Infragistics® NetAdvantage® for WPF 2007 Volume 2

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Product Name Infragistics® NetAdvantage® for WPF 2007 Volume 2 Product Tagline Lay the Foundation for the Next Generation User Experience1 Sentence Description

Infragistics® NetAdvantage® for WPF provides the world's first business-grade developer components for WPF, including datagrids, charts, ribbons, carousels and editors, to jump-start your toolset.

25 Word Description Infragistics® NetAdvantage® for WPF provides the world's first business-grade developer components for WPF, including datagrids, 2D/3D charts, carousels, editors and Office 2007 ribbon, with many built-in visual themes. (28 words)

50 Word Description Infragistics® NetAdvantage® for WPF provides the world's first business-grade developer components for WPF, including datagrids, 2D/3D charts, carousels, editors and Office 2007 ribbon, with built-in visual themes for modern experiences from Aero to Onyx. Take full advantage of WPF including exciting hi-res vector graphics, rich styling and animation, and integrated UI virtualization technology. (53 Words)

200 Word Description

Infragistics® NetAdvantage® for WPF is the world's first business-grade developer components for WPF, including datagrids, charts, carousels, editors and ribbons, with built-in visual themes for modern experiences ranging from Windows Vista Aero to Office 2007. Start building your WPF applications now with the toolset that empowers you to take advantage of WPF features including exciting hi-res graphics, rich styling and animation, and integrated UI virtualization technology.

NetAdvantage for WPF controls were designed with the Windows Presentation Foundation platform in mind, enabling a clear separation of application look & feel from behavior, and allowing teams of designers and developers to collaborate more naturally. Visual Designers can style NetAdvantage for WPF control’s look and feel using XAML and Microsoft Expression Blend while software developers can define control behavior using C# or VB.NET code with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

NetAdvantage for WPF includes a high performance, hierarchical datagrid for data-intensive applications, animated charting in 2D/3D for data visualization applications, and an Office 2007 ribbon for organizing multi-functional applications empowering you to quickly deliver applications having a professionally polished look and feel.

Every purchase of NetAdvantage for .NET includes world-class code-level product support, guaranteed releases yearly of customer-driven controls and features, real world samples, comprehensive documentation and more. (204 Words)

Top Benefits NetAdvantage for WPF Create Revolutionary User Experiences – Tools leveraging the power of the WPF Platform to create immersive user interfaces to maximize the experience your user have with your data-rich applicationUnleash Phenomenal Styles – Tools to achieve high fidelity styling excellence through professionally predesigned visual themes, including Windows Vista™ Aero™ and Office 2007, all created by the Infragistics Visual Design GroupDesigner/Developer Collaboration – Tools designed to energize the parallel workflow between designers and developersThe Ultimate Data Visualization Platform – Infragistics xamDataGrid™ and xamChart™ extend the possibilities of data-intensive and data analysis applications built using WPF

Positioning Statements

Why one consolidated

Consolidating on a single presentation layer toolset allows you to create consistent user interfaces across all enterprise applications – Windows Forms,

toolset? ASP.NET, WPF and Tablet PC.

Standardizing on the Infragistics NetAdvantage toolset will reduce your R&D cost, maintenance costs and end user training costs, as well as reducing product development time

Managing licensing and maintaining compliance is simplified when the UI layer component architecture is standardized with one component vendor.

Development teams will experience greater leveraged learning from one project to the next when your enterprise has a strategy in place as part of its application development lifecycle for developing the presentation layer.

Do I need to hire visual designers to use this toolset?,

While NetAdvantage for WPF enables Visual Designers to leverage the styling and layout capabilities of its controls to design impressive applications that deliver a memorable, immersive user interface to your users, you can leverage the talents of the Infragistics Visual Design Group with the extensible set of professionally predesigned visual themes included built-in.

NetAdvantage for WPF ships with 15 Theme Packs crafted by the Infragistics Visual Design Group, making it easy for you to give the controls a clean and modern look with a single property setting.

Windows Themes including Luna (Windows XP), Aero (Windows Vista) and Royale (Windows Media Center Edition)

Office 2007 Themes including Office 2007 Black, Office 2007 Blue and Office 2007 Silver

Infragistics designed Themes include: Forest Green, Leaf, Fall, Lipstick, Wind, Water, and Onyx

What’s new in NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 Vol. 2?

NetAdvantage® for WPF 2007 Volume 2 adds several powerful new controls

that empower your Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications

to rise to increasing user demands. With these new controls, you can

develop data visualization applications that condense volumes of data into

crystal clear graphics and organize all of your application's functionality

compactly and intuitively using new innovatives like the ribbon introduced

in Office® 2007. Many other improvements to enhance and extend the user

experience your applications can deliver round out the features added to

the WPF controls in this, it's second, release.

xamChart™ - Stunning New WPF Charting Control!

The xamChart is a new visual WPF control that presents your heavy-duty

data using graphics to enable users to more quickly analyze and understand

its relevance. This WPF chart control displays values using columns, pie

wedges, cylinders and more using the advanced graphics rendering

capabilities inherent in the WPF platform.

Chart Types

The xamChart control supports 25 different chart types, which will allow you

to select the perfect look to accent the data in your application.

xamChart includes all of the following chart types:

Area chart Bar chart Bubble chart Candle chart Column chart Cylinder bar

chart Cylinder

chart Doughnut

chart

Line chart

Pie chart Point chart Scatter chart Scatter line

chart Spline chart Stacked

100% area chart Stacked

100% bar chart Stacked

100% column chart

Stacked 100% cylinder bar chart

Stacked 100% cylinder chart

Stacked area chart

Stacked bar chart

Stacked column chart

Stacked cylinder bar chart

Stock chart (OHLC bar)

3D Rendering

3D graphics rendering can be turned on for many chart types to display

stunning visualizations that jump out at your users. Control the perspective,

texture and lighting to make an affective display that impresses while it also

informs.

Composite Charts

For optimal extensibility, xamChart is a WPF chart for your applications that

was built with enabling composite chart creation in mind. The creation of

composite charts has never been so easy. Simply add a couple series to the

xamChart control and bind them to your data. By making each series render

using a different chart type you can create complex composite charts that

combine all the points of view that you need to best describe the data's

importance.

xamRibbon - New Office 2007 ribbon UI for every WPF application!

The xamRibbon™ control is a menu control that replicates the Microsoft®

Office® 2007 Ribbon functionality in a Microsoft® Windows® Presentation

Foundation (WPF) application. Instead of using the plain, default, drop-down

menu of decades past, you can use xamRibbon to give your application a

stylish look and feel. Not only can you improve your application's look and

feel, you can also improve usability by using xamRibbon's many features.

Application Menu

The application menu is the main menu of the application. The application

menu is divided into three separate areas:

The left area displays buttons intended for file operations.

The right area displays buttons similarly to the left area. Another

use for the right area might be a most recently used list.

The bottom area displays buttons such as application options or an

exit button.

Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) is a small, user-configurable toolbar that is

always visible either above (default) or below the Ribbon control. The QAT's

versatility is shown when adding any of the Ribbon tools to it; in fact, you

can add an entire Ribbon group to the QAT with ease.

Tabs and Tab Groups

If you have ever used a Tab in an application, xamRibbon's object model will

quickly become familiar to you. The xamRibbon control includes a collection

of tabs, each with a collection of groups, each group with a collection of

tools. This structure allows you to organize tools into functionally-related

application tasks that your end users can easily discover.

xamComboEditor™ - New Combo Box Control Added to xamEditors™

The xamComboEditor is an editor control that provides a drop-down list

from which your users can select an item. As with the other xamEditors, the

xamComboEditor can be plugged in to the xamDataGrid™ for use as an in-

line data editor with drop-down list capabilities. Now it's easy for your users

to edit the value of a data grid or data presenter cell from an enumerable

collection. This can help make your WPF data-driven applications more user

friendly, and decrease the risk of typographic errors during data entry.

Screen Shots

Please email sharonf@infragistics.com

For additional shots.Box Shot Color

NetAdvantage for WPF showing controls xamDataGrid in right pane, xamCarouselListBox in left side, and xamCarouselPanel at the top

(above)xamDataGrid™in Onyx Theme

(above)xamDataPresenter™

(above)xamDataCarousel™

(above)xamChart™ with xamDataGrid™ in a securities trading application

(above)xamChart™ with xamRibbon™ in a sales tracking application

Trial Version Download LinkBox ShotGrayscale

http://www.infragistics.com/scripts/redirects.aspx?action=download&id=ISNA20071WPFCLR3TS (Note: We won’t have a Trial Version Download link until we release)

Product Information Link Screen Shots

Please email sharonf@infragistics.com

For additional shots.

http://www.infragistics.com/dotnet/netadvantage/wpf.aspx

NetAdvantage for WPF showing controls xamDataGrid in right pane, xamCarouselListBox in left side, and xamCarouselPanel at the top

(above)xamDataGrid™in Onyx Theme

(above)xamDataPresenter™

(above)xamDataCarousel™

(above)xamChart™ with xamDataGrid™ in a securities trading application

(above)xamChart™ with xamRibbon™ in a sales tracking application

ResourcesTrial Version Download Link

Online Docs: http://www.infragistics.com/support/documentation.aspx#OnlineDocumentation

VIDEOS:Infragistics xamDataPresenter:http://www.infragistics.com/demos/introducingXamDataPresenter.aspx

Infragistics xamDataGrid:http://www.infragistics.com/demos/introducingxamDataGrid.aspx

Infragistics xamCarouselPanel:http://www.infragistics.com/demos/introducingxamCarouselPanel.aspx

Infragistics xamEditors:http://www.infragistics.com/demos/introducingXamEditors.aspx

Tangerine Demonstrated at Xtopia 2007 in Berlin, Germany:mms://mschnlnine.wmod.llnwd.net/a1809/d1/on10/2/5/3/9/1/xtopiaInterviews_s_on10.wmv

Infragistics Highlighted at TechEd Europe 2006: http://www.infragistics.com/uploadedFiles/Full_Screen_Flash/techEdEurope.v2(1).wmv

NetAdvantage for WPF featured on MSDN's Channel 9http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=121804 More videos to come

Samples Browser: (Shipping with the install):Included in the NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 Volume 2 release is our helpful xamFeatureBrower full of over 50 code samples (“xamples™”) demonstrating the power and flexibility of each of the controls included. Also included is the xamShowcase which contains real-world examples of powerful applications using the NetAdvantage for WPF controls.

Forums:

General: http://forums.infragistics.com/

WPF Specific: http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=38

White Papers and Articles:to comehttp://www.infragistics.com/scripts/redirects.aspx?action=download&id=ISNA20071WPFCLR3TS (Note: We won’t have a Trial Version Download link until we release)

Up-sell fromProduct Information Link

Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET (any version) or Microsoft® MSDN® Subscription (any version), NetAdvantage for .NET subscribershttp://www.infragistics.com/dotnet/netadvantage/wpf.aspx

Resources Online Docs: http://www.infragistics.com/support/documentation.aspx#OnlineDocumentation

VIDEOS:Infragistics xamDataPresenter:http://www.infragistics.com/demos/introducingXamDataPresenter.aspx

Infragistics xamDataGrid:http://www.infragistics.com/demos/introducingxamDataGrid.aspx

Infragistics xamCarouselPanel:http://www.infragistics.com/demos/introducingxamCarouselPanel.aspx

Infragistics xamEditors:http://www.infragistics.com/demos/introducingXamEditors.aspx

Tangerine Demonstrated at Xtopia 2007 in Berlin, Germany:mms://mschnlnine.wmod.llnwd.net/a1809/d1/on10/2/5/3/9/1/xtopiaInterviews_s_on10.wmv

Infragistics Highlighted at TechEd Europe 2006: http://www.infragistics.com/uploadedFiles/Full_Screen_Flash/techEdEurope.v2(1).wmv

NetAdvantage for WPF featured on MSDN's Channel 9http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=121804 More videos to come

Samples Browser: (Shipping with the install):Included in the NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 Volume 2 release is our helpful xamFeatureBrower full of over 50 code samples (“xamples™”) demonstrating the power and flexibility of each of the controls included. Also included is the xamShowcase which contains real-world examples of powerful applications using the NetAdvantage for WPF controls.

Forums:

General: http://forums.infragistics.com/

WPF Specific: http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=38

White Papers and Articles:to come

Up-sell from Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET (any version) or Microsoft® MSDN® Subscription (any version), NetAdvantage for .NET subscribers

Benefit Promise: Q1/Q2/Q3 2007 – Microsoft’s WPF initial release contains no business-class tooling for professional developers. Infragistics can lay the foundation for your WPF toolbox with our first-ever WPF components for building and styling applications built for WPF.Benefits for DevelopersJump-start your WPF toolset

Benefits for Development ManagersStart building a WPF toolset with the expectation of added controls over multiple yearly releases. Logical API design, extensibility and reduced effort to meet design requirements

Benefits for Senior Development Managers – CIOsInsure best practices, lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and greater Return on Investment (ROI)

Theme Packs for NetAdvantage for .WPF means you can easily apply styling to an application. Allow developer to focus more on development, while designers can control application styling and consistency

Theme Packs for NetAdvantage for .WPF means less time to develop applications. Ensure higher quality by reducing error surface.

Theme Packs for NetAdvantage for .WPF means Easily control and incorporate corporate branding standards

Developer friendly licensing means you can use your licensed copy of NetAdvantage on all systems you develop on – primary desktop, test machine, home machine and laptop

Developer friendly licensing means lower development cost and less administrative work, and easy budgeting

Developer friendly licensing means lower TCO and no run-time royalties – no server-based deployment fees mean lower, totally controlled costs against budgets

Priority support means rapid response and/or immediate support when you need it – via phone, email, or by 24/7 chat.

Priority support means less down time waiting for response, especially when you are in the critical, final testing and deployment phases of a project

Infragistics Priority support insures higher ROI and lower TCO through maximum utilization of resources

More than just a product, Infragistics provides extensive on-line help, reference implementations, a “living” knowledge base, a personalized support portal (MyInfragistics™), use case samples, reference implementations (“exemplars”), and of course source code included, which means full support to help you learn, maximize, and troubleshoot

Our full support and developer-friendly services and policies, such as Priority support, means faster, better use of our products with less down time waiting for responses, allowing developers to produce better applications in less overall time

Supplementary services, such as Priority support, insures higher ROI through better support of your development teams and maximum utilization of resources

© Copyright 2007-2008, Infragistics, Inc. All rights reserved.Infragistics, the Infragistics Logo, and NetAdvantage are trademarks of Infragistics, Inc. xamDataGrid, xamCarouselPanel, xamChart, xamRibbon, xamDataCarousel, xamDataPresenter, xamEditors, xamTextEditor andxamMaskedEditor, xamples, MyInfragistics, and DevCenter are trademarks of Infragistics, Inc. All other marks are the trademarks, registered trademarks or sales marks of their respective owners.