offer controls that have deeper features, better performance, and higher quality, he added. "Architecture is becoming increasingly important."
The release includes re-engineered versions of earlier controls, including a data grid, data menu control, drag and drop framework, drop down menu, progress bar and tree control.
An application styling framework uses a template approach to style how menu items look and feel across controls, Lombardo said. It also provides keyboard navigation controls for Section 508 of the U.S. Disabilities Act, as well as animations and multi-selection.
For Windows Forms, Infragistics made its grid control function more like Microsoft Excel with capabilities such as filtering, grouping, and multi-selection, Lombardo said.
A new panel control serves as a container for content to adopt the appearance of an Infragistics control, he said. It is an alternative to the default panel within Visual Studio.
Lastly, the suite's WPF controls have been given capabilities consistent with other platforms including a more Excel-like grid control, more control for binding to data sources, and support for displaying hierarchal data, Lombardo said.
Silverlight controls will be shipping in the second half of the year, he said. A Community Technology Preview is currently available, which includes a carousel, grid control, and tag cloud.
WHAT'S NEW IN THE NEW RELEASE
ASP.NET:
• The drag and drop framework can disallow drag operations.
• The data grid has movable columns.
• The drop down control can be used as an editor for the data grid.
• The progress bar can be formatted with custom values.
• The data tree shows hierarchies, and is tuned to work better with large data sets.
Windows Forms:
• The grid control functions more like Microsoft Excel with capabilities such as filtering, grouping, and multi-selection.
• A new panel control serves as container for content to adopt the appearance of an Infragistics control.
• The Windows Forms combo control has been given a new UI pattern that supports multi-touch interfaces.
• The suite's scheduler control is more customizable by end users.
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