Announcing Beta 1 of the DevExpress Grid for Silverlight

June 18, 2008 - PRLog -- DevExpress is proud to announce the first public beta of the AgDataGrid Suite for Silverlight. Not just a "preview" of what is possible with Silverlight, the AgDataGrid Suite was developed to fully exploit the power and flexibility of the platform and will ship with the following features:

Data Grouping against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
Data Sorting against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
Comprehensive Summary Computation support against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
Column Movement
Column Resizing
Column Auto-Width
Row Editing
Row Preview (with animation)
Template Support (for cell content, cell editing, row preview and headers)
Auto Height Support for cells, headers, and totals.
Virtual StackPanel Row Container (simply means we are able to handle an unlimited number of rows)
Focused Row and Focused Cell
Multi-Row Selection
Cell Text Wrapping
Vertical/Horizontal Lines
Multiple column types/editors

“Silverlight represents an exciting new development option for software developers and DevExpress is committed to delivering feature-complete presentation components for this next generation platform. ” said Julian M Bucknall, CTO of Developer Express Inc. “Over the coming months, DevExpress will release numerous controls for Silverlight to help developers deliver compelling solutions and address business needs in an elegant and effective manner.”

Beyond the features we’ve listed above, the AgDataGrid for Silverlight will ship with the following capabilities:

Smart UI Element Management
AgDataGrid implements a smart loading and re-organization of the grid's inner UI elements to provide smaller control load times and faster data operations.

Designed for Future Performance Enhancements
Silverlight is all about client-side technology...But if client/server interaction will be implemented in future versions, our grid is ready to delegate data processing to the server side and thus boost application performance.

Higher-Level abstraction
With our unique measurement routines you don't have to think in terms of pixels - which you do with the standard Silverlight grid. Just like other advanced controls for older platforms, you simply specify styles and fonts and all element sizes are automatically modified.

Full Animation Support
It's hard to imagine any Silverlight control without compelling animation effects. Though the standard Microsoft Silverlight grid control's architecture doesn't support them, AgDataGrid fully supports animations for group row expansion, preview row display and other operations.

The AgDataGrid Suite Beta is available for download from devexpress.com free of charge and includes full source code.  To learn more, visit http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Components/Silverl...

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