18.1 Webinar Recap: What's New in Infragistics Ultimate 18.1

Sarah Roman / Thursday, May 3, 2018

Recently, Infragistics held a webinar discussing all the new features and updates to Infragistics Ultimate, our single platform for UX design and enterprise app development for web, desktop, and mobile.

You can watch the full webinar here:

Within the webinar, we covered the major feature sets brought about with the release:

The best of breed UI for financial services for WPF, Ignite UI for Angular, Ignite UI for JavaScript, now designed to support capital market applications and OpenFin OS. The lightweight financial chart controls are optimized to be the backbone of high-performance and high-volume data applications.

The fastest Angular Data Grid with 50+ material-based components, bringing highspeed performance to web applications with updated virtualization.

The updated Excel engine with 100+ supported spreadsheet features, allowing for Excel-like control over your data grid.

Along with the major features, there were top audience questions generated during the event:

Is there a step-by-step Xamarin tutorial for new developers? Absolutely. You can check out our complete end-to-end Xamarin application, Moo2U. The tutorial code can be found here.

Are the Angular controls identical to the jQuery controls with the same API and same capabilities? We have two JavaScript-based products that have prominent differences: Ignite UI for JavaScript and Ignite UI for Angular. Ignite UI for JavaScript is a JavaScript/jQuery-based product that comes with AngularJS extensions, Angular extensions & React extensions, and this means you can use that product in any Angular app. Ignite UI for Angular is a pure Angular product, built on Angular and only works with Angular. This is a newer product with a different API, and not quite as many features (yet) as Ignite UI for JavaScript. We have an aggressive roadmap to ship this year on more native Angular features.

In Windows Forms, we can make multiple lines per row. Are we able to do this with the Angular grid? Yes, definitely. The beauty of this grid is that it can render almost anything in a cell whichever way that you'd like. You can use an ng-template to put whatever you want in an igx-column or igxCell. Furthermore, it's better than Windows Forms, as we have pixel-level scrolling for this grid. You can check out this sample for using ng-template.

Do your web tools work the same way in an ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET MVC Core 2.0 based application? Yes, we fully support ASP.NET Core with MVC.

We hope that you enjoy the webinar, and if you'd like to see all the features that Ultimate 18.1 has to offer, please head over to the product page to learn more.