Xceed Ultimate Suite 2011 v2 released

DataGrid for Silverlight adds fixed group headers and footers, 14 statistical functions and improves Blend support.

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Xceed's Upload for Silverlight and DataGrid for WPF components.

Xceed Ultimate Suite offers both UI tools for application front-ends and data handling libraries for application back-ends providing high quality extensible controls including grids, charts, UI, Zip, FTP, and encryption as well as networking libraries. No external dependencies. Xceed Ultimate Suite Blueprint Edition includes the fully commented C# source code to all the .NET and Silverlight components included in the Xceed Ultimate Suite.

Updates in 2011 v2

Xceed DataGrid for Silverlight

• Fixed group headers and footers have been added - These allow developers to incorporate sections of "must-see" information into each group, which remain visible at all times, including when the containing group is collapsed
• Also, 14 statistical functions, which are natural candidates for display in the fixed group headers/footers, have been added.
• Blend support has been greatly improved to let designers take full advantage of the product
• Custom data sources are now easier to implement, and support for SQL databases and remote lists has been added.
• Thanks to changes in the control's API, many of the features equivalent to those found in the stock Silverlight control are much more easy to configure
• Other new features include copy-paste to Excel, the addition of SelectedItem and SelectedItems properties for use with local data, improvements to item selection, the implementation of several properties present in the WPF datagrid, and easy localization and display of filter cell operators. Also, the detail information of groups (e.g., item count, list of items) is now available for group headers and footers (local data).
• A new theme (JetPack) has been added.

Xceed Ultimate ListBox for Silverlight

• Includes benefits from improvements to the product's support of custom data sources, which are now easier to implement.
• Support for SQL databases and remote lists has also been added.

Xceed's compression products (for the .NET, .NET CF, and Silverlight platforms) and the .NET FTP component have been updated

• PPMd is now implemented in fully managed C#. This has allowed Xceed to make several improvements in their compression products.
• Xceed Zip for .NET with Self-Extractor, Xceed Zip for .NET, and Xceed Real-Time Zip for .NET are now fully compatible with 64-bit Windows systems.
• The PPMd compression algorithm -- previously only available in the .NET products -- is now also available in Xceed Zip for .NET Compact Framework, Xceed Real-Time Zip for .NET CF, and Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight.
• The default buffer size in Xceed's FileSystem products has improved speed in certain situations. (Affects Xceed Zip for .NET, Xceed Zip for .NET with SFX, and Xceed FTP for .NET.)
• The built-in AES encryption methods available in .NET (3.5 and up) can now be used, which results in faster AES encryption.

About Xceed Software

Xceed Software creates, markets and distributes quality software components for Microsoft Windows developers. Since its launch in 1994, Xceed has been devoted exclusively to the Microsoft platform. The company's very first product, Xceed Zip Compression Library, was first offered as a VBX for Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 and has been so successful that it has been migrated to every Microsoft platform since, including ActiveX, the .NET Framework, and the .NET Compact Framework. Today, Xceed's product line can be grouped into two main categories: Data Manipulation components and User Interface components. The Data Manipulation components include Compression, Encryption and File Transfer libraries. The User Interface components include Grid, Chart, Menus, Toolbars, Treeviews, Explorer Panes and other interface controls.