ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2009

ComponentOne Releases Studio Enterprise 2009
A Sign That Web Development is Being Redefined in 2009

This is ComponentOne’s first release of Studio Enterprise this year and the primary focus is on Rich Internet and Smart Client applications. They have added new Silverlight controls, reengineered their ASP.NET controls on a new, lightweight Framework and enhanced existing controls for the Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation Frameworks.

Richly styled UIs are uncomplicated with ComponentOne’s Silverlight controls. They added support for the most popular Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit themes. Their new image editing class, C1Bitmap, makes it possible to edit and transform image programmatically. Three new controls have also been added, expanding the end-users ability to edit data in Silverlight: C1PropertyGrid, C1TimePicker and C1DateTimePicker.

For their reengineered ASP.NET controls, the company has taken advantage of the latest Web technology to simplify the use of its controls. The new C1GridView for ASP.NET now shares a similar object model to the out-of-the box Microsoft GridView, making for effortless transition and at the same time, gaining features including row filtering, virtual scrolling and an extensive client-side object model.

The biggest enhancement to the suites Windows Forms controls is visible in its PDF for .NET control. This control now supports AcroForms/AcroFields and HTML rendering. Developers can create Acrobat forms with the following filed types: textbox, checkbox, radio button, push button, combo box and list box.

ComponentOne rounds out their component suite with controls for Windows Presentation Foundation, iPhone, Mobile and ActiveX. With the lack of spell-checking capabilities in Microsoft Visual Studio, ComponentOne has added IntelliSpell to Studio Enterprise. This add-in spell-checks code, comments, strings, HTML, XML, resources and general text in both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005.

ComponentOne released ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2009 v2. Studio Enterprise provides a complete suite of custom controls for Windows, Web, and Mobile application development. The company’s second release of Studio Enterprise this year brings new controls, features, and benefits to the developer community. The expansion of their offering for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) debuts seven new controls, from gauge controls which visually display data to input controls which showcase multiple data formats and add data validation. As ComponentOne’s control suite grows for Microsoft Silverlight 3, the amount of WPF platform controls will increase as well, since their Silverlight 3 controls will be ported to WPF.

STUDIO ENTERPRISE 2009 V2 COMPONENTS

* New in Studio Enterprise V2.