Actipro launches Silverlight Studio

Actipro Silverlight Studio includes all of Actipro's Silverlight control offerings, in one easy-to-use bundle:

• Actipro Shared Library for Silverlight - a set of common controls, useful components, and themes for Silverlight applications.
• ActiproSyntaxEditor for Silverlight - a syntax-highlighting code editor control and parsing suite for creating online IDEs.
• ActiproViews for Silverlight - advanced Silverlight panels that support fluid animated item layout.

Actipro Shared Library for Silverlight Features

Controls

• DropShadowChome - Add drop shadows around controls
• PopupButton - Display context menu popups or any other dropdown content with a button click
• Menu and ContextMenu - Implementations of menus
• ToolBar - Implementation of toolbars
• TransitionPresenter - Animates transitions between two elements, with multiple built-in transition effects

Themes

• ThemeManager that supports dynamic switching of application themes
• Alternate themes for some native Silverlight controls
• Office-like themes and color schemes

Other

• UIColor - Provides enhanced manipulation of Color objects
• VisualTreeHelperExtended - Adds helper methods not found in VisualTreeHelper
• FocusTracker - Notifies when focus exits an element or its owned popups
• WPF-like routed events and commands

Actipro SyntaxEditor for Silverlight Features

• Author custom language definitions with the Language Designer app, over 20 free definitions included
• Tokenization of text via lexers
• Multi-threaded parsing capabilities
• IntelliPrompt completion lists and quick info
• Block (rectangular) selection
• Over 100 built-in edit actions like selection, indenting, transposition, etc.
• Customizable highlighting styles
• Easily create custom margins and text area adornments, both in editor
• Code outlining (folding) and hidden text regions
• Mouse wheel zooming
• Complete separation of document and UI object models
• Document text stored in immutable versioned thread-safe snapshots
• Flexible text search model
• Mark text ranges with custom data
• Text scanning features
• Abstracted, extensible object model
• Unicode editing support

Actipro Views for Silverlight Features

Panels

• AnimatedCanvas positions elements using explicit coordinates
• AnimatedStackPanel stacks elements horizontally or vertically
• AnimatedDockPanel docks elements using relative positioning
• AnimatedWrapPanel organizes elements into rows or columns
• SwitchPanel can dynamically change layout logic during runtime
• ZapPanel stacks elements horizontally or vertically around a focal item
• Build custom fluid panels as easily as with native Silverlight

Animations

• Animate the arrange rectangle of an element, including position and size
• Fade elements in or out
• Apply a rotation to elements
• Scale elements up or down
• Translate elements across the view
• Build custom animations using native Silverlight animations and storyboards

Common Features

• Several panels can be used a drop-in replacements for common Silverlight panels
• Can easily be leveraged by ListBox and other ItemsControls
• Extensive designer support for easy configuration
• Right-to-left layout capabilities

About Actipro Software

Actipro Software LLC, founded in 1999, is a cutting-edge provider of .NET controls for developers. Always striving to generate the highest possible return-on-investment for customers, Actipro Software's products are specifically engineered with customizability and productivity as primary design goals. Actipro has been creating user interface control products for Windows Forms and the .NET framework since their inception. More recently, Actipro has begun developing components for .NET 3.0's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) framework. In fact, Actipro Software is the very first control vendor to release a commercial WPF control. Actipro’s development staff is highly skilled in .NET and applies its knowledge and experience towards providing the best products possible. Actipro Software is always willing to listen to its users. A firm belief central to the core of the organization is that product development should be driven by the needs of the users.