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What’s New in 2015 Volume 1

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic presents the controls and the new and enhanced features for the Infragistics® Windows Forms 2015 Volume 1 release.

What’s New Summary

What’s new summary chart

The following table summarizes what’s new in 2015 Volume 1. Additional details follow the summary table.

Animated Gif Support

Feature Description

In addition to the pre-existing static image support, our Presentation Layer Framework (PLF) now has the ability to display animated images throughout our components.

Word Engine

Feature Description

You can now add bullet lists and automatic numbering using the Infragistics WordDocumentWriter class in the 2015 Volume 1 release.

New ISL Files

Feature Description

In the 2015 Volume 1 release we added many new ISL files.

WinDockManager

Feature Description

In previous versions, the close buttons for tabs were only available in the caption area of a pane. However in the 2015 Volume 1 release, the close button can also appear on the tab itself for any tabbed dock area.

PrintDialog Button Tool

Feature Description

This feature allows the users to optionally display a PrintDialog button tool to choose a printer or change other printer settings.

WinGridColumnChooser

Feature Description

In the 2015 Volume 1 release a new feature which allows you to enable multiple row selection is added in the WinGrid™ ColumnChooser.

Animated Gif Support

Animated Gif

In addition to the pre-existing static image support, our Presentation Layer Framework (PLF) now has the ability to display animated images throughout our components. A new AnimatedImageManager class has been added to the framework to automatically handle the rendering of images containing time-based frames.

Word Engine

Bullet and Numbering

This topic provides a conceptual overview of how to create bullet lists and automatic numbering runs in a wordprocessingML-compliant document using the Infragistics WordDocumentWriter class.

New ISL Files

New ISL Files

There are three new ISL files available in this release. They are three Microsoft Visual Studio Themes:

  • VS2013 - Blue.isl

  • VS2013 - Dark.isl

  • VS2013 - Light.isl

WinDockManager

Close Buttons on Tabs

In previous versions, the close buttons for tabs were only available in the caption area of a pane. With the addition of the CloseButtonLocation property, the close button can also appear on the tab itself for any tabbed dock area.

The following screenshot is a preview of the close button appearing in the caption area, tabs of a tab group, and an unpinned tab.

Close Button On Tabs 1.png

PrintPreviewDialog

Printer Options Button

The PrintDialog Button Tool allows you to modify printer settings including but not limited to choosing a printer, select the amount of copies per page, and setting a page range.

PrintPreviewDialogButton 01.png

WinGridColumnChooser

Multi-select

A new property has been added to the UltraGridColumnChooser control, MultiSelect Enabled, which switches on multiple row selection, subsequently allowing the visibility or position of any number of columns to be changed in one atomic operation via user interaction.

The following screen shot shows the column chooser as it appears on the dialog that is displayed when a button in the grid is clicked and multiple rows are multi-selected:

ColumnChooser.png