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November 05, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Infragistics previews tools for Microsoft apps

TAGS: Application development

Infragistics on Monday is releasing previews of tools built for Microsoft's Windows Presentation (WPF) and ASP.Net AJAX as well as a new gauge to work with the Microsoft Silverlight platform for multimedia applications.

For the Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF 7.2 toolset, the company is releasing as a preview a chart component allowing developers to build chart types in 2D and 3D rendering styles. Also being released is a preview of ribbon control incorporating capabilities found in the Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon. NetAdvantage for WPF 7.2 ships in January.

Also on tap from Infragistics is a preview of its Aikido framework for the NetAdvantage for ASP.Net toolset, which leverages ASP.Net AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). The Web user interface in the framework provides for lighter and better-performing controls. The framework is designed to leverage Web development technologies such as XHTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and AJAX.

Infragistics also is unveiling several controls to boost Web development in NetAdvantage for ASP.Net, which are built on top of Aikido.

With Infragistics's Silverlight gauge control preview for NetAdvantage for Silverlight, developers can add to executive dashboards gauges that can reveal, for example, how many units have been sold or the level of hits on a Web site. Availability of NetAdvantage for Silverlight is contingent on Microsoft shipping Silverlight 1.1.

Posted by Paul Krill on November 5, 2007 05:00 AM

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