Infragistics releases NetAdvantage for Visual Studio 2008

In the world of rich Internet application components, Infragistics has a ton of experience. They've been building .NET components for a long time and they took very quickly to WPF. They announced this week that they're component set, including NetAdvantage for WPF is compatible with VisualStudio 2008 so you'll be able to use all of their components when you upgrade to Microsoft's latest and greatest tools.

The Infragistics WPF components are quite good. They've got some data grid enhancements, a "ribbon-style" control that you can drop into your WPF applications and a good charting suite. They also have some good Silverlight components as Doug McCune noted when he went looking for Silverlight demos.

I think the RIA components market is one that has only just started to get off the ground. Good looking components are such a big part of the experience that as bigger and bigger companies start using RIAs, there will be a huge market for people building components. As with many things, companies are more than happy to buy a solution that fits their needs, so a diverse and quality component library is a welcome addition to any RIA platform.