What's New in Studio for Silverlight 2011 v3?

The 2011 v3 release of ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight features a brand new OutlookBar control, binding markup extensions, and control enhancements to Chart, FlexGrid, and more.

New OutlookBar Control

Group menus and controls into distinct categories with this side bar navigation system. ComponentOne OutlookBar™ for Silverlight mimics the Microsoft Outlook navigation pane. It consists of any number of categories represented by buttons where each button has a header as well as a panel for adding additional controls.

Chart for Silverlight Enhancements

• New high performance bitmap rendering mode (RenderMode = Bitmap) for line and symbol chart types.
• Added support for multiple radial axes for radar charts and corresponding options for specifying the appearance of axis labels.
• New Axis.AnnoCreated event that allows you to customize appearance of axis labels programmatically.
• Enhanced clipping behavior when using stacked plot areas. Now elements will not extend to neighboring plot areas.

FlexGrid for Silverlight Enhancements

• Added ShowOutlineBar property which causes the grid to show a row of numbered buttons on the first column header, similar to Microsoft Excel. This feature was added from the WinForms version.
• New ChildItemsPath property that allows for easy tree view creation. If your data class has a property that contains a list of elements of any type, C1FlexGrid will show this hierarchical structure as a tree.

Other Enhancements

• C1DataGrid allows multi-cell selection by dragging the mouse over the cells.
• C1PdfViewer has been enhanced with thumbnail and document outline (bookmark) support.
• C1Toolbar now supports Office 2007 and 2010 themes.
• C1TreeView has been enhanced with built-in editing support.
• Studio for Windows Phone features four new controls specialized for touch-based UIs: C1ContextMenu, C1DateTimePicker, C1ProgressBar and C1ToggleSwitch.

Silverlight 5 Support

New Binding Expressions Library

Never write another converter again with ComponentOne Binding Expressions™ for Silverlight. Save time and write cleaner XAML by taking advantage of C1Binding’s rich, inline expression syntax. Concatenate strings, compute formulas, and even apply if/else logic directly in your binding statements without the need for code-behind converters. The C1Binding class is only supported in Silverlight 5.

See the complete 2011 v3 version history for more details, improvements and breaking changes.

Studio for Entity Framework

You should also check out our newest product, Studio for Entity Framework. ComponentOne Studio® for Entity Framework is included with Studio Enterprise and adds ease-of-use and performance enhancements to the ADO.NET Entity Framework and RIA Services. It provides performance enhancements such as fast loading and transparent scrolling over large data sets with Virtual Mode. You can use it with ComponentOne UI controls or with any others. Check out a getting started video to introduce yourself.

What's New in Prior Releases?

Take a look at Studio for Silverlight's release history to find out what's new in previous releases.

Also, check out what's new in OLAP for Silverlight.