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ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2011 V2 released

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:27:17 GMT

Doc-To-Help's start page showing common tasks and recent projects.

Now you can publish Help to SharePoint or a SharePoint Wiki, plus new NetHelp 2.0 and improved multi-language support.

Whether you are converting from RoboHelp or creating new projects, ComponentOne Doc-To-Help empowers you to create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert it to virtually every popular Help file format or printed documentation. Doc-To-Help Enterprise can produce help files in popular formats including HTML Help, Cross-Platform HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, WinHelp, Visual Studio .NET-style Help, and printed documentation. Since Doc-To-Help Enterprise uses a simple style markup to create Help systems, you have the freedom to use any editor. Doc-To-Help Enterprise supports Windows 7, Vista and the 2010 Microsoft Office System including seamless integration with Word 2010. Doc-To-Help Enterprise offers integration with SharePoint which allows you to upload your content to a SharePoint library and take advantage of SharePoint's management and workflow features. It also includes exclusive features such as one-click RoboHelp project conversions. Doc-To-Help includes updates and upgrades for 1 year and if you purchase with Platinum Support you also get 1 year of unlimited phone support.

The following editions are available:

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help is also available as part of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition.

Updates in 2011 v2

NetHelp 2.0 - Redesigned Web-based output, NetHelp. It is more lightweight, SEO friendly, easier to customize, and looks great. It is jQuery-based, so you can do virtually anything with it
Industry first: Publish Help to SharePoint or a SharePoint Wiki - Automatically publish NetHelp to Microsoft SharePoint or create a SharePoint Wiki. The first uploads your NetHelp system to a SharePoint library. You can then link to it or show it in a Web Part. The second creates an editable SharePoint wiki while keeping your links, related topics, and TOC intact
Improved Image Maps - ComponentOne have included a brand new image map editor in both the built-in editor and Microsoft Word. It is simple to make your images interactive
Improved Multi-Language Support - Doc-To-Help will handle virtually any combination of languages you need to use. ComponentOne have added three powerful features in this version.

When using the build-in editor, you can set a default spell checking language for each file
Doc-To-Help will read the styles on your template no matter what language you are using
Choose from the language for your NetHelp theme

More User Experience Improvements
Every release contains a number of features and enhancements Doc-To-Help users are asking for. Other improvements you will find in this release include:

Easier upgrade process: It is easier to preserve your custom themes and templates when upgrading your Doc-To-Help version
Improved project storage: Keep your project files anywhere on your network. Doc-To-Help will build with no problems
Build from Microsoft Team Foundation Server: It is easier to perform automatic builds when you store your Doc-To-Help project in Team Foundation Server

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.

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 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

Doc-To-Help patched to 2011 version 1

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:23:00 GMT

Doc-To-Help's start page showing common tasks and recent projects.

Whether you are converting from RoboHelp or creating new projects, Doc-To-Help empowers you to create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert it to virtually every popular Help file format or printed documentation. Doc-To-Help Enterprise can produce help files in popular formats including HTML Help, Cross-Platform HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, WinHelp, Visual Studio .NET-style Help, and printed documentation. Since Doc-To-Help Enterprise uses a simple style markup to create Help systems, you have the freedom to use any editor. Doc-To-Help Enterprise supports Windows 7, Vista and the 2010 Microsoft Office System including seamless integration with Word 2010. Doc-To-Help Enterprise now offers integration with SharePoint which allows you to upload your content to a SharePoint library and take advantage of SharePoint's management and workflow features. Doc-To-Help Enterprise also includes exclusive features such as one-click RoboHelp project conversions. Doc-To-Help for Enterprise includes updates and upgrades for 1 year. Platinum Support including 1 year of unlimited phone support also available.

The following editions are available:

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help is also available as part of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition.

Updates in 2011 version 1

NetHelp JavaScript search

The conjunction OR could return incorrect results if the search query contained a word that was absent in topics
Compound words such as "Doc-To-Help" couldn't found
If a word ended with a special German character, "highlight search hits" did not work as expected
Special characters (% $ @, etc.) couldn't be searched for
Firefox couldn't load the search engine in NetHelp targets and always displayed "Loading search engine." (This issue only occurred in Firefox and only when the NetHelp target was hosted on Unix operating system)
Optimized memory usage by search engine
Optimized speed of generating an index when building a target

Manual targets

The numbered lists before headings were not displayed correctly
If cross-reference links had numbering, it didn't updating in LiveLinks mode and displayed incorrect numbers

Translation

Not all documents could be displayed in the Document Import wizard when creating a new target translation project
An unhandled exception could be thrown in the Share wizard when pressing next after showing list of files to share

Building targets

Themes weren't upgraded without errors when building a target with UAC enabled in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
When building NetHelp or HTMLHelp target, a compilation error could occur if project folders contained ".svn" folders.

Dynamic Help has been updated for the "Movie in Flash Format Properties" dialog and for the Translation tab page.

Fixed SharePoint access through HTTPS.

About ComponentOne

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

Doc-To-Help adds translation support

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:15:00 GMT

Doc-To-Help's start page showing common tasks and recent projects.

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2011 also adds NetHelp search engine, build scheduler and user experience improvements.

Whether you are converting from RoboHelp or creating new projects, Doc-To-Help empowers you to create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert it to virtually every popular Help file format or printed documentation. Doc-To-Help Enterprise can produce help files in popular formats including HTML Help, Cross-Platform HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, WinHelp, Visual Studio .NET-style Help, and printed documentation. Since Doc-To-Help Enterprise uses a simple style markup to create Help systems, you have the freedom to use any editor. Doc-To-Help Enterprise 2010 supports Windows 7, Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System including seamless integration with Word 2007. Doc-To-Help Enterprise now offers integration with SharePoint which allows you to upload your content to a SharePoint library and take advantage of SharePoint's management and workflow features. Doc-To-Help Enterprise also includes exclusive features such as one-click RoboHelp project conversions. Doc-To-Help for Enterprise includes updates and upgrades for 1 year. Platinum Support including 1 year of unlimited phone support also available.

The following editions are available:

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help is also available as part of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition.

Updates in 2011

New NetHelp Search Engine
Doc-To-Help's NetHelp output has a new search engine with exact phrase, fuzzy, Boolean, and synonym search. The best part is that you don't have to do anything. It is automatically built into every NetHelp output.

Build Scheduler
Doc-To-Help always allowed you to schedule builds via command line, but now there is a convenient interface to schedule one-off or recurring builds. Run your builds at night or start them and do something else while you wait.

Translation Support
Doc-To-Help integrates with SharePoint's translation management features to help you manage and track translations.

User Experience Improvements
Every release contains a number of features and enhancements Doc-To-Help users are asking for. More items you will find in this release include:

Mark of the Web in NetHelp. Users will not get Internet Explorer warnings when running NetHelp on a local machine.
Improved picture resizing and a "close all documents" button in the editor. These two built-in editor enhancements help ensure that you will love to use Doc-To-Help.
New PDF Converter. You can now generate outputs using 64-bit operating systems.

For more information visit:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperPages/PressReleases/?newsID=63

About ComponentOne

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

ComponentOne adds ASP.NET AJAX samples

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:07:00 GMT

Screenshot from ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET AJAX.

ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET AJAX 2010 v2 includes three new real-world samples and leverages the power of jQuery.

ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET AJAX currently includes grids, charting, reporting, scheduling, calendars, menus, toolbars, treeviews, tabs, inputs, editors, splitters, and more. ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET AJAX includes any new ASP.NET component and updates released within your 1 year subscription period, plus email support. ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET AJAX components feature built-in AJAX. ComponentOne Platinum Support Subscriptions also provide a full year of Telephone and Online Technical Support.

ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET AJAX is also included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise and ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition.

Updates in 2010 v2

The newest version of the ComponentOne ASP.NET control suite now has three new samples along with performance enhancements. Learn best practices from these real-world samples.

NEW Samples:

AdventureWorks
Based on the AdventureWorks SQL Server sample database, this is a full blown reference application for the fictitious AdventureWorks store. It uses Entity Framework, Linq, AJAX, jQuery, CSS, and much more
StockPortfolio
This sample shows how to build rich Web applications in ASP.NET that pull data from Web services. It uses data from Yahoo Finance and blends server-side and client-side code to create a great UX. ComponentOne have included a real progress bar to the UpdatePanel to show CallBack status
iTunes
ComponentOne's own version of iTunes built in ASP.NET with jQuery, AJAX, and ADO.NET Data Services. This application demonstrates some great features in the A2 Framework and highlights new features in ASP.NET

Performance Enhancements
Studio for ASP.NET AJAX leverages the power of jQuery in the A2 Framework making it even more powerful.

For more information visit:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperPages/pressreleases/?newsID=57

About ComponentOne

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

ComponentOne adds Silverlight calendar

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:07:00 GMT

SilverTunes media player demo displaying album covers.

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2010 v2 includes a new calendar control and enhancements to popular controls.

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight is a complete set of enterprise quality components in the Silverlight market with over 50 innovative Silverlight controls including grid, vector graphics, uploader, custom layouts, charts, maps, gauges and many more. It complements the designer and developer workflow by supporting both XAML and code. ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight components allow designers to create the ultimate user experience and provide developers a familiar, full-featured set of properties and methods.

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight is also included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise and ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition.

Updates in 2010 v2

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.

For more information visit:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperPages/pressreleases/?newsID=57

About ComponentOne

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

C1 adds Office 2010 visual styles

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:07:00 GMT

Controls including gauges, charts and WYSIWYG editor in ComponentOne Studio for WinForms.

ComponentOne Studio for WinForms 2010 v2 also features Excel-like filtering, Zip64 file support and new color picker.

ComponentOne Studio for WinForms provides existing ComponentOne .NET tools, any new .NET tools and updates released within your 1 year subscription period, plus email support. ComponentOne Studio for WinForms currently includes among others: C1 FlexGrid for .NET, C1 True DBGrid for .NET, C1 Preview for .NET, C1 Reports for .NET, C1 Chart for .NET, C1 DataObjects for .NET, C1 Input for .NET, C1 List for .NET, C1 PDF for .NET, C1 XLS for .NET, C1 Zip for .NET, C1 Flash for .NET, C1 Barcode for .NET, C1 Menus and Toolbars for .NET, C1 Spell for .NET and C1 Sizer for .NET. ComponentOne Platinum Support Subscriptions provide a full year of Telephone and Online Technical Support.

ComponentOne Studio for WinForms is also included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise and ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition.

Updates in 2010 v2

ComponentOne's suite of Windows Forms controls, fully compatible with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 now includes more features and design-time interactivity. True DBGrid has more Microsoft Excel-like functionality, and Editor for WinForms now has support for public history, enhanced list support, and a new ColorPicker control. And with enhanced design-time editors in Gauges for WinForms, you can quickly create, style, and customize your gauges.

True DBGrid for WinForms Enhancements

True DBGrid now supports multi-selection in the filter drop-down value list. Users can select multiple values to filter on, just like Microsoft Excel filtering.

Editor for WinForms Enhancements

Enhanced list support: nested lists, restart numbering, continue numbering.
Added public history support: undo/redo with a stack of actions (transactions).
New ColorPickerControl button in the toolbar.
New sample that shows how to protect parts of the document from editing.

Gauges for WinForms Enhancements

Enhanced design-time editors for quick and easy gauge design.
With new interactive features you can use C1Gauge for data input. For example, add gauge buttons within the design of the gauge to allow users to change values. Gauge pointers can also be dragged at run time by the mouse while optionally snapping to set intervals along the scale.

Ribbon for WinForms Enhancements

Galleries can now be expanded and added to the QAT, C1StatusBar, and other containers.
New ImageList properties (large and small) allow you to use external ImageLists as the source of images to display in the C1Ribbon and C1StatusBar controls.

InputPanel for WinForms Enhancements

New ImageList property for displaying images more easily on input buttons, menus, split buttons, and group headers.

DockingTab for WinForms Enhancements

New ability to completely hide the tabs. Just set ShowTabs to False and you can create a multi-page form all in one.
Improvements in docking styles, including VS2008 and VS2010 styles.
Added Microsoft Office 2010 visual styles.

Menus and Toolbar for WinForms Enhancements

New Office 2010 visual styles for blue, black and silver.

Zip for .NET Enhancements

Added support for Zip64 files. This allows for entries longer than the usual 4G limit and also more entries per zip file.

For more information visit:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperPages/pressreleases/?newsID=57

About ComponentOne

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

ComponentOne adds four new WPF controls

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:07:00 GMT

Examples of ComponentOne Studio for WPF's Schedule, DataGrid and Chart.

ComponentOne Studio for WPF 2010 v2 features new WPF map, toolbar, datagrid and calendar controls.

ComponentOne Studio for WPF is a collection of easy to use WPF components currently including grids, charting, reporting and scheduling controls. ComponentOne WPF controls are built with XAML to promote collaboration in your team and fully compatible with the new XBAP deployment capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation. ComponentOne Studio for WPF also includes any new ComponentOne Windows Presentation Foundation 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 WPF is also included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise and ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition.

Updates in 2010 v2

The newest version of ComponentOne's WPF control set introduces four new controls. Each control is fully compatible with its Silverlight equivalent so you can quickly build both rich desktop client and Web applications with shared code.

New ComponentOne Maps for WPF

Get smooth zooming, panning, and mapping between screen and geographical coordinates with ComponentOne Maps for WPF.
Display information from various sources, including Microsoft Live Maps and Google Maps.
You can also draw your own custom elements to the maps and associate them with locations.
Fully compatible to ComponentOne Maps for Silverlight.

New ComponentOne Toolbar for WPF

Create custom, professional looking toolbars in your WPF applications.
Embed any content within the toolbar for complete extensibility.
Ribbon-like behavior allows pieces of the toolbar to collapse when the form is resized.
Fully compatible to ComponentOne Toolbar for Silverlight.

New ComponentOne DataGrid for WPF

This new, more advanced DataGrid control will be able to deliver more features and better performance for large datasets.
Features include Excel-like filtering, sorting, freezing, aggregate grouping, exporting, printing, easy custom templates, scrolling and paging.
Fully compatible to ComponentOne DataGrid for Silverlight, this new DataGrid will not support carousel and card views which are currently supported in ComponentOne Grid for WPF.

New ComponentOne Calendar for WPF

This new control will integrate more seamlessly with the C1Scheduler control for full yearly, monthly and daily navigation. Also expect the ability to host multiple calendars in a single container to give you true Microsoft Outlook-style navigation.
This new calendar control will replace C1MonthCalendar control in the Studio for WPF control suite. The new calendar control will be written on a newer framework and have full compatibility to the ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight version.

DockControl for WPF Enhancements

Supports the native WPF Windows UI for floating tabs.
The current Windows UI (using C1Window) will remain in place for XBAP deployment scenarios.

For more information visit:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperPages/pressreleases/?newsID=57

About ComponentOne

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

C1 Studio Enterprise gets VS2010 support

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:48:00 GMT

Controls including WebSchedule, Silverlight themes and C1Gauge.

2010 v1 release also includes new WinForms, WPF and ASP.NET controls plus wider smart phone compatibility.

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. 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 2010 adds support for .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is also available bundled with Doc-To-Help Enterprise Edition in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition.

Special Offer: Upgrade from any Expired ComponentOne Studio for the price of the Renewal - Ends March 31, 2010.

Updates in 2010 v1

2010 v1 release of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise utilizes new .NET 4.0 features and improves the design-time experience enabling developers to do more with less code in Visual Studio 2010.

ComponentOne Studio for Winforms

Support for .NET 4.0
NEW Gauge Control
Reports for Winforms now supports RDL (Microsoft Reporting Services)
New Microsoft Office 2010 Visual Styles have been added to Input, Menu and Toolbar controls
Numerous enhancements and new features have been added to our Chart and Grid controls

ComponentOne Studio for WPF

Support for WPF 4.0
Six new controls such as C1 DateTimePicker, C1DockControl, C1TabControl and C1Window...
Enhanced Performance of Grid with NEW C1CollectionView class so that local sorting is 5 times faster and grouping is up to 10 times faster
Chart now includes built-in axis scroll bars, aggregate charts and accessible axis limits

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight

Support for Silverlight 4.0. This release takes full advantage of the new classes and features found in Silverlight 4.
Numerous enhancements to many of popular controls including DataGrid, RichTextBox, TreeView and Book

ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET

Support for ASP.NET 4.0
Two new controls - ReportViewer and Gauge

ComponentOne Studio for iPhone

Support for ASP.NET 4.0
Support for the top smart phones on the market including Android OS, Droid, Nexus One, Palm Pre, Opera Mini

What's New in Doc-To-Help 2010 v1?

Team Foundation Server (TFS) Integration
Doc-To-Help 2010 will integrate and provide an interface for TFS. This provides better workflow and support for a team environment and makes collaboration easier.

Better User Experience

Collapsing Sections Interface: The user can easily organize online content without knowing how to code.
Nested Lists: Most HTML/XML/XHTML editors (including FrontPage) do not handle nested lists well.
Doc-To-Help 2010 allows the user to create nested lists painlessly right in its editor.
Page Break Control: The user can now easily specify where page breaks should fall. Typically this is a big challenge when single-sourcing. Not anymore! This enhancement will save a lot of time and make the output more polished.

Enhanced Conversion Tools

Improved Converter for RoboHelp: Until now Doc-To-Help would only convert RoboHelp Word projects to Word and RoboHelp HTML projects to HTML. Now the user can take any RoboHelp project and convert it directly to Doc-To-Help's XHTML format.
Improved Converter for Lists to XHTML. The user can now seamlessly convert lists to XHTML

For more information visit:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperPages/PressReleases/?newsID=47

About ComponentOne

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

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help updated

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:06:00 GMT

Doc-To-Help provides an easy way to get started with your project.

2010 v1 release adds Team Foundation Server integration, improved user experience and enhanced conversion tools.

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help allows you to create professional help systems and manuals from HTML or Micrsoft Word. Whether you are converting from RoboHelp or creating new projects, Doc-To-Help empowers you to create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert it to virtually every popular Help file format or printed documentation. Doc-To-Help Enterprise can produce help files in popular formats including HTML Help, Cross-Platform HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, WinHelp, Visual Studio .NET-style Help, and printed documentation. Since Doc-To-Help Enterprise uses a simple style markup to create Help systems, you have the freedom to use any editor. Doc-To-Help 2010 includes features such as Documenter for .NET for automatic reference document creation and support for Windows 7, Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System including seamless integration with Word 2007.

Doc-To-Help Enterprise also includes exclusive features such as one-click RoboHelp project conversions.

The following editions are available:

Doc-To-Help is also available in a bundle with ComponentOne Studio Enterprise:

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Doc Edition

Updates in 2010 v1

Team Foundation Server (TFS) Integration

Doc-To-Help 2010 will integrate and provide an interface for TFS. This provides better workflow and support for a team environment and makes collaboration easier.

Better User Experience

Collapsing Sections Interface: The user can easily organize online content without knowing how to code.
Nested Lists: Most HTML/XML/XHTML editors (including FrontPage) do not handle nested lists well.
Doc-To-Help 2010 allows the user to create nested lists painlessly right in its editor.
Page Break Control: The user can now easily specify where page breaks should fall. Typically this is a big challenge when single-sourcing. Not anymore! This enhancement will save a lot of time and make the output more polished.

Enhanced Conversion Tools

Improved Converter for RoboHelp: Until now Doc-To-Help would only convert RoboHelp Word projects to Word and RoboHelp HTML projects to HTML. Now the user can take any RoboHelp project and convert it directly to Doc-To-Help's XHTML format.
Improved Converter for Lists to XHTML. The user can now seamlessly convert lists to XHTML

For more information visit:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperPages/PressReleases/?newsID=44

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has been a leader in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry for over 20 years. ComponentOne's flagship product, ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is a complete suite of development components for developing all layers of Windows, Web, WPF and Mobile applications. Studio Enterprise delivers the tools developers need to produce next-generation UIs for Windows and the Web. Studio Enterprise allows developers to create rich user experiences with enterprise-level .NET Windows Forms applications, ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web interfaces, as well as newly emerging WPF and Silverlight technologies with less code and in less time. ComponentOne is also the provider of Doc-To-Help, DemoWorks, and FrontLine. ComponentOne's innovation and long standing commitment to the development community is recognized by the numerous industry and user accolades from ComponentSource, SD Times, Visual Studio Magazine, Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, Info World, PC Magazine, Software Development Magazine, Dr. Dobbs, .NET Developer Journal, Society for Technical Communication, and Visual Systems Journal. ComponentOne is a privately held company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

ComponentOne Studio 2009 v3 released

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:01:00 GMT

Controls including WebSchedule, Silverlight themes and C1Gauge.

Latest release adds new controls in WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight and iPhone.

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. 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 2009 includes following product suites:

Updates in 2009 v3

ComponentOne Studio for WinForms

New XmlEditor control and Report Scheduler empower end-users to edit Xhtml documents and assign tasks for scheduling reports.
Existing controls such as FlexGrid and PDF have several enhancements.

Componentone Studio for WPF

ComponentOne Studio for WPF suite expands to parallel ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight. New controls include:

Accordion
Display lists of expandable items, organizing your UI and optimizing screen real-estate.
Book
Present element objects as if they were pages in a real paper-back book.
Cube
Animate and display element objects on the faces of a 3D cube, and then rotate the cube to show one element at a time.
ColorPicker
Select colors from professionally-designed palettes or build your own custom colors Supports transparency.
DropDown
Create custom drop-downs.
Expander
Expand and contract content.
MediaPlayer
A full featured media player out-of-the box. Run media, video or audio while displaying playlists or in full-screen mode.
PropertyGrid
The familiar Visual Studio property grid is now in WPF and includes 10+ built-in editors.

ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight

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 huge since printing is not 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).

ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET

Windows 7 themeing added!
New control, SuperPanel gives you custom scrolling bars (both horizontal and vertical), resizing, rounded corners, and shadows in your web page.
Change color and theme properties with Foxy for ASP.NET. The CSS style editor's DOM Inspector allows you to grab pieces of the control and modify it.
Performance enhancements.
Improved spell-checking in Editor.
Best practices in CSS spriting used in all VisualStyles for optimized performance.
Added tristate-checkbox ability to TreeView.
Added ADO.NET Entity Framework support added to GridView.

ComponentOne Studio for iPhone

New control: C1ViewScroller is a navigation menu for jumping to specific points in a page. It adds usability to long lists and lengthy content.
Client-side enhancements to give more powerful JavaScript development capabilities.
Added Touch, Gesture, and Swipe event helpers for enabling these rich interactions in any iPhone web app.
Hardware acceleration added for animations and styles.

For more information visit:
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About ComponentOne

ComponentOne is the provider of the most comprehensive suite of visual components available anywhere and has been the leader in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry for over 20 years. ComponentOne's flagship product, ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is the industry's broadest and most complete suite of development components for developing all layers of Windows, Web, WPF and Mobile applications. With the most powerful components designed for the .NET framework, Studio Enterprise delivers the tools developers need to produce next-generation UIs for Windows and the Web. Studio Enterprise allows developers to create rich user experiences with enterprise-level .NET Windows Forms applications, ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web interfaces, as well as newly emerging WPF and Silverlight technologies with less code and in less time. ComponentOne is also the provider of Doc-To-Help, DemoWorks, and FrontLine. ComponentOne's innovation and long standing commitment to the development community is recognized by the numerous industry and user accolades from ComponentSource, SD Times, Visual Studio Magazine, Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, Info World, PC Magazine, Software Development Magazine, Dr. Dobbs, .NET Developer Journal, Society for Technical Communication, and Visual Systems Journal. ComponentOne is a privately held company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.