Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Infragistics announces Silverlight controls

analysis
Jul 10, 20091 min

Grids, trees, menus, and charts add value to Microsoft's Silverlight 3 offering

On Wednesday, Infragistics gave me a sneak peek at its Silverlight 3 UI control set for line-of-business applications. These grids, trees, menus, charts, and other controls were engineered for the highest possible performance in RIA applications, as well as enhanced interactivity and user experience.

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The image below (click to see a full-size version) shows an Outlook bar at the left, a bar graph at the top right, and a grid at the bottom right.

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The controls are scheduled to ship on July 27 and were announced today as part of the Silverlight 3 rollout.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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