NetAdvantage for Silverlight

New Features

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 NetAdvantage for Silverlight 2012 Volume 2

• New! Gantt control - include project management visualisations in your Silverlight applications with the new Gantt control. Review workload over time with tasks presented as bars. Drill down into dependent tasks, parent-child relationships, and more.
• New! Syntax editor - robust technology that processes text and devises, based on the rules of the grammar provided to the engine, tokens that have meaning for syntax analysis processes. It includes find and replace functionality, error reporting, document navigation, and more.
• New! Syntax parsing - all the features you would expect in a code editor, such as editing support, syntax highlighting, custom language support, split views, custom element styling and more.
• Enhanced geographical map - now illustrate thematic data such as climate, economic conditions, resources, and more.
• Enhanced grid - introduces support for data annotation, including specifying validation rules, determining how data is displayed and allowing them to set relationships between classes.
• Enhanced data chart - create Data Charts with multi-dimensional data (OLAP data), enabling heady-duty data visualization at blazing speeds.
• Enhanced pivot grid - includes Excel-style filtering and a new super compact layout that displays hierarchies in a tree-like structure.
• Visual Studio 2012 support - supports the latest version of Visual Studio.

New in NetAdvantage for Silverlight 2012 Volume 1

• New! Now includes NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualisation controls - provides a range of additional controls including bar code, bullet graph, pivot grid, data chart and more.
• New! Metro style - new Metro theme, optimised for touch devices.
• New! Gesture support - panning and flick scrolling support for the grid, data grid, data tree, combo, tiles manager and the schedule controls.
• New! Color tuner - easily apply and edit themes, with the ability to save/share colour configurations for later use.
• New! Undo/redo framework - supports unlimited linear undo/redo functionality.
• New! Sparkline chart - create highly visual charts within limited spaces, such as a grid cell. Supports markers, trend lines and horizontal and vertical axes.
• New! Geographic map - visualise geographical data in multiple ways, right down to street view.
• Grid enhanced - now supports additional dropdown options, sparkline chart columns and implicit data templates.
• Pivot Grid enhanced - supports new filtering, dropdown and summarising capabilities.
• Data chart enhanced - new chart types include Point Charts and High Density Scatter Plots (CTP).
• Bar code enhanced - new property to hide the human readable text.
• Ribbon enhanced - now includes end user customisation support so your users can customise tabs, groups and items.
• Infragistics Excel enhanced - the Excel Engine has new support for named tables, filtering and sorting tables, getting cell text and more.