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Copy Protection and Secure Web Delivery

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:06:12 GMT

Manage products using Cyber Surelock WebSlinger P.A.S.S.

Securely distribute software directly to customers over the Web.

Cyber Surelock WebSlinger P.A.S.S. is a copy protection and software activation system that ensures your application runs only on the PCs that you authorize. It also captures valuable information on each one of your customers that you can leverage on current and future sales and marketing campaigns.

Features

Monetize your product features in an automated way
Ensures that your product runs only on the PCs that you authorize
Captures valuable demographic information on each of your customers
Provides product activation keys via the Internet for your product
Remotely provide more keys to your customers via the Web eliminating the need to deliver CDs
Fast and easy to use, can manage multiple products and features

About DreamTech

DreamTech provides software products and solutions that aid digital publishers with the secure sale, delivery, management, activation and promotion of their digital assets. They specialize in Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions to assist publishers with monetizing their digital content by providing secure delivery via the Web.

Kellerman Gold Suite released

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:04:00 GMT

Kellerman Software FTP sample application.

All Kellerman Software products in one package.

Kellerman Gold Suite includes 7 .NET libraries and tools for FTP, SFTP, encryption, compression, theming, user interfaces, logging, caching, email validation and Access Database comparison.

Features

Kellerman .NET FTP Library Features

Asynchronous/Synchronous Operation - Files and entire directories can be transferred asynchronously or synchronously
Secure Transfers - Supports FTPS (FTP SSL), proxy servers and passive mode for firewalls
Compression - GZip and Deflate compression schemes can be used to compress/decompress files
Wildcards - Wildcard patterns are supported for specifying files to transfer
Resume Transfer - Resume upload/download transfers by specifying a byte offset

Kellerman .NET Email Validation Library Features

Industry Standard Checking - Supports RFC 821 syntax checking of email addresses, MxRecord (Mail Exchange Record) lookup, and Mailbox account checking via SMTP
Fake Email Pattern Matcher - Recognize thousands of bogus email addresses
Detects Blocking - Detect when your mail server or IP Address is being blocked by anti-spam software

Kellerman .NET Logging Library Features

Robust - The .NET Logging Library can queue 10,000 log entries in 78ms
Multiple Destinations - Log to multiple simultaneous destinations including the Console, Debug Window, Response, Trace, ASPTrace, the Event Log, multiple databases, email and files
Performance Metrics - The Logging software automatically calculates the difference in milliseconds between the current logged message and the last message that was logged

Kellerman .NET Encryption Library Features

Symetric Encryption - Supports these encryption algorithms: Rijndael, Twofish, Blowfish, DES, TripleDES, and RC2
Asymetric Encryption - Public/Private Key X509 Certificate encryption is supported
Easy to Use - The library has methods to encrypt/decrypt strings, bytes, streams and files
Hashing - Numerous hashing algorithms are supported including SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, MD2, MD4, MD5, FCS16, FCS32, HAVAL, Ripemd320, Whirlpool, Tiger and Gost Hash

AccessDiff Features

Compare Forms - AccessDiff automatically ignores any white space differences and missing tables and queries are automatically detected and logged
Compare Reports - All visual elements of the report are compared
Compare Macros - All properties and commands of the macro are compared

Themed Wizard

Easy to Use - Simply drag and drop onto a form, and the wizard automatically creates the welcome page
Design Time Navigation - Click the Next Button and the Back Button to traverse the wizard pages at design time
Override Page Flow - Go to a different page depending upon certain criteria
Configure Pages - Specify different icons, and background images for each page if desired

Ninja Database Pro

ACID Compliant - If a problem occurs while saving a record it automatically rolls back
Secure - Encrypt with built-in industry standard AES Encryption
Fast - Objects are cached and expired using LRU (Least Recently Used)

About Kellerman Software

Since 2005 Kellerman Software has been creating powerful .NET tools and libraries. Their mission is to provide robust and easy to use tools that save development time. Their products aimed at solving the most complex challenges for your company.

ReportServer/TR released

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:03:07 GMT

Adjust report server settings.

A report server for Telerik Reporting.

ReportServer/TR is a report server that hosts reports created with Telerik Reporting. It works with any version of Telerik Reporting and allows you to schedule reports to run at any frequency. You can pass parameters to reports, including dynamic and cascading parameters and easily integrate it with your network security infrastructure. Store reports in any format supported by Telerik Reporting.

Features

Store reports in Oracle and MySQL database servers in addition to SQL Server
Schedule reports using dynamic and cascading parameters
Significantly simplified installation and configuration
Create global distribution lists, including Web and e-mail users
Distribute reports to printers Sharepoint document libraries, users, e-mail addresses and remote file servers
Support for using ActiveDirectory or Windows groups for distributing reports

About VersaReports

VersaReports, based in Atlanta, was formed to create software products that help businesses achieve their reporting goals without breaking their budget. It's flagship product, Universal Report Server (URS) provides developers with an Enterprise-class Web report server which works with several report designers including DevExpress XtraReports, GrapeCity ActiveReports, SAP Crystal Reports and Telerik Reports.

WebUI Studio Premier supports Silverlight 5

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:06:47 GMT

An example application built with WebUI Studio 2011 R2 Premier.

Service Pack also includes Document Viewer and Visual Studio Project template improvements.

WebUI Studio includes advanced components for ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight application development. It empowers Rich Internet Applications development by offering a solid architecture and tight integration between each product with support for any web browser. WebUI Studio Premier offers advanced functionality like smart batch update, high-performance client binding, integrated spell checking and real-progress AJAX file uploading. Product updates and upgrades are included for a full year from the purchase date as well as priority support via phone calls, live chat or conference meetings, as well as direct collaboration with engineers. The following editions are available:

Updates in 2011 R2 SP1

Native Silverlight 5 Support - New release now ships with Silverlight 5 compiled assemblies and also includes many improvements and new features
Document Viewer - XPS and SQL reporting document viewers have been enhanced to support vector printing mode
Improved Visual Studio Project Templates - Project templates feature a new wizard that prompts Silverlight target version during project creation, and automatically picks up the proper assemblies depending on the selected Silverlight version
WCF RIA Services - Project templates have been redesigned to work flawlessly regardless of the WCF RIA Services installed

About Intersoft Solutions Corporation

Intersoft Solutions Corporation provides a broad range of innovative, high performance ASP.NET, Silverlight and WPF tools. The company is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia with partners and resellers worldwide. Intersoft Solutions Corporation has built over 30 state-of-the-art components since 2002, empowering millions of users with richer, more intuitive Web applications.

Essential Studio BI adds ActivePivot support

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:50:00 GMT

Sample Business Intelligence applications.

Bind with ActivePivot server databases and customize the data by pivoting, slicing and dicing.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition includes BI Grid, BI Client, BI Chart, BI Gauge and BI PivotGrid controls to help manage OLAP data. You can also build reports interactively with the included Report Designer.

Updates in 2012 Volume 2

All new support for editing and updating Pivot Grid data
Support for adding calculated measures interactively using the provided OLAP Client UI
Support for Quartet FS' ActivePivot engine
PivotGrid allows users to summarize selected columns and rows of data in a database table to organize it in a cross-tabulated form
View MDX queries displayed in a separate dialog

About Syncfusion

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion provides a broad range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet evolving development needs, whether working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight. Syncfusion strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to customers - from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies.

Essential Studio adds ASP.NET MVC Project Wizard

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:49:08 GMT

Sample applications written using Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Create starter projects that have all Syncfusion library references automatically added.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition lets you create rich applications that integrate business intelligence analysis and reporting with ease. It includes software components that enable developers to produce quality software for the most demanding of environments. It includes all the tools and libraries that are produced by Syncfusion in one package.

Updates in 2012 Volume 2

New advanced project wizard for ASP.NET MVC
New PivotGrid control for Windows Forms
Support for Quartet FS' ActivePivot engine
Custom XlsIO pivot engine for runtime manipulation of pivot tables
WPF/Silverlight - New transparent theme for all framework and Syncfusion controls
All new support for editing and updating Pivot Grid data
Support for adding calculated measures interactively using the provided OLAP Client UI
PDF - support for Tagged PDF when converting from HTML to PDF
PDF Viewer - support for embedded fonts and several additional image formats
XlsIO - Custom pivot engine for the runtime manipulation of pivot tables

About Syncfusion

Essential Studio Reporting 2012 Volume 2 released

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:48:14 GMT

Applications created using Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition.

Render text elements in PDF documents using embedded fonts.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition is an reporting solution that allows you to integrate document-based reporting (PDF, Excel, Word) into Windows and Web applications. It includes Essential XlsIO, Essential DocIO, Essential PDF, Essential PDF Viewer, Essential Report Writer, Essential Report Viewer, Essential Grouping, Essential Calculate, Essential Spreadsheet and Essential ProjIO.

Updates in 2012 Volume 2

Tagged PDF Support - Essential PDF now adds support for tagged PDFs during HTML-to-PDF conversion, making content accessible to users who have visual impairments
Converting XPS to PDF - An XPS (XML Paper Specification) document standardized by Ecma International can now be easily converted to PDF using Essential PDF
Rendering TIFF Images - Essential PDF Viewer provides support for decoding TIFF images so that users can directly view the images in a PDF document
Text Rendering Using Embedded Fonts - Essential PDF Viewer now features embedded fonts to render text elements in a PDF document
Rendering PNG Images - Essential PDF Viewer for Windows Forms now provides support for rendering PNG images using soft masking
Editing Report Item Properties - Essential Report Designer now provides editing support for its controls, enabling users to edit properties of report items (such as text boxes, images, rectangles, lines, etc.) similar to Microsoft Report Builder
Support for Preserving Content Control - Essential DocIO now provides limited support to preserve the Content control
Pivot Engine Integration - Essential XlsIO now provides support for setting up a pivot table. Using this feature, pivot table content can be accessed dynamically. Report filters can also be applied to the pivot table

About Syncfusion

Essential Studio UI adds Cell Merging

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:46:51 GMT

Sample applications built using Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition.

Merge adjacent cells in a grid and perform sorting and grouping on columns containing merged cells.

Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition includes grids, docking and menu frameworks, data binding controls, scheduler, data visualization charts, gauges and diagrams. It includes Essential Grid, Essential Tools, Essential Chart, Essential Diagram, Essential Schedule, Essential Edit, Essential PDF Viewer (Windows Forms, WPF), Essential HTMLUI (Windows Forms), Essential Gauge, Essential Gantt (WPF, Silverlight), and Essential Maps (WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone).

Updates in 2012 Volume 2?

Visual Studio Wizard for Project Creation and Manipulation - When users select products from the MVC Project Configuration Wizard, a template automatically adds the respective assemblies and references to the application based on control type and theme
Sub-Gauges - Visualize two different data types within the same space
Merging Cells - Merge adjacent cells in a grid and still perform sorting and grouping on columns containing merged cells
Data Table Support - Essential Grid supports data tables in two modes: server and JSON. Both modes allow sorting, grouping, and all the other basic functions you would expect in a grid, but with JSON mode, data rendering occurs on the client side, greatly improving grid performance
All-day Appointments - Create an engagement spanning an entire day or longer
Dragging Appointments Between Resources - An appointment can be dragged from one resource to another
Support for Date Ranges - You can set minimum and maximum dates to create a range of dates that can be selected in a schedule
Customizing the Schedule View - The viewable area of a schedule can be customized to show times within a certain range
Customizing Appointment Appearance - The background, font style and other visual elements of appointments can be customized based on resource, category, or custom CSS
Customized Date Highlighting - The navigation panel in the Schedule control can highlight dates to indicate coming events
Localization Support - Choose which language the user interface elements will be displayed in
Support for Custom CSS - In addition to having 14 built-in skins, the look and feel of the Schedule control can be customized using your own CSS

About Syncfusion

DevForce adds Visual Studio 11 Beta support

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:54:00 GMT

Build business applications using DevForce.

Design and build time support is now automatically installed into Visual Studio 11 Beta.

DevForce gives you the ability to quickly build data-rich applications for multiple client technologies by taking care of the back-end infrastructure and logic so you can focus on client-side development. It's a framework for building and operating applications which provides the tools, techniques and libraries that you need to build powerful business applications fast. The following editions are available:

Updates in 2010 (V6.1.7)

Visual Studio 11 Beta Support - DevForce design and build time support is now automatically installed to Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 Beta. Please note: the DevForce EDM Designer Extension for VS11 only supports projects targeting .NET 4.0
Performance Improvements - Performance issue with property accessors in Silverlight 5 fixed
Multiple Validation Improvements - Additional improvements in validation, including improved support for ComplexTypes and free-from verifier results

About IdeaBlade

As an early pioneer in .NET application development, IdeaBlade provides a mature and extensible platform for the development and deployment of enterprise .NET applications. IdeaBlade's DevForce framework enables enterprise developers to build, deploy and maintain n-tier .NET applications with ease.

NetAdvantage for jQuery adds new Chart Types

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:58:10 GMT

Grids and User Interfaces built using Infragistics NetAdvantage for jQuery.

New version includes Bubble, Polar, Spline, Spline Area, Scatter Line, Scatter Spline and Radial Area charts.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for jQuery includes standards-compliant ASP.NET MVC and jQuery controls for HTML5, streaming video and CSS3 Web technologies. This lightweight toolset lets developers use Microsoft Office Integration to create and work with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PDF/XPS files from within their jQuery Web applications. It also features client-side controls including: igGrid which can examine, filter, page and sort through tabular data; igDataSource to handle heavy lifting data operations; and HTML5 igVideoPlayer to offer streaming online video playback with support for embeddable advertising.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

New Chart Series Types - Bubble, Polar, Spline, Spline Area, Scatter Line, Scatter Spline and Radial Area.
Merged Cells - Sorted cells which have the same values can be merged into a single visual cell, for easier and more context-oriented data visualization
Checkbox Editor - New column format type "checkbox" automatically renders true/false boolean values as checkboxes
Outlook Group By - Combine and customize data for your applications by simply grouping (and ungrouping) common values or conditions
Row Selectors - Use the row selectors to quickly select a row to perform an operation
HTML5 Mobile - Several Mobile specific controls added, based on jQuery Mobile, specifically optimized for mobile devices
Mobile List/Grid Control - Show one column of data, drill down into details, have detailed templates, load items on demand, set various presets for filtering and sorting, and filter by keyword
Mobile Rating Control - The mobile Rating control has been written and adapted specifically for mobile form factors, allowing for easy interaction with touch gestures
Metro Style - The new metro theme, optimized for touch and touch targets, incorporates a precisely aligned type-based layout and high-contrast simple icons
Touch Support - Added panning, pinching support, as well as introduced the IG Scroller plugin
Templating Engine - Use the fast, high performance Templating Engine with the Grid or Tree controls
Grid Virtualization - Seamlessly and continuously scroll both hierarchical Grid, and when columns are grouped with the newly implemented grid virtualization feature
Support for MVC Validation - You'll save time validating user input with enhanced support for MVC Validation
MVVM Support with Knockout - Integration of Knockout with the jQuery grids lets you take advantage of the MVVM pattern within your web applications
ComboBox - Control how the data gets loaded into the combo and make your applications

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in presentation layer components for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, we have achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build and style great application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF, and additionally offers user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF adds Metro Style

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:57:37 GMT

User interfaces built using NetAdvantage for WPF.

Create applications with a precisely aligned, type-based layout with high-contrast, simple icons.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF includes stylable user interface controls for geospatial mapping, interactive gauges, graphical timelines, animated charting and OLAP pivot grids. Use these UI controls to produce OLAP pivot grids, charts, maps, gauges, timelines, bullet graphs, barcodes and more.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

Metro Style - Optimized for touch and touch targets
Gesture Support - Give your end users consistent interactions when moving between tablet and desktop experiences
Color Tuner - Style your entire application with just a few clicks of your mouse. You can easily apply themes throughout your application, color-tune a theme without writing any XAML code, and save/share your favorite color configurations for later use
Undo/Redo Framework - Provides the infrastructure for supporting unlimited linear Undo/Redo functionality
Undo/Redo History Stacks - The collections raise change notifications and therefore may be used as a source for providing a UI that displays the entries in the history stacks
ObservableCollectionWithUndo - The framework includes a derived ObservableCollection that makes it easier to add support for undo/redo of collection changes
Transactions - Provides the ability to group one or more operations into a single history entry. One may also rollback a transaction performing the operations that were stored up to that point
Commands - A number of built in commands are provided to make it easier to invoke an Undo/Redo operation from within your UI
Geographic Map - The rich thematic mapping solution allows you to visualize your geographic data in multiple ways
Sparkline Charts - Render highly visual charts within limited spaces, such as a grid cell
Pivot Grid - Give your users the analytical advantage with new filtering, dropdown, and summarizing capabilities
Bar Code - Added a property to hide the Human Readable text
Ribbon - Let your end users customize tabs, groups and items to give them complete control over the application's user experience
Get Cell Text - Determine the text that would be displayed in Microsoft Excel cell given the cell's value, format string, column width and worksheet options
Data Visualization and Line of Business Toolsets - Get over 50 types of charts, graphs, and gauges to make meaning of your business data
Motion Framework - Aimate your data over time, choreographing movements based on how you've decided to visualize their data
Org Chart - Create high performance, stylable organization charts that represent company, department, workgroup or other hierarchical structures
Network Node - Create visual representations of simple or complex network relationships
Timeline - Empower users to quickly understand and visualize a sequence of events
Treemap - Show the relative weight of data points at more than one level with no drilldown required
Zoombar - Provide end users with a pan and zoom user interface that allows them to intuitively scroll through a range of data with dynamically adaptive scaling

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in presentation layer components for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, they have achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build and style great application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF, and additionally offers user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.

InstallShield 2012 Spring released

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:54:00 GMT

Using the Installation Designer in InstallShield Premier.

New version supports Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 11 Beta.

InstallShield allows you to create flexible installations quickly and easily across all Windows operating systems. First-time developers find it easy to create installations, while power users find its depth and flexibility perfect for developing complex software installations. InstallShield makes it easy for development teams to be more agile, flexible and collaborative when building reliable Windows Installer (MSI) and InstallScript installations for desktop, server, Web and mobile applications.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 2012 Spring

Suite Installation Enhancements (Premier) - Import and reference PRQ files, dynamic links, advanced reporting and logging as well as a new UI for custom conditions
Hybrid Cloud Deployments (Premier and Professional) - New SQL Azure database scripting capabilities enable software producers to support hybrid cloud SQL deployments
Better End-User Experience (Premier and Professional) - Includes an entirely new end-user interface with redesigned wizard pages and a new page editor to create a better run-time experience
Automatic Checking for Installer Updates and Patches (Premier and Professional) - Check for the latest updates and patches at installer runtime. If an update is found, it will automatically be downloaded and run in place of the old installer ensuring that users always have the latest version.
Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Support (Premier and Professional) - Gather accurate deployment metadata to populate App Models
PowerShell Support (Premier and Professional) - Including support for custom actions that run PowerShell scripts
Support for Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 11 (Premier, Professional and Express) - Build feature and component conditions for these operating systems and applications

About Flexera Software

Flexera Software is a leading provider of strategic solutions for Application Usage Management. The company helps application producers and their customers strategically manage application usage to achieve continuous compliance, optimized usage and maximized value.

Kribi 3D launched

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:55:00 GMT

A sample 3D design.

A complete platform for building interactive 3D content.

Kribi 3D is a powerful development platform for enhancing Web-based and Desktop applications with 3D interactive rendering technologies, for a wide range of application scenarios that users require in business and industry. All professional 3D interactive graphic applications, from the simple presentation of a product to the most complex industrial assembly scenes, require the highest visual quality and high performance. The Kribi 3D Engine is close to high-end 3D photorealistic rendering software, with an incredible rendering speed.

Features

Kribi 3D is a development environment for easily creating and integrating 3D rendering technologies in highly interactive Web or Desktop applications.

Built upon the Kribi 3D Rendering Engine; designed for advanced interactive applications made up of a large number of elements, immediately appreciate fast rendering speeds while maintaining the highest image quality.

Kribi 3D Playeris a free plug-in which embeds the Kribi 3D Rendering Engine that allows the execution of interactive 3D content. Perfectly integrated in the development of Web and Desktop applications, Kribi 3D provides a wide range of functions and parameters designed to facilitate and maximize the productivity of Web Designers and Programmers, without the use of special skills in 3D geometry.

Kribi 3D Designer is an easy to use tool that allows you to create 3D interactive content quickly and easily. Develop a wide range of applications that use the Kribi 3D Player. The designer incorporates an easy user interface which enables even non experienced users of 3D, to import items from major file formats, to add or modify any object, material or light to create complex assemblies, and set interactive behaviors with just a few clicks.

Kribi 3D is available in 2 Editions - Standard and Professional

Kribi 3D 2.0 Standard Edition: is the ideal solution for building 3D product advertising, interactive catalogs and immersive walkthrough Web sites.
Kribi 3D 2.0 Professional Edition: is a full featured tool for developing fully interactive 3D Web and Desktop applications.

About Inartis Systems

Inartis SA is a pioneer in the development and distribution of technologies for 3D real-time visualization purely based on software. Nowadays these technologies, known as Kribi 3D, have quickly found their use in the development of a variety of applications. Inartis SA was founded in 2001, incorporating the software research company Adept Development, to create innovative technology and tools to help software development teams bring users new interactive experiences in both web and desktop applications.

SQL Backup Pro adds Integrity Checking

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:57:00 GMT

Viewing activity history details in SQL Backup.

Run database integrity checks as part of a scheduled restore job.

SQL Backup Pro creates smaller, safer, faster backups of SQL Server databases. Backups are compressed, reducing storage space and hardware requirements (often known as "database zip"), they are created in less time than native backups and are securely encrypted. Native SQL Server backups are essentially just a dump of data stored in SQL Server .mdf and .ldf files. This is an inefficient and insecure way of storing backup data as it is stored unencrypted, unprotected and uncompressed. SQL Backup Pro is an enterprise-level tool that scales to meet the needs of larger SQL Server implementations. Access and manage all server backups remotely, from a central, client-based GUI. Secure your data, and meet compliance requirements, with 256-bit AES encryption.

SQL Backup Pro is also available as part of SQL Backup and Restore Bundle and SQL Toolbelt.

Updates in 7.0

Schedule a recurring restore from a backup that does not exist yet by specifying a folder and file name each time the job runs
Schedule a recurring restore from specific backup files which form a full backup or set of backups
Run a database integrity check as part of a scheduled restore job
Drop a database after a scheduled restore job has completed, or only if the restore and integrity check (if applicable) were successful
Take a copy-only backup using the Back Up or Schedule Backup Jobs wizards
Include CHECKSUM in the backup process using the Back Up or Schedule Backup Jobs wizards
Create a reminder to set up backup verification using the Schedule Backup Jobs wizard
Launch the Schedule Restore Jobs wizard from the Reminders tab, populated with details from the scheduled backup job, to set up backup verification
View results of CHECKSUM and DBCC CHECKDB in the Activity History

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide. It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers. There are over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

SQL Data Compare updated

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:56:46 GMT

Comparing records with SQL Data Compare.

SQL Data Compare is used by thousands of Database Administrators (DBAs), developers and testers worldwide. SQL Data Compare is used when the data between two databases has got out of synch, and saves huge amounts of tedious work in synchronizing them. Others use it as a tool for QA, documentation and verification.

SQL Data Compare is available in the following editions

It is also available as part of SQL Developer Bundle and SQL Toolbelt

Updates in 10.0

Select a version of your database from source control
Recently used server list and recently accessed repository list
Fast Deploy - two-click deploy from the project list for common deployments
New option to compare null values as equal to empty strings
New option to compare floats that only have unsynchronizable differences as equal
Viewer now correctly displays full length of float values
Int datatypes can now successfully map to varchar and some other string types

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide.It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury, and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers, and there are over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

SQL Monitor adds Custom Metrics

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:56:19 GMT

SQL Monitor's user interface showing the status of monitored SQL Servers.

Collect a standard set of metrics from every monitored object.

SQL Monitor monitors the health and activity of your SQL Servers, providing you with intelligent alerts and recommendations in an intuitive interface and by email. It provides Web-based monitoring so you can monitor server performance in real time on desktop machines and mobile devices. With SQL Monitor you receive alerts via email and the UI as soon as problems arise. Check global, machine, cluster, server and database performance at a glance. Generate reports with SSRS or the UI and get full historical data allowing you to rewind time to identify the causes of problems fast.

Updates in 3.0

Custom Metrics - Custom metrics allow you to use your own T-SQL queries to collect metric values that aren't currently collected by default. They can also be used to collect application-specific information. Once collected, you can analyze and alert on this data.
User Roles - Administrators can now control user access to certain features in SQL Monitor. There are three user roles available; Administrator, Standard and Read-only. Each role is activated by creating a single password and then sharing it with relevant users. The following restrictions apply:
- Administrators have unrestricted access and can configure every feature in SQL Monitor.
- Standard users can manage and configure alerts, but cannot configure custom metrics, custom alerts or alert email settings. They can view most pages except the Manage user roles, Licensing and Base Monitor connection pages.
- Read-only users cannot make any configuration changes, but they can view most of the pages in SQL Monitor except the Manage user roles, Licensing and Base Monitor connection pages.
SQL 2012 / Denali Support - You can monitor SQL Server 2012 servers within SQL Monitor.
Analysis Graph Improvements - Graphs will no longer interpolate the data where there are significant gaps, so you can see more clearly whether data collection issues exist.

About Red Gate Software

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server, .NET and Exchange. Its tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Performance Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide.It counts Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T, The US Treasury, and over 100,000 other leading organizations as customers. There are over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals currently using Red Gate products.

NetAdvantage for ASP.NET adds Touch support

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:16:56 GMT

Sample iPad and iPhone applications built using Infragistics NetAdvantage for ASP.NET.

Add flick, pinch, pan, and zoom gestures to your applications.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for ASP.NET provides developers with flexible, advanced controls to rapidly build application user interfaces on the ASP.NET platform. Developers can create superior and robust user experiences with the comprehensive set of controls including data grids, trees, menus, toolbars, tabs, calendars, editors, charts and gauges.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

Touch Support - All controls are Touch enabled and all buttons and UI elements are bigger
Data Grid Cell Merging - Now includes cell merging with sorting, cell merging with grouping and styling of merged cells
Column Fixing - Combining Multi-Column Headers with the Column Fixing feature allows you to create a flexible and informative way to present information
Multi-Column Footers - Use multi-column footers to display custom labels
Multi-Column Headers - Create column groups in your Hierarchical Data Grids to customize the layout of the information that is being displayed.

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in the presentation layer components industry for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, they have achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build and style great application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF, and additionally offers user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.

NetAdvantage for Windows Forms adds Gantt Printing

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:15:56 GMT

Financial reports created using Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Forms.

Includes full control over positioning and customization of legends, allowing you to easily print your Gantt charts.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for Windows Forms provides developers with UI controls to rapidly build and style line of business applications with the look and feel of Microsoft Office. Developers receive controls needed to create superior user experiences with stability, performance and robustness including data grids, trees, toolbars, calendars, editors, charts, gauges, scenic ribbons and more.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

Gantt View Printing - Print the GanttView, just like Microsoft Project
Grid External Filtering UI - Filter data on the grid with custom filtering logic without loading all rows and data
Grid Custom Empty Message - At design-time or run-time, you can configure a custom string that indicates the grid has no data source bound to it, or is bound to a data source that contains no rows
Grid Provide Rows Collection - The arguments in the BeforeRowFilterChanged and AfterRowFilterChanged events contain a RowsCollection that make it easier to perform external processing and filtering
Hide Default Dropdown Button - You can now programmatically hide or show the default dropdown button
External Summary Calculations - Bypass the Grid control's internal summary calculation logic and supply the summary value directly, without requesting all of the data to be loaded
Infragistics Excel - Similar to Microsoft Excel, you can now format worksheet regions as tables and reference each table by name, as well as specify RGB color values, tints and gradients within cells

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InsiteCreation launched

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:13:00 GMT

A site created with InsiteCreation.

Simplified Web Content Management.

InsiteCreation helps you create Web sites with creative content including Blogs, a multimedia wall, portfolios, an online store and custom catalogues. It can be installed on almost any ASP.NET hosting (Shared or Dedicated) and is an ideal choice for Web designers or developers building solutions for multiple clients.

Features

Advanced Editor - Create stylish content, design your own typography, create tables and apply colors all in a convenient editing environment
In-context Editor - If you need quick editing, just enable the in-context editor
Insert Photos with Lightbox and Reflection effects - Select a photo and choose thumbnail size via a smooth lightbox (no new windows or page reloads required)
Insert Music or Videos with Built-in Player - Upload video files (FLV) or MP3 files that can be embedded in your content
Easliy Manage Uploaded Files - InsiteCreation's resource manager allows you to manage photos, videos or music files that can be inserted into content as a link or playable media
SEO Friendly - Specify friendly URLs when creating a page
Document, Media and Link Management - InsiteCreation offers secure document management for MS Office documents, PDF files, graphics, photos, videos and audio files
E-commerce Ready - Easily convert any page into a product to sell, complete with PayPal integration
Media Wall - With a Multimedia Wall, you can post rich content on your wall - not just Photos or YouTube videos, but downloadable documents, music or video playlists
BLOG - By selecting the Blog listing template you can immediately convert any page into a blog
Custom Catalogue - Create a book library, product list, hotel & property database or inventory

About Insite Mitra Innovindo

Insite Mitra Innovindo was formed with the goal of offering a world-class content-management solution, backed with support for developers and system administrators. Based in Malang, Indonesia, Insite's team of experienced developers has created a unique and powerful CMS based on ASP.NET. Since its foundation, Insite Mitra Inovindo has provided solutions to clients in over 20 countries, including the Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, US and UK.

LightningChart adds Windows 8 support

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:17:59 GMT

Example of chart types available in LightningChart Ultimate.

New version also supports Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5.

LightningChart is a 2D and 3D measurement, engineering and research data visualization SDK for .NET and Windows. It is a GPU accelerated (Direct3D) and performance optimized data visualization control for presenting large volumes of data in 2D graph view, 3D graph view and polar views.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 4.1

Compatible with Windows 8, Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and Client Profile
Multi-core processing boosts series rendering performance up to 400%
Mouse-interactive Annotations added in ViewXY, View3D, ViewPolar and ViewPie3D
XY graph export now in WMF, EMF and SVGformats.
XY graph copy to clipboard in vector format
XY graph printing in vector format
Mouse interactivity and mouse events added throughout the objects
XY graph supports unlimited count of X axes
XY graph reversed X axis functionality
Bar style added in Stock series
SpectrumCalculator component added with efficient FFT routines
GIS maps import supports oriental characters
Map layers can be imported on-the-fly
Intensity series stenciling inside map regions or other polygons
Polygon series Z order can be controlled, in front of lines or underneath them
XY graphautomatic series title placement by contents

About Arction

Arction develops software components and makes customized Windows software for its clients. The company's deep enthusiasm for graphics programming and signal manipulation makes it an ideal choice for developing real-time signal acquisition and monitoring software.

NetAdvantage LightSwitch adds Pivot Grid

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:15:17 GMT

A sample dashboard using NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch.

Perform deep analysis on multi-million row data sets housed on OLAP servers.

NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch is designed for developers and business users who are looking for an easy and fast way to create business applications using LightSwitch. The toolset offers custom shells, themes for creating code-free dashboards, interactive maps and other rich, visual editing experiences.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

Pivot Grid - Conveniently bind to flat data structures, like Microsoft Excel or SQL
OLAP Data Source - Give your end users a true drill-down experience by integrating the Pivot Grid control with an OLAP data source
Drag and Drop - Users can intuitively drag and drop fields from the field selector onto the Pivot Grid and rearrange the fields within row and column groups to see their data sliced and diced however they wish
Filtering - Let your users filter the data so they see only the detail pertinent to their analysis
Drilldown - Expand row and column fields to allow your users to drilldown into the data to extract meaning from the numbers
OLAP Pivot Table for Silverlight - Allows users to create crosstabs and drilldown as they interact with data in Microsoft Excel with full-featured online analytical processing (OLAP) support

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NetAdvantage Reporting adds HTML5 Report Viewer

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:14:24 GMT

Print reports from the report viewer.

Render NetAdvantage Reporting Reports within Web and desktop applications, and mobile devices.

NetAdvantage Reporting is a XAML reporting solution for Silverlight and WPF reporting applications. You can create elegant and easy-to-design reports engineered to help you deliver information to your end users in the shortest possible time. It offers report design, report viewing and an Expression Assistant. Other features and functionality include: integrated charting support (based on Infragistics data visualization charting controls), SQL data access, and the ability to easily connect to the most popular data sources like Entity Framework and RIA Services (using client-side rendering). You can even export your reports to a PDF format without any round trips back to the server.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

HTML5 Report Viewer - Render NetAdvantage Reporting Reports within Web and desktop applications, and mobile devices
Touch/Gesture Support - Get multi-touch and gesture support (such as panning and flick scrolling) for the Silverlight, WPF and WinForms report viewers
jQuery UI Compatible - NetAdvantage Reporting supports ThemeRoller, a tool which facilitates the creation of custom themes that are compatible with jQuery UI widgets
Change Connection Strings - Offer your users a convenient way of changing the connection string of a report's SQL data source at run-time
Report Loading at Run-Time - Using new URI Resolvers, you can specify how the report definition is loaded - from a location in your file system, a web URL or streams

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SharpShooter Reports updated

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:10:00 GMT

A report created using SharpShooter Reports.Enterprise.

SharpShooter Reports lets you generate complex reports from multiple data sources. Reports can be exported to PDF, HTML, EMF, BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, Excel, Excel (XML), CSV, TXT or RTF. It includes an end user designer which can be used for both report templates and rendered documents, you can also view the created reports in Windows or Web applications using viewers.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 6.2.1.28

Export data only to Excel (without headers, footers, etc)
Set SQL Data Source parameters
Pre-designed styles collection
All report elements are now created with pre-set styles that can be easily changed
New Ribbon tab containing main document properties
Optimized report uploading to designer
Optimized launch of report designer containing SQL data sources

About Perpetuum Software

Perpetuum Software emerged in 2002 to develop professional software components for the .NET Framework. Their mission is to let developers create complex reporting and data visualization systems. Today Perpetuum Software is a company actively managed by a team of experienced professionals. The company has offices in Europe (Italy), USA (Florida, Tampa), Latin America (Brazil, Sao Paolo) and Russia (Barnaul). For more than 10 years over 6,000+ clients from 70+ countries have been using Perpetuum Software products.

Create Barcode Labels using a Visual Label Editor

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:12:21 GMT

Create labels using ThermalLabel Editor for .NET.

Create labels using text, barcodes, pictures and shape elements.

ThermalLabel Editor for .NET features visual aids for the creation of items like text, barcodes, pictures and shapes. It also includes an undo/redo engine, cut-copy-paste functionality, Z-ordering, zooming, keyboard shortcuts and in-place text editing. It's also customizable so you can skin it to match your applications UI. ThermalLabel Editor for .NET requires ThermalLabel SDK for .NET.

Features

Items Selection - Items on the design surface can be selected by drawing around the desired item or by left-clicking on the item
Rulers - The ruler's unit of measurement automatically changes to match the current Unit set up on the ThermalLabel object which is being edited
In-Place Text Editing - Easily edit a TextItem by double-clicking or by hitting the F2 key
Keyboard Movements - Users can move items on the editor's surface by using the Arrow keys
Monochrome Conversion Tool - The ImageItemUtils class features a method which allows you to convert images to monochrome
Zoom - Users can zoom from 10% up to 1000%
Undo/Redo and Cut-Copy-Paste - ThermalLabel Editor allows users to undo/redo actions as well as to cut, copy & paste items
Barcode Standards Support - All barcode algorithms are written from ground up based on official specifications

About Neodynamic

Neodynamic designs and develops developer software components. Its development force is focused on designing .NET controls and components for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Mobile and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. Founded in 2003, Neodynamic is a continuously growing and profitable company with customers in more than 55 countries. Some of the companies using Neodynamic products include Microsoft, UPS, HP, JPMorgan Chase, Invesco, AstraZeneca, Kyocera Mita, The World Health Organization and Lilly.

NetAdvantage for .NET 2012 Volume 1 released

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:12:25 GMT

Pivot grid and data chart sample application.

Now includes Data Visualization and Business Intelligence components.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET provides developers with flexible, advanced controls to rapidly build high-quality Data Visualization applications, Line of Business Reports and application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight and jQuery. Developers receive every control needed to produce superior user experiences with stability, performance and robustness. An annual subscription is also provided for developer support, source code, updates, upgrades, documentation and samples.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

Introduced the Metro Theme across jQuery, Silverlight and WPF controls, to add sleek, modern styles to your Window 8-ready apps
Better Mobile UI, including mobile-centric List View and Rating controls for jQuery
Touch support for jQuery, Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET controls - with larger buttons and gesture support for tapping, pinching, flicking and zooming
High-performance Data Chart and geospatial Mapping capabilities for NetAdvantage for jQuery
Addition of Spark and Point Charts to data visualization controls
More styling capabilities with the new Color Tuner for Silverlight and WPF
Gantt Printing control in the Windows Forms toolset
Compatibility with Visual Studio 2011 Beta
Now includes all NetAdvantage Silverlight and WPF controls