ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight

New Features

New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2011 V3

• New OutlookBar control - provides a Microsoft Outlook-like side-bar navigation system which groups menus and controls into distinct categories.
• Chart for Silverlight enhancements - includes a new high-performance bitmap rendering mode for line and symbol chart types, support for multiple radial axes for radar charts, a new event to customise the appearance of axis labels programmatically and enhanced clipping behavior when using stacked plot areas.
• FlexGrid for Silverlight enhancements - ShowOutlineBar property shows a row of numbered buttons on the first column header and a new ChildItemsPath property allows easy tree view creation.
• DataGrid - allows multi-cell selection by dragging the mouse over the cells.
• PDFViewer - enhanced with thumbnail and document outline (bookmark) support.
• Toolbar - new support for Office 2007 and Office 2010 visual themes.
• TreeView - enhanced with built-in editing support.

New in ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2011 V2

• Localisation support for 14 international languages - easily localise Silverlight controls in 14 languages including Arabic, German, French, Italian, Russian and more
• New Excel for Silverlight - read and write Microsoft Excel files (XLSX) from C# and VB.net code - you don't even need Microsoft Excel installed
• New TileView for Silverlight - tile view control that enables expansion and contraction of tiles to view more or less information. With drag-and-drop reordering of tiles at runtime users can easily create dashboards
• New Cosmopolitan theme - a brand new theme based off the latest Microsoft toolkit theme that can be applied across your entire application
• Scheduler for Silverlight enhancements - now supports a time line view for displaying appointments - in this view the time is displayed horizontally and groups are arranged vertically, much like the ‘Schedule’ view in Microsoft Outlook 2010
• C1DataGrid enhancements - now has a built-in multi-value filter to combine multiple filters on the same column
• C1FlexGrid - new ChildItemsPath property allows for easy treeview creation
• C1PdfViewer - enhanced with GPU acceleration and bitmap caching
• C1Toolbar - now features collapse, help and dialog launcher buttons.

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