"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades." -Timbuk 3

ComponentArt continues to just blow me away.  Last week they announced version 3.0 beta release of their Web.UI suite.  The new components added to the suite include Grid, Calendar and Callback (AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) controls.  You can demo the new controls at webui30.componentart.com.  July 20, they announced the beta of their new Charting components for both WinForms (WinChart) and ASP.NET WebForms (WebChart).  I got two words for ya: Amaaaaa-zing.

The new Grid control renders a very rich interface, allowing the end-users to page, sort, group, filter, search, resize columns, and use the keyboard.  The grid can operate in server, client and callback modes.  When using callback mode for a large set of data, your users can retrieve a page of data at a time without the page having to refresh, yet still have complete control over sorting, grouping, filtering, and so on.

Callback for ASP.NET claims to deliver AJAX-style functionality to any server-side control, giving the developer a clean and elegant way of providing user interfaces that can dynamically change without ever refreshing or "posting back" the current page.

The demos for the new Charting components are spectacular.  Also, check out all the features provided.  Although the charting components will be sold separately from the Web.UI suite, there's still good news for Web.UI subscribers.  According to this post in their product forums, a "WebChart Lite" control will eventually be provided to Web.UI subscribers at no additional cost.