NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 2009 Volume 2 is a comprehensive collection of User Interface Controls to Build Rich Dashboards, Visualize Business Data and Empower Decision Makers. This is the package for those of you focused on communicating information clearly and effectively through graphical means such as charts, gauges, timelines and maps.

What’s new in Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 2009 Vol 2?

·         xamWebMap - Geo-Imagery Integration – MultiScaleTileSource support allows developers to pull imagery (for example, satellite/aerial photographs, remote sensing, or street maps) from popular providers like Microsoft® bing™ maps, CloudMade, and OpenStreetMap into your Silverlight mapping applications.

·         xamWebMap - Geo-Spatial Database Integration— Developers can pull both GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY data types from geo-spatial databases like Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 using the new SqlShapeReader object.

·         xamWebBulletGraph - a graph designed to show a lot of information in one place, the bullet graph helps developers deliver a clear and concise view of key performance indicators in Silverlight dashboards.

·         xamWebChart - A graphical display that helps users clearly see the relationship between points on the graph, and their corresponding X- and/or Y-axis values.  Each line can be independently styled to have the line style (solid, dashed, dotted, etc.), thickness and color developers want.

·         xamWebTimeline - Infragistics have added two new features to how the Silverlight timeline control, xamWebTimeline, handles its Event Titles to give developers greater influence over their appearance.

·         xamWebTimeline - Anti-Collision Event Titles – Anti-Collision Event Titles are a new feature in which the xamWebTimeline intelligently arranges its event titles to maximize the number of titles that can be placed in the available space without overlapping each other.

·         xamWebTimeline  - Event Title Line Style - allows the style of the line connecting the Event Title with the timeline’s axis to be changed.

NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization is a comprehensive collection of user interface controls to build rich dashboards, visualize business data and empower decision makers.  Developers can quickly create high-end BI applications without writing a lot of code. You can present data clearly and cleanly.  NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization gives developers controls that simplify the visual representation of large quantities of information in non-schematic ways.

NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization includes the sophisticated mapping of xamWebMap that reads de facto industry-standard shape files (.shp) to present rich geographical information in familiar map form to users, and opens the world to them through your applications.

Embrace Silverlight features for high-end, high performance Web-based data visualization experiences - NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization controls take maximum advantage of the Silverlight browser plug-in’s capabilities to dynamically react to the user (such as dragging the gauge needle within the browser), off-load what would ordinarily be server-side processing to the client, and minimize client-to-server network traffic leading to greater responsiveness and scalability.

Create “Islands of Richness” in existing ASP.NET applications - NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization controls empower ASP.NET developers to easily embed regions of interactivity and rich styling for normally graphically-demanding data visualizations into existing Web applications or as SharePoint WebParts. Islands of richness enable existing investments in ASP.NET to incrementally enhanced Silverlight as needed, where the use of Silverlight delivers the greatest payback such as in data visualization scenarios.

This inaugural release of NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 2009 Volume 1 features the following controls for the Silverlight 2 browser plug-in:

Infragistics xamWebMap - Present end users with your business intelligence data in rich and interactive maps featuring panning, zooming, mouseover effects and tooltips.

Modularly constructed around the following key components:

·         Map Layer(s)

·         Navigational Pane(s)

·         Color Swatch Pane(s)

·         Scale Pane(s)

Reads maps in the de facto industry-standard shape file (.shp) format. Displays shapefiles that are polygon, polyline or point-based, and allows programmatic customization of what is displayed to the end user.

Infragistics xamWebChart - Rich data visualization can fit into any scene, SharePoint WebPart or legacy ASP.NET application (as an island of richness) with this stylable Silverlight control that supports animation, storyboards, data binding and 28 chart types.

Infragistics xamWebGauge - Create highly interactive, high performance business scorecards and information dashboards using the xamWebGauge’s astonishing designability and client-side interactivity.

Infragistics xamWebTimeline - Enable users to quickly understand and visualize a sequence of events. These events may be historical events, steps in the narrative of some business process or workflow, project milestones, key frames in a video being edited, or a representation of any time-series data. Users can select elements in the timeline to display a greater level of detail about that timeline element.

Infragistics xamWebZoombar - The zoom bar plugs into other Silverlight controls – like the chart, map or timeline – to provide an intuitive user interface for dynamically scaling and scrolling an associated control’s view of data. It is the ideal user interface element for use when your users need to zoom-in or zoom-out of your data visualizations.

Minimum Requirements to Run:
Silverlight 3 browser plug-in installed on client. Silverlight will support most major browsers on both the OS X® and Windows® operating systems. Check out the Microsoft Silverlight System Requirements for details.

Minimum Requirements for Development:
Visual Studio® 2008 + Silverlight 3 Tools Add-On. You can download add-ons and related tools from the Microsoft Silverlight Get Started page.

Licensing

Developer License: Each copy is licensed on a per developer basis. A developer may use the license on multiple CPUs as long as they are not used concurrently nor used by another developer. Run-time royalty free.