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New in NetAdvantage for .NET 2008 Volume 1!

We have jam-packed the .NET controls in our 2008 Volume 1 release with new features and enhanced functionality, plus support for the new Visual Studio® 2008 development environment. Check out these highlights from each product in the NetAdvantage for .NET suite, and drill into each one for a complete list with more details.

Windows Vista® Where You Want It Flip the switch in this release, and your Windows® Forms applications can deliver the experience of Vista's explorer tree view with one property setting of our WinTree™ control.  No knowledge of the Vista color scheme is necessary, and the tree's behavior immediately conforms to norms your users expect. Get On Track Sooner with the New WinTrackBar™ Editor Now your users can edit incremental or continuous values with the convenience of a slidable track bar control, new for Windows Forms!  Instantly re-style your track bar to the look and feel found in Vista, Office® 2007 or XP. It's Not Just for the Web, Anymore! Use the tab controls (WinTab™ and WinTabbedMdiManager™) to provide users with a close button.  Windows Forms applications can now enjoy the same user experience found in the tabbed browsing capabilities of Microsoft® Internet Explorer® and Mozilla® Firefox®. Fit Columns to their Data in WinListView™ Auto-fit functionality has been added to the column headers in WinListView. Now when users want the column to automatically resize itself for the data beneath it, they only have to double-click on the column header.

Aikido™ Framework - NEW !

NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2008 Volume 1 is the first release presenting our new Web User Interface Framework™: the Aikido Framework. Applying the lessons learned from years of user interface control development, Infragistics has laid the groundwork for the next generation of Web 2.0 applications that are rich and responsive. The Aikido Framework is an architecture built into NetAdvantage for ASP.NET that supports the creation of lightweight, cross browser, XHTML and CSS-based AJAX controls. Currently based on the Microsoft® ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0 and ASP.NET 2.0, it will have the durability to remain aligned with new ASP.NET 3.5 programming paradigms as they arise.

Design goals we have delivered through the Aikido Framework in NetAdvantage for ASP.NET controls that empower your user interface development include:

• High-Performance - Lightweight markup and optimized code improve performance.
• Standards Conformance - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and XHTML compliant.
• Major Browser Support - IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
• Simplified Object Model - Reductions in the object model to make them easier to understand and employ.
• AJAX-Enabled - Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0 foundation encourages development teams to leverage native AJAX capabilities.

This public release of the Aikido Framework enables Infragistics to supply you with powerful, new controls, and NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2008 Volume 1 ships with three exciting ASP.NET controls built upon this Web User Interface Framework that are ready for action.

WebSplitter™ - New ASP.NET Splitter Bar

The WebSplitter™ control provides a neat and elegant way to separate and organize content within your Web Application. WebSplitter provides the end user with the ability to resize, expand, and collapse the content contained with in the content panes. Depending on how you design your Web Application, you can change the orientation of WebSplitter to Horizontal or Vertical. When vertically oriented, the content panes will be positioned side to side and next to one another. The split bars will be located in between the panes running from top to bottom. Clicking and dragging the split bars from side to side will cause the width of the panes to be adjusted. When horizontally oriented, the panes will be positioned from top to bottom. The split bars will also be located in between the panes and they will run from left to right.

Key features found in this ASP.NET splitter bar control include:

• Orientation - Orient your splitter bar horizontally or vertically on the page.
• Resizing Behavior - You can make the content pane resize in real time as the user clicks and drags the splitter bar, or on slower clients you can defer resizing until the user completes the mouse drag and releases the splitter bar.
• Expand / Collapse - Display buttons on the splitter bar that allows users to expand or collapse the content panes they represent to either side of the splitter.
• Content Panes - Place any content inside your content pane templates: user controls, ASP.NET controls, literal markup content, or anything else that your user interface requires.

WebDialogWindow™ - New ASP.NET Dialog Control

WebDialogWindow displays as a simple <DIV> section in your HTML page that is able to bypass many of the pop-up blockers in present-day browsers, while still appearing to the end users as if it were a pop-up window. This keen user interface control allows you to easily add dialog box functionality into any ASP.NET application for the Web. The dialog window's content area, being a <DIV> tag itself, can contain any HTML markup or ASP.NET content your application requires. WebDialogWindow supports being displayed as either a modal (the user must interact with and close the dialog box; interaction with the rest of your page is suspended) or modeless (non-modal; the user is free to interact with the rest of your page) dialog box.

Like every Aikido Framework control, the WebDialogWindow seamlessly integrates into our Application Styling Framework™ (ASF). With industry standard CSS-based properties, you can manually style the appearance of this ASP.NET dialog window control and leverage your existing style sheets.

A few of the other key features of this ASP.NET dialog control include:

• Modes - The WebDialogWindow allows you to set whether the dialog behaves as a modal or modeless (non-modal) dialog would allowing you to better control the flow of your application.
• Header - The WebDialogWindow displays a customizable header area into which you can place caption text, several buttons including such stand-by's as the close, minimize and maximize buttons seen in desktop applications.
• Resizing - Just like a resizable dialog on the desktop, you can enable your end user to resize the WebDialogWindow at run-time.
• Location - Cause the WebDialogWindow to display at the starting location in the page where you want it to appear.
• Window State - WebDialogWindow takes care of remembering whether the user has minimized, restored or maximized its appearance.

WebImageViewer™ - New ASP.NET Sliding Image Control

The WebImageViewer is a sliding image view control for ASP.NET that allows you to provide end users with a sleek, easy to use Web interface for viewing a plethora of images, and which can also serve as a navigation control. WebImageViewer gives end users the ability to continuously cycle through a list of images that when clicked, can be linked to various resources on your site. The list of images can be easily oriented horizontally or vertically through a single property setting. This ASP.NET control makes an excellent candidate when you need to allow end users to navigate through a list of products, employee records or any other asset for which you have photos or images and wish to expose within your Web application. The quick responsiveness and refined user experience comes from the optimized design made possible by the Aikido Framework and the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions.

Key features you will find in this image view control for ASP.NET include:

• Image Orientation - The list of images can be oriented horizontally (across) or vertically (up/down).
• Smooth Scrolling Animation - Custom configurable animation behavior determines how images are animated when scrolled, and you can scroll through the images one page at a time, one image at a time, or use a continuous smooth scrolling effect.
• Data Binding - The WebImageViewer can be data bound to a custom data model that has the file path to use for accessing the images, their target URLs for when they are clicked, and the tool tip text that should be displayed on mouse over.
• Navigation - When you need visually-appealing, image-driven navigation in your Web application, you can use the WebImageViewer to expose resources to your end users. The resource content of your Target URLs can appear in the same page, within a named frame, or into a new window.

ITypedList Data Binding for WebGrid™ and WebCombo™ - NEW !

The ASP.NET grid and combo box controls in NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2008 Volume 1 fully support data binding against the ITypedList interface. Both the WebCombo and the WebGrid controls can automatically detect when types that implement the ITypedList interface are being data bound, and call the appropriate interface methods in order to determine what column information should be generated. For example, by using the GetItemProperties method of the ITypedList interface your business object can publish information about its properties that it wants to expose through a data binding operation.

Full Support for Visual Studio® 2008 - NEW !

NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2008 Volume 1 fully supports the new Visual Studio 2008 and its ASP.NET controls and components have been fully tested to ensure they function in the integrated development environment.

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Support

The ASP.NET controls are also now compatible with new technologies in the .NET languages such as LINQ that allow you to data bind against data sources in new and easier to write ways.

See What's New in Prior Releases

Every release of NetAdvantage for ASP.NET adds value and features onto the release that came before. You can read more about what was new in previous volume releases here or at anytime consult the "What's New" pages in the accompanying documentation.

• NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2007 Volume 3 added export to Adobe® PDF and Microsoft XPS document formats, the WebGridDocumentExporter™ control, Excel™ (.XLS) import and more.
• NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2007 Volume 2 added Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the stunning WebGauge™ control for dashboards, improved localizability and more.
• NetAdvantage for ASP.NET 2007 Volume 1 added the Application Styling Framework (ASF), the new WebResizingExtender™, clipboard operations in the WebGrid, AJAX enhancements for the WebAsyncRefreshPanel™ (WARP) and much more.

WinTree™ - Enhanced

In NetAdvantage for Windows Forms 2007 Volume 3, you may recall that we gave you the Microsoft® Windows® Vista® look and feel for your WinToolbarsManager™ components; now, you get support for Windows Vista style on our WinTree™ control! By emulating the modern look and feel of the Windows Explorer found in Windows Vista, your Windows Forms applications can display this present day appearance simply by flipping a switch.

Vista Veneer Extends to WinTree

There's so much you can customize in the Windows Vista style of your application's tree views now that you would expect a lot of properties that you would need to mess around with, right? That's where NetAdvantage for Windows Forms 2008 Volume 1 does you a tremendous service, by simplifying your tree's Vista styling down to one property: the DisplayStyle property. Set this property to WindowsVista and you are finished styling the entire WinTree control! It's just that easy.

That doesn't mean there aren't additional properties that you can't customize to tweak certain behaviors (usually within the limits of what Windows Vista would allow), because there are, but to get the standard Windows Vista look and feel all it takes is that one property setting. A few of the exciting Windows Vista styles that you'll see exposed by the WinTree in the WindowsVista DisplayStyle include:

• Scrolling - WinTree automatically scrolls the tree view horizontally to bring the current node into sight.
• Expansion Indicators - These little images sport the WindowsVista color scheme, and tell your user whether a node is expanded or can be expanded.
  
  
  
• Colors - Taken from the WindowsVistaColorScheme object, you'll see that selected and hot tracked nodes display in a cool blue gradient. You'll also see these colors in the expansion indicators mentioned above.
  
  
  
• ToolTips - When the entire node's name cannot fit into the available space, a ToolTip displays the entire node's name. This ToolTip looks just like the node would if it had not run out of space.
  
  
  
• Headers - When displaying multiple columns in your tree view you will see a new header style that closely resembles that of the Windows Vista Explorer.
  
  
  

Select Nodes From Any Level

Another one of the new features present in the WinTree control you get as part of NetAdvantage for Windows Forms 2008 Volume 1 is the ability to allow users to select as many tree nodes as they want, in as many different levels of the tree control as your application needs. You don't need to perform any extra work in order to turn this functionality on, it just works. However, if you want to manipulate the SelectedNodes collection based on the tree nodes coming from different levels, you will need to sort through the nodes collection and identify which Node belongs to which Level.

WinTrackBar™ - Brand NEW !

The new track bar control in this release is called the WinTrackBar, and it is a simple editor that helps your end user choose values from a range; but not just a single range of values, but as many ranges as your .NET application requires. Each range of values that you want the WinTrackBar to display to your users can be customized by you, and you can have as little or as many tick marks in the range as necessary for your application - fine grained or coarse grained movement are equally well supported.

WinTrackBar's look and feel is something you can completely customize for your needs. You can orient this track bar control horizontally (its default orientation), or you can have it stand-on-end in a vertical orientation. You can also change where the tick marks are situated on the track bar, such as having them display on the top or bottom when WinTrackBar is oriented horizontally, and the left or the right if WinTrackBar is oriented vertically.

This track bar also comes with a full array of looks and feels. If you are using the Office 2007 theme that includes the ribbon from WinToolbar™ and the collapsible Outlook™ pane of the WinExplorerBar™ then you can complement them with an Office 2007 track bar, similar to the one your users might see in Microsoft Word™.

Alternately, you can style the WinTrackBar control to implement your own Windows Vista track bar seen in the Views drop-down box of the Windows Vista Explorer. This would go along very well with the Windows Vista theme of the WinToolbarsManager component added in the last release and the WinTree Vista Style described in the section above.

WinTab™ and WinTabbedMdiManager™ - NEW Closed Button Added

Both Mozilla® Firefox® and Microsoft Internet Explorer® allow users to browse the Internet using a tabbed interface, thereby allowing users to work with multiple Web sites open at the same time. Both of these browsers allow you to close individual Web pages by clicking on the close button located on the right side of each tab. Granted, both browsers may implement the close button in their own way, but now that NetAdvantage for Windows Forms has added a close button to the WinTab and WinTabbedMdiManager controls, you too can add tab-closing functionality to your own applications.

The new close button on the tab control and the tabbed MDI (multiple document interface) manager is more customizable than you would think. Along with exposing all of the standard capabilities of our Presentation Layer Framework™ such as an Appearance object to change the look, color and borders of the close button, you get several display and position features to help you fine tune your application's tabs. The close button can be exposed on your tabs in several positions based on the CloseButtonVisibility property:

• Do not display any close button at all.
• Close button appears in the selected tab only.
• Close button is shown on both the selected and hot tracked tabs.
• Close button should appear on every tab.
• Display the close button only in the header area, next to the scroll buttons.

That isn't all. Once you have set where on your tabs you want the close button to appear, you can further hone the appearance of your application by deciding whether it should appear near (before any tab content) or far (after any tab content) by setting its CloseButtonAlignment, displaying on either the left or right (top or bottom) edges of the tab depending on how it is oriented and its content is laid out. This functionality works the same whether you are using WinTab, WinTabStrip™ or WinTabbedMdiManager.

WinListView™ - Enhanced

The list view control can display several columns of data through its Details view, which allows you to add extra detail about each item in the main column. For NetAdvantage for Windows Forms 2008 Volume 1, we have added functionality to allow end users to automatically resize each column of the list view so that the columns fit within the horizontal space available. The user can automatically resize columns by double-clicking on the right side of the column header. Alternatively, you can control the resizing through the new APIs that we've added.

The newly introduced AutoFitColumns property turns this new feature on for you, while the ColumnAutoSizeMode property determines exactly how you want the columns to resize when your user has double-clicked one of the column headers. However, you do not have to wait for the end user to interact with the list view in order to auto-size its columns. With the PerformAutoSize method, you can auto-size the WinListView's columns whenever you need to; you can even specify the type of resizing to perform through an optional parameter to one of its overloads.

Full Support for Visual Studio® 2008 - NEW!

NetAdvantage for Windows Forms 2008 Volume 1 includes full support for the Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 integrated development environment (IDE). All .NET controls and components have been tested fully to ensure they function in this productivity-enhancing new environment.

See What's New in Prior Releases

Every release of the NetAdvantage for .NET controls add value and features onto the release that came before. You can read more about what was new in previous volume releases here or at anytime consult the "What's New" pages in the accompanying documentation.

• NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 3 introduced Vista-style breadcrumb navigation with the WinNavigationBar™, WindowsVista styles, a new Histogram chart type, chart export to PDF/XPS and much more.
• NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 2 introduced the Infragistics Document Export Engine for XPS/PDF export and an enhanced Infragistics.Excel class library, new WinGauge™ and WinDesktopAlert™ controls and much more.
• NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 1 added Express Styling, a new MiniToolbar control, Ribbon enhancements, WinGrid™ conditional formatting and much more.