ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight is a complete set of enterprise quality components in the Silverlight market with over 50 innovative Silverlight controls including grid, vector graphics, uploader, custom layouts, charts, maps, gauges and many more. ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight complements the designer and developer workflow by supporting both XAML and code. ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight components allow designers to create the ultimate user experience and provide developers a familiar, full-featured set of properties and methods.
ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight is also included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise.
Updates in 2010 v3
The key new feature this release is reporting. ComponentOne have broken the limitation barriers when it comes to displaying PDF and HTML content in Silverlight with their two new viewer controls: C1ReportViewer and C1PdfViewer. You can now display your SSRS reports to end-users in a rich Internet application.
This release also gives you the ability to create multi-user schedules with the new grouping features in C1Scheduler. Create and manage appointments for any number of contacts or resources. This was one of the most requested features. Among all the new controls and features this release also has one of the first ever real 3D charts for Silverlight. Graph real 3D surface and contour charts with the new charting control.
New ReportViewer and PdfViewer Controls
- View HTML and PDF documents in Silverlight.
- Use C1ReportViewer to display HTML and PDF-based reports from virtually any report generator such as Microsoft Reporting Services, Active Reports, Crystal, C1Reports or any other report provider capable of generating HTML or PDF output.
- Use C1PdfViewer as a lightweight viewer for loading and saving arbitrary PDF files in Silverlight.
- Both viewers support printing, paging, zooming and incremental text searching.
New Chart3D Control
- Render 3D surface and contour charts in Silverlight with the new C1Chart3D control.
- Support for floors, ceilings, zones, a legend and more.
Scheduler Resource Grouping
- C1Scheduler can now group appointments by contacts, resources or categories to create a multi-column layout where each column corresponds to a different item.
- There's no limit to the number of groups because users can page through grouped items with ease.
- Simply drag an appointment to reassign it to a different resource, category or contact.
- Grouping is supported in all scheduler views including month, week and day views.
DataGrid for Silverlight Enhancements
- Header and cell merging (automatic and ad hoc)
- Enhanced printing support
- ViewPort information such as scrollbar positions and visible cells is now exposed through the grid control.
RichTextBox for Silverlight Enhancements
- Enhanced table support for inserting and modifying tables in documents
Toolbar for Silverlight Enhancements
- Added support for tabs, so you can organize groups into separate tabs for more screen real estate.
FlexGrid for Silverlight Enhancements
- New samples for XLSX export and Undo/Redo support
- You can now display subtotal (aggregate) rows above or below the grouped data.
- Native Silverlight 4 Printing support.
Improving the development experience with Studio for Silverlight
Unified XAML Namespaces throughout Studio for Silverlight
We've just made development with Studio for Silverlight a whole lot easier. Now you only need to add one namespace reference to your XAML pages. No longer do you need a separate reference for each ComponentOne library being used.
ComponentOne ClearStyle™ Technology
ComponentOne's innovative ClearStyle™ technology now spreads across the entire studio, making design work a simple task. In this release they've added ClearStyle support to the following controls: DropDown, ComboBox, NumericBox, FilePicker, TreeView, Windows, Menu, ContextMenu, RangeSlider, TabControl, Expander, Accordion, ColorPicker, PropertyGrid, CoverFlow, Maps, MediaPlayer, DateTime Editors, Toolbar, and DockControl.
New C1ScrollViewer Control
ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight now includes a replacement for the standard ScrollViewer control which is fully compatible with WPF and supports scrolling in both horizontal and vertical directions.
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About ComponentOne
ComponentOne has provided a wide range of Microsoft Visual Studio components, IDE platform development tools and applications for over 22 years. This includes ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, which represents a broad and complete set of tools and solutions for Microsoft Windows, Web and Mobile application developers. ComponentOne has continued leadership in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry and is a premier partner of Microsoft. It also offers ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts, custom Web Parts that enable you to deliver rich, compelling SharePoint sites without writing a line of code; ComponentOne Doc-To-Help, a long-recognized product for technical communicators who write and develop Help systems; and ComponentOne DemoWorks, a screen recording tool to produce WMV, Flash, GIF, AVI, EXE and Java files. ComponentOne has received numerous industry and user accolades including awards from SDTimes, The Code Project, TechWeb, Software Development Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, Society for Technical Communication and SQL Server Magazine. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.
