Resco MobileApp Studio Universal Edition

What's New in Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2012:
The most important improvement is a brand new core of controls with very smooth touch scrolling, optimized drawing, aliased round corners and advanced customizations. The users now have new options to define the data source, background, text size, fonts, and colors and touch scroll behavior.

Resco created a new set of 23 elements that can be added to a panel:

Other improvements are the chart controls for Windows Phone, iOS and Android platform. Choose from column, line and pie charts.

What's New in Resco MobileApp Studio 2011:

• MobileApp Studio now includes support for Android and iOS.
• You can now purchase MobileApp Studio as Universal, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, iOS and Android Editions
• The iOS edition has support for iPhone, iPad and iPad2

Resco MobileApp Studio 2 comes with a series of enhancements. The most important improvement is multiplatform support. Version 2 now supports iPhone and iPad and Windows Phone 7, as well as Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Tablet PC. (Support for Android development is scheduled for end of 2010.)

• iOS support is provided through the MonoTouch developer tool, extended with Resco MobileTouch Toolkit - Resco's UI controls.
• Support of Windows Phone 7 is achieved by adding Resco MobileLight Toolkit - a set of Silverlight based controls.

The second major improvement is the inclusion of a Conversion Tool. The conversion tool ensures developers can continue with their already designed controls in the new environment of Resco MobileApp Studio by importing the UI of Resco .NET CF controls. This significantly simplifies the conversion of Windows Mobile, WinCE, or Tablet PC applications to the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Resco MobileApp Studio Universal Edition is a Microsoft Visual Studio based developer platform, which can be used for the development of mobile applications for multiple mobile device types - Windows Mobile, Windows CE,  Tablet PC, Windows Phone 7, iPhone and iPad. It consists of suites of User Interface controls for WinForms, Silverlight and MonoTouch together with advanced designers and tools allowing developers to quickly design and build mobile forms. Since all the controls and tools are integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio, they can be easily accessed and used from this familiar development environment using programming languages, such as C# or Visual Basic .NET.

Competitive advantages

• Rapid mobile app developer platforms integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio
• Fast and simple development
• Contains:
• Resco MobileForms Toolkit - WinForms controls for Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Tablet PC
• Resco MobileLight Toolkit - Silverlight controls for Windows Phone 7
• Resco MobileTouch Toolkit - iOS controls for MonoTouch
• Includes advanced UI and data-binding designers
• Customization opportunities through VB or C# source code

Target group

• Suitable for companies that need business mobile applications but only have limited mobile development experience
• For all developers looking for a rapid development tool, the first functional application can be designed in just a few minutes

Designers

• Easy to use and intuitive designers allow developers to quickly design list or detail forms
• The forms design is created without any need for dealing with code
• The designer generates C# or Visual Basic code automatically and attaches it to the entire project

Themes and Styles

• Allow developers to define custom styles of visual elements and apply them to all forms in the entire application
• Attractive form and style themes help developers to startup a mobile app project
• The UI styles are similar to Microsoft Office Word

Data binding

• Can be created with the help of a wizard and offers 3 basic data binding techniques:
• SQL CE Database allows data binding to tables/columns, or a SQL query
• Manual setup allows setting up the DataColumns manually
• CLR Class is suitable for database business models, which have already been implemented in the entire project or any external project

Conversion tool for Resco MobileForms Toolkit customers upgrading to Resco MobileApp Studio:
Resco MobileApp Studio provides a conversion tool to import UI of Resco .NET CF controls. The conversion tool ensures that developers can continue with their already designed controls in the new environment of Resco MobileApp Studio. Thus significantly simplifying conversion of WM, WinCE, or Tablet PC application to WP7 platform.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit
More than 20 Windows Mobile controls and libraries significantly improve the development process of applications for Windows Mobile devices. Developer perfection combined with graphic designer creativity creates an unprecedented toolkit. The components and libraries are designed to eliminate hardware limitations of mobile devices, such as small screen or lower performance. A ground-breaking technology - seamlessly integrated in the components - offers multiple benefits to the developer community.

A rich, complete set of components for the .NET Compact Framework:

• AdvancedCombo
• AdvancedList
• AdvancedTree
• Audio
• CompactChart
• CustomKeyboard
• DateTimePicker
• DetailView
• ImageBox
• ImageButton
• InkBox
• MaskedTextBox
• MessageBox
• MonthCalendar
• NumericUpDown
• ProgressBar
• ScrollBar
• ShortcutBar
• SmartGrid
• TabControl
• Toolbar
• Tooltip
• TouchDateTimePicker
• WeekCalendar
• Zip

Resco MobileForms Toolkit Special features:
The MobileForms Toolkit contains powerful features which make it a perfect choice for mobile application development. All controls have been designed to perfectly suit a small device display and along with with special optimizations ensure optimal application performance.

Touch Control
The Touch Scroll feature allows the user to scroll the contents of MobileForms Toolkit controls comfortably using a thumb. Although Windows Mobile does not have a native support of touch scrolling in its API, the only thing developers need to do to take advantage of Touch Scroll, is to turn on one property in Visual Studio designer.

• AdvancedList for .NET CF - vertical scrolling
• AdvancedTree for .NET CF - vertical scrolling
• SmartGrid for .NET CF - vertical and horizontal scrolling
• DetailView for .NET CF - vertical scroling, horizontal by pages
• ShortcutBar for .NET CF - vertical scrolling
• MonthCalendar for .NET CF - horizontal by months/years
• WeekCalendar for .NET CF - vertical by hours, horizontal by days/weeks
• Toolbar for .NET CF - horizontal, or vertical scroling
• TabControl for .NET CF - horizontal, or vertical tab scroling

Anyone can download and try the demo application for Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices. It shows a filtered list of customers which can be comfortably scrolled with your thumb.

Delayed Load
DelayLoad functionality allows you to load huge amounts of data from a data source in a short time. When the control is displayed, only the currently displayed data is loaded. Additional data is loaded as needed.

• AdvancedList for .NET CF
• AdvancedTree for .NET CF
• SmartGrid for .NET CF

XML templates
The design and look of the control can be saved into an XML file either using the Visual Studio designer or the Resco designer application. The XML file can be then loaded back into the control at any time (also during run-time). This means the appearance of the control can be changed simply by calling a single LoadXml method.

• AdvancedList for .NET CF
• AdvancedTree for .NET CF
• DetailView for .NET CF
• SmartGrid for .NET CF
• ShortcutBar for .NET CF
• CustomKeyboard for .NET CF
• Toolbar for .NET CF

Component Themes
New Resco component themes are various graphic drafts of mobile forms that are elaborated based on Resco's mobile software know-how. The Themes' list along with screenshots of every control is accessible directly from Visual Studio designer. The themes can be easily applied onto the components.

This function significantly facilitates the development process. It provides developers with graphical drafts that cannot be created in standard environment of Microsoft Visual Studio.

Furthermore, the majority of the Themes contain a heap of icons designed by professional graphic designer that bring an interesting added value to every developer.

Resco Image Manager
Simplifies the image management of your mobile project directly in Microsoft Visual Studio

• All images available at single place - directly in the mobile project
• Images can be added, removed or sorted to folders, subfolders in Visual Studio
• Intelligent Image picker - picks up the correct image version (dpi) based on screen resolution of selected mobile device
• Support of Resco controls and full integration into Visual Studio

Resco Image Manager substantially simplifies the work with images in mobile development projects. Furthermore, it saves time and increases productivity by adopting automatic changes of the images, which were edited in graphic programs, directly into the mobile project in Visual Studio.