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Xceed Ultimate Suite adds Blendables product

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:08:00 GMT

Xceed's Upload for Silverlight and DataGrid for WPF components.

Create 2D and 3D User Interfaces with layouts and panels.

Xceed Ultimate Suite offers both UI tools for application front-ends and data handling libraries for application back-ends. It includes grids, charts, UI, Zip, FTP, encryption as well as networking libraries.

Updates in 2012 v1

New Xceed Blendables for WPF - Create compelling UIs quickly with nearly 30 WPF controls, layouts and panels.
Xceed DataGrid for WPF V4.3 - Improved performance during horizontal scrolling with a large number of columns, as well as improved responsiveness and efficiency auto-filtering when there are changes in the data source. Initial loading and vertical scrolling have been improved, as has scrolling performance while dragging a column over the edges of a datagrid.

About Xceed Software

For 17 years Xceed Software has been creating professional WPF, .NET, Silverlight, and COM software components. Their current product line has over 65 components, which are used by over 50,000 developers worldwide. Their current specialization is data grid controls and their flagship products are Xceed DataGrid for WPF and Xceed DataGrid for Silverlight.

Codejock adds Ribbon Customization

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:56:00 GMT

A calendar application built using Codejock Xtreme Suite Pro.

Let users customize Ribbon sections using an easy-to-use dialog.

Codejock products provide Windows developers with a sophisticated set of components to give applications a professional and modern appearance. The products include charts, calendars, grids, toolbars, docking and theming features.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 2011 Vol 2

Ribbon Customization - Various parts of the Ribbon can be customized using an easy to use dialog.
Docking Stickers - Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 style docking stickers have been added.
New Chart - Range Area chart has been added to chart component.
Virtual Charts - Virtual series have been added to improve chart speed when many data points are displayed.
Batch Add Data Points - Add all data to a chart in one go.
Calendar Improvements Include - Ability to scroll/hide all day events in day and week views, specify which day is shown as "Today" plus a multi-month print option.

About Codejock Software

Codejock Software was formed in 1998 with the goal of making software development easier and more cost effective. Their primary focus was to provide Windows developers with professional user interface components for their desktop applications. Today, they continue to lead the way by providing cutting-edge interface components that empower customers with the tools to quickly deliver a polished presentation. Their line of development tools continue to evolve as enhancements and product releases are driven by both the trends in software development and the requests of customers.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2011 v3 released

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:12:00 GMT

ComponentOne samples showing Silverlight, WinForms, and iPhone controls.

Entity Framework added to improve and simplify data binding.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes components from all ComponentOne Studio subscriptions offering you over 200 components for .NET, ASP.NET ( AJAX ready), WPF, Silverlight, ActiveX, and Mobile Devices. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise delivers the latest components, new releases, updates and upgrades, and email and online support for one full year from your date of purchase.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is also included in ComponentOne Ultimate.

Updates in 2011 v3

New Studio for Entity Framework

New Product - ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework improves and simplifies data binding by solving common problems related to loading, paging, filtering, and saving data. Virtual Mode technology allows you to navigate through large data sets asynchronously. As the user scrolls, data is retrieved from the source page by page and disposed of as necessary.

New in Studio for WinForms

Deliver Report Design Capabilities Royalty Free - Includes unlimited redistribution rights of the C1ReportDesigner application and the components used within.
Time Line Scheduler View - Scheduler for WinForms now supports a Time Line view for displaying appointments in a horizontal layout.
New SplitContainer Control - Create multi-panel layouts with support for resizing and collapsing content.
Excel Enhancements - Added support for XLT formats (Excel templates).
FlexGrid Enhancements - New GetLocalizedString event to enable filter UI localization and added Persian (Farsi) localization.
PDF Enhancements - Added support for 128-bit encryption and optimized performance through file caching features.
Reports Enhancements - Added support for Linq data sources, loading reports created with Report Builder 3.0 and a new QRCode field to C1ReportDesigner for rendering 2D barcodes.
SpellChecker Enhancements - New ShowSuggestions event enables you to customize suggestions in the C1SpellChecker context menu or dialog.

New in Studio for WPF

New OutlookBar Control - Group menus and controls into distinct categories with this side bar navigation system.
New Binding Expressions Library - Save time and write cleaner XAML with C1Binding's rich, inline expression syntax.
Chart for WPF Enhancements - New high performance bitmap rendering mode for line and symbol chart types plus support for multiple radial axes for radar charts.
FlexGrid for WPF Enhancements - Added a new property which causes the grid to show a row of numbered buttons on the first column header, similar to Microsoft Excel.

New in Studio for Silverlight

New OutlookBar Control - Group menus and controls into distinct categories represented by buttons where each button has a header as well as a panel for adding additional controls.
Chart for Silverlight Enhancements - Enhanced clipping behavior when using stacked plot areas, now elements will not extend to neighboring plot areas.
FlexGrid for Silverlight Enhancements - Added a new property which causes the grid to show a row of numbered buttons on the first column header, similar to Microsoft Excel.

New in Studio for Windows Phone

C1ContextMenu Control - Provides touch-sensitive menus that can display additional commands while saving UI space.
C1DateTimePicker Control - Provides a single, intuitive UI for selecting date and time values.
C1ProgressBar Control - Visually indicates the progress of an operation.
C1ToggleSwitch Control - Provides a simple, gesture-friendly on-off switch for user input.
Excel - Read and write Microsoft Excel files (XLSX) with this easy-to-use class library.
FlexGrid - Display tabular data across columns and down rows with this simple, yet powerful grid control.
Gauges - Visualize your data and create dashboard apps with attractive gauges.
Imaging - Edit images (PNG and JPEG) and display animated GIFs on the Phone.
PDF - Create dynamic PDF files within your Phone apps.
Zip - Compress data sent over the wire and use isolated storage efficiently and securely.
Improved PdfViewer - Performance has been drastically improved and the rendering has been enhanced with hardware-accelerated bitmap caching.
Enhanced Chart - Improved touch interaction.

New in Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo

HTML5 Gauges - New Linear and Radial Gauge controls for ASP.NET offer rich data visualization using HTML5 and jQuery.
More Chart Types - Area, Bubble, Composite, Scatter and Spline chart types added.
HTML5 Editor - Author and manage HTML content on any Web page.
New Multimedia Controls - The Lightbox control is a pop-up image viewer, the Gallerycontrol easily displays photos and images, and the Carousel control provides an interactive UI for navigating media elements such as photos.
HTML5 Video Player - An interactive version of the browser's video player which matches the currently selected Theme.
Rating Control - Supports different visuals like stars, thumbs, and bars to visually display a range of values for any rating system.

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has received numerous industry and user accolades including awards from SDTimes, The Code Project, TechWeb, Software Development Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, Society for Technical Communication and SQL Server Magazine.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

ComponentOne Ultimate 2011 v3 released

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:07:41 GMT

ComponentOne Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, and iPhone controls.

Add ease-of-use and performance enhancements to the Entity Framework and RIA Services for WinForms, WPF and Silverlight.

ComponentOne Ultimate provides all the tools and components that developers need to create any type of application for WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, MVC, Windows Phone, iPhone, Compact Framework or ActiveX. ComponentOne Ultimate features hundreds of .NET controls plus powerful OLAP data analysis controls. It also includes SharePoint Web Parts, documentation and screen capturing tools, LightSwitch extensions, and tools for ADO.NET Entity Framework and RIA Services. By purchasing ComponentOne Ultimate you will save thousands of dollars over buying the individual products.

Updates in 2011 v3

New Studio for Entity Framework

New Product - ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework improves and simplifies data binding by solving common problems related to loading, paging, filtering, and saving data. Virtual Mode technology allows you to navigate through large data sets asynchronously. As the user scrolls, data is retrieved from the source page by page and disposed of as necessary.

New in Studio for WinForms

Deliver Report Design Capabilities Royalty Free - Includes unlimited redistribution rights of the C1ReportDesigner application and the components used within.
Time Line Scheduler View - Scheduler for WinForms now supports a Time Line view for displaying appointments in a horizontal layout.
New SplitContainer Control - Create multi-panel layouts with support for resizing and collapsing content.
Excel Enhancements - Added support for XLT formats (Excel templates).
FlexGrid Enhancements - New GetLocalizedString event to enable filter UI localization and added Persian (Farsi) localization.
PDF Enhancements - Added support for 128-bit encryption and optimized performance through file caching features.
Reports Enhancements - Added support for Linq data sources, loading reports created with Report Builder 3.0 and a new QRCode field to C1ReportDesigner for rendering 2D barcodes.
SpellChecker Enhancements - New ShowSuggestions event enables you to customize suggestions in the C1SpellChecker context menu or dialog.

New in Studio for WPF

New OutlookBar Control - Group menus and controls into distinct categories with this side bar navigation system.
New Binding Expressions Library - Save time and write cleaner XAML with C1Binding's rich, inline expression syntax.
Chart for WPF Enhancements - New high performance bitmap rendering mode for line and symbol chart types plus support for multiple radial axes for radar charts.
FlexGrid for WPF Enhancements - Added a new property which causes the grid to show a row of numbered buttons on the first column header, similar to Microsoft Excel.

New in Studio for Silverlight

New OutlookBar Control - Group menus and controls into distinct categories represented by buttons where each button has a header as well as a panel for adding additional controls.
Chart for Silverlight Enhancements - Enhanced clipping behavior when using stacked plot areas to prevent elements extending to neighboring plot areas.
FlexGrid for Silverlight Enhancements - Added a new property which causes the grid to show a row of numbered buttons on the first column header, similar to Microsoft Excel.

New in Studio for Windows Phone

C1ContextMenu Control - Provides touch-sensitive menus that can display additional commands while saving UI space.
C1DateTimePicker Control - Provides a single, intuitive UI for selecting date and time values.
C1ProgressBar Control - Visually indicates the progress of an operation.
C1ToggleSwitch Control - Provides a simple, gesture-friendly on-off switch for user input.
Excel - Read and write Microsoft Excel files (XLSX) with this easy-to-use class library.
FlexGrid - Display tabular data across columns and down rows with this simple, yet powerful grid control.
Gauges - Visualize your data and create dashboard apps with attractive gauges.
Imaging - Edit images (PNG and JPEG) and display animated GIFs on the Phone.
PDF - Create dynamic PDF files within your Phone apps.
Zip - Compress data sent over the wire and use isolated storage efficiently and securely.
Improved PdfViewer - Performance has been drastically improved and the rendering has been enhanced with hardware-accelerated bitmap caching.
Enhanced Chart - Improved touch interaction.

New in Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo

HTML5 Gauges - New Linear and Radial Gauge controls for ASP.NET offer rich data visualization using HTML5 and jQuery.
More Chart Types - New Area, Bubble, Composite, Scatter and Spline chart types added.
HTML5 Editor - Author and manage HTML content on any Web page.
New Multimedia Controls - The Lightbox control is a pop-up image viewer, the Gallerycontrol easily displays photos and images, and the Carousel control provides an interactive UI for navigating media elements such as photos.
HTML5 Video Player - An interactive version of the browser's video player which matches the currently selected Theme.
Rating Control - Supports different visuals like stars, thumbs, and bars to visually display a range of values for any rating system.

New in OLAP for Silverlight

Axis Annotation Grouping - C1OlapChart has improved handling for axis annotations when more than one field is placed in the row or column boxes.
Custom Columns Support - C1OlapGrid now supports the addition of custom, unbound columns.

About ComponentOne

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

More products added to ComponentOne Ultimate

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:35:58 GMT

ComponentOne Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, and iPhone controls.

Now also includes C1 Reports for .NET, Studio for SharePoint, Doc-To-Help Enterprise, DemoWorks & OLAP for LightSwitch.

ComponentOne Ultimate provides all the tools and components that developers need to create any type of application, whether it be for WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, MVC, Windows Phone, iPhone, Compact Framework or ActiveX. ComponentOne Ultimate features hundreds of .NET controls plus powerful OLAP data analysis controls. It also includes SharePoint Web Parts, documentation and screen capturing tools, LightSwitch extensions, and tools for ADO.NET Entity Framework and RIA Services. By purchasing ComponentOne Ultimate you will save thousands of dollars over buying the individual products.

Updates in 2011 v2

ComponentOne Studio Ultimate has been renamed ComponentOne Ultimate and now includes the following additional products:

ComponentOne Reports for .NET Designer Edition - provides Microsoft Access-style database reporting and royalty-free run-time distribution for your reporting applications.
ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint - a growing collection of Web Parts including Chart, CoverFlow, DataGrid, ImageViewer, Maps and OLAP, which makes it possible to create useful data portals in minutes.
Doc-To-Help Enterprise - simplifies the way you create, collaborate and publish output for desktop, web, SharePoint and print use. Write or import content in Microsoft Word, HTML, RoboHelp HTML, or Doc-To-Help's XML-based editor.
DemoWorks - produce professional quality demonstration videos without having to have programming, multi-media, or graphic design expertise. Easily record screen activity, add narration, captions, and highlights and produce videos in formats such as Flash, WMV, animated GIF, and AVI.
ComponentOne OLAP for LightSwitch - add a pivoting data screen into Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch. Create interactive tables, charts and reports for in-depth business analysis.

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has provided a wide range of Microsoft Visual Studio components, IDE platform development tools and applications for over 22 years. This includes ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, which represents a broad and complete set of tools and solutions for Microsoft Windows, Web and Mobile application developers. ComponentOne has continued leadership in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry and is a premier partner of Microsoft. It also offers ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts, custom Web Parts that enable you to deliver rich, compelling SharePoint sites without writing a line of code; ComponentOne Doc-To-Help, a long-recognized product for technical communicators who write and develop Help systems; and ComponentOne DemoWorks, a screen recording tool to produce WMV, Flash, GIF, AVI, EXE and Java files.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

FlowChartX adds FractalLayout tree algorithm

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:33:51 GMT

Flowcharts created using FlowChartX Professional.

Version 4.5 also improves LayeredLayout, node alignment and table cells.

FlowChartX is an ActiveX control that helps you create and present workflow, flowchart and process diagrams, database entity-relationship diagrams, organizational, hierarchy and relationship charts, network schemes, graphs, and trees. VB, C++ , VB.NET and MFC Samples included. The following editions are available:

Updates in V4.5

FractalLayout tree layout algorithm
Specify start and end nodes for LayeredLayout
LayeredLayout.EnforceLinkFlow property
Interactive node alignment via alignment guides
Display checkboxes in table cells
Fill a table's caption bar with a gradient

About MindFusion Group

MindFusion Group products and services are based on the advanced technologies of industry leaders like Microsoft and Sun Microsystems as well as on open-source products. The professionals working with the MindFusion Group specialise in different areas of application and web development, database design and management, systems and network integration. They utilize the available technologies to maximum extent to create manageable, cost-efficient and flexible software solutions.

wpViewPDF V3.0 released

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:34:34 GMT

Viewing a PDF in wpViewPDF.

Includes a multi-threaded scrolling window for scroll & zoom commands and an optional thumbnail window.

wpViewPDF allows you to view PDF data that can be loaded from memory, file or stream. wpViewPDF has been developed as a Windows Class which makes it compatible with most Windows based development systems. wpViewPDF can be used to quickly display and print PDF files which were created with wPDF, wPDFControl or wRTF2PDF or with another library. It is directly embedded into your application. It supports ANSI text extraction and text find and highlight functionality.

Updates in V3.0

Multi-threaded scrolling window for fast reaction on scroll and zoom commands
Optional thumbnail window
Completely new rendering based using floating point coordinates
Much improved support for embedded fonts, such as subset fonts
Updated image rendering for faster display of large JPEG images and anti aliased display of monochrome images
Support for Type3 fonts
Support for LAB colors and transparent colors
Improved Acro-field rendering, read and update (with PLUS)
Faster printing with several stretching options
Improved and enhanced PDF to image conversion (BMP, EMF, JPEG)
Improved conversion to Text - now also conversion to RTF and HTML
Exported print, merge and conversion methods now also available as "W" version for Unicode strings
Improved scribed stamping to add page numbers quickly
Add image, text and vector objects, i.e. highlights which can be sized and moved by user or program
Updated search and highlighting functionality
Automatic repair makes reading of PDF files possible which could not be opened otherwise

About WPCubed

WPCubed GmbH is a privately owned company based in Munich, Germany. They have been providing development tools since 1996. Their flagship product is WPTools, a well known and successful word-processing component suite. Their PDF products, which have been available since 2000, are also used by thousands of developers worldwide.

WiseMo joins ComponentSource

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:58:39 GMT

Remotely control PCs and Mobile devices with WiseMo Remote Guest Component.

WiseMo Remote Guest Component V9.6 lets you remote control PCs and Mobiles from your Windows and Web applications.

WiseMo Remote Guest Component allows you to remote control mobile devices and PCs from your Windows or Web application. Using the Remote Guest component you can easily connect to remote PCs or Mobile devices equipped with a WiseMo Host module. Once connected, you drive the look and feel and which features to use. For example, you can show the remote PCs screen or just part of it inside your application, control tasks and services, manage the registry, perform text chat and much more.

Features

Using WiseMo Remote Guest Component your Windows application or Web browser application can easily connect to remote PCs or Mobile devices equipped with WiseMo's "Host" module. The Guest Component offers a variety of communication methods, including advanced firewall transparent communication technology for hassle free connectivity. WiseMo Remote Guest Component provides a very rich API for developers to implement similar functionality as the standard WiseMo RSM Guest, but adapted precisely to their liking and needs. Sample demo programs and source code are included so you can get started quickly.

Features

User interface - as the API is a component, the user interface is entirely up to you, thus giving you 100% design flexibility
Communication protocols - the component communicates with Hosts using TCP, UDP, HTTP or WiseMo's unique myCloud technology for transparent connection through firewalls and proxies
Full Screen or region - pick a specific remote monitor or just a region of the remote screen to be transferred to your application, for example during a remote support session or monitoring job
Keyboard and mouse control - full control of remote keyboard and mouse
Chat - text based chat sessions possible with remote user, also simultaneously with for example a remote control session, allowing for more efficient problem resolution
Remote Management - manage remote Disk Drives, Event log, Task Manager, Registry, Services, Shared Folders, Command Console and System Control without interrupting the user
Advanced Skin support - use the database of mobile skins or submit your own skins. Provides stunning user interface experiences when working on remote Smartphones, CE devices or similar. The "Skin" shows the remote screen inside a picture of the remote device, and even permits pressing keys on the remote screen by using the mouse / keyboard directly on the skin picture
Strong security - the component supports the strong range of authentication and authorization schemes provided by the WiseMo RSM Hosts. This includes up to 256 bit encryption and full support for use of the WiseMo Security Server for centralized control of Security settings
Browser and platform support - Windows applications, Internet Explorer browsers and Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera browsers on Windows supported through ActiveX / NPAPI components. The Browser Components are site-locked, thus configured to run on specific URLs, determined by you
Sample web page and application - demo program and source code illustrates how to setup and use the component from within your own applications

About WiseMo

WiseMo staff pioneered the field of fast and secure remote control software, (Dos, OS/2 and Windows), and today excel in remote control software for remote support and management of PCs, Servers, Smartphones/Handheld devices and Embedded CPUs. Their shrink wrapped remote control software works cross platform, e.g. PC to Smartphone, PC to PC or Smartphone to PC. To add further value to customers' software applications and solutions, WiseMo also deliver remote control technology as components.

Quick PDF Library 8.11 released

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:32:18 GMT

Creating a PDF using Quick PDF Library.

Adds support for AES-256 encryption, PDF417 barcodes and PDF/A-1b compliant output.

Quick PDF Library (formerly iSEDQuickPDF) is a royalty-free PDF developer SDK used in thousands of desktop and server applications for working with PDFs on all levels. Quick PDF Library's robust API includes over 500 functions, enabling you to create, render, print split, merge, encrypt, modify and manipulate PDF form fields. Quick PDF Library provides advanced support for JavaScript. Images can be added in BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and EMF format with Quick PDF Library. Quick PDF Library (formerly iSEDQuickPDF) allows you to embed TrueType and Type1 fonts. With Quick PDF Library, TrueType fonts can be subsetted allowing Unicode text to be drawn. Quick PDF Library also includes a full built-in PDF rasterizer allowing PDFs to be rendered to the screen or printer. Adding advanced PDF functionality to your applications is simple with Quick PDF Library (formerly iSEDQuickPDF).

Updates in V8.11

PDF/A-1b compliant output
Support for AES-256 encryption
TrueType font subsetting
HTML5 renderer output
New plain text extraction with natural reading order
Support for PDF417 stacked linear barcode symbology
Changed API for full Unicode string support

About Debenu

Debenu is one of the world's leading document management and PDF software vendors and the company behind Quick PDF Library. Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Debenu has grown both organically and through acquisitions since it was founded in 2007 by Karl De Abrew, the founder and former CEO of Nitro PDF Software, and Rowan Hanna. Quick PDF Library is a key element of Debenu's Document Management suite which also includes Benubird Pro and Quick PDF Tools.

Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows updated

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:48:39 GMT

Reading a barcode from a photograph.

Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows lets you read normal (1D) and 2-D barcodes from image files and bitmaps held in memory. Developers have a choice of 4 different types of interface and access to several example projects. Image Formats supported: TIFF, JPG, BMP. The following types of barcode are currently supported by Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows: PDF-417 (PDF417), Code-39, Code-128,Code-2-of-5 Interleaved, Codabar, EAN-8, EAN-13, Patch Codes, UPC-A and UPC-E. All licenses include 12 months Support and Upgrade Cover.

Updates in V7.4.2.1

Improved error handling and reporting
Demo program can now export and import xml settings
Dialog boxes are suppressed when running in a windows service
Will now read 2-D barcodes from coarse resolution faxes
Error with partial PDF-417 decoding fixed

About Softek Software

Softek Software was established in 1998 to provide programming services in the field of image processing. In 2001 the company was involved in a project to process timesheets stamped with barcodes. No software in the market place provided the simple, cost effective solution we required, so they developed their own barcode reading toolkit. The first commercial version of the toolkit was released later that year. Softek own all rights to the source code and are wholly responsible for the development of the product.

PDFlib 8.0.3 released

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:06:10 GMT

A PDF merge example in PDFlib.

Adds support for generating barcode fields, plus support for 3D models in PRC format.

PDFlib is a component that allows you to programmatically create PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDFs, nor does it require any other tools. It offers a variety of new and improved functions, including a new table formatter, PDF/A output for longtime archiving, AES encryption, integrated pCOS analyzing tools, a repair and optimization mode for input PDFs, and numerous other new features. PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions, plus the PDF Import Library (PDI) for including existing PDF pages in the generated output and PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) includes PDFlib+PDI, plus additional functions for automatically filling PDFlib blocks. PPS also includes the PDFlib Block plugin for creating blocks interactively. PDFlib is available for all major operating environments and development environments.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 8.0.3

Support for generating barcode fields (barcode fields don't work with Adobe Reader, but require Acrobat Professional)
Support for 3D models in the PRC format (in addition to U3D)
Adjust the size of imported PDF pages to work around problems with pages which contain content outside of all page boxes
The PDFlib Block plugin included with PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) has been updated to version 4.3. It includes a redesigned user interface and offers Acrobat X compatibility on Windows and Mac OS X. The Japanese user interface is now also supported on the Mac.

About PDFlib

Munich-based PDFlib GmbH, founded in 2000, develops and sells leading edge components for server-centric generation and processing of PDF documents. PDFlib customers use the software for automated and high volume generation and processing of PDF documents in business and prepress workflows or for online billing systems. The components produced by PDFlib GmbH are readily available for all common environments (operating systems and programming languages) as commercial versions and partially as open source. PDFlib GmbH sells worldwide with main markets in North America, Germany and Japan.

Xceed Ultimate Suite 2011 v2 released

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:28:00 GMT

Xceed's Upload for Silverlight and DataGrid for WPF components.

DataGrid for Silverlight adds fixed group headers and footers, 14 statistical functions and improves Blend support.

Xceed Ultimate Suite offers both UI tools for application front-ends and data handling libraries for application back-ends providing high quality extensible controls including grids, charts, UI, Zip, FTP, and encryption as well as networking libraries. No external dependencies. Xceed Ultimate Suite Blueprint Edition includes the fully commented C# source code to all the .NET and Silverlight components included in the Xceed Ultimate Suite.

Updates in 2011 v2

Xceed DataGrid for Silverlight

Fixed group headers and footers have been added - These allow developers to incorporate sections of "must-see" information into each group, which remain visible at all times, including when the containing group is collapsed
Also, 14 statistical functions, which are natural candidates for display in the fixed group headers/footers, have been added.
Blend support has been greatly improved to let designers take full advantage of the product
Custom data sources are now easier to implement, and support for SQL databases and remote lists has been added.
Thanks to changes in the control's API, many of the features equivalent to those found in the stock Silverlight control are much more easy to configure
Other new features include copy-paste to Excel, the addition of SelectedItem and SelectedItems properties for use with local data, improvements to item selection, the implementation of several properties present in the WPF datagrid, and easy localization and display of filter cell operators. Also, the detail information of groups (e.g., item count, list of items) is now available for group headers and footers (local data).
A new theme (JetPack) has been added.

Xceed Ultimate ListBox for Silverlight

Includes benefits from improvements to the product's support of custom data sources, which are now easier to implement.
Support for SQL databases and remote lists has also been added.

Xceed's compression products (for the .NET, .NET CF, and Silverlight platforms) and the .NET FTP component have been updated

PPMd is now implemented in fully managed C#. This has allowed Xceed to make several improvements in their compression products.
Xceed Zip for .NET with Self-Extractor, Xceed Zip for .NET, and Xceed Real-Time Zip for .NET are now fully compatible with 64-bit Windows systems.
The PPMd compression algorithm -- previously only available in the .NET products -- is now also available in Xceed Zip for .NET Compact Framework, Xceed Real-Time Zip for .NET CF, and Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight.
The default buffer size in Xceed's FileSystem products has improved speed in certain situations. (Affects Xceed Zip for .NET, Xceed Zip for .NET with SFX, and Xceed FTP for .NET.)
The built-in AES encryption methods available in .NET (3.5 and up) can now be used, which results in faster AES encryption.

About Xceed Software

Xceed Software creates, markets and distributes quality software components for Microsoft Windows developers. Since its launch in 1994, Xceed has been devoted exclusively to the Microsoft platform. The company's very first product, Xceed Zip Compression Library, was first offered as a VBX for Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 and has been so successful that it has been migrated to every Microsoft platform since, including ActiveX, the .NET Framework, and the .NET Compact Framework. Today, Xceed's product line can be grouped into two main categories: Data Manipulation components and User Interface components. The Data Manipulation components include Compression, Encryption and File Transfer libraries. The User Interface components include Grid, Chart, Menus, Toolbars, Treeviews, Explorer Panes and other interface controls.

Codejock adds new chart types

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:19:00 GMT

A calendar application built using Codejock Xtreme Suite Pro.

Version 2011 Vol 1 V15.1.1 adds Radar, Polar and Logarithmic scale charts.

Codejock provides Windows developers with a sophisticated set of components to give your application a professional, modern appearance. Xtreme Suite Pro combines seven components, Xtreme Controls, Xtreme CommandBars, Xtreme Docking Pane, Xtreme Property Grid, Xtreme Report Control, Xtreme Chart Pro, Xtreme Calendar, Xtreme ShortcutBar, Xtreme SyntaxEdit, Xtreme Skinframework, and Xtreme Task Panel. With Xtreme Suite Pro you can create enterprise class applications that incorporate a full set of highly customizable user interface components that include Microsoft Office style toolbars and menus. Several popular visual styles are included such as Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010 and Visual Studio .NET. The following editions are available:

Updates in 2011 Vol 1 V15.1.1?

New Radar and Polar chart types
Logarithmic scale charts
Office 2010 style skins
Office 2010 style recent file list
Visual Studio 2010 style tabs and panes
Windows 7 style transparent toolbars
Visual Studio style splitter window for Syntax Editor

About Codejock Software

Codejock Software started in 1998 with the simple goal of making software development easier and cost effective. Their primary focus was, to provide Windows developers with professional user interface components for their desktop applications. Today, they continue to lead the way by providing cutting-edge interface components that empower our customers with the tools to quickly deliver a polished presentation. Their line of development tools continue to evolve as enhancements and product releases are driven by both the trends in software development and the requests of our customer base. Their products are used by thousands of customers around the globe helping them to save time and money as they produce professional applications.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2011 v2 released

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:42:37 GMT

ComponentOne samples showing Silverlight, WinForms, and iPhone controls.

Includes new C1 Studio for MVC Wijmo, enhanced Studio for ASP.NET plus new controls for WinForms, Silverlight and WPF.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes components from all ComponentOne Studio subscriptions offering you over 180 components for .NET, ASP.NET ( AJAX ready), WPF, Silverlight, ActiveX, and Mobile Devices plus the new MVC Wijmo Studio controls. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise delivers the latest components, new releases, updates and upgrades, and email and online support for one full year from your date of purchase. The 2011 v2 release of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes major enhancements to ComponentOne's Web stack as well as additions to Silverlight, WPF, and WinForms.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 2011 v2

Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo Highlights
The ASP.NET suite has been rewritten based on ComponentOne's new Wijmo client-side framework. You will see outstanding improvements in performance, a new easy-to-use theming infrastructure, and cool new controls like SVG Charts.

Interactive HTML5 charts powered by SVG
High-performance jQuery grid
6 Premium CSS3 themes, 24 jQuery UI themes, and Themeroller - a custom theme builder
Replaces Studio for ASP.NET AJAX
Uses Wijmo as client-side framework

Studio for MVC Wijmo
This new studio is built with the latest standards in Web technology including HTML5 and jQuery. It offers tools to help MVC develops quickly create rich applications.

30 jQuery UI widgets
Wijmo MVC 3 project template
MVC scaffolding automatically enhanced with Wijmo
Wijmo-enhanced EditorTemplates like Date Picker, Numeric Input, Slider, and more

Studio for Silverlight/WPF Highlights
ComponentOne's Silverlight and WPF controls share the same codebase, so the same new features and controls are available for both platforms.

Built-in localized resources for 14 international languages for easy localization
New Excel component for reading and writing to Microsoft Excel files
New TileView control for creating interactive visualizations with expand and collapse tiles, drag-and-drop reordering
New Time Line view in Scheduler for displaying appointments in a horizontal layout similar to the 'Schedule' view in Microsoft Outlook 2010

Studio for WinForms Highlights

New control pack for Windows 7 integration
New component for 2D barcode generation
Conditional filtering added to True DBGrid

About ComponentOne

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

For more information visit: www.componentone.com

C1 Studio Ultimate adds MVC Wijmo controls

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:39:00 GMT

ComponentOne Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, and iPhone controls.

Version 2011 v2 adds a new Studio built with the latest standards in Web technology including HTML5 and jQuery.

ComponentOne Studio Ultimate lets you build line-of-business and data analysis applications on the desktop and Web. Delivering Studio Enterprise and OLAP controls in one comprehensive package, this prized combination gives you access to hundreds of .NET controls plus powerful OLAP data analysis controls for all your enterprise solutions.

Updates in 2011 v2

Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo Highlights - The ASP.NET suite has been rewritten based on ComponentOne's new Wijmo client-side framework. You will see outstanding improvements in performance, a new easy-to-use theming infrastructure, and cool new controls like SVG Charts.

Interactive HTML5 charts powered by SVG
High-performance jQuery grid
6 Premium CSS3 themes, 24 jQuery UI themes, and Themeroller - a custom theme builder
Replaces Studio for ASP.NET AJAX
Uses Wijmo as client-side framework

Studio for MVC Wijmo - This new studio is built with the latest standards in Web technology including HTML5 and jQuery. It offers tools to help MVC develops quickly create rich applications.

30 jQuery UI widgets
Wijmo MVC 3 project template
MVC scaffolding automatically enhanced with Wijmo
Wijmo-enhanced EditorTemplates like Date Picker, Numeric Input, Slider, and more

Studio for Silverlight/WPF Highlights - ComponentOne's Silverlight and WPF controls share the same codebase, so the same new features and controls are available for both platforms.

Built-in localized resources for 14 international languages for easy localization
New Excel component for reading and writing to Microsoft Excel files
New TileView control for creating interactive visualizations with expand and collapse tiles, drag-and-drop reordering
New Time Line view in Scheduler for displaying appointments in a horizontal layout similar to the 'Schedule' view in Microsoft Outlook 2010

Studio for WinForms Highlights

New control pack for Windows 7 integration
New component for 2D barcode generation
Conditional filtering added to True DBGrid

About ComponentOne

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

Pcl2pdf V6.9 updated

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:47:00 GMT

Converting a PCL print file to PDF using Pcl2pdf.

Pcl2pdf for Windows Server quickly converts HP PCL print files to concise, industry standard PDF. Documents can be viewed and printed using the Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) product range and distributed by Web or e-mail. Pcl2pdf produces PDF documents that are fully text searchable and ready for indexing. Data encryption, passwords and access permissions can be applied. Pcl2pdf is available for Windows PC, Windows Server and UNIX systems with command line converters.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V6.9

Implemented new "-TEMP" switch for user specified temporary file directory
Implemented new "-PC" switch for print copies, "-PS" and "-PE" for print range start and end and "-PM" for print preferences
Implemented "IBM DOS" style line and box drawing character support
Implemented 24-bit RGB PCL color support, in conjunction with AXIAR Imaging, with opacity and transparency and within macros
Implemented new "-IFF" switch to suppress blank page generation on form feed when no data on page
Implemented Euro character in HP 9N and 13U symbol sets
Implemented right and center justified text printing using HP-GL/2 'LO' command
Implemented "white text" printing
Implemented PCL raster graphics "mode 5" adaptive compression
Implemented various "bug" fixes and PCL code enhancements
Improved PCL duplex paper handling support
Improved PCL "offset registration" support, including for 90 degree rotated portrait pages
Improved HP-GL/2 support
New Windows and AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OpenVMS, SCO, Solaris builds
Developed using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

About Visual Software

Visual Software was established in 1992 offering LaserJet PCL print file viewing, conversion and distribution solutions to OEMs and customers worldwide. Expertise is offered for windows, Unix, AS/400, OpenVMS and Xerox platforms. Pcl2pdf, in it's 5th generation, is a leading PCL to PDF document converter and has been licensed to thousands of end users, OEMs and solution providers.

Quick PDF Library updated

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:31:28 GMT

Creating a PDF using Quick PDF Library.

Quick PDF Library is a royalty-free PDF developer SDK used in thousands of desktop and server applications for working with PDFs on all levels. Quick PDF Library's robust API includes over 500 functions, enabling you to create, render, print split, merge, encrypt, modify and manipulate PDF form fields. Quick PDF Library provides advanced support for JavaScript. Images can be added in BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and EMF format with Quick PDF Library. Quick PDF Library allows you to embed TrueType and Type1 fonts. With Quick PDF Library, TrueType fonts can be subsetted allowing Unicode text to be drawn. Quick PDF Library also includes a full built-in PDF rasterizer allowing PDFs to be rendered to the screen or printer. Adding advanced PDF functionality to your applications is simple with Quick PDF Library.

Updates in V7.25

Added support for CCITT images with /Indexed color space
Improvements to EMF import font scaling
Improved reading of CID font encoding
Documents with malformed trailers are now handled gracefully
Reduced memory consumption with CanvasDC functions
Added support for CCITT images with EncodedByteAlign encoding
Documents with malformed page tree nodes are now processed
Improvements to accuracy of text extraction
Image resolution can now be read from certain BMP images
Improved text alignment with certain CFF fonts
Added support for CCITT images with the EndOfLine flag
CMap parser now supports variable length codes
Memory reduction on image decoding
Metafile import now compresses images
RenderPageToDC and DARenderPageToDC now renderer directly to the device context
DARenderPageToDC now honours the values set using SetRenderDCOffset
Certain TIFF images are now added directly without needing decompression
More improvements to accuracy of text extraction
Image import now includes support for RGB palette LZW TIFF images
Image import now includes support for RGB palette Packbits TIFF images
Radio button options can now be deleted
Renderer output to EMF+ format now uses CreateCompatibleDC(0)
Changed co-ordinate order of GetAnnotQuadPoints and SetAnnotQuadPoints to match GetPageText
Added support for flate compressed images with /Indexed /DeviceN color space
GDI+ image smoothing now turned off by default when drawing images
Metafile import handles all WinAnsi Unicode characters without creating subsetted fonts

About Debenu

DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder now supports RGB32

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:25:00 GMT

Video encoding using DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder.

Version 1.1.03 now accepts the RGB32 video format as input.

DiscretePhoton H.264 Encoder's macroblock level parallelism utilizes the full power of your multi-core CPUs without penalty (such as quality, bit-size, and encoding-latency). DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder is provided as a DirectX Media Object (DMO) which can be used directly or in DirectShow environments. DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder supports up to 64 simultaneous threads but the actual number of threads is determined by the number of CPU-cores (or hyper-threads) of your system.

Updates in 1.1.03

RGB32 support added
Minor fixes to installer and examples

About DiscretePhoton

DiscretePhoton is a privately held company based in South Korea. Their DiscretePhoton H.264 encoder is provided as a DirectX Media Object (DMO).

Quick PDF Library V7.24 released

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:25:00 GMT

A sample PDF created in C# with Quick PDF Library.

Now includes support for GS1-128 (EAN-128) barcodes and faster direct access page searching for very large documents.

Updates in V7.24

DataMatrix 2D barcodes can be rotated
Support for GS1-128 (EAN-128) barcodes
Support for DeviceN color spaces
Faster direct access page searching for very large documents
DrawDataMatrixSymbol allows the fill color to be set
Memory optimizations for ICC based images
Get/set embedded file description
CFF font data in OpenType fonts enabled for non-embedded fonts
More options for getting/setting choice form field flags
Added an option to retrieve an annotation's border width
Added support for B/W LZW images
SetCustomInformation now allows empty values

About Debenu

Debenu is a leading document management and PDF software vendor, and the company behind Quick PDF Library. Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Debenu has grown both organically and through acquisitions since it was founded in 2007 by Karl De Abrew, the founder and former CEO of Nitro PDF Software, and Rowan Hanna. Quick PDF Library is a key element of Debenu's Document Management suite which also includes Benubird Pro and Quick PDF Tools.

FlowChartX adds Annealing graph layout

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:06:00 GMT

Graph layouts using FlowChartX.

Version 4.4 also adds more precise text measuring in GDI+ mode and a TrackingRectColor property.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V4.4

Simulated Annealing graph layout algorithm
LayeredLayout.StraightenLongLinks limits the number of links bends
TrackingRectColor property added to Overview
More precise text measuring in GDI+ mode

About MindFusion Group

MindFusion Group products and services are based on the advanced technologies of industry leaders like Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Macromedia as well as on open-source products. The professionals working with the MindFusion Group specialize in different areas of application and web development, database design and management, systems and network integration. They utilize the available technologies to maximum extent to create manageable, cost-efficient and flexible software solutions.

C1 ActiveX Studio adds 64-bit C1Query

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:57:00 GMT

Example forms and grids in ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX.

ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX 2011 v1 adds 64-bit version of C1Query component.

ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX currently includes: True DBGrid Pro, VSFlexGrid Pro, VSVIEW Classic Edition, VSVIEW Reporting, Chart, WebChart, Query, True DataControl, True DBInput Pro, True DBList Pro, SizerOne and VSSPELL. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX includes any new ComponentOne COM Technologies component and updates released within your 1 year subscription period, plus email support.ComponentOne Platinum Support Subscriptions also provide a full year of Telephone and Online Technical Support. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX also offers 64bit support for several products included in the suite.

ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX is also available as part of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise and ComponentOne Studio Ultimate.

Updates in 2011 v1

64-bit version of C1Query is now available.

About ComponentOne

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

ComponentOne Studio Ultimate released

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:57:00 GMT

ComponentOne Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, and iPhone controls.

Includes all .NET, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight, iPhone, CF and ActiveX controls plus OLAP data analysis tools.

ComponentOne Studio Ultimate includes:

ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX - Full suite of the most popular ActiveX components including controls like True DBGrid and VSFlexGrid.
ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET AJAX - Do more with less code. Over 45 styled, supercharged, and easy-to-use controls built on Web standards including AJAX, CSS, and XHTML.
ComponentOne Studio for Compact Framework - Grid, chart, validation, and zip controls for building Mobile apps.
ComponentOne Studio for iPhone - Use your existing ASP.NET skill set and take your Web apps to the iPhone. ComponentOne Studio® for iPhone gives you the iPhone UX.
ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight - Industrial strength Silverlight controls you cannot find anywhere else. Download ComponentOne Studio® for Silverlight, play, and watch the Web shine.
ComponentOne Studio for WinForms - Over 65 .NET controls, including the ones you can't get anywhere else. Studio for WinForms can handle anything, from a grid with a million rows to a chart with unlimited points.
ComponentOne Studio for WPF - Studio for WPF offers everything from advanced data binding to rich data visualizations included in grids, schedulers, charts, reports, and more.
ComponentOne IntelliSpell - Spell-check code, comments, strings, HTML, XML, resources, and general text without ever leaving the Microsoft Visual Studio environment.
ComponentOne OLAP - OLAP analysis without the cubes. Create interactive tables, charts, and reports.
ComponentOne LiveLinq - Make LINQ faster and get live views. LiveLinq uses indexing and other optimizations to speed up LINQ queries, and with live view your query result is kept up-to-date.
ComponentOne XapOptimizer - In one click you can reduce the size of your Silverlight apps up to 70% and secure your code with obfuscation.

About ComponentOne

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

Softek patches Barcode Reader Toolkit

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:33:00 GMT

Reading a barcode from a photograph.

Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows lets you read normal (1D) and 2-D barcodes from image files and bitmaps held in memory. Developers have a choice of 4 different types of interface and access to several example projects. Image Formats supported: TIF, JPG, BMP. The following types of barcode are currently supported by Softek Barcode Reader Toolkit for Windows: PDF-417 (PDF417), Code-39, Code-128,Code-2-of-5 Interleaved, Codabar, EAN-8, EAN-13, Patch Codes, UPC-A and UPC-E. All licenses include 12 months Support and Upgrade Cover.

Updates in V7.4.1.5

Includes improvements to the demo program

About Softek Software

Softek Software was established in 1998 to provide programming services in the field of image processing. In 2001 the company was involved in a project to process timesheets stamped with barcodes. No software in the market place provided the simple, cost effective solution we required, so Softek developed its own barcode reading toolkit. The first commercial version of the toolkit was released later that year. Softek own all rights to the source code and are wholly responsible for the development of the product.

Codejock patches Xtreme Calendar

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:12:00 GMT

An Outlook style calendar created with Codejock Xtreme Calendar.

Codejock Software's Xtreme Calendar provides Windows developers with a sophisticated Outlook style Calendar. Windows developers can easily create a calendar that can manage appointments that can be arranged by day, week, work week or month. The data in the calendar can be bound to an external database, xml file, or binary file.

The following editions are available:

Codejock Xtreme Calendar ActiveX is also available as part of Codejock Xtreme Suite Pro.
Codejock Xtreme Calendar Visual C++ MFC is also available as part of Codejock Xtreme Toolkit Pro.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1 (V15.0.1)

Added RemindersUpdatePeriod, by default if reminders were enabled it checked every 2 hours, now you can set this period
Fixed expand arrow position for all day headers

About Codejock Software

Codejock Software formed in 1998 with the simple goal of making software development easier and cost effective. Its primary focus was to provide Windows developers with professional user interface components for their desktop applications. Today, Codejock continues to lead the way by providing cutting-edge interface components that empower customers with the tools to quickly deliver a polished presentation. Its products are used by thousands of customers around the globe helping them to save time and money as they produce professional applications.

Xtreme Command Bars adds backstage view

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:12:00 GMT

Office 2007 style Ribbon bars and tabbed toolbars.

2011 Vol 1 adds Office 2010 style backstage view to the ribbon control.

Codejock Software's Xtreme CommandBars provides Windows developers with comprehensive, fully customizable menus and toolbars giving your application a professional and modern interface with sophisticated Office style command bars and One Note style MDI tab windows. The framework fully supports menu and toolbar customization to give you more control over your applications workspace. Xtreme CommandBars comes with built in theme support that will allow you to choose from predefined themes such as Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010, Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio 2005 or create your own custom theme.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 2011 Vol 1 (V15.0.1)

New feature Added Office 2010 style backstage view to the ribbon control
New feature CustomizePropertySheet is now a CXTPPropertySheet derived class. So SetResizable method is allowed.
TabClient Menu the active child is now marked with a CheckMark
Added QuickAccessEmptyIcon feature for controls with no icon added to QAT (like a gallery)
New feature StatusBarPane::GetRect added
Minor fixes for cases when Ribbonbar doesn't have a SystemButton
Added caption Line for Flat frame
Minor fix for dateTimePicker in CustomControl
Fixed MouseWheel on Ribbon when modal dialog appears
Delimiter replaced to ';' for status bar panes to allow saving to ini files
Updated Designer to allow removal of selected Tab and Group