Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Silverlight data visualization

analysis
Mar 2, 20091 min

Infragistics' new NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization is a package of user-interface controls

Last Friday Tony Lombardo, Infragistics lead evangelist and Microsoft MVP, gave me an advance look at Infragistics’ new NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization. This is a package of Silverlight user-interface controls focused on information dashboards.

There are five groups of controls in the package: maps, charts, gauges, timelines, and a “zoombar,” which is a combination scrollbar and zooming control that plugs into the other controls. The zoombar is most useful with charts and timelines.

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The figure above shows the chart gallery. The figure below shows one interesting aspect of the gauges: they can be used for input as well as display.

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The figure above shows a world map. The map controls use ESRI shapefiles. The figure below shows a timeline with a zoombar.

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A demo of the new controls is live now at Infragistics’ Web site.

The product includes full source code and is available now for $595 with a year’s standard support.

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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