NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization is a comprehensive collection of user interface controls to build rich dashboards, visualize business data and empower decision makers.  Developers can quickly create high-end BI applications without writing a lot of code. You can present data clearly and cleanly.  NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization gives developers controls that simplify the visual representation of large quantities of information in non-schematic ways.

NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization includes the sophisticated mapping of xamWebMap that reads de facto industry-standard shape files (.shp) to present rich geographical information in familiar map form to users, and opens the world to them through your applications.

Embrace Silverlight features for high-end, high performance Web-based data visualization experiences - NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization controls take maximum advantage of the Silverlight browser plug-in’s capabilities to dynamically react to the user (such as dragging the gauge needle within the browser), off-load what would ordinarily be server-side processing to the client, and minimize client-to-server network traffic leading to greater responsiveness and scalability.

Create “Islands of Richness” in existing ASP.NET applications - NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization controls empower ASP.NET developers to easily embed regions of interactivity and rich styling for normally graphically-demanding data visualizations into existing Web applications or as SharePoint WebParts. Islands of richness enable existing investments in ASP.NET to incrementally enhanced Silverlight as needed, where the use of Silverlight delivers the greatest payback such as in data visualization scenarios.

This inaugural release of NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 2009 Volume 1 features the following controls for the Silverlight 2 browser plug-in:

Infragistics xamWebMap - Present end users with your business intelligence data in rich and interactive maps featuring panning, zooming, mouseover effects and tooltips.

Modularly constructed around the following key components:

• Map Layer(s)
• Navigational Pane(s)
• Color Swatch Pane(s)
• Scale Pane(s)

Reads maps in the de facto industry-standard shape file (.shp) format. Displays shapefiles that are polygon, polyline or point-based, and allows programmatic customization of what is displayed to the end user.

Infragistics xamWebChart - Rich data visualization can fit into any scene, SharePoint WebPart or legacy ASP.NET application (as an island of richness) with this stylable Silverlight control that supports animation, storyboards, data binding and 28 chart types.

Infragistics xamWebGauge- Create highly interactive, high performance business scorecards and information dashboards using the xamWebGauge’s astonishing designability and client-side interactivity.

Infragistics xamWebTimeline - Enable users to quickly understand and visualize a sequence of events. These events may be historical events, steps in the narrative of some business process or workflow, project milestones, key frames in a video being edited, or a representation of any time-series data. Users can select elements in the timeline to display a greater level of detail about that timeline element.

Infragistics xamWebZoombar - The zoom bar plugs into other Silverlight controls – like the chart, map or timeline – to provide an intuitive user interface for dynamically scaling and scrolling an associated control’s view of data. It is the ideal user interface element for use when your users need to zoom-in or zoom-out of your data visualizations.