What's New in Prior Releases?

The 2011 v3 release of ComponentOne Studio® Enterprise features a brand new studio, new controls, and product enhancements across all the popular .NET platforms. Studio for Entity Framework joins the expansive Studio Enterprise in this release, making Microsoft Entity Framework unbelievably easy and even more powerful. For those that need reporting tools, the addition of Reports Designer Edition to Studio Enterprise is sure to please. The release also debuts an array of ASP.NET AJAX controls, including new HTML5 gauges and chart types. Join us as we countdown this and more top new features in 2011 v3!

Studio for Entity Framework 2011 v3

The new Studio for Entity Framework simplifies and enhances the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework and RIA Services. It provides performance enhancements such as fast loading and transparent scrolling over infinitely large data sets with Virtual Mode. You can use it with ComponentOne UI controls or with any others in WinForms, WPF and Silverlight applications. Check out a getting started video to introduce yourself.

Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo 2011 v3

This release of Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo adds highly-requested HTML5 gauge controls, a powerful new editor, new chart types, a new family of graphical controls, a rating control, and product enhancements.

Studio for WinForms 2011 v3

The 2011 v3 Studio for WinForms release brings tremendous value to our C1Report customers with the addition of Report Designer Edition. Now WinForms customers can get redistribution rights to our C1ReportDesigner application allowing them to deliver report designing to end-users.

Studio for Silverlight 2011 v3

The ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight 2011 v3 release includes a new OutlookBar control which mimics the Microsoft Outlook navigation pane, and several enhancements to Chart and PdfViewer.

Studio for WPF 2011 v3

The ComponentOne Studio for WPF 2011 v3 release includes a new OutlookBar control, binding markup extensions, and enhancements for several controls.

Studio for Windows Phone 2011 v3

In August we released Studio for Windows Phone, which includes over 15 UI controls for data visualization, rich text, data input and layout, as well as four class libraries which speed up development time. This Windows Phone control suite is available in Studio for Silverlight, Studio Enterprise, and Studio Ultimate. New updates in this release include four touch-based controls: ContextMenu, DateTimePicker, ProgressBar, and ToggleSwitch.

The 2011 v2 release of ComponentOne Studio® Enterprise includes major enhancements to our Web stack as well as additions to Silverlight, WPF, and WinForms. Join us as we countdown the top new features in 2011 v2.

Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo Highlights

We've taken our ASP.NET suite and rewritten it based on our new Wijmo client-side framework. You will see outstanding improvements in performance, a new easy-to-use theming infrastructure, and cool new controls like SVG Charts! This studio offers the best controls for ASP.NET in the market powered by HTML5 and jQuery.

• Interactive HTML5 charts powered by SVG
• High-performance jQuery grid
• 6 Premium CSS3 themes, 24 jQuery UI themes, and Themeroller - a custom theme builder
• Replaces Studio for ASP.NET AJAX
• Uses Wijmo as client-side framework

Studio for MVC Wijmo

This new studio is built with the latest standards in Web technology including HTML5 and jQuery. It offers tools to help MVC developers quickly create rich applications.

• 30 jQuery UI widgets
• Wijmo MVC 3 project template
• MVC scaffolding automatically enhanced with Wijmo
• Wijmo-enhanced EditorTemplates like Date Picker, Numeric Input, Slider, and more

Studio for Silverlight/WPF Highlights

Our Silverlight and WPF controls share the same codebase, so the same new features and controls are available for both platforms.

• Built-in localized resources for 14 international languages for easy localization
• New Excel component for reading and writing to Microsoft Excel files
• New TileView control for creating interactive visualizations with expand and collapse tiles, drag-and-drop reordering
• New Time Line view in Scheduler for displaying appointments in a horizontal layout similar to the 'Schedule' view in Microsoft Outlook 2010

Studio for WinForms Highlights

• New control pack for Windows 7 integration
• New component for 2D barcode generation
• Conditional filtering added to True DBGrid

The 2011 release of ComponentOne Studio® Enterprise includes major enhancements to cross-platform Charts as well as additions to Grids, Schedulers, RichTextBox, Ribbon, and others. Join us as we countdown the top new features in 2011 v1, including Studio Enterprise additions and a ComponentOne product debut.

Studio for WinForms Highlights

• Resource grouping added to Scheduler.
• Contextual tab support added to Ribbon.
• SuperTooltip includes the new C1SuperErrorProvider component for displaying rich error information.
• Reports includes the new C1MultiDocument component for creating, persisting and exporting multiple documents and very large documents.

Studio for WPF Highlights

• Chart enhancements: support for multiple plot areas, positioning interactive elements on the chart, a new fast render mode, plus more.
• Excel-like filtering support added to FlexGrid.
• New RichTextBox control which can load, edit, and save formatted text, including tables, images and hyperlinks, as HTML or RTF.
• New ReportViewer control which can display any HTML or PDF-based report.
• New Carousel control for displaying interactive and animated 3D lists.

Studio for Silverlight Highlights

• Chart enhancements; for example, new Chart Layers collection for displaying elements on the chart such as markers, labels, and interactive elements more easily.
• Excel-like filtering support added to FlexGrid.
• Enhanced support for inserting and editing images added to RichTextBox.
• New Carousel control for displaying interactive and animated 3D lists.

Studio for Active X Highlights

• 64-bit version of C1Query added. Applications targeting 64-bit experience better performance with larger available memory allocation.

The 2010 v3 release of ComponentOne Studio® Enterprise includes major enhancements to cross-platform reporting as well as additions to grids, charts, schedulers, ribbon, and more.

Highlights of the Release

Studio for WinForms

• Enhanced support for SQL Server Reporting Services
• New Microsoft Office 2010 Visual Styles
• 20+ new pre-designed Gauges templates

Studio for WPF

• New PdfViewer control to view PDF documents
• Scheduler grouping added
• New Chart3D control to render 3D surface and contour charts

Studio for ASP.NET AJAX

• Enhanced support for SQL Server Reporting Services
• 20+ new pre-designed Gauges templates
• Excel for .NET supports subtotals and outline-level grouping for rows and columns

Studio for Silverlight

• New ReportViewer and PdfViewer controls
• Scheduler grouping added
• New Chart3D control to render 3D surface and contour charts
• ClearStyle support across all controls making design work a simple task

Save serious time and money with tools for every platform, covering your every need from world-famous grids to rich data visualization controls. This new release brings many enhancements and new controls in WPF along with new samples for quick learning. See what makes Studio Enterprise the easiest-to-use custom Microsoft Visual Studio controls on the market. Studio Enterprise controls are fully compatible with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010, 2008, and 2005.

Highlights of the Release

• Studio for WinForms
  Our suite of Windows Forms controls, fully compatible with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010, just got better with more features and design-time interactivity. True DBGrid has more Microsoft Excel-like functionality, and Editor for WinForms now has support for public history, enhanced list support, and a new ColorPicker control. And with enhanced design-time editors in Gauges for WinForms, you can quickly create, style, and customize your gauges.
• Studio for WPF
  The newest version of our WPF control set introduces five new controls. Each control is fully compatible to its Silverlight equivalent so you can quickly build both rich desktop client and Web applications with shared code. And with over 25 feature-rich WPF controls, you have the tools you need to build high-performance data visualization solutions.
• Studio for ASP.NET AJAX
  The latest ASP.NET control suite now has three new samples along with performance enhancements. Learn best practices from these real-world samples; the sample source code is provided for you to follow along. Combine that with the power of jQuery and see why Studio for ASP.NET AJAX is on fire.
• Studio for Silverlight
  The newest version of our Silverlight control suite takes full advantage of all classes and features found in Silverlight 4. Packed with over 50 controls for Silverlight, we continue to build the suite and add value with a new calendar control and enhancements to popular controls.
• Studio for iPhone
  Our suite of iPhone controls just got better with iPhone4 and iPad support along with more samples for easy learning.

Get your custom Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 controls today. This new release brings many enhancements and new controls in WinForms, WPF, and ASP.NET, along with support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. See what makes Studio Enterprise the easiest-to-use custom Microsoft Visual Studio controls on the market.

Highlights of the Release

• New WinForms controls drive desktop development.
  Linear and radial gauge controls join the WinForms award-winning suite. Existing controls such as FlexGrid and Chart have several enhancements. Enjoy FlexGrid Excel-style filtering, new concentric, stacked Pie Chart type, and more.
• WPF control suite expands to parallel Silverlight collection.
  The expansion of Studio for WPF debuts more controls ported from Silverlight, including Scheduler, DateTimePicker, TimeEditor, DockControl, TabControl, and Window. This release also includes performance gains from grouping and sorting in Grid for WPF as well as built-in axis scroll bars, aggregate charts, and accessible axis limits in Chart for WPF.
• Improve your entire Web Form apps in minutes with ASP.NET AJAX controls. This new release of Studio for ASP.NET AJAX includes jQuery integration, DynamicData 4.0 support, new ReportViewer and Gauges controls, and more. This new control suite is so powerful; you have to try it to believe it.
• Silverlight 4 is here, and we have the controls to support it. Select from over 50 award-winning Silverlight controls. Improvements to C1DataGrid include column virtualization, support for autosizing and explicitly setting row sizes, and a heavily optimized rendering engine for better performance. C1ComboBox and C1Book also have several enhancements.
• Studio for iPhone supports the top smart phones in the market.
  Use the ASP.NET Studio for iPhone controls in your Android OS, Droid, Nexus One as well as the Palm Pre.

The best path to cutting-edge technology solutions is yours with Studio Enterprise 2009 v3. This new release brings new controls in WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and iPhone; product enhancements; a CSS theme builder; and more. Now you can edit your Xhtml documents and schedule reports in your Windows Forms; create rounded corners in your Web apps; generate PDFs in Silverlight; add an alphabetical listing to your Web page in your iPhone; and more. See what makes Studio Enterprise the easiest-to-use custom Microsoft Visual Studio controls on the market.

Highlights of the Release

• New WinForms controls drive desktop development.
  C1Editor control and Report Scheduler application join the WinForms award-winning suite. Empower end-users to edit Xhtml documents and assign tasks for scheduling reports. Existing controls such as FlexGrid and PDF have several enhancements.
• WPF control suite expands to parallel Silverlight collection.
  The expansion of Studio for WPF debuts 8 new controls, from basic container controls to media player and property grid controls. As the Studio for Silverlight control suite grows, so will the number of controls for the WPF platform as the Silverlight 3 controls will be ported to WPF.
• 50+ Silverlight 3 controls strong and counting.
  With over 50 controls, you may wonder how it could get any larger. This release proves it can. Studio for Silverlight now includes PDF, DockControl, TabControl, and Toolbar controls built on the Silverlight 3 platform. You also get improvements to DataGrid, Gauges, RichTextBox, and Chart.
• CSS theme builder and new control to style and shape your web apps.
  Change color and theme properties in your web app with just a few clicks using Foxy for ASP.NET. Add rounded corners to your web apps with the new ASP.NET AJAX SuperPanel control. On top of that we have added rich new Windows 7 themes to the Studio!
• Add interactive scrolling with the ViewScroller control for iPhone. The ViewScroller is modeled after the alphabetic list menu on the iPhone contacts list. It is a great way of adding quick navigation through long lists or lengthy content. Enhance the usability of your app with this navigation control.

Studio Enterprise 2009 v2 brings new controls, features, and benefits. Get the most styled, supercharged, and easiest-to-use custom Microsoft Visual Studio controls on the market.

• WPF Control Suite Keeps Growing

  The expansion of Studio for WPF debuts 7 new controls, from gauge controls which make data display visually appealing to input controls with masks and editors. As the Studio for Silverlight control suite grows, so will the number of controls for the WPF platform as the Silverlight 3 controls will be ported to WPF.

• Full Suite of Silverlight 3 Controls

  The 2009 v2 release of Studio for Silverlight now has over 40 controls built on the Silverlight 3 platform. In addition to porting all of the Silverlight 2 controls to Silverlight 3, the suite also includes new schedule and media player controls.

• Styled and Supercharged ASP.NET AJAX Controls

  This release brings performance gains to Studio for ASP.NET, a Web-based skin customization tool, and 5 new ASP.NET AJAX controls: FormDecorator, ProgressBar, Uploader, ToolTip, and ComboBox. See how easy it is to style simple elements like buttons or checkboxes on your Web apps for a rich UI experience. Just add the C1FormDecorator control to your Web page and go. You can also improve the user experience with context-sensitive ToolTips (C1Tooltip) and an editable text box with an auto-searchable drop-down list (C1ComboBox).

• Putting the “Win” in WinForms

  The features you've been looking for have been added to our popular Excel and SpellChecker components. Excel for.NET users can now specify a formula for a cell with the new XlCell.Formula property. Additional enhancements have been made to SpellChecker for WinForms; users can now use the C1SpellChecker control to spell-check controls that derive from the WebBrowser class.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2009 includes new controls and updates that bring enhanced performance and presentation to your application development. This includes Microsoft Outlook-style grouping in DataGrid for Silverlight and built-in support for the most popular Microsoft Toolkit themes in Studio for Silverlight; new controls in Studio for ASP.NET and Studio for Silverlight; improvements to existing controls in Studio for WinForms and Studio for WPF; and so much more.

With Studio Enterprise 2009 you get an unparalleled set of controls for rich Internet and smart client application development. Read on to find out more about the highlights of the release.

Studio for Silverlight

The 2009 release is packed with enhancements to existing Silverlight controls as well as new controls and a new image editing class. Get all this and more with Studio for Silverlight 2009:

• DataGrid for Silverlight now supports Microsoft Outlook-style grouping.
• RichTextBox for Silverlight now supports undo/redo and RTF import/export.
• Add style to your UI with built-in support for the most popular Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit themes.
• Get the Silverlight control you need; a new class and 3 controls have been added to the suite: C1Bitmap class, C1PropertyGrid, C1TimePicker, and C1DateTimePicker.
• Renewed Gauges for Silverlight: new types of ranges, support for off mode, label format, and more.

Studio for ASP.NET

This next-generation of ASP.NET AJAX controls enables you to evolve your Web applications. Benefit from using the best quality, enhanced controls.

• Experience more interaction on the client-side with new lightweight, high-performance controls: GridView, ToolBar, Editor, Schedule, Calendar, and Input.
• Create themed and animated applications using dozens of built-in styles and effects.

Studio for WinForms

The 2009 release brings rich new features to popular Windows Forms components including PDF, FlexGrid, Preview, Chart, and more.

PDF for WinForms

• Create Interactive PDF Forms with PDF for WinForms: PDF for WinForms now includes AcroForms/AcroFields support. You can create Acrobat forms with the following field types: textbox, checkbox, radio button, push button, combo box, and list box.

FlexGrid for WinForms

• Show a Watermark for Adding New Rows: Specify a string that is displayed in the new row template that appears when the AllowAddNew property is set to true.
• Add Row-level Validation: New events, RowValidating and RowValidated, allow you to perform row-level validation and optionally prevent the end-user from leaving a row if it fails validation.
• Customize Subtotal Rows: New events, BeforeSubtotal and AfterSubtotal, allow you to customize the subtotal rows and modify their style, content, or suspend the creation of some subtotal rows altogether.
• Specify Cell Merging Modes: Identify different merging modes for fixed and scrollable cells. This is especially useful in situations where you want to merge column headers using one merge mode and data using a different mode.
• Copy Column and/or Row Headers to the Clipboard: Specify if you want to include the grids column and/or row headers in the data copied to the clipboard by setting one property.
• Control the Behavior of the Grid’s Edit Mode: Choose if the grid goes into edit mode when the end-user hits the ENTER key or left arrow key.

Report for WinForms

• Rounded Borders: Render objects in C1PrintDocument now can have rounded borders.
• Preview Pane Context Menu: Preview now includes a default context menu. You can customize and disable the context menu.
• More Printing Options: Preview now allows end-users to cancel printing when printing from the C1Preview control.
• Localization Strings Added to the Preview Pane: ToolTip end-user localizable strings were added to the preview pane making it easier for end-users to view documents. For example, "Double-click to hide top/bottom margins and headers".

Chart for WinForms

• Enhanced Stacking Bar and Column Charts: You can now show lines in between series rectangles from point to point in Stacked 2D Bar and Column charts by setting the Bar.BarLines property to true. You can adjust the line color and line thickness for the lines.
• Show Flat Gridlines in Radar Charts: Specify whether to use the flat Y coordinate gridlines for Radar charts.
• Render Series in Clockwise Direction in Pie Charts: Specify whether the series slices are rendered in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
• Draw Axis Annotations Near the Maximum or Minimum Value of the Axis on the Chart's Plot Area: Set high and low values to specify the maximum and minimum positions of the cross axis. For example, if high is specified for the X axis, then the annotations are placed near the maximum value of the Y axis, which is not necessarily the top of the chart.
• Render Double Byte Characters Top to Bottom: Added the new properties that allow some double byte characters to be rendered from top to bottom instead of left to right. For single byte characters vertical text appears as rotated text, 90 degrees in the clockwise direction.
• Rotation for Vertical Axis Annotation: You can now rotate vertical annotation on the axis.

Schedule for WinForms

• Month/Year C1Calendar Selectors: The C1Calendar control now includes drop-down month and year selectors at run time. This improves ease of navigation in the control. At run time, simply click the month or year in the calendar's header to choose a month or year to navigate to.

Studio for WPF

Chart for WPF

• New chart types: Radar, HighLowOpenClose, Candle, and Gantt.

Grid for WPF

• Calculate Totals Automatically: Add totaling to columns in your grid. Easily total columns with sum, average, minimum, maximum, and count functions, or create your own custom totals function.
• Reorder Columns Programmatically: Change the visual order of columns by programmatically reordering the columns in C1DataGrid's actual column collections.
• Style Columns by Data Type: Style columns by type using type based column style mapping. Format how columns appear depending on their DataType; for example, format columns differently depending on if the data they contain are strings, Boolean values, integers, and so on.
• Control When Updated Cell Values Are Committed: Control when cell values updated by the end-user are committed to the underlying data source. You can choose if grid and column items are updated immediately or on cell end edit.
• Add Column Value Formatting: Easily format a column; for example, format as date, percent, currency, or so on.
• Customize Text Wrapping and Alignment: You now have even more control over the appearance and formatting of text in the grid. Several new properties controlling grid cell text wrapping and alignment have been added.

IntelliSpell

• Spell-check Camel Cased and Mixed Cased Words: Specify camel cased and mixed case words (for example, ComponentOne) are checked as one long string or broken up into individual words.
• Spell-check Underscore Words: Specify if strings with underscores are checked as one long string or broken apart and checked between the underscores.
• Ignore Words Based on Wildcards: Set the list of words to ignore when spell checking by using wildcards.

The 2008 v3 release of Studio Enterprise now includes a complete suite of 30+ Silverlight controls, 12 new and enhanced ASP.NET controls, and more features added to Windows Forms and WPF controls. With this release, you now have all the tools you need to create amazing Web and Windows applications.

30+ Silverlight Controls in Studio for Silverlight

• 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, our 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 organized in pages that can be turned with the mouse
• And more!

New Line of ASP.NET Controls in Studio for ASP.NET

• Compatible with the ever changing standards and formats.
• Support major browsers, including IE, Mozilla, Opera, Firefox and Safari.
• Generate a 3x smaller footprint for your pages.
• Experience a performance gain.
• Integrate easily with CSS and JavaScript.

Enhancements to Studio for WinForms

The 2008 v3 release of Studio Enterprise brings rich new features to popular Windows Forms components including grid, schedule, preview, Ribbon, and more.

ComponentOne FlexGrid® for WinForms: It is now possible to scroll the C1FlexGrid control horizontally at design time so you can easily set column properties.

ComponentOne True DBGrid® for WinForms: The SelectedStyle property, which controls the appearance of selected rows and columns, is now honored when rendering using Microsoft Office VisualStyles.

ComponentOne Schedule™ for WinForms: The following enhancements have been made to Schedule for WinForms in the 2008 v3 release:

• Able to Export and Import Schedules: You can now import and export data easily using the Import and Export methods.
• Print and Preview the Schedule: End-users can now print the schedule and view a print preview of schedule appointment data using the run-time context menu or buttons on the toolbar of the Appointment dialog box. Printing is based on using the C1PrintDocument component and C1PrintPreviewDialog form via reflection.
• Hide Appointments in Month View Mode: A new property enables you to determine whether to show appointment times in the month view.
• Localization Support: At design time you can open a localization form from Smart Designer or from the SmartTag. This form contains all UI strings that can be localized. Simply add new locale for your language and type in translations. This will create localized resources in .resx files. You can add as many locales as you want, and use the .resx file in multiple projects.

ComponentOne Reports™ for WinForms: The following enhancements have been made to Preview for WinForms in the 2008 v3 release:

• Insert Indexes in Your Document: You can now automatically generate indexes using the C1PrintDocument control, and customize the way the generated index looks. Each index consists of an alphabetized sorted list of letter headings with entries followed by lists of page numbers where the entry occurs. There can be several indexes in a document.
• Support for Editing Tag Values at Run Time: You can now show a form for the end-user to enter tag values for the tags contained in the Tags collection of a C1PrintDocument. You have the option to display all tags, specific tags, and specify when the Tags dialog box is visible to the end-user.
• Font Substitutions Accommodated: Font embedding has been significantly changed to accommodate font substitutions. New public properties and supporting types were added to C1PrintDocument. When a text is rendered using a font, and a glyph appears in the text that is not present in the specified font, a substitute font may be selected to render that glyph.
• Specify Your Print-related Services: Now you have the ability to set desired paper source and printer resolution.

ComponentOne Ribbon™ for WinForms: Create ToolTips with ease using the new ToolTip Editor.

ComponentOne InputPanel™ for WinForms: The following enhancements have been made to InputPanel for WinForms in the 2008 v3 release:

• Export/Import XML Layouts at Design Time: You can easily export and/or import XML layouts for the input panel at design time.
• Create Rich ToolTips: Use InputPanel for WinForm’s new full-fledged designer, UITypeEditor to create rich ToolTips for your input controls. Easily customize the appearance and specify the behavior of a ToolTip. For more control over the creation of your ToolTips, you can use the WYSIWYG HTML editor.
• Add Shortcut Menus: Display the ContextMenuStrip or ContextMenu from the event handler when the user right-clicks the controls.

ComponentOne SuperTooltip™ for WinForms: You can add animated .GIF files, just as you would add a standard image to C1SuperTooltip or C1SuperLabel.

Studio Enterprise 2008 v2 is packed with new features and enhancements. This release includes two new and powerful .NET Windows Forms components exclusively from ComponentOne. Save development time with easy set up, reduced maintenance, and increased productivity.

New Products for 2008 v2

	ComponentOne InputPanel™ for WinForms: InputPanel for WinForms is a single control that acts like a complete data-entry form. It manages the design, layout, appearance, and behavior of multiple input components. Supported components include textboxes, numeric and masked input boxes, combo boxes, rich labels, custom controls, and more.
	ComponentOne DynamicHelp™ for WinForms: DynamicHelp for WinForms enables end-users to view Help files in WinForms applications. DynamicHelp for WinForms provides Help on individual controls; this type of Help system is available in applications such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 2005, Microsoft Office, and ComponentOne Doc-To-Help®.

Enhancements for 2008 v2: Look What Just Got Better

• ComponentOne Reports™ for WinForms: Generate reports quickly with the C1ReportDesigner's new Ribbon-based UI. The enhanced designer includes over 30 professionally designed templates so you can easily create visually stunning reports.
• ComponentOne True DBGrid® for WinForms: You now have more options to view your data with merged cells supporting inverted views and multi-line row views.
• ComponentOne Ribbon™ for WinForms: Ability to add any .NET control to the Ribbon.

• ComponentOne Sizer™ for WinForms: Added support for gradient backgrounds and the ability to add rounded corners to your panel.