Version

What’s New in 2016 Volume 1

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic gives a brief overview of the new controls and features introduced in the Ultimate UI for WPF 2016 Volume 1 Release.

xamDataPresenter

Asynchronous Paging Data Source

This feature allows you to create data sources that support retrieving data from high-latency remote data stores using an asynchronous and paged access strategy.

Entering editing mode when the user starts typing

You can allow the user to enter editing mode automatically when a cell is activated and the user enters text or presses the space or backspace keys.

Field Grouping

The field grouping feature allows you to group several fields under a common field group.

The following screenshot shows the "Order" and the "Customer" fields rendered under a common field group "IDs" and also the "Ordered" and the "Shipped" fields rendered under a common field group "Dates":

xamDataPresenter Field Grouping.png

xamScatterSurface3D

New control

The xamScatterSurface3D control allows fast, visually appealing and customizable three-dimensional surface visualization. The control offers a full set of API options to achieve any 3D surface plotting requirement and very intuitive default values to minimize the coding required.

xamScatterSurface3D 1.png

xamSchedule

Recurrence dialog’s description label visibility

The description label in the xamSchedule’s activity recurrence dialog is now visible by default for German and French languages.

WhatsNew 16.1 WPF 1.png
WhatsNew 16.1 WPF 2.png

xamTabControl

Tabs dragging and reordering

The xamTabControl now supports dragging and reordering of tabs.

xamTabControl DnD.png

xamRadialGauge and xamLinearGauge

Needle dragging (CTP)

You can now move the needle on the xamRadialGauge and xamLinearGauge controls by enabling the isDraggingEnabled property.