A Toolkit/Component Suite by Infragistics

NetAdvantage for Win Client includes Windows Forms controls that take care of presenting data in grids, charts, gauges, tabs, trees, calendars; entering data in numeric, monetary, masked, date/time or text format; navigating with menus, toolbars (quick access or rebar), ribbons, explorer bars, or list views; working with data sets, views, data loaded on demand, business objects, or XML; handling windowing, printing and export to popular formats like XLS (Excel), PDF and XPS.

A few of the more hard to find controls that are included in NetAdvantage for Win Client, but seldom offered elsewhere:
* WinNavigationBar presents users with a breadcrumb navigation experience like that in the Vista address bar.
* WinDesktopAlert for displaying IM-like pop-up windows on the desktop to notify users about an event in your application.
* WinCalcManager for performing over 100 built-in (and extensible) spreadsheet engine calculations.
* WinPrintPreview controls for previewing documents for print or browsing pages by thumbnail.
* WinValidator enables conditional criteria to be declared on editable fields to ensure valid data entry.

You receive these controls and dozens more – every control you’d expect to need to build professional, dynamic Windows Forms applications with little effort. There is a hierarchical (master-detail) data grid with add, edit, delete, multi-column sorting, grouping, filtering, fixed columns, and tons more features like rotating column headers and row edit template dialogs. The charting control renders hi-resolution 2D/3D charts with over 50 different chart types ranging from the simple pie, line and bar charts through to specialized tree maps, candlestick charts and Gantt charts; all that you can customize, overlay and extend. An assortment of scheduling controls display activities by the hour, day, week or month for one or multiple resources at a time.

Additional WPF controls bring together essentials for building compelling user experiences expected from today’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. You receive data processing UI controls such as the hierarchical data grid, ribbon and a variety of editors, plus a number of more powerful UI controls that take full advantage of the WPF platform’s support of visual resources and smooth animation like animated charting, docking and carousels.

Data grid controls have become crucial to any modern day data processing application, but with WPF 1.0 not including a grid control where should developers look? Infragistics xamDataGrid is a fully-functional grid with support for sorting, grouping like records, moving and resizing columns, editing sophisticated templated cell values, hierarchical relationships, and more.

Tables aren’t always enough to impress upon users the value inherent in volumes of data, so when you need greater data visualization you can turn to the xamChart. With its nearly fifty different chart types, 2D and 3D, you can graph data series that instantly crystallise the value contained in large data sets with its inherent support of data binding, animation, storyboards and vector graphic effects like lighting, rotation and texture that have become first-class elements of WPF applications.

NetAdvantage for Win Client's WPF controls don’t merely add value to your toolbox; they shatter expectations with support for the Carousel Presentation Format. xamCarouselListbox and xamDataCarousel can present info in new ways that emphasise the position, scale, z-order and distance relationships between data. Realising that carousel user interfaces have many more applications than just these, the xamCarouselPanel is a container bestowing carousel behavior upon the items you place inside it.

You can better organise complex applications through the concise and elegant Office 2007-style ribbon control, the xamRibbon. It provides the capabilities users have come to love about the new Office 2007 user interface. When users need to dynamically reorganise their workspace, you can use the capabilities of the xamDockManager docking and layout control with its dockable, floating windows, tabbed panes and quick & easy splitter resizing.

Infragistics has built all of this on top of its PLF and Application Styling Frameworks, which means every control gives you granular control over its UI elements. When you have your UI setup just the way you like, you can skin the entire thing with professionally style libraries that present consistent corporate themes or simulate popular application interfaces.

During your 12-month subscription to NetAdvantage for Win Client you will have access to all regular updates, multiple feature-packed volume releases, a highly-skilled team of developer support personnel when you have a technical, code-level question about the controls, and complete C# source code to all of the controls and designers.

System Requirements

For Windows Forms development: .NET Framework 2.0 or higher and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008. For WPF development: .NET Framework 3.0 or higher and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or Microsoft Expression Blend.