Actipro Editors for WPF

What's New in Actipro Editors for WPF 2011.2?

• App-Wide Themes - Actipro Themes includes professionally-designed themes that cover all system and Office themes including high contrast mode.  The themes apply to all Actipro controls and optionally to native WPF controls.
• Styles/Templates for Native WPF Controls - Enhanced styles and templates for all native WPF controls (TextBox, ToolBox, TreeView, etc.) are included.  These styles can be automatically applied app-wide via a single line of code.  Or you can choose to use them on specific controls only, accessible via pre-defined style keys.
• Common Asset Pool - There are well over 800 asset resources for each of the system and Office themes supported. All custom and native control styles/templates use the same assets. This ensures that controls placed next to each other always render with similar colors that complement each other.
• Advanced Tinting - Actipro Themes supports the tinting of any theme or portion of a theme towards a certain color. This means that you can take a built-in theme like the Office Silver theme, and make it a red one instead.
• Appearance Improvements - Actipro Themes includes updated menu, toolbar, and statusbar appearances that were inspired by Visual Studio 2010’s look. The simplified design uses a darker workspace area, with lighter content areas in each docking window.  This higher contrast appearance focuses the end user's eye on the content without distracting it with non-active UI elements, thus making for a more effective user interface.

What's New in Actipro Editors for WPF 2011.1?

• Calculator Control - The new Calculator control can be used by end-users to interactively calculate numeric values. It supports all the standard calculator functions, including: memory saving/recalling, square root, and inverse. Three different display modes are available to show more or less functionality.
• Rating Control - The new Rating control inherits from ItemsControl and renders glyphs that can be used present an average rating or collect a user rating. By default, attractive star glyphs are used, but these can be easily replaced with any custom glyph. There is also support for both horizontal and vertical orientations.

What's New in Actipro Editors for WPF 2010.2? - New controls include:

• CornerRadiusEditBox
• Int64EditBox
• ThicknessEditBox

What's New in Actipro Editors for WPF 2010.1?

• Updated parts to only handle Enter key if a pending change is committed.
• Added IsReadOnly property to PartEditBox and associated support to derivations

What's New in Actipro Editors for WPF 2009.2?

• AnalogClock control added: A new AnalogClock control is now included that can render a clock with hour, minute, and optional second hands
• EnumListBox control added: EnumListBox is a new control that makes it extremely easy to pick between enumeration values using checkboxes or radio buttons
• EnumEditBox control added: The new EnumEditBox control is an editor implementation that has a dropdown with an EnumListBox
• DateTimeEditBox updated to display clock in dropdown

What's New in Actipro Editors for WPF?

• Windows 7 Compatible
• Expression Blend Compatible
• Added new PartValueCommitTriggers.EnterKeyDown trigger which commits any part changes when the Enter key was pressed
• Changed the DataGrid Interop columns default value for the PartValueCommitTriggers property to better match DataGrid standard behavior
• Exposed PartEditBox slot properties from the DataGrid Interop columns
• Exposed PartEditBox slot properties from the PropertyGrid Interop property editors
• Fixed issue when entering data in Double, In32, Int32Rect, Point, Rect, Size, and Vector editors

Actipro Editors for WPF is a control suite that implements several data entry controls for the Windows Presentation Foundation framework, including a masked textbox and parts-based editors. Each control has numerous options available and allows for a more intuitive/natural data entry. Actipro Editors for WPF's masked textbox can be used to restrict user input to a preconfigured regular expression mask, with support for alternations and quantifiers. Actipro Editors for WPF also includes parts-based editors that allow the various parts of an associated type to be modified individually, such as entering only the month part of a date. Several parts-based editors are provided for existing .Net types, including brushes, colors, and dates/times. Actipro Editors for WPF can also be bought as part of the Actipro WPF Studio.

Actipro Editors for WPF Features

Restrict Input
Ensure the end user inputs data in the correct format using a regular expression mask. Customizable input prompts indicate to the user that additional data is must be entered

Embedded Controls
Any UIElement, including existing parts, can be easily embedded in the parts-based editors. In addition, they can be intermixed and placed next to any generated items

Smooth Transitions
The MonthCalendar supports smooth animations effects when zooming in/out or when moving to the next or previous view, much like the native WinForms MonthCalendar control

Actipro Editors for WPF includes:

• MaskedTextBox
• Customizable mask using a regular expression
• Supports literal completion as the user types
• Distinctive input prompts which can be easily customized
• Further restrict input using custom logic and events

Parts-based Editors

• Includes controls for several existing .Net types, such as DateTime, Double, Guid, and Int32
• Fully supports null values with an optional checkbox
• Customizable formats can be used to layout parts
• Support for optional drop-down button and custom content
• Optional spinner buttons can be included
• Leverage existing framework for building custom parts-based editors
• Embedded custom controls or elements anywhere in the control

MonthCalendar Features

• Support for single or multiple date selection
• Easily disable any date or range
• Customize selection using events
• Includes month, year, decade, and century views
• Uses smooth animations when changing views
• Apply custom styles to any item for a unique look
• Integrates easily into the date/time parts-based editor drop-down

Common Features

• 9 distinct built-in themes
• Easily integrates into the Actipro PropertyGrid
• Extensive designer support for easy configuration
• Localization and right-to-left layout capabilities
• XBAP support and much more

Actipro Editors for WPF is part of the Actipro WPF Studio. All Actipro WPF component licenses include one year of free upgrades to any major/minor new versions