Hi,
Currenty we are using WPF xamDataGrid in our solution and awaiting for the 11.2 release of the same because of a particular feature i.e. Column Banding (or multi column headers) which is currently present in the SL xamGrid.
I have recently read a blog on your website which says there is a plan to port SL xamGrid over cross platform with a common API for both WPF and SL in 11.2.
I would like to know the if there are any particular features which are currently available in WPF xamDataGrid and will not be present in the cross platform xamGrid (11.2) OR vice versa. Also, if you guys can provide us any performance numbers against xamGrid.
Would be great if I can have some kind of comparison sheet at a single page to quickly go through the differences b/w each other.
Thanks,
SK
The Silverlight XamGrid and the WPF xamDataGrid don't have the exact same feature set. Although now that we are doing cross platform work, thanks to similarities in SL4 and WPF4, we do try and match new features wherever possible. The main reason for the discrepancy in any features is the current market demand for a particular control at the time, as the WPF xamDataGrid was written years before the silverlight xamGrid.
If you let me know what features you're looking to use, i can let you know which features the xamGrid supports.
Although for a quick reference, you can look at our Help to see which features it does support: http://help.infragistics.com/NetAdvantage/Silverlight/2011/1/CLR4.0/?page=SL_xamGrid_Using_xamGrid.html
As for performance, you can read our WhitePaper on the xamGrid's perf here:
http://download.infragistics.com/marketing/infragistics-silverlight-xamgrid-performance-whitepaper.pdf
And read perf metrics on other controls here:http://es.infragistics.com/innovations/performance-whitepapers.aspx#PerformanceWhitepapers
In our initial tests, we are getting around the same perf metrics for the WPF port of the xamGrid as the original SL version.
I hope this helps.
-SteveZ
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Hi Steve,
We have received the 11.2 beta from the Infragistics India team and we are in mid our evaluation based on this beta build. However, there are couple of limitations we have observed so far e.g. Printing Capabilities, Export to Excel, DataSet Binding, etc.
My assumption is that these limitations are may be because of an early cut of beta version that we are using and hoping to see these in the final product. Could you please confirm the availability of these features in the final product.
Sunil Kataria
Hi Sunil,
I don't know how early of a build you received. However, we did not build in any extra Printing logic. Export To Excel will be available by using the Excel API's however we haven't added the ability to auto export from the grid yet, due to time constraints. DataSet binding is supported.
We will have a list of comparisons between the features of the xamDataGrid and xamGrid when we release 11.2.
Thanks for clarifcation. I have couple of queries based on my findings:
1. When you say extra printing logic, did you mean it will have basic printing capabilites. I tried to print the grid by using Reporting API (11.2 beta), but it only printed the visible part of the the grid and did not print the scrollable records.
2. From Excel API's do I need to export the records by reading each cell of the grid or will it have some sophesticated method to export everything by taking the grid's reference.
3. In 11.1 version Reporting API has number of export options like Export to XPS, Export to Excel, etc. However in the beta version there was just Export to XPS. Would the Reporting API's be as robust as 11.1?