NetAdvantage for .NET

New Features

New in NetAdvantage 2013 Volume 1

New in NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2013 Volume 1

• New! MVC wrappers - MVC wrappers for Pivot Grid, Pivot Data Selector, Pivot View, Splitter, Tile Manager, Funnel Chart, Doughnut Chart, Sparkline and Radial Gauge.

New in NetAdvantage for Windows Forms 2013 Volume 1

• Enhanced touch experience - supports key touch features such as the panning gesture and features multi-gesture support in the Editor, Grid, Tabs, List View, Tree and Value List controls.
• Enhanced grid - new features include full touch support, DataErrorInfo for rows, alternate row formatting, hot tracking and increased compatibility when exporting drop-down lists to Excel.

New in NetAdvantage for WPF 2013 Volume 1

• New! Doughnut chart - create Doughnut Charts with configurable inner radii, slice/section labelling, legend support and more.
• New! Syntax Parsing Engine - includes functionality for lexing/parsing, document searching, syntax tree/error reporting, document navigation and EBNF support.
• Syntax Editor enhanced - introduces support for Transact-SQL as well as additional visual highlighting options including whitespace, current line highlight and a ruler margin.
• Ribbon enhanced - introduces the Microsoft Office Application Menu 2010 (also referred to as Backstage) so developers can add easy access to task-centered functions to their WPF applications.
• Menu/context menu enhanced - invoke menu commands that are defined in a ViewModel in an MVVM scenario.
• Gantt chart enhanced - with Save Project to XML functionality, the Gantt control offers greater compatibility with MS Project 2010.
• Geographic map enhanced - a simplified API supports various geographical imagery providers like OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, Esri ArcGIS and Cloudmade maps along with a brand new Geographical Map browser sample.
• Data Chart enhanced - improves the user experience whether users are interacting with charts via the mouse or touch gestures.
• New! Radial Gauge (CTP) - introducing the brand new Radial Gauge control that can be completely customised and supports animated transitions between configuration states.

New in NetAdvantage for Silverlight 2013 Volume 1

• New! Doughnut chart - create Doughnut Charts with configurable inner radii, slice/section labelling, legend support and more.
• New! Syntax Parsing Engine - includes functionality for lexing/parsing, document searching, syntax tree/error reporting, document navigation and EBNF support.
• Geographic map enhanced - a simplified API supports various geographical imagery providers like OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, Esri ArcGIS and Cloudmade maps along with a brand new Geographical Map browser sample.
• Syntax editor enhanced - introduces support for Transact-SQL as well as additional visual highlighting options including whitespace, current line highlight and a ruler margin.
• Menu/context menu enhanced - invoke menu commands that are defined in a ViewModel in an MVVM scenario.
• Gantt enhanced - with Save Project to XML functionality, the Gantt control offers greater compatibility with MS Project 2010.
• Data chart enhanced - improves the user experience whether users are interacting with charts via the mouse or touch gestures.
• New! Radial Gauge (CTP) - introducing the brand new Radial Gauge control that can be completely customised and supports animated transitions between configuration states.

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.

New in NetAdvantage Reporting 2013 Volume 1

• New! Hierarchical Data Support - NetAdvantage Reporting now makes it easier to create reports from hierarchical data. Display child data in either report sections or by using the flexible table control.
• Report Engine performance enhanced - improved performance particularly in reports with many pages (>500). Additionally, the report engine now uses less memory and less disk space when rendering server-side reports.
• New! RepeatOnEveryPage property - this new property establishes if the header/footer should appear on each page a content region appears on or not (if it spans multiple pages).
• New! PageBreak control - use a page break control to mark where you want a new page to start within a section.
• New! Lasso tool - the new Lasso Tool allows you to select multiple objects by drawing a freehand outline around objects similar to using a pencil.
• Visual Studio 2012 support - fully supports Visual Studio 2012.