Architecture News

Celebrating 5 Year Partnership with Sencha

May 21, 2025
ComponentSource and Sencha have worked together since 2020 to provide development tools for building cross-platform web applications.

ComponentSource has played a central role in broadening access to Sencha’s suite of development tools by making them more readily available to a global developer audience. Its distribution infrastructure has helped ensure that organizations - including many in the Fortune 100 - can obtain the tools they need to build and maintain complex, data-driven web applications across platforms.

For five years, ComponentSource has supported developers by providing a straightforward route to acquiring Sencha's products. This collaboration reflects a shared goal: to make software procurement simpler and more reliable, particularly for teams working on large-scale or multi-device applications.

Celebrating a successful 5-year journey, ComponentSource and Sencha look forward to further empowering development teams globally. This continued collaboration aims to enhance the availability and adoption of Sencha's tools, enabling even more organizations to build sophisticated web applications for diverse devices.

For more information, visit our Sencha brand page.

Customize Reports Faster with Style Editor

May 21, 2025
FastReport Online Designer 2025.2 adds a centralized styling tool to reduce repetition and maintain consistent formatting across report elements.

FastReport Online Designer is a cross platform visual report designer for FastReport .NET that enables users to create, edit and view reports on any device running Android, iOS or Windows through a modern web browser on computers, tablets, smartphones, game consoles or TV sets. Common use cases include remote collaboration on operational dashboards, embedding interactive reporting in web applications and empowering business users to customize and share up to date analyses without installing additional software.

FastReport Online Designer 2025.2 introduces a new style editor that enables users to define and manage report styles in one place. By allowing customization of fill colors, fonts, borders, and more, the feature removes the need for repetitive manual formatting. Users can now create a single style and apply it across multiple components, ensuring visual consistency and reducing formatting time.

To see a full list of what's new in v2025.2, see our release notes.

FastReport Online Designer is available as a license option in the FastReport .NET Components Packages. It is included in FastReport Ultimate .NET and FastReport Web .NET. See our FastReport Online Designer licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our FastReport Online Designer product page.

Enable Pre-Configured Data Views On App Launch

May 21, 2025
Infragistics Ultimate 25.1 introduces Initial Advanced Filtering in App Builder, letting users define how data appears as soon as the app starts.

Infragistics Ultimate is a comprehensive development toolkit designed to streamline the creation of high-performance, visually rich applications across multiple platforms. It includes a wide range of user interface (UI) components and development tools for web, desktop, and mobile applications, supporting frameworks such as Angular, React, Blazor, .NET, and more.

Infragistics App Builder (included in Infragistics Ultimate) is a powerful cloud-based design-to-code platform that accelerates the development of enterprise web applications. It bridges the gap between designers and developers by enabling teams to visually design user interfaces using a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG environment, while automatically generating production-ready Angular or Blazor code.

The Infragistics Ultimate 25.1 release introduces Initial Advanced Filtering in the latest version of App Builder, a client-side feature that lets end users define complex filter expressions during design time. These expressions are applied automatically when the application launches, shaping the initial dataset displayed in components like Grid, TreeGrid, and HierarchicalGrid. This enhancement ensures that the data is aligned with user expectations right from the outset.

To see a full list of what's new in version 25.1, see our release notes.

Infragistics Ultimate is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 1, 2 or 3 year support and maintenance subscription. See our Infragistics Ultimate licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Infragistics Ultimate product page.

Easily Export Transformed Datasets

May 21, 2025
DataSpell 2025.1 can now output data to CSV or XLS, and generate reusable transformation code with a single click.

DataSpell by JetBrains is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) specifically designed for data analysts and engineers. It allows you to write Python scripts, run SQL queries, analyze data in Jupyter notebooks, manage dbt workflows, and connect to databases, all within one seamless interface. DataSpell empowers you to stay focused on exploring insights and delivering high-quality results by combining rich data analysis tools with features like real-time error checking, code quality analysis, and built-in support for best practices like testing and documentation.

The DataSpell 2025.1 update adds new export transformation options, allowing users to efficiently handle post-processed data. Whether you need to archive your results or share them across platforms, you can now export transformed data in common formats such as CSV and XLS. In addition, for those looking to reproduce or share their data process, the tool offers the ability to export the transformation code itself. This improves the handoff between data exploration and production, ensuring data scientists and analysts can work more fluidly with both their outputs and the logic behind them.

To see a full list of what's new in version 2025.1, see our release notes.

DataSpell is licensed per user as a commercial annual subscription. See our DataSpell licensing page for full details.

DataSpell is available individually or as part of JetBrains All Products Pack.

Integrate Rich Calendaring with Minimal Code

May 20, 2025
Offer flexible views, color-coded events, and drag-and-drop rescheduling so users can take full control of their calendar.

Calendars are specialized components that allow developers to present and manage dates and events directly within their applications. They provide ready-made interfaces for selecting dates and displaying scheduled items while synchronizing with external services such as Microsoft 365 and Google Calendar. Common use cases include online booking systems for reserving resources, shift planning tools for staff schedules, and customer-facing appointment portals in industries like healthcare or personal services. By leveraging these calendar components, teams deliver polished, reliable scheduling experiences with minimal effort.

Several .NET Winforms UI suites offer a calendar component including:

  • MindFusion.WinForms Pack lets you embed interactive calendar controls with customizable views, recurrence rules, and event management for scheduling applications.
  • Bunifu UI WinForms allows you to add sleek calendar widgets featuring animations, themes, date-pickers, and range selection for improved scheduling.
  • Telerik UI for WinForms facilitates calendar controls with multiple view modes, data binding, localization, and event highlighting for enterprise scheduling.
  • DevExpress WinForms lets you integrate feature-rich calendar components with customizable appointment templates, resource grouping, and flexible navigation views.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET Winforms UI suites comparison.

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