ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight

What’s new in Studio for Silverlight 2011 v3

New OutlookBar Control

• Group menus and controls into distinct categories with this side bar navigation system. ComponentOne OutlookBar for Silverlight mimics the Microsoft Outlook navigation pane. It consists of any number of categories represented by buttons where each button has a header as well as a panel for adding additional controls.

Chart for Silverlight Enhancements

• New high performance bitmap rendering mode (RenderMode = Bitmap) for line and symbol chart types.
• Added support for multiple radial axes for radar charts and corresponding options for specifying the appearance of axis labels.
• New Axis.AnnoCreated event that allows you to customize appearance of axis labels programmatically.
• Enhanced clipping behavior when using stacked plot areas. Now elements will not extend to neighboring plot areas.

FlexGrid for Silverlight Enhancements

• Added ShowOutlineBar property which causes the grid to show a row of numbered buttons on the first column header, similar to Microsoft Excel. This feature was added from the WinForms version.
• New ChildItemsPath property that allows for easy tree view creation. If your data class has a property that contains a list of elements of any type, C1FlexGrid will show this hierarchical structure as a tree.

Other Enhancements

• C1DataGrid allows multi-cell selection by dragging the mouse over the cells.
• C1PdfViewer has been enhanced with thumbnail and document outline (bookmark) support.
• C1Toolbar now supports Office 2007 and 2010 themes.
• C1TreeView has been enhanced with built-in editing support.
• Studio for Windows Phone features four new controls specialized for touch-based UIs: C1ContextMenu, C1DateTimePicker, C1ProgressBar and C1ToggleSwitch.

What's New in Studio for Silverlight 2011 v2?
Studio for Silverlight includes similar enhancements found in WPF, such as new Excel and TileView controls. Other additions include enhancements to popular controls like C1Scheduler and C1FlexGrid as well as localization support.

Localization Supported for 14 International Languages
ComponentOne have added built-in localized resources for 14 international languages. Every ComponentOne Silverlight control can be easily localized in these cultures:

New Excel for Silverlight Component
The new C1XLBook component can read and write to Microsoft Excel files (XLSX) from your C# or VB.NET code. Create or load an existing an Excel Workbook and access individual sheets as if they were a simple grid composed of rows, columns and cells. With Excel for Silverlight you don't even need Microsoft Excel installed.

New TileView for Silverlight Control
The new C1TileView control is an interactive items control allowing users to expand and collapse tiles to view more or less information. Create dashboards, detail views, photo galleries and more with TileView for Silverlight. With drag-and-drop reordering of tiles at runtime users can instinctively rearrange the items with their mouse.

New Cosmopolitan Theme
Based off the latest and hottest new toolkit theme provided by Microsoft. Now you can add this Metro-style theme across your entire application with ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight and the Microsoft Silverlight toolkit.

Scheduler for Silverlight Enhancements
C1Scheduler now supports a Time Line view for displaying appointments in a horizontal layout. This view is useful when trying to see multiple groups at once to schedule a meeting. In this view the time is displayed horizontally and groups are arranged vertically, much like the ‘Schedule’ view in Microsoft Outlook 2010.

Other Enhancements

• C1DataGrid has a new built-in multi-value filter. You can now combine multiple advanced filters in the same column header.
• C1FlexGrid has a new ChildItemsPath property that allows for easy treeview creation. If your data class has a property that contains a list of elements of the same type, C1FlexGrid will show this hierarchical structure as a tree.
• C1PdfViewer has been enhanced with GPUAcceleration and bitmap caching for improved performance.
• C1Toolbar now includes collapse, help and dialog launcher buttons, as well as a new C1ToolbarSplitButton control.

What's New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2011 v1?
Studio for Silverlight includes similar enhancements found in WPF, such as Chart additions and Excel-like filtering in FlexGrid. Like Studio for WPF, the Silverlight suite has grown to include new a C1Carousel control. This new panel control makes for structured UI development.

Chart Enhancements

• New Chart Layers collection for displaying elements on the chart such as markers, labels, and interactive elements more easily.
• Support for stacking multiple plot areas horizontally and vertically. This gives a more flexible layout for axes that will allow you to have several plot areas inside a single chart control.
• New Polygon chart types: Polygon and PolygonFilled. These are similar to Line/Area but can create closed areas defined by the data points.

FlexGrid for Silverlight Enhancements

• FlexGrid includes a new extension assembly which adds Excel-like filtering support. Users may set the filter by selecting values that should be displayed or by specifying conditions that must be met by the values in the column.

RichTextBox for Silverlight Enhancements

• Enhanced support for inserting and editing images. Users can easily upload images from their computer to the editor and then easily select, resize and drag images on the document surface.

DataGrid for Silverlight Enhancements
Two new extension assemblies for added filtering and grouping summary functionality. Accomplish these advanced features with less code.

PdfViewer for Silverlight Enhancements

• Added GetPages() method which returns a collection of the FrameworkElements representing each page of a loaded PDF. Now you have more flexibility for reading content from a PDF file and changing the way users view files.
• Added support for printing documents with mixed page orientation.
• Many more improvements to the supported PDF specification.

New Carousel for Silverlight Control
The new Carousel for Silverlight includes a virtualizing panel control that arranges child elements along an arbitrary 3D path. Use C1CarouselPanel with any items control to turn a flat list of items into a virtualizing carousel with true 3D perspectives and scrolling animation.

Scheduler for Silverlight Enhancements
Enhanced support for MVVM binding scenarios.

What's New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 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. For example:

<UserControl x:Class="C1Demo"

     xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation

     xmlns:x=http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml

     xmlns:d=http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008

     xmlns:mc=http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006

     xmlns:c1=http://schemas.componentone.com/winfx/2006/xaml>

     <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">

          <c1:C1Menu x:Name="c1Menu1"/>

          <c1:C1Toolbar x:Name="c1Toolbar1"/>

          <c1:C1DataGrid x:Name="c1DataGrid1"/>

     </Grid>

</UserControl>

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. Learn more.

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.

What's New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2010 v2?
ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2010 v2 includes a new calendar control and enhancements to popular controls.

New ComponentOne Calendar for Silverlight

• This new calendar control integrates seamlessly with the C1Scheduler for building complete Microsoft Outlook-style applications. C1Calendar is a multi-month calendar control that enables date range selection with interactive navigation.

Toolbar for Silverlight Enhancements

• Enhanced Ribbon-like appearance and behavior of toolbar groups.
• Collapsible toolbar groups.
• Support for the Silverlight 4 commanding framework.

DataGrid for Silverlight Enhancements

• Added ICollectionView support.
• Asynchronous data validation.
• Visibility property added to Rows. You can now hide rows and create more hierarchical scenarios.

What's New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2010 v1?
ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2010 introduces support for Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.

An installer specific to Silverlight 4 added to the ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight.

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight now includes 2 installers one for specific to Silverlight 4 developent and another specific to Silverlight 3. The ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 4 installer includes the following enhancements:

• Analytics Framework support
• Native Printing of C1RichTextBox
• Implicit Styling
• Enhanced support for Visual Studio 2010 design-time WYSIWYG editor
• Enhanced keyboard support in C1RichTextBox
• Enhanced mouse right-click (no more windowless = true)

These Silverlight 4 enhancements are not available in the Silverlight 3 installer.

DataGrid for Silverlight

• Added column virtualization
• Heavily optimized the rendering engine
• Added support for different row sizes and auto sizing

RichTextBox for Silverlight

• Built-in PDF export capabilities

ComboBox for Silverlight

• Added virtualization

Book for Silverlight

• Added support for vertical orientation
• Supports transparent pages
• Added virtualization
• Open architecture for different page animations

What's New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2009 v3?

• DataGrid now has universal selection (cell, cell-range, row, column, each single or multiple), support for clipboard, ability to export to Excel, and row freezing
• DataGrid can display aggregate functions in grouped/total rows
• New DockControl that allows you to handle multiple windows in your Silverlight application, as well as new Tab and Toolbar controls
• 4 ready-to-use Gauge styles (Region, Ruler, Speedometer, Volume) that save you from having to design the look of your gauge
• PDF export capability. This is a quite important feature as printing is not currently supported in Silverlight
• New Chart types: Polar and Step.
• Clear Style technology that allows you to easily change control colors without having to change control templates (in this release: DataGrid, Gauges, and Scheduler)

What's New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2009 v2?
ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight includes now3 New Components: C1 Scheduler for Silverlight , C1 Media Player Media Player for Silverlight and C1 LayoutTransform for Silverlight , which is a control that enables the developer to add a WPF styled Layout Transform to Silverlight applications.

All ComponentOne Silverlight components are now compatible with Microsoft Silverlight 3.

What's New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2009 v1?

• Built-in support for the most popular Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit themes
• 4 New controls: C1Image class, PropertyGrid, TimePicker, DateTimePicker.
• Also several improvements to existing components:DataGrid for Silverlight now supports Microsoft Outlook-style grouping, New C1VectorLayer for C1Maps with basic support for KML import/export, Added undo/redo and RTF import/export support for RichTextBox for Silverlight

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight Subscription Benefits

This subscription entitles you to minor and major updates of any of the products included in the ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight as well as any new products added to the ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight during one year.

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight has 3 releases per year and these are scheduled for the middle of the month in March, July and November each year.

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight is a comprehensive set of components and controls, including grid, chart, menu, treeview, file uploader, layout, data input, gauges, maps, image rotator, navigation, and more. Use Expression Blend to fully style ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight components, this allows developers to easily create rich graphical interfaces for their Rich Internet Applications.
Built with XAML, ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight controls promote collaboration in your team and fit seamlessly into your developer/designer workflow. Furthermore, you can take XAML from Silverlight and use it in your WPF application. ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight includes an annual product subscription so you receive updated components and controls throughout the year.

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight includes among others:

ComponentOne Chart for Silverlight
ComponentOne Chart for Silverlight makes it easy to add professional-grade charts to your Silverlight applications. The Silverlight chart control, C1Chart, supports multiple chart types including bar, column, line, area, pie, and more.

ComponentOne RichTextBox for Silverlight
ComponentOne RichTextBox for Silverlight allows you to load, edit, and save formatted text as HTML documents. The C1RichTextBox control provides rich formatting, automatic line wrapping and several types of HTML export (with CSS style sheets, inline styles, or simple tags only).

ComponentOne DataGrid for Silverlight
Robust Grid for Rich Data Visualization in Silverlight. Add advanced data visualization to your Silverlight applications with ComponentOne DataGrid for Silverlight. The robust data-bound C1DataGrid control makes it easy to display, edit, and analyze tabular data in Silverlight applications.

ComponentOne Menu for Silverlight
Menu Control for Custom Navigation in Silverlight
ComponentOne Menu for Silverlight provides Silverlight applications with a complete menu system. Use the C1Menu control to create menus in code or in XAML.

ComponentOne TreeView for Silverlight
Improve Navigation in Silverlight applications with Hierarchical Data Views. ComponentOne TreeView for Silverlight provides a hierarchical view of your data items. The C1TreeView control is similar to the TreeView controls available in WPF and Windows Forms, but provides additional features including keyboard-based search, drag-and-drop functionality, hierarchical templates, and more. Trees may be created in XAML or in code.

ComponentOne Windows UI for Silverlight
Generate Enhanced Dialog Windows in Your Silverlight applications
Replace standard browser dialog windows and message boxes with ComponentOne Window for Silverlight and ComponentOne MessageBox for Silverlight. The C1Window control shows content in a floating window within the Silverlight plug-in. Display a message to the end-user and optionally ask a simple question with C1MessageBox. Experience enhanced performance and ease-of-use with the rich client-side object model and time-saving customization.

ComponentOne Maps for Silverlight
Navigate the Earth with Interactive Maps for Silverlight.ComponentOne Maps for Silverlight raises the bar on image viewing with smooth zooming, panning, and mapping between screen and geographical coordinates. C1Maps allows you to display rich geographical information from various sources, including Microsoft Live Maps and Google Maps. Built on top of the Microsoft Deep Zoom technology, C1Maps enables end-users to enjoy extreme close-ups with high-resolution images and smooth transitions. It also supports layers that allow you to superimpose your own custom elements to the maps.

ComponentOne Book for Silverlight
Page-turning Book Control for Innovative Navigation in Silverlight.ComponentOne Book for Silverlight presents UIElement objects as if they were pages in a book. You can see two elements at a time, and turn pages with the mouse, just as you would turn pages in a regular paper book. The C1Book control provides page-turning effects and shadows that make the experience visually engaging and yet familiar.

ComponentOne Image Rotator for Silverlight
Rotate Images in 3D in Your Silverlight applications. ComponentOne ImageRotator for Silverlight provides a pseudo-3D rotating effect for images, similar to the Cover Flow view used in Apple's iTunes application or the famous scrolling credits in the opening of the Star Wars movies.

ComponentOne HtmlHost for Silverlight
Host Arbitrary HTML Content in Your Silverlight applications. Render HTML and arbitrary URI content from within Silverlight using ComponentOne HtmlHost for Silverlight. The HTML host control (C1HtmlHost) provides a frame that can host arbitrary HTML content, and display content from arbitrary URIs or HTML text.

ComponentOne Range Slider for Silverlight
Add Smooth Numeric Data Selection to Your Silverlight applications. ComponentOne RangeSlider for Silverlight extends the basic slider control and provides two thumb elements instead of one, allowing users to select ranges instead of single values.

ComponentOne Hyper Panel for Silverlight
Interactive Panel with Zoom Effects for Silverlight. ComponentOne HyperPanel for Silverlight is a StackPanel that provides an automatic zoom effect for items near the mouse. You can place any elements in the panel to achieve carousel-like effects and display a large number of elements in a relatively small container, without using scrollbars. The resulting effect is similar to the system toolbar seen in Mac OS X.

ComponentOne Layout Panels for Silverlight
Easy-to-use Panels for Arranging Content in Your Silverlight applications. ComponentOne Layout Panels for Silverlight provides a full suite of controls for arranging items on your Silverlight application. Create flow type layouts that wrap content vertically or horizontally using wrap panel control (C1WrapPanel). Dock content along the edges of the panel with the dock panel control (C1DockPanel). Neatly display content in a grid with columns and rows using the layout grid control (C1UniformGrid). Create a collapsible/expandable panel with the expander control (C1Expander) and header content control (C1HeaderContentControl). Present data the way you wish with this powerful group of controls making it easy for you to control the flow and positioning of the content.

ComponentOne ComboBox for Silverlight
Combo Box Control for Data-aware Silverlight ComboBox. ComponentOne ComboBox for Silverlight (C1ComboBox) is a full-featured combo box control that combines an editable text box with an auto-searchable drop-down list.

ComponentOne Numeric Box for Silverlight
Display and Edit Numeric Values in Your Silverlight applications. ComponentOne NumericBox for Silverlight provides a numeric text box (C1NumericBox) for displaying and editing formatted numeric values.

ComponentOne Masked TextBox for Silverlight
Validate Input in Your Silverlight applications. ComponentOne MaskedTextBox for Silverlight provides a text box with a mask that automatically validates the input.

ComponentOne Password Box for Silverlight
Secure Passwords in Your Silverlight applications. ComponentOne PasswordBox for Silverlight protects sensitive information by displaying special characters instead of the actual content being edited.

ComponentOne Color Picker for Silverlight
Allow End-users to Pick Colors from Pre-defined Palettes. ComponentOne Color Picker for Silverlight allows end-users to select colors from professionally-designed palettes, or to build their own custom colors including support for transparency.

ComponentOne Gauges for Silverlight
Generate Rich Dashboard-style Applications for Silverlight. ComponentOne Gauges for Silverlight includes two controls, C1LinearGauge and C1RadialGauge that provide an intuitive and attractive way to display information graphically.

ComponentOne Accordion for Silverlight
Microsoft Outlook-style Navigation Bar for Silverlight. ComponentOne Accordion for Silverlight displays a list of expandable items. Select an item to expand it and collapse all others, automatically organizing your UI and optimizing the use of screen real-estate.

ComponentOne Uploader for Silverlight
Upload Files to the Server from Your Silverlight applications.ComponentOne Uploader for Silverlight provides a simple and reliable way to upload files and streams to the server.

ComponentOne FilePicker for Silverlight
Select Files to Upload in Your Silverlight applications. ComponentOne FilePicker for Silverlight allows users to select files. The C1FilePicker control is similar to a combo box, except instead of showing a drop-down list, it shows a file picker dialog box.

ComponentOne Cube for Silverlight
3D Rotating Cube for Innovative Navigation in Silverlight. ComponentOne Cube for Silverlight presents information using a 3D metaphor. Put UIElement objects to faces on a cube, and then rotate the cube to show one element at a time.

ComponentOne Drag Drop Manager for Silverlight
Custom Drag Sourcing and Drop Targeting in Silverlight applications. ComponentOne DragDropManager for Silverlight provides support for drag-and-drop operations in Silverlight applications

ComponentOne Data for Silverlight
Comprehensive Framework for Creating Silverlight Database applications.ComponentOne Data for Silverlight is an implementation of the standard DataSet, DataTable, and DataView classes familiar to Windows Forms and ASP.NET developers.

ComponentOne Zip for Silverlight
Add Space-saving Zip Compression to Your Silverlight applications. ComponentOne Zip for Silverlight provides a complete implementation of the Zip compression standard. Improve the performance of your Silverlight applications by compressing the data sent over the wire. Use isolated storage efficiently and securely with data compression and encryption.

ComponentOne PropertyGrid for Silverlight
ComponentOne PropertyGrid for Silverlight allows you to easily create input form or edit any class. ComponentOne PropertyGrid for Silverlight includes more than 10 built-in editors and support for actions

ComponentOne TimePicker for Silverlight
Support for TimeStamp. Different time formats

ComponentOne DateTimePicker for Silverlight
ComponentOne DateTimePicker for Silverlight edits DateTime/Date or just Time values. ComponentOne DateTimePicker for Silverlight supports for different formats and it is localizable

ComponentOne DockManager for Silverlight
ComponentOne Dockmanager handles dragging and docking multiple windows in your application. Supports dockable, floating and tabbed windows, supports Microsoft Expression Blend-like, natural docking as well as can support Microsoft Visual Studio-like docking sliding windows using the pin/unpin feature.

ComponentOne TabControl for Silverlight

• Closeable tabs: on the tab page level or globally for the entire TabControl.
• Tab overlay (overlap) and alignment
• Choose from Rounded, Rectangle or Sloped tab shapes
• Dynamically add new tabs at runtime like Internet Explorer 8
• Tab menu can display all available tabs in a menu for easy navigation
• Tab scrolling (Next/Previous buttons) for when more tabs than space allows

ComponentOne Toolbar for Silverlight

• Supports two kind of toolbars: C1ToolbarStrip and C1Toolbar (like Ribbon)
• Similar look and feel to Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon UI (C1Toolbar)
• Fill toolbars with groups, buttons, separators or any UI Element
• Features an overflow drop-down menu for items pushed out of view

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