.NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition - Summary

by Perpetuum Software - Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / 100% Managed Code

Summary

.NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition by Perpetuum Software

Data analysis, visualization, and processing components designed for the .NET Framework. .NET ModelKit Suite represents a comprehensive pack of .NET components for Business Intelligence (BI) applications development. It includes Report Sharp-Shooter and OLAP ModelKit, for data reporting and analysis, Chart ModelKit and Instrumentation ModelKit, for visualization of business processes. The .NET ModelKit Suite it provides an interconnected development framework with similar design-time and runtime customization facilities, common data management, and appearance customization methods across all the components. the Windows Forms Edition is designed for Windows Forms applications and includes Report Sharp-Shooter, OLAP ModelKit, Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKi.

The .Net ModelKit Suite is designed to improve and automate decision-making and control management processes. The package includes Report Sharp-Shooter, OLAP ModelKit, Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit. The components included into the suite minimize coding required and provide full design-time customization. The .Net ModelKit Suite is fully compatible with .Net 2.0, written in C# and contains only managed code. The product is runtime royalty free; this means that it is possible to distribute the product within the application without any additional fees.

Report Sharp-Shooter:

Report Sharp-Shooter is a suite of 100% managed components allowing the creation of both bound and unbound reports, with an unlimited number of master-detail relations, groups, columns and crosses. Report generation concept is very easy and suits to both advanced and novice users: to generate a report, template is created and a developer can use one of these three ways to do this:

Design report template in the Report Designer component

Create it dynamically using the wizard

Create it dynamically in a programmatic way

The product allows the creation of Sub-reports, Cross tab reports, Group, Multicolumn reports, Parameterized, Hierarchical, and Side by Side reports, etc.

After the report is generated it can be exported to the following formats: GIF, PNG, JPG, BMP, EMF, PDF, XPS, HTML, CSV, TXT, Excel, XML, Excel, and RTF.

OLAP ModelKit:

OLAP ModelKit pivot table is a kind of an interactive table designed to be used for statistical analysis of multiple data. The product is remarkable for its ability to use any .Net data (ADO.NET, IList, and IListSource). Along with the advantages of OLAP technology the product provides a wide range of capabilities in pivot table customization and data visualization.

Data Visualization:

Support for XP styles, as well as office and smooth styles, custom drawing, and custom format

Data representation with the help of a native charting component and any third-party data visualization components

HTML, Excel, and PDF Export

Customization:

Ability to selectively change the cell style set in the style sheet for the displayed pivot table

Ability to draw either one or another table element manually

Ability to make custom functions and variables available in the elements expressions

Ability to assign custom aggregate functions

Instrumentation ModelKit:

Instrumentation ModelKit is a rich library of gauges for creating KPIs, specific to any industry, Computer Assisted Training systems, SCADA systems and digital dashboards. The Instrumentation ModelKit library includes more than 80 ready-made gauges. Full-featured graphics editor allows creating new visual components with the unique look and functionality by means of only a few mouse clicks using the product library or from scratch. It can be both common controls such as Progress Bars, Meters, Dials, Sliders, Gauges, Odometers, Thermometers, Switches etc. and specialized elements for your industry: Manipulators, Scales, Special-Purpose Devices and many others.

Instruments Design:

Easy-to-use designer allows visual creation of an instrument with the help of more simple elements, included in it in different combinations, and also to set and edit all properties of the primitives

Built-in expression language provides elements interaction and ability to assign the required instrument functionality

Wide range of export options – SVG, GIF, BMP, PNG, JPG, and Flash

Integration into All Kinds of Applications:

Integration with Chart ModelKit allows the combination of charts and instruments in the same application for digital dashboards creation

Integration with Report Sharp-Shooter allows the creation of gauges of different types in reports

Chart ModelKit:

The main idea of Chat ModelKit is to provide developers with the ability to create charts according to user requirements without challenging any special knowledge and high qualification. The product features open architecture and intuitive charts object model. This provides an ability not only to combine elements arbitrarily, but to change their properties, behavior and appearance using the true WYZIWIG designer.

Chart Model:

Ability to use arbitrary number of diagrams, legends, labels, axes, etc.

The library contains a comprehensive set of standard elements: axes, labels, legends, titles etc.

A set of series types is available: Pie, Bar, Stacked Bar, Stacked100Bar, Spline, Line, Bubble, Area, Stacked Area, Stacked100Area, Stock, and Candle Stick

Integration into All Kinds of Applications:

Integration with Instrumentation ModelKit allows the combination of charts and instruments in the same application for digital dashboards creation

Integration with Report Sharp-Shooter allows building of charts of different types in reports

Integration with OLAP ModelKit allows the use of data calculated in the OLAP cube as a data source for charts

Export to SVG, Flash, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF

General Features of the .NET ModelKit Suite:

All components are written in C# and contain only managed code

Compatible with .NET Framework 2.0

Compatible with the most popular .NET IDEs. Moreover, components work without any IDE

Royalty-free runtime

Full source code in C# is available

A unified development framework. The .Net ModelKit Suite is not simply a pack of individual products. It gives you an interconnected development framework with similar design-time and runtime customization facilities, common data management and appearance customization methods. Products are fully compatible with each other

The .Net ModelKit Suite is available in the following editions:

Windows Forms Edition - designed for Windows Forms applications and includes Report Sharp-Shooter, OLAP ModelKit, Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit

Web Forms Edition - designed for Web Forms applications and includes Report Sharp-Shooter, Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit

Win + Web Edition - designed for Windows Forms and Web Forms applications and includes Report Sharp-Shooter, Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit

Professional Edition – designed for Windows and Web Forms applications creation. It is the optimal choice for programmers wishing to gain total control over their applications because all the components included in .NET ModelKit Suite are delivered with the full source code. This edition includes Report Sharp-Shooter, OLAP ModelKit, Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit

What's New in .NET ModelKit Suite V3.7:

Report Sharp-Shooter V3.7

New: Integrated SQL and XML data sources support. The connection string and query text are specified for SQL data source. XML data source support is based on XML file and XPath format query. End users can edit data sources directly in the report designer

Improved: XPS export is fully integrated in WebViewer. Just place XpsExportFilter on the page and the export option will be automatically available for users

Improved: A lot of modifications in charts and gauges (3D effects, rich library of templates, new frame types, enhanced palette) allows you to represent the report data in a more attractive form

Chart ModelKit V3.7

New: Imitation of 3D effects on chart series elements in PieSeriesView, PointSeriesView and BarSeriesView

New: Option for BarSeriesView design change allows the display of elements with rounded corners

New: Ability to display custom image in the BarSeriesView columns

New: Mechanism for bevels setting makes the process of unique charts development less time consuming

New: Bevels types: ellipse, standard (rectangular) and custom (rectangular bevel with the possibility of any parameter customization)

New: Color shade palettes. Already existing palettes were extended. Now you can create bright and colorful charts and diagrams which address the most sophisticated requirements

Instrumentation ModelKit V3.7

New: DigitalText instrument element. This element is intended for the display of text and numbers using LED markers

New: Mechanism for bevels setting makes the process of unique instruments development less time consuming

Improved: Custom functions are available in the visual expressions editor. By setting your own function for instruments creation you will save time and effort

OLAP ModelKit V3.7

New: Cube layout allows you to specify headline, header and footer to be printed out and take this into account when the document is exported to Excel, Html and PDF formats. Headers and footers are edited in the wizard available for both developers and end users

Improved: User functions are available now in the visual expressions editor

What's New in .NET ModelKit Suite V3.6:

New: Support for smart tags functionality provides access to the .NET ModelKit Suite components’ common properties in a smart tag window, invoked by a mouse pointer.

Improved: Tighter integration of OLAP ModelKit and Chart ModelKit provides the ability to dynamically represent OLAP data as feature-rich charts. No need to adjust components to each other or write sophisticated code. Just place Chart Viewer on the form the DataCubeGrid is located on, a few mouse clicks and your data is transformed into useful and meaningful information.

Report Sharp-Shooter

New: Report Manager editor makes reports design process much easier and faster: a double click on the ReportManager component invokes a special editor that allows editing collections of reports and data sources.

New: XPS (XML Paper Specification) export filter provides the ideal tool for storing, displaying and publishing data from WPF applications. It is intended to display a document in the same way across the machines independently from the software installed. So, now a developer can be sure that an end user will get a document in the way it has been designed and besides, it is not possible to copy or edit data by a user.

New: Support for PDF417 2D barcode that is irreplaceable for the applications where the data must travel with the labeled item. It can store up to 1,800 printable ASCII characters per symbol and can be used for hazardous materials labeling, storing technical specifications and calibration data on electronic instruments.

Improved: Error handling (exception handling) becomes much easier with Report Sharp-Shooter 3.6.

Report Sharp-Shooter and OLAP ModelKit

Improved: Export to PDF is considerably improved. Now your PDF documents become dramatically smaller due to the files compression.

PartNumbers: PC-518063-155227 518063-155227 PC-518063-155228 518063-155228 PC-518063-155229 518063-155229 PC-518063-155230 518063-155230 PC-518063-155231 518063-155231 PC-518063-155232 518063-155232 PC-518063-155233 518063-155233 PC-518063-155234 518063-155234

PurchaseOptions: .NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition V3.8 1 Full Developer License - includes 1 year subscription (Updates, Upgrades and Free Technical Support) , .NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition V3.8 1 Additional Developer License (requires that you already own a Full Developer License) - includes 1 year subscription (Updates, Upgrades and Free Technical Support) , .NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition V3.8 1 Full Developer Renewal License - includes 1 year subscription (Updates, Upgrades and Free Technical Support) , .NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition V3.8 1 Additional Developer Renewal License (requires that you own a Full Developer License) - includes 1 year subscription (Updates, Upgrades and Free Technical Support) , .NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition V3.8 with Premium Support 1 Full Developer License - includes 1 year subscription (Updates, Upgrades and Premimum Technical Support) , .NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition V3.8 with Premium Support 1 Additional Developer License (requires that you already own a Full Developer License) - includes 1 year subscription (Updates, Upgrades and Premimum Technical Support) , .NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition V3.8 with Premium Support 1 Full Developer Renewal License - includes 1 year subscription (Updates, Upgrades and PremiumTechnical Support) , .NET ModelKit Suite Windows Forms Edition V3.8 with Premium Support 1 Additional Developer Renewal License (requires that you own a Full Developer License) - includes 1 year subscription (Updates, Upgrades and Premium Technical Support)

Resources: Read the .NET ModelKit Suite User Guide help file, Read the .NET ModelKit Suite Class Reference help file, Read the .NET ModelKit Suite End User License Agreement, Download the .NET ModelKit Suite V3.8 evaluation on to your computer - Displays Nag Screens

Operating System for Deployment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000

Architecture of Product: 32Bit, 64Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET WinForms, .NET Class, 100% Managed Code

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, C#Builder, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0

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