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Aspose.Words for .NET updated

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:52:27 GMT

Document created with Aspose.Words for .NET.

Aspose.Words for .NET enables your applications to perform document processing tasks. It supports DOC, DOCX, OOXML, RTF, HTML, OpenDocument, PDF, XPS, EPUB and other formats. Generate, modify, convert, render and print documents without utilizing Microsoft Word.

Updates in V11

New public element AbsolutePositionTab used in DOCX and RTF files
Linked text boxes supported in DOC, DOCX and WML
Add comments when rendering and converting PDFs
Render custom footnotes
Compound lines are now rendered to PDF and XPS files
Use core PDF fonts or system installed fonts to significantly decrease output file size
Users are now warned if a font is substituted

About Aspose

Aspose is a leading vendor of development components and rendering extensions for platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports. Its core focus is on file management products. Aspose products support many popular file formats including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Flash presentations and Project files. Aspose's mission is to provide customers with top quality products complemented by fast and reliable customer support.

Essential Diagram adds Image Export

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:00:32 GMT

A diagramming application created using Syncfusion Essential Diagram.

Export diagram area to multiple image formats (.jpeg, .bmp and .png).

Syncfusion Essential Diagram is an extensible, high-performance .NET diagramming component. It can be used for developing Microsoft Visio-like interactive graphics and diagramming applications. It supports both vector and raster graphics on the drawing surface.

Updates in 2012

HTML 5 Diagram Modes - SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) mode and Canvas mode
Export to Image - Export diagram area to multiple image formats (.jpeg, .bmp and .png)
Polyline Support - When in SVG mode, Essential Diagram can support polylines—multiple lines connected by intermediate points
Printing Support - Print diagram layouts when in SVG mode
Saving and Loading Diagram Edits - In SVG mode, the Diagram control can save and reload information regarding changes to nodes and line connectors to and from a database
Data Binding - Diagram data binding has been enhanced to support the ADO.NET Entity Model

About Syncfusion

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion provides a broad range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet evolving development needs, whether working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight. Syncfusion strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to customers - from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies.

Essential Studio BI adds Paging Support

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:59:44 GMT

Sample Business Intelligence applications.

View large amounts of data by breaking the data into pages.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition includes BI Grid, BI Client, BI Chart, BI Gauge and BI PivotGrid controls to help manage OLAP data. You can also build reports interactively with the included Report Designer.

Updates in 2012

Essential BI Grid

Hide Summary Elements - Hide summary elements of an OLAP grid at different levels based on the level name or level number
Frozen Headers - Freeze the header of a grid so that headers are always visible when scrolling through a grid

Essential BI PivotGrid

Show or Hide Subtotals - Enables users to have an abstract view of data
Persist Expand/Collapse State - Maintain the expanded/collapsed state in a PivotGrid control when the pivot schema has changed
Disable Grouping by Specific Fields - Restrict users from dragging and dropping certain fields in the grouping area
Run-Time Custom Summary Type Setting - Set custom and built-in summaries at run time using the Pivot Computation Information dialog
Hide Field Support - Hide unnecessary fields from the pivot schema designer by using the ShowDisplayFields property

Essential BI Client

Paging Support - View large amounts of data by breaking the data into pages

About Syncfusion

Essential Studio Enterprise 2012 released

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:58:53 GMT

Sample applications written using Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

New controls include cross-platform mobile grid, HTML 5 gauge and client-side RDL reporting engine.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition lets you create rich applications that integrate business intelligence analysis and reporting with ease. It includes software components that enable developers to produce quality software for the most demanding of environments. It includes all the tools and libraries that are producted by Syncfusion in one package.

Updates in 2012

Essential BI Grid

Hide Summary Elements - Hide summary elements of an OLAP grid at different levels based on the level name or level number
Frozen Headers - Freeze the header of a grid so that headers are always visible when scrolling through a grid

Essential BI PivotGrid

Show or Hide Subtotals - Enables users to have an abstract view of data
Persist Expand/Collapse State - Maintain the expanded/collapsed state in a PivotGrid control when the pivot schema has changed
Disable Grouping by Specific Fields - Restrict users from dragging and dropping certain fields in the grouping area
Run-Time Custom Summary Type Setting - Set custom and built-in summaries at run time using the Pivot Computation Information dialog
Hide Field Support - Hide unnecessary fields from the pivot schema designer by using the ShowDisplayFields property

Essential BI Client

Paging Support - View large amounts of data by breaking the data into pages

Essential DocIO

Preserving Macro-Enabled Documents - Macros present in a macro-enabled document are preserved during conversion to other macro-enabled document formats

Essential PDF

Data Matrix Barcode Support - Render two-dimensional Data Matrix barcodes. The barcode can be generated from numeric or alphanumeric text. It supports different encoding structures such as ASCII (includes C40, Text, X12, and EDIFACT) and Base 256. Different sizes for the barcode symbol are available and can be chosen manually or according to the input. Data Matrix bar codes can be drawn directly in PDF or converted to an image.

Essential Diagram

HTML 5 Diagram Modes - SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) mode and Canvas mode
Export to Image - Export diagram area to multiple image formats (.jpeg, .bmp and .png)
Polyline Support - When in SVG mode, Essential Diagram can support polylines—multiple lines connected by intermediate points
Printing Support - Print diagram layouts when in SVG mode
Saving and Loading Diagram Edits - In SVG mode, the Diagram control can save and reload information regarding changes to nodes and line connectors to and from a database
Data Binding - Diagram data binding has been enhanced to support the ADO.NET Entity Model

Essential Grid

JSON Suppot (ASP.NET) - TJSON mode can be enabled to handle paging, sorting, grouping and filtering
Editing via Unbound Columns (ASP.NET MVC) - Make changes to multiple fields in a grid at the same time

Essential Tools

Calendar Navigation (ASP.NET) - New navigation pane that makes browsing by day, week, month, year or decade easier. This JavaScript implementation is fast and gives users a fluid experience
Rotator Control Improvements (ASP.NET) - An auto-play button can be added to the Rotator control to allow users to automatically scroll up or down, left or right with one click. While in this button mode, the rotator control retains all its other features
AutoComplete Enhancements (ASP.NET MVC) - Client-side data fetching has been added to increase performance
Captcha Control Refresh (ASP.NET MVC) - Refresh button allows regeneration of the code that has to be entered in the verification text box
Dragging and Dropping Tree Nodes (ASP.NET MVC) - With drag and drop support, tree nodes can be repositioned at different levels in the same tree or dropped into a different tree
Splitter Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Create separate panes in a work area that can be resized or collapsed by dragging or clicking
TimePicker Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Four primary fields can be set: hours, minutes, seconds and a.m. or p.m

About Syncfusion

Essential Studio Reporting adds 2D Barcode

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:58:03 GMT

Applications created using Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition.

Data Matrix barcodes can be generated from numeric or alphanumeric text and can be drawn directly in PDF files.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition is an reporting solution that allows you to integrate document-based reporting (PDF, Excel, Word) into Windows and Web applications. It includes Essential XlsIO, Essential DocIO, Essential PDF, Essential PDF Viewer, Essential Report Writer, Essential Report Viewer, Essential Grouping, Essential Calculate, Essential Spreadsheet and Essential ProjIO.

Updates in 2012

Essential DocIO

Preserving Macro-Enabled Documents - Macros present in a macro-enabled document are preserved during conversion to other macro-enabled document formats

Essential PDF

Data Matrix Barcode Support - Render two-dimensional Data Matrix barcodes. The bar code can be generated from numeric or alphanumeric text. It supports different encoding structures such as ASCII (includes C40, Text, X12, and EDIFACT) and Base 256. Different sizes for the bar code symbol are available and can be chosen manually or according to the input. Data Matrix bar codes can be drawn directly in PDF or converted to an image.

About Syncfusion

Essential Studio User Interface 2012 released

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:57:13 GMT

Sample applications built using Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition.

Diagram data binding has been enhanced to support the ADO.NET Entity Model.

Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition includes grids, docking and menu frameworks, data binding controls, scheduler, data visualization charts, gauges and diagrams. It includes Essential Grid, Essential Tools, Essential Chart, Essential Diagram, Essential Schedule, Essential Edit, Essential PDF Viewer (Windows Forms, WPF), Essential HTMLUI (Windows Forms), Essential Gauge, Essential Gantt (WPF, Silverlight), and Essential Maps (WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone).

Updates in 2012

Essential Diagram

HTML 5 Diagram Modes - SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) mode and Canvas mode
Export to Image - Export diagram area to multiple image formats (.jpeg, .bmp and .png)
Polyline Support - When in SVG mode, Essential Diagram can support polylines—multiple lines connected by intermediate points
Printing Support - Print diagram layouts when in SVG mode
Saving and Loading Diagram Edits - In SVG mode, the Diagram control can save and reload information regarding changes to nodes and line connectors to and from a database
Data Binding - Diagram data binding has been enhanced to support the ADO.NET Entity Model

Essential Grid

JSON Support (ASP.NET) - TJSON mode can be enabled to handle paging, sorting, grouping and filtering
Editing via Unbound Columns (ASP.NET MVC) - Make changes to multiple fields in a grid at the same time

Essential Tools

Calendar Navigation (ASP.NET) - New navigation pane that makes browsing by day, week, month, year or decade easier. This JavaScript implementation is fast and gives users a fluid experience
Rotator Control Improvements (ASP.NET) - An auto-play button can be added to the Rotator control to allow users to automatically scroll up or down, left or right with one click. While in this button mode, the rotator control retains all its other features
AutoComplete Enhancements (ASP.NET MVC) - Client-side data fetching has been added to increase performance
Captcha Control Refresh (ASP.NET MVC) - Refresh button allows regeneration of the code that has to be entered in the verification text box
Dragging and Dropping Tree Nodes (ASP.NET MVC) - With drag and drop support, tree nodes can be repositioned at different levels in the same tree or dropped into a different tree
Splitter Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Create separate panes in a work area that can be resized or collapsed by dragging or clicking
TimePicker Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Four primary fields can be set: hours, minutes, seconds and a.m. or p.m

About Syncfusion

Essential Tools improves Calendar Navigation

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:55:50 GMT

Example applications built using Syncfusion Essential Tools.

Browse by day, week, month, year or decade.

Syncfusion Essential Tools is an collection of nearly 80 user-interface components. Easily create robust and usable application interfaces emulating Visual Studio.NET and Microsoft Office. All editor controls have been architected to provide a simple and feature-rich means for capturing data input, validating and displaying appropriate formatting.

Updates in 2012

Calendar Navigation (ASP.NET) - New navigation pane that makes browsing by day, week, month, year or decade easier. This JavaScript implementation is fast and gives users a fluid experience
Rotator Control Improvements (ASP.NET) - An auto-play button can be added to the Rotator control to allow users to automatically scroll up or down, left or right with one click. While in this button mode, the rotator control retains all its other features
AutoComplete Enhancements (ASP.NET MVC) - Client-side data fetching has been added to increase performance
Captcha Control Refresh (ASP.NET MVC) - Refresh button allows regeneration of the code that has to be entered in the verification text box
Dragging and Dropping Tree Nodes (ASP.NET MVC) - With drag and drop support, tree nodes can be repositioned at different levels in the same tree or dropped into a different tree
Splitter Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Create separate panes in a work area that can be resized or collapsed by dragging or clicking
TimePicker Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Four primary fields can be set: hours, minutes, seconds and a.m. or p.m

About Syncfusion

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help adds Mobile Help

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:53:09 GMT

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

Create HTML 5-based output designed for display on mobile devices.

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help lets you create and publish content for desktop, Web, mobile devices, SharePoint and print. Write (or import) content in Microsoft Word, HTML or the Doc-To-Help editor and then publish professional quality outputs. Choose from NetHelp (Web-based Help), Mobile Help, HTML Help, PDF, DOC, WinHelp, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help, Help 2.0 and Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 2012 v1

Mobile Help - Just select and build HTML 5-based output and your content will be formatted for mobile use. This output works on all major mobile browsers, smart phones and tablets
Right-to-Left Output - Automatically publish NetHelp in right-to-left (RTL) format
Eclipse Help - Produce Help in the Eclipse format by choosing Eclipse Help and clicking "Build"
Microsoft Office 365 Support - Use Office 365 versions of Word and SharePoint to create documentation
NetHelp Files Customization - The JavaScript that controls the behavior of NetHelp is contained in an easy-to-access file
Automatic Index Navigation for NetHelp 2.0 - The index tab is automatically displayed or hidden depending on whether or not you have an index
Section 508 Compliance for NetHelp 2.0 - NetHelp 2.0 is now Section 508 compliant. Keyboard shortcuts and screen reader compatibility have been added.
Topic XHTML Wizard - Specify boilerplate content or code to insert in every topic

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne provides a wide range of Microsoft Visual Studio components, IDE platform development tools and applications. 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 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.

BCGControlBar adds Diagram Control

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:23:00 GMT

BCGControlBar Library Professional Office demo.

Create flow, graph, network and database relationship diagrams from your MFC applications.

BCGControlBar Library Professional includes over 200 MFC extension classes for creating toolbars and menus with customization and visualization. It can be used to add Office and Visual Studio like User Interfaces to applications. The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.0

Diagram Control

Unlimited number of diagram shapes and connectors
Predefined diagram blocks, including circles, triangles, boxes, rounded boxes, parallelograms, trapezoids, stars and clouds
Table diagram blocks
Text labels inside diagram blocks
Straight and curved diagram connectors with 5 types of customizable arrows
Interactive diagram editing
Ability to save and load diagrams to/from XML
Copy diagram images to the Clipboard
Save diagram images to a file

Chart Control

Axis scale breaks - Scale breaks can be generated automatically or added manually
New Histogram chart
Two technical indicators for Stock charts - Bollinger Bands and MACD
Stock charts optimized to handle very large data sets
Support for tooltips
New method GetNearestScreenPoint calculates position for interactive markers

Property Grid Control

New property classes for brush, text format and line style compound properties
Display context menus with predefined and custom options
Display built-in toolbar with predefined commands
Display built-in search box
Property copy/paste operations
Dynamically modify the color palette

Ribbon Bar Control

Clean up unused images feature
Recent File Form for Backstage View

Tag Cloud Control

Unlimited number of tags
Alphabetical sorting
Sorting by value
Customizable text color
Customizable text format
Tooltip support

Gauges Control

New WYSIWYG design tool
Arrange gauges on a design surface and change their properties
Save your dashboard to XML and load it into a C++ application

About BCGSoft

BCGSoft specializes in the development of business components for Microsoft Windows. BCGSoft helps developers to incorporate into their applications the most advanced component technologies available.

FastReport.Net 1.8 released

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:32:00 GMT

Watermark demo in FastReport.Net.

FastReport.Net is a full-featured reporting solution for Windows Forms and ASP.NET. It can be used to create application-independent reports and can be used as a standalone reporting tool. Connect to any database, add dialogue forms, use built-in scripting and perform complex data handling. View the resulting report, print it or export to many common document formats.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 1.8

Added Web Farm and Web Garden support in WebReport
Added HoverStyle property to all report objects
Added WebReport.CachePriority property
Increased speed and stability of WebReport using ControlState instead of ViewState

About Fast Reports

Fast Reports was founded in 1998 by CTO Alexander Tzyganenko. Fast Reports builds fast reporting software including applications, libraries and add-ons. Their flagship product, FastReport, utilizes unique programming principles making it one of the best reporting tools for Delphi. In 2001 FastReport earned second place in the "Best Reporting Tool" category at Delphi Informant Magazine Readers Choice Awards.

Add CAD functionality to your applications

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:33:00 GMT

Ray Tracing sample from sgCore.

sgCore includes numerous functions for 3D and 2D modeling with algorithms for creating and editing elaborate objects.

sgCore is a solid-state modeling C++/C# library designed for engineers and programmers who need to model 3D shapes. The API includes a number of functions to create complex objects and manipulate them. The sgCore library is a cross-platform library with support for Windows and Mac operating systems.

Features

Create 2D primitives in a 3D space - points, circles, arcs, splines and contours
Create equidistant 2D objects with various shifts and rounding angles
Create 3D primitives - spheres, boxes, cones, cylinders, toruses, ellipsoids and spherical bands
Supports both 3D solids and surfaces
Create groups of objects
Calculate UV texture coordinates for each polygon vertex using cubic, spherical and cylindric methods of textures mapping
3D polygonal objects triangulation
Boolean operations with objects - intersection, joining and subtraction
Find intersection lines
Find clips by arbitrary planes
Construct solids and surfaces
Construct spiral solids and surfaces
Construct solids and surfaces from their clips
Construct flat faces with holes on boundary contours
Create solids by surfaces sewing
Find the square and volume values of solid objects
Ray tracing engine
Load AutoCAD SHX fonts
Create text objects
Create dimensional objects (distant, radial, diametrical, angle)
Save objects in user-defined formats
Load objects from a file
DXF and STL import/export
.NET wrapper for sgCore and C# examples
64-bit version of sgCore

About Geometros

Geometros was founded in 2001 and developed a solid-state modeling core and CAD system. The resulting software became the SolidGraph system and the geometrical core sgCore. At present the company consists of 10 people and they are constantly improving their products.

PDFView4NET adds Silverlight Viewer

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:10:00 GMT

View PDFs using PDFView4NET.

PDFView4NET WPF & Silverlight Edition is a .NET toolkit for adding PDF render and print support to WPF applications. It includes a PDF viewer control and a library for rendering and printing PDF files. The PDF viewer control includes support for annotating PDF files, bookmark navigation and file attachment capabilities. The toolkit includes its own PDF rendering engine and does not rely on other software for rendering PDF files.

Updates in V4.1

PDF viewer control for Silverlight 4.0

About O2 Solutions

O2 Solutions is a small Romanian based software company focused on developing products for the software industry. It is dedicated to providing the finest components and highest quality support to its customers. The company is committed to supporting the .NET Framework by developing high performance components for all .NET enabled environments.

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.

PDFView4NET supports Annotation Measurement

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:53:58 GMT

Add annotations to a PDF document.

PDFView4NET Windows Forms Edition is a .NET toolkit for displaying and printing PDF files. It includes a PDF viewer control for Windows Forms and a .NET library for rendering and printing PDF files. The PDF viewer control includes support for annotating PDF files, bookmark navigation and adding file attachments. It includes its own PDF rendering engine and does not rely on other software for rendering and printing PDF files.

Updates in V4.1

Added support for measuring annotations.

About O2 Solutions

Chant Developer Workbench supports Silverlight 5

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:09:00 GMT

Create Grammars using Chant Developer Workbench.

Chant Developer Workbench is comprised of essential tools and components for developing software that speaks and listens. As an interactive toolset, it provides a development and testing environment for working with the component libraries and the speech technology objects they manage. You can manage grammars, profiles, lexicons, recognizers, synthesizers and text-to-speech markup interactively within the application software you develop and deploy.

Updates in 2011 (Build 4.0.6.0)

Supports Silverlight 5 - Integrate speech technology with in-browser and out-of-browser 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

About Chant

Chant is a provider of software and services that help organizations gain competitive advantage using speech technology. They are focused on providing solutions that enable you to do more with your computer by talking with it. Chant was one of the first companies to provide engine-independent components for developing desktop, Web-enabled and telephony applications that use speech technology.

dotCover supports latest ReSharper versions

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:07:00 GMT

dotCover's Coverage Results Browser.

dotCover is a code coverage tool that reports statement-level coverage in .NET and Silverlight applications. It highlights covered and uncovered code in Visual Studio by generating XML-based code coverage reports. dotCover detects which tests cover a particular location in code and integrates with ReSharper's unit testing tools. It comes with a console utility to use with a continuous integration server. dotCover can aggregate data from multiple coverage sessions and merging snapshots.

Updates in V1.2

Added support for latest ReSharper versions, enabling easy unit test coverage analysis

About JetBrains

JetBrains is a leading software development firm specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software technology. The company is widely known for their innovative, award-winning products, IntelliJ IDEA, ReSharper and TeamCity. JetBrain's products are trusted and used everyday by developers in over 3,000 companies worldwide, many from the Fortune 100. JetBrains has headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic and R&D centers in Russia, Germany and the USA.

dotTrace Performance profiles unit tests

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:08:00 GMT

View CPU statistics by thread with dotTrace.

dotTrace Performance helps detect performance bottlenecks in a variety of .NET Framework applications. It is able to profile standalone desktop applications, Web applications running under IIS or Visual Studio development server, Windows services, smart device applications, remote applications and unit tests. dotTrace Performance is able to compare any two performance snapshots of the same application. It shows the differences between the number of calls consumed by each function.

Updates in 4.5.2

The latest minor update enables profiling of unit tests by integrating with a variety of recent versions of ReSharper, including 6.1, 6.0 and the 5.x family.

About JetBrains

HelpSmith updated to V3.5.3

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:04:00 GMT

HelpSmith user interface.

HelpSmith is an innovative help authoring tool allowing you to create CHM HTML Help files, Web Help, Printed Manuals, and PDF documents from the same source help project. The stand-alone and easy-to-use environment includes a Unicode word-processor with dynamic styles and live spell checker, support for Templates and Variables, an advanced approach to working with graphical and video files, automatic correction system, and many other useful tools.

Updates in V3.5.3

Added support for the new video format MP4
Fixed an issue when using Asian languages (Chinese, Korean, Japanese) in the Table of Contents of an HTML Help system (CHM)

About Divcom Software

Divcom Software is a privately-held software development company specializing in help authoring solutions. Their products are licensed in more than 80 countries and are acknowledged worldwide for their simplicity of usage, power and efficiency. Renowned for their excellent customer service, the company is a member of the Intel(R) Software Partner program. Divcom Software's customer-base includes Microsoft, Intel, General Motors, Toshiba, Alcatel, Hitachi, Dell, Siemens, and other notable companies.

Xceed DataGrid for WPF v4.3 released

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:09:08 GMT

Group and sort data using Xceed DataGrid for WPF.

Xceed DataGrid for WPF is a grid control that allows you to present and edit data in 3D layouts. Features include rich in-place editing, grouping with UI virtualization, card and table views and built-in data validation. It offers compatibility with bound and unbound data sources, a flexible object model and is fully extensible with reusable parts. Xceed DataGrid for WPF includes Xceed 3D Views for WPF and Xceed Editors for WPF. With Xceed DataGrid for WPF full, C# and XAML source code is available in the Blueprint Edition.

Updates in v4.3

Improved performance during horizontal scrolling with a large number of columns
Improved responsiveness and efficiency in auto-filtering when there are changes in the data source
Initial loading and vertical scrolling have been improved
Scrolling performance improved while dragging a column over the edges of the datagrid
Developers now have access to several command-related methods

About Xceed Software

Since its launch in 1994, Xceed Software has been devoted to creating components for Microsoft platforms. The company's first product, Xceed Zip Compression Library, was first offered as a VBX for Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0. Today Xceed's product line can be grouped into two main categories, Data Manipulation and User Interface. 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.

Prof-UIS updated to V2.93

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:13:58 GMT

PageNavigator, ReportGrid, Skinnable Buttons and RibbonBar samples.

Prof-UIS includes more than 200 C++ classes, templates and interfaces that will help you add rich, up-to-date GUIs to your projects. Create Microsoft Office and Visual Studio look-and-feel interfaces, tabbed docking windows, tab containers with detachable tabs, customizable menus and toolbars.

Updates in V2.93

Windows 7 Ribbon style support
Quick Access Toolbar is now integrated into the Window caption in all UI themes
Printing and preview now supports a header, footer and both left and right gutter areas
Persist a page navigator using MFC archives

About FOSS Software

FOSS Software was founded in 2000 by a group of senior software engineers and managers with a proven track record of success in the IT industry. Since then the company has released a number of FOSS branded products which have gained national and international recognition. Their products have been sold in 34 countries and translated to 14 languages.

IntegralUI TreeListView adds new Rating Control

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:26:14 GMT

A themed listview window showing the date picker control.

Use custom images to show rating values.

IntegralUI TreeListView allows you to visualize your hierarchical data in multiple columns and custom layouts using text, images, hyperlinks, checkboxes and custom controls. It includes advanced drag-drop operations, filtering using multiple values and custom sort operations. It also has a highly customizable appearance and theme support.

Updates in V3.2

Extend the current theme with custom colors for all controls
New Rating Control which can use custom images to show rating values, includes star image as default
New NumberedList Control presents a numbered list of items acting like a navigation panel
New Panel and TransparentPanel containers with gradient background fill and custom border appearance
A DisplayMode property for items which enables an item to act as a separator in the list
A style for drawing subitems when they are focused
Selection from keyboard using CTRL or SHIFT keys
Serialization of images from ImageList to XML file is now supported
Place child node above or below its parent node
A new ShowRootLines property which shows root lines even if there are no child nodes
New IsChildOf method which determines whether a node is child of a specified node
New GetPreferredSize method which returns actual size of node space

About Lidor Systems

Lidor Systems is a software development company specializing in the design and development of high quality .NET components and controls. Its design philosophy is based on ease of use, flexibility and performance. The company's goal is to provide you with innovative components, tools and support you need to effectively compete in today's competitive development market.

Solutions Schedule .NET adds Time Zone features

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:41:42 GMT

Project Schedule created with Solutions Schedule for .NET.

Show different time zones and change the starting day of the week for the monthly view.

Solutions Schedule for .NET provides Windows developers with an advanced set of features for creating enterprise Asset Management and Multi-resource scheduling applications. Solutions Schedule can be used in ERP, CRM and many other enterprise applications. Solutions Schedule .NET delivers intuitive mouse driven scheduling and planning with Gantt-style project management features. Solutions Schedule .NET also includes map and scroll-to-date features to easily manage schedules of any size.

Updates in v5.0

Guideline Positions - Position guidelines in the schedule area.
Ruler Selection - Highlighting the time of a selected Time Bar in the time scale ruler.
Schedule Document - New method that returns the Print Document object for the schedule.
Edit Mode Toolbar - Displays a Toolbar with available Edit Modes at a specified location.
Current Time Offset - Allow the presentation of different time zones.
Day Month Offset - Allows developers to change the starting day of the week for the monthly view.
List Guide - Show the first column of the resource list within the schedule area.

About DBI Technologies

Incorporated in 1996, DBI Technologies is a commercial software development company that is focused on empowering Windows application developers with flexible and respected commercial component products and services. DBI provides creative solutions for its clients, incorporating leading edge Web technologies built on commercial component based architectures. DBI's component solutions are incorporated in many Fortune 1000 business support systems, as well as commercial ERP and CRM solutions.

TX Text Control .NET 17.0 SP1 released

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:43:33 GMT

Word processor created with TX Text Control .NET for WPF.

TX Text Control .NET is a royalty-free word processing control that offers developers a broad range of word processing features in one reusable component. You can load, edit and save Microsoft Word formats (DOCX, DOC, RTF etc.) and build powerful reporting applications.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 17.0 SP1

The following bugs were fixed:

In the WPF image dialog, the height property is not working correctly if the system language is set to US.
PDF/A export: The xmpMM:DocumentID metadata property value is not of type GUID/UUID.
TX Text Control does not adopt option changes immediately.
If a DocumentLink is clicked and the ScrollTo method is used, text will be selected after the DocumentTarget.
DOC and RTF import: Unable to save loaded document.
Table in XML sample will break, if another XML element is added.
DOC export: Missing vertical table cell alignment.
DOCX, DOC and RTF export: Error 1-1d09, if the last cell of a table is a merged cell and the next table follows immediately.
Table attributes cannot be set with the dialog when the table is completely selected.
Using the TAB key in tables does not select the cell text.
Tables.Remove does not work.
PDF export: Clipped fixed image above top or bottom margin are not visible.
Addresses like test@text.com are not ignored correctly.
RTF import: Document causes 01-1D09 error or a program termination.
HTML import: Selection.Load always fails.
Cell.Select selects complete table row.
Vertical text alignment cannot be set in merged table cells.
Error 01-200F is thrown if a document is appended that holds an image at a geometrical position.
Faulty behaviour of Paragraph.Text in table cells.
Text is not displayed, if a table spans a page break and vertical alignment has been set.
Setting txTableCellVertAlign value for the first cell in a row sets the alignment for the table row.
TXW document which could be saved in v13 could not be saved in v16 or v15.
Delete and Backspace keys have different effects on paragraph formatting in v16 and v17.
Unable to load documents containing 'Forced end of column' character and tables.
Table at the end of a document is not deleted correctly.
Text Control Words crashes upon loading a specific document.
Whitespace is lost when loading TXTextControl.StringStreamType.RichTextFormat.
MisspelledWordColletion.GetItem returns null when removing each MisspelledWord from the collection.
Wrong formating when widow/orphan control is set to 1 line, using two columns.
Error 01-2722 is caused when appending documents.
TextParts Collection iterates through more than 1 TX Text Control instance.
ResetContents does not reset page orientation.
TX Text Control cannot be compiled on a Team Foundation Server because of the visibility check.
HangingIndent is not working properly.
In some cases MisspelledWordCollection.GetItem returns null for misspelled words in tables.
Image size changes if zoom values are set to random numbers.

About Text Control (formerly The Imaging Source)

Text Control is a leading manufacturer of word processing components for Microsoft development technologies. TX Text Control was introduced in 1991 and the company is 100% self-owned and independent of all investor decisions. With more than 45,000 licenses sold, in more than 80 countries, TX Text Control is the clear market leader in word processing components. A large number of Fortune 500 companies use TX Text Control in their products and TX Text Control is part of several standard software packages.

Protect your .NET applications from piracy

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:10:00 GMT

Create and validate serial numbers to protect .NET applications with Ellipter.

Ellipter allows you to easily create and verify short secure product keys to protect your products.

Ellipter is a 100% managed .NET library for licensing software products and components based on Elliptic Curves asymmetric cryptography. Programmatically create and verify secure and short product keys (serials) into your products. Embed any information within a product key and with just 3 lines of code create time-limited or usage-limited demos and trials for .NET applications.

Features

Royalty Free - Licensed per developer, build unlimited applications and distribute them without paying any further royalties.
Easy to Use - The most important feature is Ellipter's simplicity of use - just write 3 lines of code to fully protect your software.
User Interface - A full featured User Interface is included with a Public/Private keys pair Generator, Serials Generator, Serials Validator and Checksum Calculator.
Examples and Documentation - Comes with C# and Visual Basic examples of its major features and full documentation.
Hardware ID Reading - Read hardware IDs for computer components or a combination of components for machine identification and computer specific registration keys.
Checksum Calculator - Use ChecksumCalculator to easily calculate CRC checksums for any string and embed within a product key.

About SeriousBit

Founded in 2007 SeriousBit is a company with a strong and dedicated team whose mission is to provide the best Windows system tools. Their licensing software product, Ellipter, was developed as a result of working on a means to protect their own .NET products and is now a mature and robust licensing solution that is permanently evolving based on the needs and feature requests from the hundreds of existing customers and developers.

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.