ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight

New Features

New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2013 v1

• New Tile Controls - create tiled displays and navigation hubs with several different tile controls that support sliding and flipping animations with live updates.
• FlexGrid enhancements - supports Excel-style auto complete when editing data.
• DataGrid enhancements - introduces improved clipboard support.
• DockControl enhancements - supports 'rip out' of tabs to make them floating and supports docking floating tabs into other floating tabs.
• PdfViewer enhancements - supports reading of encrypted files.
• Turkish localisation - all control libraries now include Turkish localised resources.

New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2012 V3

• Chart enhancements - this release introduces a range of additional capabilities: data point selection so you can implement selection interaction when the user clicks, taps or mouses over a specific data point; plot element animation api for creating various visual animated effects for plot elements; and automatic series generation support which is useful for MVVM scenarios.
• New ListBox controls - features two new gesture-based list box controls. The C1TileListBox supports multiple columns and rows to create tile displays while the C1ListBox supports gesture-based zoom.
• Silverlight 5 enhancements - property grid, datagrid and flexgrid controls support extended properties from classes implementing ICustomTypeProvider.
• ComboBox - auto-search filtering now supports additional 'contains' conditions in addition to the default 'starts with'.
• DataGrid - customise the filter condition applied in the built-in filter row - use 'contains', 'starts with' or 'equals'.
• Scheduler - new AppointmentType property for showing customised content or performing different actions depending on property value.
• TabControl - new VisibleItems property and VisibleItemsChanged events enable you to determine which tabs are visible to the end-user when scrolling is in effect.
• TreeView - show connected lines in C1TreeView by simply setting the ShowLines property.

New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2012 V2

• Themes - 6 new Microsoft Office-like themes in blue, black or silver in Office 2007 or Office 2010 styles.
• Stacked Pie Charts - C1Chart control has a new stacked pie chart type.
• Silverlight 5 Vector Printing - vector printing gives better printing performance for C1DataGrid, C1FlexGrid, C1PdfViewer and C1ReportViewer.
• Chinese Input and Localisation - C1RichTextBox and C1FlexGrid have added IME support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean input. There are also localised resources for Chinese across the entire studio.
• Chart for Silverlight enhancements - create zoom charts with the new AxisRangeSlider class and hide overlapping labels with the new Axis.AnnoVisibility property.
• DockControl for Silverlight enhancements - updates to the load method improves performance.
• DataGrid/FlexGrid for Silverlight enhancements - added overloads to the Print method to support printerFallback and useDefaultPrinter.
• Maps for Silverlight enhancements - authentication now uses Bing Maps Key instead of Bing Maps Token.
• PdfViewer for Silverlight enhancements - new ParsingError event catches errors when loading unsupported/encrypted PDF documents, new events help you to display notifications while page content is loading and a new AutoContentRotation property indicates whether the printer should automatically flip the orientation of the pages.
• RichTextBox for Silverlight enhancements - new Tables property gets the collection of C1Table Objects and a new CaretBrush property controls the appearance of the caret.

Features

Complete Suite of Silverlight Controls (30+)

Studio for Silverlight is a comprehensive set of Silverlight controls, including grids, charts, gauges, maps, books, menus, treeviews, rich textboxes, layout panels, uploaders, and much more!

Get the Controls You Really Need

Studio for Silverlight includes the full-featured RichTextBox, with support for rich formatting, images, lists, hyperlinks, HTML import/export, and more; Chart, with professionally designed themes and palettes, support for animations and interactivity; DataGrid, with enhanced editor support and built-in data filters, Data, a Silverlight version of the ADO.NET classes that make writing data-centric applications easy; Gauges, for creating dashboards that display quantitative data in an appealing and intuitive way; Book, a new way to display information organised in pages that can be turned with the mouse, and much, much more.

Take Data Visualisation to a New Level

Studio for Silverlight enables you to generate the rich, interactive applications that your users demand:

• Display rich, interactive geographical information in maps
• Create animated data visuals in charts
• Develop complex dashboards with ease
• Add powerful, data-bound grids to your applications

Support for the Most Popular Silverlight Toolkit Themes

Add style to your UI with built-in support for the most popular Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit themes, including ExpressionDark, ExpressionLight, WhistlerBlue, RainerOrange, ShinyBlue, and BureauBlack.

Break Out of Browser Limitations

With Silverlight, you can stay innovative without worrying about browser and platform support. The Silverlight controls work in all major browsers and platforms, allowing you to deliver Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for the Web.

Full Support for Microsoft Expression Blend

Use Expression Blend to fully style Studio for Silverlight controls. This allows developers to easily create rich graphical interfaces for their Rich Internet Applications.

Promote Designer/Developer Collaboration

Built with XAML, Studio for Silverlight controls promote collaboration in your team and fit seamlessly into your developer/designer workflow. Furthermore, you can take XAML from Silverlight and use it in your WPF application.

Subscriptions

ComponentOne Standard Support

ComponentOne Standard Support is a one year subscription included in the purchase of the product and can be renewed once the year's subscription is up. Standard support provides:

• Product updates - for the period of your subscription you will receive any updates for the products you hold licenses for
• Email support - submit an incident through email
• Online support - submit an incident through the Web and receive an email response
• Knowledgebase access - provides access to key documents on all products
• Forum access - provide comments and share knowledge in the ComponentOne forums
• Email project for analysis

ComponentOne Platinum Support

ComponentOne Platinum Support is an optional purchase. Platinum support provides:

• 24 hour FastTrack response (excludes weekends and US holidays) - submit issues to ComponentOne and ComponentOne will attempt to provide a resolution within 24 hours
• Phone support - talk directly to ComponentOne to get your issues solved
• Pre-release access to software - get access to ComponentOne beta software releases