Ignite UI

New Features

New in Ignite UI 2013 Volume 1

• New! Pivot Data Selector - interactive control for enabling users to select data slices, typically for when data is being visualised in a Pivot Grid.
• New! Pivot Grid - display data in a pivot table from either a igFlatDataSource or a igXmlaDataSource.
• New! Pivot View - combines Pivot Data Selector, Pivot Grid and Splitter controls to give you every tool you need for manipulating multidimensional (OLAP) data on a feature-rich pivot grid.
• New! Doughnut Chart - bind easily to data, configure the inner radius, display exploded slices, customise themes and more.
• New! Funnel Chart - visualise the fallout in a series of steps - supports weighted slices, slice selection, inverted funnels and customised styling.
• New! Sparkline - line, area, column and win/loss sparklines with support for data binding, markers, trend lines and customised styling.
• New! Radial Gauges - fully configurable radial gauges with motion framework animations support.
• Data Chart enhanced - introduces 17 new chart types including stacked charts and scientific charts.
• Grid enhanced - features responsive web design along with the official introduction of cell merging and column fixing capabilities.
• KnockoutJS support enhanced - enhanced support for the MVVM data patterns via the KnockoutJS library for several key controls, including Combo Box, Editors and Tree.
• New! Splitter - makes it easy to create dynamic layouts with resizable and collapsible panels.
• New! Layout Manager (CTP) - design Flow, Border, Vertical or Column layouts based on a fluid and responsive design.
• New! Tile Manager - create a touch-friendly, table-ready, interactive UI that allows your end users to expand, collapse and move widgets on the page.

What's new in Ignite UI 2012 Volume 2?

• New! OLAP Pivot Grid (CTP) - HTML jQuery-based pivot grid that lets your users slice, dice, and filter the multidimensional data of your OLAP cube or data warehouse.
• New! jQuery Mobile controls - features support for 17 additional jQuery Mobile controls - each of these controls includes an ASP.NET MVC Helper, other enhancements and Infragistics support.
• Grid enhanced - new capabilities include column moving, multi-column headers, row-edit templates, unbound columns and more.
• New! WYSIWYG editor - the HTML Editor allows users to perform text manipulation, insert tables and images, changes fonts, indent paragraphs, etc.
• New! jQuery Map - create highly detailed, thematic geographical maps using an innovative feature set that includes custom shape templates, the ability to render polyline and polyshapes, Map Progression, Scatter Area Plots and intuitive Overview Pane and much more.
• ComboBox enhanced - cascading ComboBox support for creating 'parent-child' relationships
• Data Chart enhanced - features new financial price series.
• Data Source enhanced - features new WebAPI/Rest support.
• New! Dialog Window - now available as RTM.

New in NetAdvantage for jQuery 2012 Volume 1

• New! Chart series types - include bubble, polar, spline, splinearea, scatter line, scatter spline and radial area.
• New! jQuery chart - new features CategoryDateTimeXAxis, axis label templating, financial indicators, value overlays and motion framework support.
• Grid enhanced - new support for merged cells and a new checkbox column format type for rendering true/false boolean values as checkboxes.
• Hierarchical grid enhanced - combine and customise data for your applications by simply grouping (and ungrouping) common values or conditions and use new row selector functionality to quickly select a row to perform an operation on.
• New! jQuery Map (CTP) - create detailed, thematic geographical maps with a feature set that includes custom shape templates, scatter area plots, polyline and polyshape support, map progression etc.
• New! HTML5 Mobile controls - new mobile list/grid control and mobile rating control based on jQuery Mobile and specifically optimised for mobile devices.
• New! HTML Editor (CTP) - rich client-side text editor with support for text manipulation, tables, images and links, headers and footers etc.
• New! Metro style - new metro theme, especially optimised for touch devices.
• New! Touch support - new panning and pinching support across controls along with bigger buttons and UI elements to aid touch navigation.
• New! Templating engine - powerful templating engine that can be used with the Grid and Tree controls, or standalone.
• New! Grid virtualisation - seamlessly and continuously scroll both hierarchical grid (when rows are being expanded and collapsed) and when columns are grouped.
• Enhanced support for MVC validation - save time validating user input with enhanced support for MVC Validation.
• New! MVVM support with Knockout - integration of Knockout with the jQuery grids lets you take advantage of the MVVM pattern within your web applications.
• Enhanced ComboBox - features new load on demand support.
• Enhanced Infragistics Resources Loader - helps to load only the specifically required JavaScript and CSS files for the controls you are using.