NetAdvantage Ultimate 2012 Volume 2 released by Infragistics

Comprehensive Tool sets Empower Customers to Deploy Better Performing, Modern Applications Across Multiple Platforms

Infragistics, the design and user experience (UX) software company and a world leader in user interface (UI) development tools and business productivity apps, announced today the availability of NetAdvantage® Ultimate 2012 Volume 2. Packed with high-performance controls, Touch support enhancements and business intelligence capabilities, Infragistics delivers limitless solutions for every business application scenario.

Whether customers are engaged in mobile or web app development or standardizing on mature platforms, Infragistics UI bundles produce powerful end user experiences that affect a business's bottom line.

"Companies such as Infragistics extend the value of Microsoft solutions and platforms, helping organizations create meaningful experiences that solve problems, drive inspiration and maximize results," said Tom Lindeman, director of the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program at Microsoft. "NetAdvantage provides development teams the tools they need to more easily capitalize on enterprise data sources, yielding consistent, high-quality user experiences in applications across modern platforms and devices."

This release marks the inclusion of beta toolset NUCLiOS, the first commercial class and enterprise-supported UI toolkit for iPad development and an Android Community Pack, named Iguana, for the Android developer community.

"This is an exciting time for the developer market and Infragistics," said Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics. "For two decades customers have turned to Infragistics to build the best in state of the art UIs for Windows platforms and the web. For the first time in our history, we bring Apple iOS developers into the Infragistics ecosystem with our native NUCLiOS UI controls. Now, every developer can create exceptional applications that deliver modern functionality, substance and style, across any platform."

Highlights in this release of Infragistics NetAdvantage platform include:

Investment in mobile UI development with the introduction of NUCLiOS, the iOS UI beta toolset, and Iguana, the Android Community Pack.
Introduction of data visualization data chart and geospacial mapping controls in NetAdvantage for jQuery (renamed Ignite UI) to produce the best apps for any browser, platform or device.
Windows UI theming and Touch gesture support across Infragistics HTML5/jQuery, XAML, ASP.NET, and Windows Forms toolsets.
Native and cross-platform mobile feature enhancements to empower on-the-go decision makers anywhere, anytime on any device with highly performant, cutting-edge, native apps.
Visual Studio 2012 cross-platform compatibility that takes advantage of the latest features in Visual Studio 2012 to enrich the developer productivity experience.
Enhancements to the jQuery, XAML and ASP.NET grids and charts to ensure market leading performance and reliability.
"Infragistics leaves no one behind with this release of NetAdvantage," added Guida. "Our commitment to deliver great end user experiences propels the company to develop the most comprehensive UI toolsets available today -- for every device and platform."

TestAdvantage for WPF 2011 Volume 2 released by Infragistics

Infragistics, the design and user experience (UX) software company and a world leader in user interface (UI) development tools, today announced availability of TestAdvantage for WPF 2011 Volume 2.

TestAdvantage, a collection of custom libraries built for use within the HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) automated testing environment, enables enterprise development teams to deploy higher quality software built with NetAdvantage for WPF 2011 Volume 2 while reducing risks associated with project development and application deployment.

"Our continued investment in the WPF platform extends beyond our UI controls and into our world-class testing tools," said Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics. "Our customers trust Infragistics to develop value-added solutions that help to lower the total cost of ownership, achieve greater return on investment and produce applications with the best user experiences possible."

NetAdvantage Ultimate 2012 Volume 1 released by Infragistics

Infragistics, the design and user experience (UX) software company and a world leader in user interface (UI) development tools, announced today the availability of NetAdvantage® Ultimate 2012 Volume 1. With leading design and UI toolsets and continued investments in mobility, touch and business intelligence capabilities, Infragistics empowers design and development teams to create and deploy powerful, modern applications that deliver the best cross platform user experiences possible.

This release marks the inclusion of Infragistics design toolsets into the NetAdvantage Ultimate product suite. NetAdvantage ICONS, professional plug and play graphics that give 'pop' to applications and Quince Pro, a full-featured design pattern library collaboration toolset, enable interdisciplinary teams to collaborate and communicate throughout a project's lifecycle.

Powered by touch friendly technology and Metro UI styling with Windows 8 compatible, highly performant UI controls, and compatible with Visual Studio 2011 beta, NetAdvantage Ultimate customers can easily create dynamic applications for deployment across browsers, platforms and devices.

"UX development blurs the lines between designers and developers and empowers our customers to extend their brand value by conceiving, designing and building applications that deliver the best end user experiences," said Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics. "NetAdvantage makes developers and development teams more efficient and effective by enabling them to write reusable native code for a variety of platforms."

Highlights in this release of Infragistics NetAdvantage platform include:

1. Inclusion of NetAdvantage ICONS and Quince Pro into NetAdvantage Ultimate to foster UX development across interdisciplinary teams.

2. Investment in mobility and touch enabled UI features for web and Windows Phone developers.

3. Metro and touch friendly themes for HTML5/jQuery, XAML and ASP.NET controls. Developers can create applications with substance and style that meet end user expectations on tablets and small form devices.

4. Introduction of market leading data visualisation controls for NetAdvantage for jQuery. In addition to the fastest HTML5/jQuery grid on the market, Infragistics includes the high performance DataChart and geospatial mapping capabilities.

5. Heavy focus on business intelligence capabilities with enhanced charting, geospatial mapping and high performance grid controls across all toolsets. The Tabular Grid experience in NetAdvantage for Windows Phone is designed specifically for this form factor increasing performance and end user delight.

6. Inclusion of XAML Data Visualisation controls into their respective NetAdvantage for Silverlight and NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business toolsets, providing NetAdvantage for .NET customers extreme value gained from the added business intelligence features.

7. Commitment to mature platforms (Windows Forms, ASP.NET). Infragistics continues to invest in these platforms as is evident with the new Gantt Printing control in the Windows Forms toolset. Grid feature enhancements continue to deliver the highest performing desktop applications.

As part of the NetAdvantage launch, Infragistics invites designers, developers and development mangers to the "NetAdvantage 12.1 Webinar Series".

Infragistics Subject Matter Experts Jason Beres, Brian Lagunas, Nick Landry, and Tom Puglisi will discuss how customers can deliver the absolute best user experiences across all applications, no matter what platform is used.

"NetAdvantage is a sophisticated UX development platform that enables our customers to take advantage of Windows Metro UI and touch enabled capabilities to produce sleek, modern applications accessed by end users anytime, anywhere and on any device," added Guida.

Please see the NetAdvantage Ultimate page for a complete list of new features in NetAdvantage for Windows Forms, NetAdvantage for ASP.NET, NetAdvantage for jQuery, NetAdvantage for Silverlight, NetAdvantage for WPF, NetAdvantage for Windows Phone, NetAdvantage for LightSwitch and NetAdvantage Reporting.