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."

More Business Intelligence Capabilities included by GrapeCity PowerTools' ActiveAnalysis 2

GrapeCity PowerTools announced the availability of a new release of its .NET analysis component, ActiveAnalysis 2. The component lets developers embed out-of-the box OLAP, data visualization, and business intelligence (BI) features by using charts, pivot tables, and data visualization for Silverlight, Windows Forms, and ASP.NET.

ActiveAnalysis 2 now lets developers reference external assemblies and extend library functions to help them work with queries and calculations. The component's user experience (UX) has been enhanced with improved expression validation and a pivot grid menu that provides customization capabilities. In addition, GrapeCity PowerTools is providing users with more support for multi-parameter aggregate functions, as well as improvements in printing and exporting for multi-page views.

"Our customers have asked us to provide the capability to extend our product so they can include unique and industry-specific custom functions for a multitude of analytical purposes. We are pleased to say we have answered our customers' requests, and in a clean and logical manner as custom functions in an external assembly, in a class within the project, or in a few lines of custom code," said Shalini Kumari, GrapeCity PowerTools product manager for ActiveAnalysis 2.