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NetAdvantage WPF and Visual Studio 2010
The .NET framework 4.0 includes many enhancements for WPF developers, including improved graphics performance and layout rendering, better localization support, and improved interoperability.
Key areas that we are investing in for WPF around the framework and Visual Studio 2010 include:
- Improved support for UI Automation to ensure that our controls provide a great experience with the new Visual Studio 2010 test automation
- Enhanced design-surface experience for all controls that leverages the new design surface improvements common to Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 3
- Multi-touch support for default gestures on Windows 7
- Visual State Manager
- Improved accessibility support from the platform
- .NET 4.0 specific build of NetAdvantage for WPF
From a developer productivity perspective, the alignment of the Blend and Visual Studio design surface gives us a greater opportunity to create a consistent RAD experience when creating experiences with those tools and the NetAdvantage Win Client WPF controls.
WPF Grids that are Faster and More Powerful
Infragistics supplies you with a more fully-featured WPF data grid control for high performance line of business applications. Compare its features with those of the standard System.Windows.Controls.GridView control:
| Features | Infragistics xamDataGrid | System.Windows.Controls.GridView |
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| Add new record |
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| Clipboard (cut, copy, paste) |
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| In-place editing |
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| Keyboard navigation |
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| Multiple column types |
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| Undo/Redo |
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| Sorting |
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| Frozen columns |
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| Frozen rows |
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| Row summaries |
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| Row filtering |
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| Extensible filter UI |
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| Multiple condition filtering |
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| Context menu support |
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| Starrable Widths |
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| Real-time Value Changed |
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| Value Change History |
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| Style and Layout | ||
| Customizable Layout |
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| Custom Themes |
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| Record Orientation |
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| Persistence |
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| Excel Export |
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| Printing |
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| Print Preview |
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| Row Virtualization |
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| Column Virtualization |
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More Chart Types for More Business
Scenarios
Infragistics provides broad, rich WPF charting that covers many more
scenarios than what Microsoft's XAML charting controls (from the Silverlight
Toolkit) can accomplish within WPF:
| Features | Infragistics xamChart™ | Microsoft WPF Charting |
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| Bar Chart |
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| Bar Chart 3D |
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| Stacked Bar Chart 3D |
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| Bubble Chart |
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| Bubble Chart 3D |
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| Column Chart |
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| Column Chart 3D |
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| Stacked Column Chart |
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| Line Chart |
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| Line Chart 3D |
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| Pie Chart |
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| Pie Chart 3D |
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| Scatter Chart |
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| Scatter Chart 3D |
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| Area Chart |
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| Area Chart 3D |
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| Stacked Area Chart 3D |
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| Spline Series |
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| Spline Area |
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| More Chart Types ... | Coming Soon | |
| Financial Charting | ||
| OHLC Bar Chart |
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| Candle Chart |
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| Moving Averages | Coming Soon | |
| Regression Lines | Coming Soon | |
| Visualizers | ||
| Data Transitions |
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| Multiple Series |
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