Nevron .NET Vision Q2 2008 Released
Nevron Software, the leading vendor of data visualization technology and components for .NET, is pleased to announce the production availability of the new major release of Nevron .NET Vision Q2 2008. The major new Q2 version introduces new and improved Gauges, Styling Support, Automatic 2D/3D Pie Data Label Layout, Improved Diagram Layouts, Redesigned Examples and much more.
We are happy to present the newest quarterly release of our data visualization controls for .NET - Q2 2008. This version is our most advanced and complete update of the data visualization component suite yet…, and Yes, there are lots of new things and improvements still to come in 2008.
What’s new in Nevron Chart for .NET (WinForms and ASP.NET) Q2 2008 Release:
Styling Support - The control features an embedded styling support, allowing you to quickly apply a style sheet in order to change the appearance of the chart contents. In addition you can create your own, custom style sheets using a set of style sheet configurators and palettes. The styling mechanism is also open for extension.
Automatic Pie Chart Data Label Layout - The layout algorithm used to resolve label overlapping in 2D is extended to support 3D pie charts as well. The pie chart labels are automatically positioned in a manner that doesn’t allow them to overlap with each other.
Improved Panel Layout - All content panels in the control are extended to support Margins and Padding allowing for a fine gradient control over the panels spacing.
Improved Text Rendering Speed - The text rendering speed for all labels has been significantly improved.
Improved Hit Testing Speed in 3D - Hit testing speed in 3D has been improved. You will find out that the new version behaves much better when hit testing large data sets.
Border Style - All content panels now support a border style allowing you to place a border around the panel content. Radial Gauges have been extended to support custom border styles like Circle, Cut Edge Circle and Rounded Outline.
Paint Effects - All content panels now support a paint effect that emulates the reflection of glass or gel cap over the panel content. This feature allows for the creation of more visually appealing gauges and charts.
Automatic Jittering - In WinForms applications using 3D charts the control can automatically detect a period of inactivity between chart refresh calls and use it to antialias the 3D scene. This greatly improves the visual appearance of 3D charts as jagged edges are removed at minimal performance cost.
Redesigned Examples - All examples of the components have been redesigned in order to take advantage of the improvements in styling, borders, paint effects and layout.
Improved Documentation - The documentation of the component has been improved in order to be more user friendly.
What’s new in Nevron Diagram for .NET (WinForms and ASP.NET) Q2 2008 Release:
Improved Layouts - The following layouts were significantly improved:
- Layered Graph Layout
Added support for orthogonal edge routing, with integrated bus spacing, which allows for the generation of very nice looking orthogonal graph drawings. Added support for node alignment options, which help you specify the relative alignment of nodes inside the layer. Added support for different node ranking policies. Added support of in and out plug spacing, which work very well with bus spacing and further increases the drawing readability.
- Dock Layout
Added support for different filling and fitting modes.
- Orthogonal Graph Layout
Added support for plug spacing.
All layouts were carefully profiled and as a result the layouts now perform much faster.
Improved Documentation - The documentation of the component has been improved in order to be more user friendly.
What’s new in Nevron User Interface for .NET (WinForms) Q2 2008 Release:
Following is a list of fixes introduced in this release:
- Saves / Loads correctly the state of the Toolbars.
- Saves / Loads correctly the order of AutoHide panels.
- Setups the width of NVScrollBar nad NHScrollBar less than the system default.
- When selecting an item in a combo box with two or more items with equal text the SelectedIndex property can now correctly distinguish between such items.
Nevron homepage: http://www.nevron.com/
Free Evaluation: http://www.nevron.com/Downloads.Download.aspx
Source: Nevron Software
NEW: Forums, Converters and Security categories
I have added three more .net software categories to the DotNetFocus site and the number of products listed has increased to over 40.
Forums
The forums category includes both open source and commercial applications that provide forum and discussion/bulleting board features for dot net web sites. I have plans to add forums to the DotNetFocus site and hope in the future to bring you reviews and a report of my experiences of evaluating some of the options available.
Converters
The converters category currently lists software for PDF conversion but will be increased to cover product to convert document and graphic as well.
Security
The category for products that help you implement security in your applications.
New categories and products are going to be constantly added so keep an eye on the site as it develops.
DXperience v2008 vol 2 is Now Available
July 25, 2008 - Developer Express is proud to announce the immediate availability of DXperience v2008 vol 2 – award winning and feature-complete Presentation Components, Reporting Controls, IDE Productivity Tools, and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio.
With v2008 vol 2 we significantly improve the capabilities of our ASP.NET – AJAX components, extend the scope and breadth of our WinForms component collection and enhance the feature-set of the eXpressApp Framework.
For a complete list of the new controls, features and options available to you with DXperience v2008 vol 2, visit us online at:
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/DXperience/WhatsNew2008v2/
New WinForms Controls include:
- XtraWizard - A straightforward component to create step-by-step dialogs for your next WinForms project.
- XtraGauge Suite - A powerful WinForms gauge component suite for dashboard style applications.
Updated Components include:
- ASPxTreeList – Treeview and ListView Hybrid Control for ASP.NET AJAX
- ASPxGridView – Advanced DataGrid and Editors Library for ASP.NET AJAX
- XtraCharts Suite – Elegant Charting and Graphing Library for both WinForms and ASP.NET AJAX
- XtraReports Suite – Easy to Use Reporting Platform for both WinForms and ASP.NET AJAX
- XtraPivotGrid and ASPxPivotGrid – Comprehensive Data Mining and Analytics Component for WinForms and ASP.NET AJAX
- XtraScheduler and ASPxScheduler – Powerful components to help you create MS Outlook Style calendar/scheduling applications for both WinForms and ASP.NET AJAX
To download your free evaluation copy of DXperience for WinForms and ASP.NET along with our entire line-up of market leading IDE Productivity Tools and Application frameworks, visit our product download page at:
http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/
Thank you and best wishes,
The Developer Express Team
www.devexpress.com
DotNetFocus Vendor: DevExpress
Products: XtraGrid Suite, XtraTreeList Suite
DotNetFocus Beta update
My focus (excude the pun) for the DotNetFocus web site is to add the comments and rating system which should be online. The index of .net software will also be continuosly updatedas well as this blog.
Very soon I hope to add three more features:-
- asp.net web site hosting index
- Filter by license type - Open Source, Freeware, Commercial etc
- Filter by technology - asp.net, winforms, wpf, silverlight etc
I would also welcome any suggestions for new features or improvements.
PureComponents Ultimate Suite V2008.1
PureComponents Ultimate Suite is set of 79 .NET WinForms components like Grids, Ribbon, Navigation panels, buttons, textboxes, comboboxes, listboxes and much more.
For a price of only $79 you get access to all products and controls, which you can use with unlimited license and for unlimited time. BUT free updates are NOT included and it does NOT include product support.
It’s good to see a company trying different licensing and I think this license could appeal to quite a few people. For an extra $100 you get a 1 year subscription with support and updates for the year.
Find out more at http://www.purecomponents.com/
Grid FX Sizzling Summer Sale!
For a limited time, you can get Grid FX Developer and Production licenses for just $499. That is over $1500 in savings! Everything you’d expect from a web based enterprise-quality grid component is present in Grid FX. From AJAX to WYSIWYG editing, a robust and feature-rich data visualization component!
This promotion ends on Monday, August 18, 2008.
Link: Grid FX Sizzling Summer Sale!
Telerik Announces Landmark Q2 2008 Release
Newton, MA, July 24, 2008 – Telerik, a leading vendor of developer tools and user interface components for .NET, is excited to announce the Q2 2008 release of its RadControls suites for ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Forms, WPF, and Silverlight, and its .NET Reporting solution. Q2 is a milestone release for Telerik, as it introduces two brand new suites, optimizations in performance and stability across all product lines, and valuable training resources for accelerated learning. Leveraging the power of all major Microsoft platforms, Telerik reinforces its position as a market leader and innovator in web and desktop presentation layer development.
Telerik has a proven record of excellence and pursuit of perfection in UI component development. Its award-winning RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite has set a new performance standard for web development, its RadControls for WinForms was the first to introduce revolutionary WPF-like effects in a WinForms environment allowing previously impossible desktop UI with a familiar technology, and Telerik Reporting established a new level of experience in creating and styling advanced reports with minimum effort.
New Technologies and Products:
Building on its expertise in interface development with established Microsoft technologies, in Q2 Telerik presents component suites for two new platforms, characterized by the same Telerik quality—RadControls for WPF and RadControls for Silverlight 2 Beta. The key advantage of the new suites is that the controls for Silverlight and WPF are derived from the same codebase and share the same API, which is completely in-line with Microsoft’s approach, and ensures code reusability and significantly decreased learning periods.
RadControls for WPF
RadControls for WPF is a natural addition to Telerik’s product portfolio. Inspired by WPF in the days when the technology was still in an early stage of development, Telerik was the first component vendor to add WPF-like effects to its RadControls for Windows Forms suite. Capitalizing on its expertise in WPF, Telerik leverages the power of the new technology to introduce an advanced suite that will change the perception of user interface.
RadControls for WPF are engineered for great performance through lightning fast databinding and smart use of UI and data virtualization. The controls are truly lookless and Expression Blend-stylable, and ship with ready-to-use themes allowing easy reskinning with a single property. Furthermore, they share a common API and the same codebase with their Telerik Silverlight counterparts, guaranteeing synchronized future development.
For more information, please visit RadControls for WPF
RadControls for Silverlight 2 Beta
As a pioneer in Silverlight development and a leader in web interface technologies, Telerik introduces RadControls for Silverlight 2 Beta—a comprehensive suite of 17 controls that brings style and interactivity to any LOB application. The controls are fully stylable through Expression Blend, thus eliminating the need for learning a new styling application. The great performance of the components is guaranteed by the smart use of UI and data virtualization, just as in RadControls for WPF, and by the built-in Load On Demand mechanism, which allows for significant performance gains when working with heavy data.
Thanks to its full interoperability with ASP.NET AJAX, RadControls for Silverlight 2 Beta can also be used to visually enhance existing ASP.NET AJAX applications. This feature allows the addition of Silverlight functionality to existing ASP.NET AJAX websites without requiring major project rewrites. The suite ships with ready-to-use themes, and additional skins will be added with every new release.
For more information, please visit RadControls for Silverlight 2 Beta
New Training Resources:
Highly praised for its first-class technical and educational support, in Q2, along with the new suites and controls, Telerik also introduces two valuable training resources to accelerate everyone’s learning of its products, and at the same time educate and inspire the .NET community. The first resource, Telerik Trainer, is an interactive multimedia tool combining video training and hands-on coding to create a unique experience that is arguably the most advanced self-paced training available on the market. The other tool, Telerik TV, is an online library of showcase videos focusing on real applications, serving real business needs and built with Telerik’s development tools.
For more information, please visit Telerik Trainer
For more information, please visit Telerik TV
Performance and Stability Optimizations:
The Q2 release brings great new additions and optimizations across all existing product lines.
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX:
Officially introduced in Q1 2008, RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX quickly gained popularity and much acclaim for their robustness, reliability, and unmatched performance. Telerik’s innovative set of web components is built entirely on top of ASP.NET AJAX, utilizing its familiar programming model and leveraging completely the power and flexibility of Microsoft’s framework. With Q2, the ASP.NET AJAX suite reinforces its position as the preferred and most mature and comprehensive toolset for building rich and responsive web applications. The new release introduces a brand new RadRotator component that offers great client-side control and cross browser support. Also in the release are further enhancements in RadGrid, RadScheduler, and RadComboBox for greater performance and stability. All other controls in the ASP.NET AJAX suite feature important upgrades and optimizations.
For more information, please visit RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
RadControls for WinForms:
In line with Telerik’s goal of always being at the forefront of innovation, its line of desktop components has introduced unique visual effects, still unmatched by other vendors, and previously impossible in Windows Forms. RadControls for WinForms bridge the learning gap between the Windows Forms and WPF technologies by incorporating spectacular effects like animations, rotation, and transparency in the familiar and mature Windows Forms technology. The Q2 release of the suite offers even more advanced rich application development tools, as well as significant optimizations in performance and stability and extended support for large-scale applications. The Q2 version features a new Multi-Column ComboBox and ApplicationMenu, in addition to major improvements in the Carousel, Grid, Form, Menu and Label controls.
For more information, please visit RadControls for WinForms
Telerik Reporting:
Q2 is also an important release for Telerik’s intuitive and easy-to-use tool for data presentation . Telerik Reporting Q2 2008 offers several high-level improvements that will facilitate the development of large business projects, and that take Telerik Reporting one step closer to being a true Business Intelligence instrument with strong data analysis capabilities. Among the major additions to Telerik Reporting are: Barcode Item, Checkbox Item, Project Upgrade Wizard to help migrate existing projects to newer Telerik versions, updated report convertors, and support for ASP.NET AJAX.
For more information, please visit Telerik Reporting
Pricing and Availability
The price of the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Reporting Subscription License is $1299 per developer seat and for every purchase until October 1, 2008 customers will also receive complimentary licenses for Telerik’s just released Silverlight and WPF controls. The license comes with a Gold Support Package (guaranteed 24h response time), full C# source code, redistribution rights and free updates for the latest products for one year. All the tools work without license keys and can be freely deployed on an unlimited number of development, testing and production servers. A step-by-step self-paced tutorial and hundreds of code samples are provided to accelerate your learning.
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX is available with a Developer License for $799 and with a Developer License with Subscription and Source Code for $999.
RadControls for WinForms is available with a Developer License for $799 and with a Developer License with Subscription and Source Code for $999.
Telerik Reporting is available with a Developer License for $399 and with a Developer License with Subscription and Source Code for $599.
About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of development tools and components for Microsoft .NET. Developers from most of the Fortune 2000 companies, many of the world’s leading educational and non-profit organizations and thousands of consultants rely on Telerik products to build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. For more info on Telerik and the Q2 2008 release, please visit: http://www.telerik.com.
DotNetFocus Vendor: Telerik
Products: RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax, RadControls for WinForms
ActiveDbSoft Summer Sales - 20% off in July 2008
Active Database Software has a summer sale on for July 2008 where you can get 20% off their Active Query Builder software.
Dundas Software Starter Bundles - Special offer for next 7 days
If you are looking at purchasing Dundas Chart for ASP.NET, Dundas Gauge for ASP.NET or Dundas Map for ASP.NET then look at the software bundle deals available until July 31st 2008.
The Dundas Starter Bundles give you additional server licenses and full maintenance for no extra cost.
Link: Dundas Starter Bundles
Free e-learning offers from Microsoft
Microsoft are offering “free e-learning” including free ebook - Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo and official e-learning course Collection 6261: Developing Rich Experiences Using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008
Pop along to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Learning Portal to find out more.
