WPF Controls for Line of Business and Data Visualization

Studio for WPF Features and Highlights

Maps Powered By Esri *NEW*

ComponentOne has partnered with Esri, the leading online map and GIS provider, to bring you the best mapping tools and UI controls together in one package. Easily transform GIS data into business intelligence with controls for WPF with Maps powered by Esri^®. The Maps powered by Esri utilize the powerful mapping, geocoding, and geoprocessing capabilities provided by ArcGIS Server.
40+ WPF Controls

Studio for WPF adds over 40 controls to your Visual Studio Toolbox, including grids, charts, scheduler, gauges, maps, docking, toolbars, data input, and much more! These true XAML controls not only fill the gap with what's missing in the standard toolkit, but they add more features, functionality, and better performance over their existing counterparts.
Build Enterprise Applications Faster

Studio for WPF features all of the rich data visualization and LOB controls you need to shorten your development time and create compelling Windows desktop applications. Choose from 40+ WPF controls packed with developer-requested features like easy styling, printing, export to Microsoft Excel, complete XAML support, and more.
Designer/Developer Collaboration

Supported in both Visual Studio and Expression Blend, Studio for WPF controls promote collaboration in your team and fit seamlessly into your developer/designer workflow. Supported versions include VS2008, VS2010, Blend 3, Blend 4.
XAML or Code: You Choose!

Customize the controls in your preferred method: XAML, C# or VB.NET code-behind, or both. Studio for WPF controls support complete XAML markup for most features and dependency properties for data-binding in MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) designed applications.
Enhanced Data Visualizations

Get all of the rich data visualization controls you need to develop enterprise applications and dashboards. Add powerful manipulation features to your data with DataGrid for WPF, an enhanced DataGrid with built-in functionality that requires minimal additional coding. Add any of the 7 provided gauges from Gauges for WPF, to your dashboards and windows for impressive displays that engage the user. Visualize geographic data using Maps for WPF powered by Esri, for the best online mapping services in the world.
Excel-like FlexGrid

Experience the FlexGrid's legendary flexibility, speed, and lightweight architecture. Inspired by Microsoft Excel for creating bound and unbound grids, FlexGrid for WPF provides scrolling speed 10x faster than the competition, built-in printing, cell merging, column aggregation, custom cells, and all the extensibility you need for your business data.
Advanced 2D and 3D Charting

Feature-by-feature Chart for WPF is the most complete charting control on the market. With 12 built-in themes, over forty 2D and 3D chart types, flexible data binding (MVVM), run-time interaction, rich styling elements, stackable plot areas, and optimizations for large data sets, your charting application or dashboard is just a few clicks away. For surface and contour charts see Chart3D for WPF.
World Class Reporting

Generate, preview, and export Microsoft-style reports with Reports for WPF. Render reports directly to a printer, or export to various formats including XPS, Open XML Word, HTML, PDF, Excel and rich text. Reports for WPF also supports SQL Server Reports. Use our Report Viewer, PDF and RichTextBox controls to display arbitrary HTML and PDF documents as well.
Out-of-the-box Scheduling Solutions

Create a Microsoft Outlook-style scheduling application in minutes with Scheduler for WPF. Select from five built-in views: Day, Week, Work Week, Month and TimeLine. Bind your schedule to the data source of your choice, use local XML storage or import/export iCal data.
Cutting-Edge Layouts and Animation

Create modern and high technical looking applications that feature rich animations and smooth interactive experiences for the user. Studio for WPF features many rich animation and layout controls which take advantage of the animation techniques possible in the WPF framework. These controls include Accordion, Book, Chart, DockControl, Expander, Gauges, HyperPanel.
Visual Studio-like Docking

Provide multi-tabbed docking windows with DockControl for WPF. Similar to the docking system in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, DockControl delivers dockable, floating, and tabbed windows. You can also auto-hide sections and easily style the DockControl.
MVVM Support

Use the latest presentation model or MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design patterns in your applications with ComponentOne Studio for WPF. Each control supports dependency properties, complete XAML configuration and WPF data-binding techniques.
XBAP Support

Studio for WPF controls are fully compatible with the XAML Browser Application (XBAP) deployment capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation. XBAP deployment allows you to create robust Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that take full advantage of the .NET 3.x and 4.0 Frameworks.
ClearStyle Technology for XAML Styling Made Easy

ClearStyle Technology is our new paradigm to XAML control styling. ClearStyle allows developers to easily change control colors without having to modify control templates. By just setting a few brush properties in Visual Studio 2010 you can quickly give a unique look to the control without having to work in Expression Blend or hire a professional designer.
Six Themes

Add style to your UI with built-in support for some of the popular WPF toolkit themes, including Expression Dark, Expression Light, Whistler Blue, Shiny Blue, and Bureau Black. Achieve the classic ComponentOne blue theme used in our Silverlight controls with the new C1Blue theme. All themes are supported in .NET 3.5 and 4.0.
Localization Supported for 18 International Languages

We've translated and included resource files for localizing your apps in 14 international languages. We provide you translated strings for every ComponentOne Silverlight control for these languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish.
Code Sharing with Silverlight

Studio for WPF controls share the same codebase as our Silverlight controls. So you can build both rich web and desktop client applications by sharing a lot of the same code. This will reduce development time, cost and eliminate the learning curve of having to learn controls from two platforms.
Unparalleled Platinum Support
From our 24-hour support response guarantee to our knowledge-rich online community, we offer unmatched support. Our customers are entitled to:
- Knowledge Base Access
- Phone Support
- Forum Support
Learn more about ComponentOne Support Services.

What's New in Studio for WPF 2012 v1?

The 2012 v1 release of ComponentOne Studio for WPF features Maps powered by Esri^® software, 6 new themes, a brand new OrgChart control, binding expressions for WPF, and more control enhancements.

Maps powered by Esri

ComponentOne has partnered with Esri, the leading online map and GIS provider, to bring you the best mapping tools and UI controls together in one package. Easily transform GIS data into business intelligence with Maps powered by Esri software. The Maps powered by Esri utilize the powerful mapping, geocoding, and geoprocessing capabilities provided by ArcGIS Server. With Studio for WPF 2012 v1 you get:

Unrestricted access to the Esri Map control and the ArcGIS API for WPF.
Access to substantial amounts of geographical data made available by Esri.

Six Themes

Add style to your UI with built-in support for some of the popular WPF toolkit themes, including Expression Dark, Expression Light, Whistler Blue, Shiny Blue, and Bureau Black. Achieve the classic ComponentOne blue theme used in our Silverlight controls with the new C1Blue theme. All themes are supported in .NET 3.5 and 4.0.

Organization Chart Control

Create hierarchical diagrams that show the structure and relationships of you data. The new C1OrgChart control leverages the rich data binding mechanisms of the platform to provide a flexible, yet easy-to-use control. Learn more.

Studio for WPF Enhancements

Binding Expressions for WPF

MVVM Data Binding Improvements. The new C1StaticResource markup extension that extends the “StaticResource” term to support a Path property that allows you to use the object model in resource objects. This is useful for MVVM scenarios where properties you wish to bind to objects that are not DependencyObjects.

Chart for WPF

High Performance Render Mode. A newly added bitmap rendering mode for line and symbol chart types speeds up rendering time. Display hundreds of thousands of data points in just seconds.

DataGrid for WPF

Cell Selection and Unselection Improved. You can now select cells by dragging the mouse over the cells, and you can unselect multiple rows or columns through pressing the Control key. Several selection events are also added to support dragging and selecting actions.

DateTime Editors for WPF

Masked DateTime Input Added. There's a new C1DateTimePicker control added to the DateTimeEditors library. This new control supports custom date formats and masked input, as well as ClearStyle technology for complete brush customization.

DockControl for WPF

Pin Tabs Like Visual Studio! A new CanUserPin property allows users to pin any individual tab like in Visual Studio. Pinned tabs always stay in view.

Excel for WPF

CSV Support. Load and save .csv (Comma Separated Value) formatted files.
Cell Merging Improved. C1XLBook now preserves cell merges when adding and removing rows or columns.

FlexGrid for WPF

Custom Aggregates. Added support for custom aggregates. This is useful if you need to provide unusual aggregations that are not already provided by the control.
Customize Column Headers. Added the HeaderTemplate property to enable customization of column header cells.

PdfViewer for WPF

MVVM Data Binding Improvements. Added a Source property which can be bound to documents in XAML for common MVVM scenarios.

Localization Resources

Speak Greek? Four new languages have been added to the provided localization resources in Studio for WPF. See the features list for all supported languages.