“Whether you’re a solo developer or part of a large digital product team, Infragistics Ultimate offers the tools you need to create beautiful, high-performance apps more efficiently,” said Jason Beres, SVP of developer tools at Infragistics. “Our new iteration brings a host of new features that significantly improve, streamline and modernize app building.”

The low-code platform App Builder now has the ability to generate code for React, which simplifies the design-to-code process for developers building with that framework. 

App Builder also now has the concepts of Variables, State Management, and Selection events, which will enable Master-Detail design patterns to be created within the platform, which wasn’t previously possible. Master-Detail shows two views: a list of records and a view that expands data about a single record. 

Infragistics Ultimate 24.1 also includes several framework specific updates, such as:

• Advanced state management, support for Angular 18, and a new Toolbar component in Angular
• A Hierarchical Grid for handling data, Pivot Grid for data analysis, and a Button Group component in Blazor
• A Hierarchical Grid, Tree Grid control, and a Button Group component in React
• A Hierarchical Grid, Pivot Grid, and improved DockManager in Web Components

There is also now a Chart Highlight Feature, which allows developers to create interactive charts where users can highlight specific chart data points so that they can analyze complex datasets. According to Infragistics, this makes data visualization better for both developers and their end-users.

And finally, Infragistics Ultimate 24.1 includes support for .NET 8, which offers benefits like faster startup times, reduced memory usage, and enhanced runtime. It also includes Funnel Chart Highlighting in Windows Forms and WPF to “make complex quantitative data more digestible.”

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The editor can now generate React code, which has been a highly requested capability by the community, according to Infragistics. With this addition, App Builder now covers all of the major web frameworks. 

“Whether you are working with Angular, Blazor, or Web Components and now React, App Builder will generate code for pixel-perfect apps that are production-ready, performant, and maintainable,” said Jason Beres, SVP of developer tools at Infragistics. 

Another new feature in this release is support for two-way data binding in the Select, Text-area, and Radio-group components. With this new feature, any changes to the UI are reflected in the underlying data model immediately and vice versa, which cuts down on manual updates and ensures data consistency across the app. 

This release also includes improved Datasource notifications, which are notifications that allow developers to view changes that impact their application. 

And finally, the latest version of App Builder also improves the onboarding process for new customers. A new Guest-access mode allows first-time users to explore the platform without having to sign-up for an account. Guests will be able to save all of the progress they have made by signing in with an account once they have decided to continue using the platform to build their apps. 

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Infragistics’ companys’ mission is to create simplicity and beauty in the world one app at a time. With this creativity contest, they are encouraging others to take on this mission and create a simple, beautiful application with App Builder, a web-based WYSIWYG design tool that allows anyone to create apps.

“App Builder makes it easy to be creative and customize apps to meet unique needs,” said Jason Beres, SVP, Infragistics. “With App Builder, anyone can create an application such as an e-commerce, travel or team collaboration app and we welcome entries from developers and designers all over the world.”

The contest entry deadline is Nov. 17 and winners will be announced on Dec. 7, 2023. Gift cards in the amount of $2,000, $750 and $250 will be awarded to the top three winners. The winners will be announced during the webinar “What Makes an Award- Winning Application and App Builder Design Contest”.

Contest judges include:

• Jason Beres, Senior VP of Developer Tools, Infragistics – Jason is a former Microsoft .NET MVP, and the author of several books on software development, covering topics like SQL Server, C#, Visual Basic, Rich Client and Web Development. He is a national and international conference speaker and keeps very active in the developer and UX community.

• George Abraham, Senior Product Manager, Infragistics – George is a prototyping process maven. He believes design fuses art and science to discover the right trade-offs, and great user experiences don’t happen by accident.

• Andrea Silveira, Director, User Experience in Product Development, Infragistics – Andrea is an experienced UX/UI designer with a strong arts and design background and is skilled in wireframing, user experience, visual design, user interface design, and application/web/product design.

Participants can register for the contest here. There is no fee to enter. Participation in the contest is simple: sign up using the form, download a free trial of App Builder, use it to design and build the perfect app, then submit the “app-sterpiece” on Twitter using the hashtag #MadeWithAppBuilder!

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According to the company, the competition offers participants access to the App Builder drag & drop tool, allowing designers and developers to collaborate in one platform. 

It also provides a complete design system, which is compatible with Sketch and Adobe XD and generates code in Angular and Blazor.

“App Builder makes it easy to be creative and customize apps to meet unique needs,” said Jason Beres, SVP at Infragistics. “With App Builder, anyone can create an application such as an e-commerce, travel or team collaboration app and we welcome entries from developers and designers all over the world.”

The contest is open for interested participants to enter until the end of November. Final judging will take place on December 1st-3rd, 2022 and will be done by Jason Beres, senior VP of developer tools at Infragistics; George Abraham, senior product manager at Infragistics; and Andrea Silveira, director of user experience in product development at Infragistics.

Prizes will be awarded to the top three winners and include gift cards in the amounts of $1,000, $500, and $250. The winners will be announced on December 15th, 2022 during the webinar “What Makes an Award-Winning Application and App Builder Design Contest”.

To register for the contest for free, click here. 

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“Blazor is huge for .NET developers, and with Ultimate 22.2, our new Blazor grids exceed anything available on the market today. Feature complete data grids with full column and row-level virtualization means .NET developers are not limited in what they can deliver in their modern .NET web apps,” said Jason Beres, SVP of developer tools at Infragistics. “Couple that with our commitment to web standards in our one-of-a-kind Web Components product, plus the RAD development capabilities in our low-code WYSIWYG App Builder, developers have everything they need to deliver error-free apps in any platform, 8x faster than hand coding.” 

There are four new data grids being released: Data Grid, Tree Grid, Hierarchical Grid, and Pivot Grid. It hopes the addition of these grids will cover every scenario for application development. 

Other features coming to Blazor data grids include new Tabs controls, Accordion control, Date Time Input control, and Select control. 

Infragistics Ultimate 22.2 also adds new Figma UI kits and the ability to generate code from designs created in Figma.

New features in App Builder include enhanced charting support, layout features, new components, new app sharing features, and a new UX for column configuration. Column configuration allows developers to customize things like column titles, column arrangement, pre-set data filters, and more. 

This release also adds a number of updates to charts, including automatic responsive layouts, enhanced rendering for rounded labels, and automatica crosshair, animations, and Y-Axis labels and label formatting. 

A new API has also been added for grouping, sorting, and summarizing category string and numeric values. This will eliminate the need to calculate chart data manually. 

Other features include full support for Figma in Indigo.Design and support for Angular 14 in Ignite UI Angular.

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Among the new enhancements is improved design-to-code features and capabilities in App Builder, such as Swagger UI support, localhost data access, business charts, 15 screen layouts, brand new UI kits in the design system, and new add-ons in the App Builder toolbox.

Updated UI kits and new controls in Angular, Blazor, React, and Web Components, new themes, and Angular Pivot Grid and Blazor DockManager are also included in Infragistics Ultimate 22.1. 

Additionally, this release brings enhanced UX features across all data visualization controls, offering new defaults, updated themes, and new interactions. 

According to the company, Infragistics Ultimate 22.1 also offers users several new capabilities to go from design to code faster than before as well as accelerate development time up to 80%. 

This release also enables technical teams to easily connect Swagger definitions for Web APIs or Entity Framework models with live data in the cloud-based low-code App-Builder.  

According to Infragistics, a dozen more app templates as well as 15 new screen layouts are also available to users in order to assist them in building responsive pages in one click. 

The App-Builder on premise version can be securely deployed to a local network in order to be sure that all data and designs are protected from external influence. Users also gain live access to real data or auto-generated mock data based on schemas in their app design.

This release also brings several framework components such as the Pivot Grid, Microsoft Excel-like drag & drop UI in various grids, custom summaries in Angular and Dock Manager, Toast, Snackbar, and Slider for Blazor improve app development.

The company also stated that Ultimate 22.1 also packs necessary chart and graph improvements in order to ensure zero compromise on performance and zero compromise on user experience.

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App Builder is included with the Ignite UI for Angular and Blazor web-based toolkits and works to eliminate the complexity of user interface design and development so developers can build apps faster.

App Builder On-Prem brings the same features and benefits as the cloud version to enterprise organizations that have not yet approved the use of cloud-based SaaS solutions or those with sensitive design work that are able to go beyond a company’s firewall. 

It is accessible only by internal personnel and runnable on any infrastructure, ensuring that data and designs remain protected from outside influence. 

“The launch of App Builder On-Prem will further expand on App Builder’s mission to streamline app creation, from design to code,” said Jason Beres, SVP of developer tools at Infragistics. “We’re continuing to push down barriers and launch innovative features so all developers and designers can accelerate app design and development–no matter where they work.”

This On-Prem release comes as a part of Infragistics Ultimate 22.1 rollout which introduces new design-to-code features and capabilities for both versions of App Builder. These new features include  OpenAPI/Swagger support, data visualization and charts, new controls, updated code generation, app templates, and screen layouts.

App Builder is also included with the design-to-code platform, Indigo.Design. According to the company, this works to provide users with true UX design-development collaboration.

To download App Builder On-Prem and learn what else is included in Infragistics Ultimate 22.1, visit the website.

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Slingshot was built by the Infragistics Innovation Lab. It is available as a desktop app, mobile app, or can be accessed via any web browser. 

According to Infragistics, as companies scrambled to adapt to distributed working environments, they have adopted a number of tools but most have ended up with more than they needed and workers are having to constantly switch between several apps.

Slingshot aims to bring everything together in one place so that this switching isn’t needed. It includes native chat functionality, content-sharing, and a data catalog. 

Teams can connect Slingshot to multiple data sources, such as databases and spreadsheets, SaaS systems, and Big Data and cloud data products. It also integrates with financial, marketing and sales tools like Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, Marketo, and Google Console, as well as social media channels and business tools like Quickbooks or Microsoft Dynamics. 

Teams can use Slingshot to create data visualizations from multiple sources. They can then start discussions around those insights directly within Slingshot through chat or by commenting on specific dashboards. 

“Over the past 30 years we’ve developed a unique workplace philosophy for building trust, maximizing team results and using data to iterate and make informed decisions. This philosophy is now the backbone of Slingshot,” said Dean Guida, founder of Slingshot. “We’ve built a workplace where teams can get work done in the digital realm, during an especially critical time when organizations are reshaping their workplaces to be productive for in-person, remote and hybrid teams.”

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According to Jason Beres, SVP of developer tools at Infragistics, low code has significantly changed the way design and development teams work together, for the better.

Before things like WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors, design teams and development teams worked in silos, with design teams working in tools like Sketch, Adobe XD or Figma and then handing their designs off to development teams to write the actual code in their IDE of choice, like Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code. Now, developers can use WYSIWYG tools to lay things out visually like a designer, while at the same time, including the design files from design teams, he explained. 

Beres finds that using low code tools that bring together the typical deliverables of a design process, including visual design assets like artboards and prototypes, and automatically marrying those with the tools that developers use, instead of relying on the siloed designer-developer handoff, ensures applications will be delivered faster and with fewer bugs. He explained that the handoff can often be expensive, resulting in errors and producing inconsistent results.

“Everyone hopes that whatever is delivered by the development team after the UX design team completes its work looks pixel-perfect and behaves as expected, but nine times out of 10, it won’t. We lean too heavily on the developers to somehow become experts in new web frameworks and technologies that are new to them (or just new in general), including CSS, responsive web design, HTML layouts, and more, and be able to translate that design perfectly into what comes out as the end product,” said Beres. 

With Gartner predicting that by 2026, 80% of applications will have been built by non-developers, how do developers feel about these tools? According to Beres, they’ve embraced them warmly, because they allow developers to eliminate mundane tasks that slow them down and are boring to do, as well as alleviate complex screen work like layout, screen design, and CSS. 

“We are removing the complexity of responsive layout, theming, and branding because it’s all point and click and drag and drop in a WYSIWYG, driven by a design system and backed by rich UI components” he explained.

Beres believes that companies who don’t embrace these tools will be left behind, and that companies are recognizing that it is more cost-effective to use these low-code tools, and to skill-up existing and new developers instead of requiring them to handle all of the mundane, error-prone and repetitive tasks that typically take place in the software development process.

According to Beres, a lot of these repetitive tasks that can be replaced by low-code tooling include things where there are established patterns, such as data access. 

“Today, tools can connect into back ends and can automate and generate tens to thousands of lines of code in seconds,” he said. “And that code is testable, editable, production ready. Developers no longer need to actually write this code, as the machine can do it faster and better, while at the same time not leaving the developer out of the process to modify or enhance the code. This sort of code-automation for modern web apps needs to include user interface code, more interaction code, and for real time and cost savings, should  include the output from the UX design process.  Humans don’t need to actually write every line of that code, because low-code tooling can do it for you.”

Here more from Jason Beres during our Low-Code/No-Code Developer Day, this Wednesday, April 13 at 10 AM ET. Register here.

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Infragistics Ultimate 21.1 is built off of three key themes: 

• Enabling hyper-productivity and better collaboration between app development and design through its design-to-code platform Indigo.Design App Builder
• New innovations and experiences with Angular, React, Web Components, ASP.NET Core
• New enhancements in Windows Form and WPF 

“Infragistics Ultimate 21.1 ensures best-of-breed development on your desired platform,” said Jason Beres, senior vice president of developer tools at Infragistics. “It offers updates on the mainstay frameworks in Infragistics Ultimate, including Window Forms, WPF, .NET Core as well as the modern web frameworks in Blazor, Angular, React and Web Components and Indigo.Design, the new app builder that can radically accelerate your app design and development.” 

For hyper-productivity, the company updated its Indigo.Design App Builder design-to-code platform with a web-based IDE, new UI components, property editor panels, hierarchical views of master-pages and sub-pages, data sources options, and theme options. 

The toolkit has also been updated with the latest components and enhancements from Angular 12, such as the Angular Tree Component, date picker and Angular time picker; date time editor; design and theming; and Angular Grid interactions. 

For the modern web, the 21.1 release includes new features and enhancements to data grids, charts and components in Ignite UI for React, Blazor and Web Components. 

Desktop WPF and Windows Form updates include: new design-time support in Visual Studio 2019, chart updates and map updates. 

More information is available here. 

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