ComponentSource Topic | WPF Controls

ImageGear for .NET adds Microsoft Office Support

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:03:39 GMT

Display images using ImageGear for .NET.

Load and display Microsoft Office Excel and PowerPoint files.

ImageGear for .NET allows developers to accelerate their .NET development using fully managed code to create cutting-edge imaging applications. This comprehensive .NET imaging SDK provides support for AJAX, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), DirectX 10 and Direct3D 10. The imaging SDK provides support for over 100 image formats, including TIFF, JPEG, CAD, Vector, 3D PDF, PDF/A and PS.

Updates in v20.0

Support for viewing Microsoft Office Excel files
Support for viewing Microsoft Office PowerPoint files
Use multiple image providers and allow images to be stored on the server
JavaScript controls reworked to improve ease of use in MVC
JavaScript controls made available as jQuery plug-ins
Speed enhanced JPEG 2000 format support
Read and write support for SVG files (used in HTML5 web applications)

About Accusoft

Accusoft was founded in 1991 in Tampa, Florida, Accusoft is one of the largest providers of imaging software development kits (SDKs) and image viewers. Imaging technology solutions include barcode, compression, DICOM, editing, forms processing, OCR, PDF, scanning, video and viewing. Multiple 32bit and 64bit platforms are supported including Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX and IBM AIX.

WpfDiagram V2.8.2 released

Wed, 30 May 2012 10:14:03 GMT

A network diagram built using WpfDiagram.

WpfDiagram is a WPF component that draws all types of flow diagrams, entity-relationship (ER), workflow, algorithms, flowcharts, IVR systems and database charts. It offers numerous appearance properties, events, save/load options and automatic layouts. WpfDiagram can also draw tables, has predefined shapes and includes scrolling, zooming and undo/redo capabilities.

Updates in V2.8.2

Rotate attached nodes
SaveToXml method saves definition of custom Shapes
Display negated Y coordinates on the vertical Ruler scale
In-place TextBox control now wraps text on multiple lines by default
Diagram control automatically added to the Visual Studio toolbox by the installer

About MindFusion Group

MindFusion Group was founded 2001 in Bulgaria by providing outsourcing services to clients from all over the world. During 2003 MindFusion developed its first ActiveX diagramming control. MindFusion quickly became dedicated to the development of reusable software components focusing on software engineers from all over the world.

WebUI Studio Premier supports Silverlight 5

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:06:00 GMT

An example application built with WebUI Studio 2011 R2 Premier.

Service Pack also includes Document Viewer and Visual Studio Project template improvements.

WebUI Studio includes advanced components for ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight application development. It empowers Rich Internet Applications development by offering a solid architecture and tight integration between each product with support for any web browser. WebUI Studio Premier offers advanced functionality like smart batch update, high-performance client binding, integrated spell checking and real-progress AJAX file uploading. Product updates and upgrades are included for a full year from the purchase date as well as priority support via phone calls, live chat or conference meetings, as well as direct collaboration with engineers. The following editions are available:

Updates in 2011 R2 SP1

Native Silverlight 5 Support - New release now ships with Silverlight 5 compiled assemblies and also includes many improvements and new features
Document Viewer - XPS and SQL reporting document viewers have been enhanced to support vector printing mode
Improved Visual Studio Project Templates - Project templates feature a new wizard that prompts Silverlight target version during project creation, and automatically picks up the proper assemblies depending on the selected Silverlight version
WCF RIA Services - Project templates have been redesigned to work flawlessly regardless of the WCF RIA Services installed

About Intersoft Solutions Corporation

Intersoft Solutions Corporation provides a broad range of innovative, high performance ASP.NET, Silverlight and WPF tools. The company is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia with partners and resellers worldwide. Intersoft Solutions Corporation has built over 30 state-of-the-art components since 2002, empowering millions of users with richer, more intuitive Web applications.

Essential Studio BI adds ActivePivot support

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:50:00 GMT

Sample Business Intelligence applications.

Bind with ActivePivot server databases and customize the data by pivoting, slicing and dicing.

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 Volume 2

All new support for editing and updating Pivot Grid data
Support for adding calculated measures interactively using the provided OLAP Client UI
Support for Quartet FS' ActivePivot engine
PivotGrid allows users to summarize selected columns and rows of data in a database table to organize it in a cross-tabulated form
View MDX queries displayed in a separate dialog

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 adds ASP.NET MVC Project Wizard

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:49:08 GMT

Sample applications written using Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Create starter projects that have all Syncfusion library references automatically added.

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 produced by Syncfusion in one package.

Updates in 2012 Volume 2

New advanced project wizard for ASP.NET MVC
New PivotGrid control for Windows Forms
Support for Quartet FS' ActivePivot engine
Custom XlsIO pivot engine for runtime manipulation of pivot tables
WPF/Silverlight - New transparent theme for all framework and Syncfusion controls
All new support for editing and updating Pivot Grid data
Support for adding calculated measures interactively using the provided OLAP Client UI
PDF - support for Tagged PDF when converting from HTML to PDF
PDF Viewer - support for embedded fonts and several additional image formats
XlsIO - Custom pivot engine for the runtime manipulation of pivot tables

About Syncfusion

Essential Studio Reporting 2012 Volume 2 released

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:48:14 GMT

Applications created using Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition.

Render text elements in PDF documents using embedded fonts.

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 Volume 2

Tagged PDF Support - Essential PDF now adds support for tagged PDFs during HTML-to-PDF conversion, making content accessible to users who have visual impairments
Converting XPS to PDF - An XPS (XML Paper Specification) document standardized by Ecma International can now be easily converted to PDF using Essential PDF
Rendering TIFF Images - Essential PDF Viewer provides support for decoding TIFF images so that users can directly view the images in a PDF document
Text Rendering Using Embedded Fonts - Essential PDF Viewer now features embedded fonts to render text elements in a PDF document
Rendering PNG Images - Essential PDF Viewer for Windows Forms now provides support for rendering PNG images using soft masking
Editing Report Item Properties - Essential Report Designer now provides editing support for its controls, enabling users to edit properties of report items (such as text boxes, images, rectangles, lines, etc.) similar to Microsoft Report Builder
Support for Preserving Content Control - Essential DocIO now provides limited support to preserve the Content control
Pivot Engine Integration - Essential XlsIO now provides support for setting up a pivot table. Using this feature, pivot table content can be accessed dynamically. Report filters can also be applied to the pivot table

About Syncfusion

Essential Studio UI adds Cell Merging

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:46:51 GMT

Sample applications built using Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition.

Merge adjacent cells in a grid and perform sorting and grouping on columns containing merged cells.

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 Volume 2?

Visual Studio Wizard for Project Creation and Manipulation - When users select products from the MVC Project Configuration Wizard, a template automatically adds the respective assemblies and references to the application based on control type and theme
Sub-Gauges - Visualize two different data types within the same space
Merging Cells - Merge adjacent cells in a grid and still perform sorting and grouping on columns containing merged cells
Data Table Support - Essential Grid supports data tables in two modes: server and JSON. Both modes allow sorting, grouping, and all the other basic functions you would expect in a grid, but with JSON mode, data rendering occurs on the client side, greatly improving grid performance
All-day Appointments - Create an engagement spanning an entire day or longer
Dragging Appointments Between Resources - An appointment can be dragged from one resource to another
Support for Date Ranges - You can set minimum and maximum dates to create a range of dates that can be selected in a schedule
Customizing the Schedule View - The viewable area of a schedule can be customized to show times within a certain range
Customizing Appointment Appearance - The background, font style and other visual elements of appointments can be customized based on resource, category, or custom CSS
Customized Date Highlighting - The navigation panel in the Schedule control can highlight dates to indicate coming events
Localization Support - Choose which language the user interface elements will be displayed in
Support for Custom CSS - In addition to having 14 built-in skins, the look and feel of the Schedule control can be customized using your own CSS

About Syncfusion

DevForce adds Visual Studio 11 Beta support

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:54:00 GMT

Build business applications using DevForce.

Design and build time support is now automatically installed into Visual Studio 11 Beta.

DevForce gives you the ability to quickly build data-rich applications for multiple client technologies by taking care of the back-end infrastructure and logic so you can focus on client-side development. It's a framework for building and operating applications which provides the tools, techniques and libraries that you need to build powerful business applications fast. The following editions are available:

Updates in 2010 (V6.1.7)

Visual Studio 11 Beta Support - DevForce design and build time support is now automatically installed to Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 Beta. Please note: the DevForce EDM Designer Extension for VS11 only supports projects targeting .NET 4.0
Performance Improvements - Performance issue with property accessors in Silverlight 5 fixed
Multiple Validation Improvements - Additional improvements in validation, including improved support for ComplexTypes and free-from verifier results

About IdeaBlade

As an early pioneer in .NET application development, IdeaBlade provides a mature and extensible platform for the development and deployment of enterprise .NET applications. IdeaBlade's DevForce framework enables enterprise developers to build, deploy and maintain n-tier .NET applications with ease.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF adds Metro Style

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:57:37 GMT

User interfaces built using NetAdvantage for WPF.

Create applications with a precisely aligned, type-based layout with high-contrast, simple icons.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF includes stylable user interface controls for geospatial mapping, interactive gauges, graphical timelines, animated charting and OLAP pivot grids. Use these UI controls to produce OLAP pivot grids, charts, maps, gauges, timelines, bullet graphs, barcodes and more.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

Metro Style - Optimized for touch and touch targets
Gesture Support - Give your end users consistent interactions when moving between tablet and desktop experiences
Color Tuner - Style your entire application with just a few clicks of your mouse. You can easily apply themes throughout your application, color-tune a theme without writing any XAML code, and save/share your favorite color configurations for later use
Undo/Redo Framework - Provides the infrastructure for supporting unlimited linear Undo/Redo functionality
Undo/Redo History Stacks - The collections raise change notifications and therefore may be used as a source for providing a UI that displays the entries in the history stacks
ObservableCollectionWithUndo - The framework includes a derived ObservableCollection that makes it easier to add support for undo/redo of collection changes
Transactions - Provides the ability to group one or more operations into a single history entry. One may also rollback a transaction performing the operations that were stored up to that point
Commands - A number of built in commands are provided to make it easier to invoke an Undo/Redo operation from within your UI
Geographic Map - The rich thematic mapping solution allows you to visualize your geographic data in multiple ways
Sparkline Charts - Render highly visual charts within limited spaces, such as a grid cell
Pivot Grid - Give your users the analytical advantage with new filtering, dropdown, and summarizing capabilities
Bar Code - Added a property to hide the Human Readable text
Ribbon - Let your end users customize tabs, groups and items to give them complete control over the application's user experience
Get Cell Text - Determine the text that would be displayed in Microsoft Excel cell given the cell's value, format string, column width and worksheet options
Data Visualization and Line of Business Toolsets - Get over 50 types of charts, graphs, and gauges to make meaning of your business data
Motion Framework - Aimate your data over time, choreographing movements based on how you've decided to visualize their data
Org Chart - Create high performance, stylable organization charts that represent company, department, workgroup or other hierarchical structures
Network Node - Create visual representations of simple or complex network relationships
Timeline - Empower users to quickly understand and visualize a sequence of events
Treemap - Show the relative weight of data points at more than one level with no drilldown required
Zoombar - Provide end users with a pan and zoom user interface that allows them to intuitively scroll through a range of data with dynamically adaptive scaling

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in presentation layer components for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, they have achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build and style great application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF, and additionally offers user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.

NetAdvantage Reporting adds HTML5 Report Viewer

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:14:24 GMT

Print reports from the report viewer.

Render NetAdvantage Reporting Reports within Web and desktop applications, and mobile devices.

NetAdvantage Reporting is a XAML reporting solution for Silverlight and WPF reporting applications. You can create elegant and easy-to-design reports engineered to help you deliver information to your end users in the shortest possible time. It offers report design, report viewing and an Expression Assistant. Other features and functionality include: integrated charting support (based on Infragistics data visualization charting controls), SQL data access, and the ability to easily connect to the most popular data sources like Entity Framework and RIA Services (using client-side rendering). You can even export your reports to a PDF format without any round trips back to the server.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

HTML5 Report Viewer - Render NetAdvantage Reporting Reports within Web and desktop applications, and mobile devices
Touch/Gesture Support - Get multi-touch and gesture support (such as panning and flick scrolling) for the Silverlight, WPF and WinForms report viewers
jQuery UI Compatible - NetAdvantage Reporting supports ThemeRoller, a tool which facilitates the creation of custom themes that are compatible with jQuery UI widgets
Change Connection Strings - Offer your users a convenient way of changing the connection string of a report's SQL data source at run-time
Report Loading at Run-Time - Using new URI Resolvers, you can specify how the report definition is loaded - from a location in your file system, a web URL or streams

About Infragistics

Infragistics has been the market leader in the presentation layer components industry for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, they have achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build and style great application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF, and additionally offers user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.

NetAdvantage for .NET 2012 Volume 1 released

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:12:25 GMT

Pivot grid and data chart sample application.

Now includes Data Visualization and Business Intelligence components.

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET provides developers with flexible, advanced controls to rapidly build high-quality Data Visualization applications, Line of Business Reports and application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight and jQuery. Developers receive every control needed to produce superior user experiences with stability, performance and robustness. An annual subscription is also provided for developer support, source code, updates, upgrades, documentation and samples.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

Introduced the Metro Theme across jQuery, Silverlight and WPF controls, to add sleek, modern styles to your Window 8-ready apps
Better Mobile UI, including mobile-centric List View and Rating controls for jQuery
Touch support for jQuery, Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET controls - with larger buttons and gesture support for tapping, pinching, flicking and zooming
High-performance Data Chart and geospatial Mapping capabilities for NetAdvantage for jQuery
Addition of Spark and Point Charts to data visualization controls
More styling capabilities with the new Color Tuner for Silverlight and WPF
Gantt Printing control in the Windows Forms toolset
Compatibility with Visual Studio 2011 Beta
Now includes all NetAdvantage Silverlight and WPF controls

About Infragistics

NetAdvantage Ultimate 2012 Volume 1 released

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:15:13 GMT

Create charts and graphs with Infragistics NetAdvantage Ultimate.

Adds mobile and touch-friendly gesture support, Metro UI styling and enhanced data visualization controls.

Infragistics NetAdvantage Ultimate provides advanced controls to build user interface and data visualization applications for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, jQuery and Silverlight. With SharePoint Web Parts, Reporting and Windows Phone in the same package, developers can create high performance, robust, stable solutions across browsers, platforms and devices. An annual subscription is also provided for developer support, source code, updates, upgrades, documentation and samples.

Updates in 2012 Volume 1

Introduced the Metro Theme across jQuery, Silverlight and WPF controls, to add sleek, modern styles to your Window 8-ready apps
Better Mobile UI, including mobile-centric List View and Rating controls for jQuery and a Tabular Grid experience for Windows Phone
Touch support for jQuery, Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET controls - with larger buttons and gesture support for tapping, pinching, flicking and zooming
High-performance Data Chart and geospatial Mapping capabilities for NetAdvantage for jQuery
Addition of Spark and Point Charts to data visualization controls
More styling capabilities with the new Color Tuner for Silverlight and WPF
Gantt Printing control in the Windows Forms toolset
Compatibility with Visual Studio 2011 Beta
Includes all NetAdvantage Icon packs
Includes Quince, a UX and UI pattern library tool

About Infragistics

CodeFluent Entities supports Visual Studio 11 Beta

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:42:00 GMT

Create applications using CodeFluent Entities.

Automatically create applications within Visual Studio 11 Beta.

CodeFluent Entities is a model-first tool that automatically generates application layers (user interface, services, business tier and database). Define your business model, choose your target platform, generate, add your custom business rules and compile.

Updates in 2012

Support for Visual Studio 11 Beta
Support for CTRL+A has been added to the Method Editor form
Implements and SetImplements rules are now supported at project level by the BOM producer
Added Transaction Rule support for methods other then Save and Delete
Support has been added to the Visual Studio Integrated modeler for custom aspects compiled in .NET assemblies
Enumeration declaration now supports named values
Added support for SQL Server 2012
Added non Latin character support to CFQL

About SoftFluent

SoftFluent is a privately-owned company that delivers software and development services. Their management team is composed of several Microsoft veterans that have significant experience including personal involvement with more than 600 different customers.

Stimulsoft Reports 2012.1 adds HTML5 Support

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:51:00 GMT

View a report using Stimulsoft Reports.

Easily export reports to HTML5.

Stimulsoft Reports includes a set of tools to build reports in WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight environments. It includes report designers, which can be run at design and run time. It also includes viewers for displaying reports. You can use the system to export reports in a number of different formats. The following editions are available:

Updates in 2012.1

HTML5 - Export to HTML5 from any report viewers
New Report Comparison Tool - Compare two reports and show difference in components, data sources, business objects and variables
Export Settings in the WebViewer - Install all options before a report is exported to a different format
Report Themes - Format the entire report with one click
Interactive Sorting in WebViewer - Sort report data by one or more columns
ShowHeaders Option in Designer.Web - Show or hide band headers on a report
Packed Queries in Silverlight - Decrease the size of report requests by between 10 and 20 times
New Range Chart Type - Display the range of some data between its initial and final values
Conditions and Filters of Charts in WPF - Visually select the desired items of your chart using specified conditions
Silverlight Tab Code - View the source code of a report and add methods and variables to extend its functionality
Silverlight Report Engine Supports Text Justifying - Alignment is specified using the HorAlignment property of the text component or using the controls of the reports designer
HTML Tags in Silverlight - HTML tags can be used if you change the AllowHtmlTags property of the text component to true
Silverlight 5 - Now includes assemblies compiled under Silverlight 5
Printing as HTML in Web Preview Tab - All fonts are printed in a vector format which removes large amounts of data and text blurring
Supporting Clipboard in Report Checker in Designer.Web - Copy error messages to the clipboard in Designer.Web
New Chart Types - Radar and Bubble chart types added to Designer.Web

About Stimulsoft

Stimulsoft specializes in the development of reporting components for the Microsoft.NET Framework. Customer satisfaction is the company's first priority and as such it aims to produce quality software. Stimulsoft helps developers to incorporate advanced technologies into their applications.

Charts for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:32:41 GMT

Display charts using Visiblox Charts for WPF.

Fully featured, high-performance charting component for Windows Phone 7 applications.

Visiblox Charts is a full featured charting component for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7. It provides interactive charts that can be used in a wide variety of scenarios and styled and customized to suit your needs. The following editions are available:

Features

High Performance Charting - Visiblox Charts lets you plot thousands of data points on a chart
Single API for Desktop, Web and Mobile Platforms - Visiblox Charts is available for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 for use in desktop, Web and mobile applications
Highly Interactive - Dynamic behaviours such as zooming, crosshairs, trackballs, rulers, panning and user defined annotations are all supported
Extensible Behaviours - Provides an extensible behaviour model upon which many of the built-in interactive features are based
Fully Customizable - The framework provided by Visiblox Charts makes it easy to customise the look and feel of every aspect of your charts
Wide Array of Chart Types - Visiblox Charts supports a wide variety of chart types, individually or in combination with one another including Area, Band, Bar, Box Plot, Column, Error Bar, Line, Pie, Scatter and Spline
Financial Charting Support - Candlestick, Band and (O)HLC series, DateTime axis and annotations
Support for Data Binding - Full and flexible support for binding series to your data, with collection and property-changed events handled automatically by the chart

About Visiblox

Visiblox provides high quality data visualisation components across mobile, Web and desktop platforms. It is the software product arm of Scott Logic Limited. Founded in 2005 they have headquarters in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

TeeChart for .NET updated

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:29:39 GMT

3D Silverlight chart and maps in TeeChart for .NET.

TeeChart for .NET is a 100% Managed C#.NET charting control that supports Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, Compact Framework, Silverlight and Reporting Services. It provides the functionality to produce financial charting applications including Open-High-Low-Close Series, Candle, Volume and MACD, ADX, Stochastic, Bollinger, Momentum and Moving Average statistical functions.

Updates in 2012

Set Polar Series labels to Kelvin rather than Celcius
FastLine Clicked method returns correct values when DrawAllPoints is false
MultipleNextTasks property and AddMultipleNextTasks method enables more than one next task line to be added to any given Gantt bar
Tower Series stacked property allows a Tower Series with identical grids to be stacked on top of each other
ColorLine collection for CircularGauge and LinearGauge enables multiple custom color lines
EscapeKey properly interrupts and cancels a line that is being drawn
RectangleTool can now be edited in TeeChart for Silverlight

About Steema Software

Steema Software was formed to help meet the growing demand for TeeChart 1.0 VCL for Delphi 1.0 developed by current CEO David Berneda in 1995. Steema has grown to become a leading company in the industry, servicing products and technology solutions to many thousands of developers worldwide.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise adds HTML5 calendar

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:26:43 GMT

ComponentOne samples showing Silverlight, WinForms, and iPhone controls.

Create a full-featured iPad Calendar style scheduling application.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes components from all ComponentOne Studio subscriptions offering you over 200 components for .NET, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight, ActiveX, and Mobile Devices.

Updates in 2012 v1

The new EventsCalendar control lets you display shared or private calendars in day, week, work week, or monthly views. It can also save and load data from a bound or built-in data source.

Additional Updates in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise

Visual Studio 11 support
Maps powered by Esri software
A Silverlight and WPF OrgChart for creating hierarchical diagrams
New controls and product enhancements across all .NET platforms

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a leader in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry. The company believes the key to successful implementation of business solutions is providing customers with a premier studio of innovative components and tools.

ComponentOne Studio for WPF adds Mapping

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:25:52 GMT

WPF controls including charts, schedule and Datagrid.

Easily transform GIS data into business intelligence.

ComponentOne Studio for WPF features all of the rich data visualization and LOB controls you need to shorten development time and create compelling Windows desktop applications. Choose from over 40 WPF with features like styling, printing, Excel exporting and XAML support.

Updates in 2012 v1

The new version of ComponentOne Studio for WPF utilizes mapping, geocoding and geoprocessing capabilities provided by ArcGIS. You get unrestricted access to the Esri Map control and the ArcGIS API along with access to substantial amounts of geographical data.

Additional Updates in ComponentOne Studio for WPF

6 new themes
A new OrgChart control
Binding expressions for WPF

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne adds FlexGrid for LightSwitch

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:27:44 GMT

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

Add advanced datagrid features without writing a line of code.

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.

Updates in 2012 v1

ComponentOne FlexGrid is now available as a LightSwitch extension. Use the screen template included or add the control to your existing screens to access extended functionality including conditional formatting, cell merging, outline views, Excel exporting, filtering, printing and grouping. Get all of this without a single line of code.

Additional Updates in ComponentSource Ultimate

Visual Studio 11 support
Maps powered by Esri software
HTML5 scheduler control for end-user appointment management
A Silverlight and WPF OrgChart for creating hierarchical diagrams
New controls and product enhancements across all .NET platforms

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a leader in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry. The company believes the key to successful implementation of business solutions is providing customers with a premier studio of innovative components and tools.

SharpShooter Reports.WPF available

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:15:05 GMT

WPF report viewer.

Add versatile reporting to your WPF applications.

SharpShooter Reports.WPF is a reporting component able to create complicated reports from multiple data sources with just a few mouse clicks. The included report designer comes with wizards that help you create simple, group, cross tab and table reports in a couple of minutes. The C# and VB.NET script engine makes it possible to set report style and behavior with the end user designer offering the ability to modify final reports and report templates.

Features

Built-in charts and gauges
Rich set of visual controls including text (RTF, Advanced Text), shapes, pictures and barcodes (including 2D bar code and PDF 417)
Report preview, single page and continuous
Export to PDF, HTML, Excel and RTF
Zooming by percent, regional or dynamic
Fast search
Easy navigation
Report panning
Printing

About Perpetuum Software

Perpetuum Software emerged in 2002 to develop professional software components for the .NET Framework. Their mission is to let developers create complex reporting and data visualization systems. Today Perpetuum Software is a company actively managed by a team of experienced professionals. The company has offices in Europe (Italy), USA (Florida, Tampa), Latin America (Brazil, Sao Paolo) and Russia (Barnaul). For more than10 years 6,000+ clients from 70+ countries have been using Perpetuum Software products.

Xceed Business Suite for WPF Released

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:43:20 GMT

Custom views sample.

A set of WPF controls for mission-critical Line Of Business solutions.

Xceed Business Suite for WPF is a resource-friendly set of components for building WPF applications. It includes a WPF datagrid control, 3D views, listbox and editors that are all data-virtualized and use various techniques to ensure responsiveness and a high-performance UI. It also provides themes and UX-enhancing controls.

Features

Datagrid

Ideal for large data sets and/or remote data sources
Mature and stable, having undergone constant development since its January 2007 release
Provides a fluid, high-performance experience
Features hierarchical master-detail features and grouping to represent tabular data

Listbox

Features item grouping and easy data navigation
Provides an multi-view panel that allows animated switching between multiple views
Provides "path" panels and views which allow items to be placed along the path of any geometric figure

UX Tools

Provides switchable 2D layouts
Includes 13 layouts (8 custom and 5 SwitchPanel-compatible versions of stock WPF panels) and features smooth animation and transition of elements between different panels
Real-Time 3D layouts

3D Views

Includes four multi-surface themes: Three Office themes (Blue, Black, and Silver) and Chameleon (which lets you choose the gradient colors)
Features rich in-place editing
Updates cell source when it exits edit mode or immediately when the content changes

Themes

Style any official Microsoft WPF control and its child items
Provides styles for Microsoft's datagrid and datepicker controls
Supports implicit styles, so a couple of lines of XAML code are all that is needed to apply styles to any WPF application
Styles can also be applied explicitly for maximum flexibility
Create applications that faithfully reproduce the look and feel found in Windows 7
Apply the styles found in the Windows Media Player application
Three Office themes (black, blue, and silver)

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.

Visifire improves Chart Zooming

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:26:21 GMT

Combination charts created with Visifire.

Visifire lets you add charts and gauges in your Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone & SharePoint applications. It supports a wide range of chart and gauges including column, line, doughnut, radar, pie and candlestick. The Silverlight controls can also be embedded in any Web page as a standalone Silverlight App. Visifire is independent of server side technology and can be used with ASP, ASP.NET, SharePoint, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Python, Ruby or just simple HTML.

Updates in V4.5.1.0

DataSeries entry can now be shown inside a Legend for single-series charts
Introduced SetTagFromJs and GetTagFromJs methods in JavaScript
Increased the maximum WPF PlotArea limit while zooming
Fixed - When a DataSeries was added at run-time the ShowAll button was not behaving as expected while zooming in/out
Fixed - Axis labels were not aligned properly when the TextWrap property was set in the AxisLabels element
Fixed - Enabled Axis property was not behaving as expected when binding was applied

About Webyog

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CADMAI adds WPF control

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:42:43 GMT

A CAD system built using CADMAI.

Open, modify and save local CADMAI models from your WPF applications.

CADMAI is a CAD framework which can either be used as a standalone CAD application or as an integration module for 3rd party applications and SOA environments. It's a relational CAD system focusing on in parametric 2D and 3D design. CADMAI is associative, which means that not only are crosshatching/dimensions related to defined geometry but any other entities can be linked to each other. CADMAI provides four API's which are each available in native C++ and .NET versions.

Updates in 4.4

WPF Control

Open, modify and save local CADMAI models
Download CADMAI models from Web URLs
Open standard CAD formats and mesh models (e.g. Step, Iges, DXF, Wavefront, 3D Studio Max, etc)
Steer the models using CADMAI relation management
Import and export data
Interact graphically (e.g. dynamic rotation)
Start CADMAI animations

XAML Export

3D CADMAI models can be exported to XAML format and can be used as standard WPF 3D model content (MeshGeometry3D).

About CADMAI Software

CADMAI Software is a long established company based in Nuernberg, Germany specialized in the development of CAD software. Their main product is CAD framework which can either be used as a standalone CAD application or as an integration module for 3rd party applications.

Nicomsoft OCR improves Deskew Algorithm

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:57:00 GMT

Read and process images for OCR content.

Nicomsoft OCR is an OCR software development kit. Developers can use it to embed high-quality optical character recognition functionality into their products. Recognition quality, agility, small size, ease of use and a royalty-free licensing policy are the main advantages of Nicomsoft OCR.

Updates in V2.2

Advanced lines/frames removal algorithm
Autoscaling algorithm
Portuguese and Italian language support
Uninitialization delay significantly reduced
Ability to use external DLL as a dictionary
Deskew algorithm improved

About Nicomsoft

Established in 1999, Nicomsoft is a privately owned software company, specializing in the development of efficient commercial libraries and utility applications for end users. All their specialists have years of experience in the development of customized, fully integrated digital systems.

WpfDiagram updated

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:59:51 GMT

A network diagram built using WpfDiagram.

Updates in V2.8

Virtualize diagram items
Id property added to DiagramItem
FindLinkById and FindNodeById methods
Lane headers can be anchored to the top-left of the viewport
Improved path-finding for long links in QuickRouter
StartPoint and EndPoint properties added to DiagramLink