UltraGrid for Avalon – Technology Demo

UltraGrid for Avalon is a functional grid control that supports hierarchical data, column sizing, multi-column sorting and ‘Outlook Group-by’. It was written by Infragistics, at the request of Microsoft, to showcase at the PDC what could be done in a very short period of time by leveraging the Avalon framework. The control was written from scratch in less than 1 month’s time by 2 Infragistic’s developers who had no prior exposure to Avalon. This was made possible by the fact that the Avalon’s framework and Infragistics’ Presentation Layer Framework (PLF) are remarkably similar - both are based on UIElements and visual trees. In fact the base class for all visual elements is called UIElement in both the Avalon Framework and our PLF. Since Infragistics has had over 3 years experience designing and building components based on UIElements we were uniquely positioned to leverage the power of Avalon.

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