What is new with NetAdvantage For WPF?
• xamDockManager – gives you the ability to present your users with a docking manager look and feel as you have in Visual Studio 2008. It allows you to dynamically reconfigure the workspace using draggable content panes, floating docking indicators, push-pin and fly-out panes, splitter bars, and multiple document interface tab items.
• xamDataGrid – has been enhanced to provide you with a powerful grid that can be used to produce more polished reports, tables, ledgers, and product listings to help you exceed your users' expectations as well as set your application apart from your competitors. Included is the ability to data bind, provide true hierarchical data rendering, field sorting, inline editing, and advanced styling and layout capabilities.
• ThemePacks – designed by the Infragistics Visual Design Group are provided to make it easy to give the controls a clean and modern look with a single property setting. There are 15 packs included including Windows themes (Luna, Aero, and Royale), Office Themes (Black, Blue, and Silver), as well as new ones like Fall, ForestGreen, and Lipstick.
• xamples – (pronounced "zamples") are a pair of very good, and highly polished WPF applications that bring together over 140 xamples that demonstrate the power and flexibility of each control. This provides you with concrete examples of how to work with each control.
• Leveraging of WPF platform features – takes advantage of all of the new features in the WPF platform including high resolution graphics, rich styling, and animation capabilities.
• Carousel Motion – with special effects, including scaling, skewing, and opacity effects, along a discrete path or continuous circuit. This gives you graphically rich methods of presenting your users with choices that go beyond menus.
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