ComponentOne Studio for WPF

New Features

New in ComponentOne Studio for WPF 2011 V3

• New OutlookBar control - provides a Microsoft Outlook-like side-bar navigation system which groups menus and controls into distinct categories.
• New binding expressions library - an expression syntax that can be used directly in XAML data binding statements - concatenate strings, compute formulas and apply if/else logic without the need for code-behind converters.
• Chart for WPF 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 WPF 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 enhancements - allows multi-cell selection by dragging the mouse over the cells.
• PdfViewer enhancements - enhanced with thumbnail and document outline (bookmark) support.
• TreeView enhancements - enhanced with built-in editing support.

New in ComponentOne Studio for WPF 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 WPF - read and write Microsoft Excel files (XLSX) from C# and VB.net code - you don't even need Microsoft Excel installed
• New TileView for WPF - 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 TreeView for WPF control - similar to the TreeView control but with more features such as keyboard-based search, drag-and-drop, editing, auto-search, hierarchical templates and more
• New DragDropManager for WPF - effortlessly add drag-and-drop operations with a more visually appealing UI
• New FilePicker for WPF - for easy and quick file selection
• Scheduler for WPF 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
• Reports for WPF - added support for C1MultiDocument and export to the XPS file format
• C1Toolbar - now features collapse, help and dialog launcher buttons.

Features

Promote Collaboration using XAML-based Controls
ComponentOne WPF controls are built with XAML to promote collaboration in your team and fit seamlessly into your Developer/Designer workflow.

Extend your deployment capabilities with XBAP support
The WPF components are fully compatable with the XBAP deployment capabilities of Windows Presentaion Foundation. The XBAP deployment allows publishing to the client’s (supported) browser for a full featured application without an Windows installation.

Animate Your Data, Enhance Your User Experience
Studio for WPF components can give your application rich Data Visualisations with little effort. ComponentOne have capitalised on the capabilities of this new presenation layer framework to bring you the tools for enhancing your User Experience.

Take Reports from Basic & Brilliant
The quality of reports can make or break an application. Reports for WPF provides incredible capabilities with 3D Charts, dynamic controls, interactive components, and easy databinding. ComponentOne have also provided the capabilities of standard reports with print, preview and export utilities.

Add the Hottest Themes to Your Apps Including: Windows 7, Office 2010, OS-X and more
Many controls are dull by nature and we want your UI to match your elaborate code. All of ComponentOne's new components are packaged with new and improved Themes based on the latest trends in UI design.

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