Archive for February, 2010

Silverlight Elements now available for preview

Tagged as Silverlight, Silverlight Elements

We’re pleased to announce a technical preview release of our Silverlight Elements suite, a pack of controls for Microsoft’s Silverlight Rich Internet Application platform. Silverlight is becoming an increasingly popular solution for building business applications as well as graphically rich media-oriented applications, and Silverlight Elements builds on that.

The Silverlight Elements suite includes six main controls:

CoverFlow

CoverFlow provides an animated, pseudo-3D selection control in which elements “flow” across the screen around a focal selected element. It makes an attractive alternative to conventional list controls for rich media applications, allowing users to quickly browse a gallery of images or even interactive components.

ListView and MulticolumnTreeView

Silverlight doesn’t have multicolumn controls like the ListView built in, but they’re really handy for displaying tabular data in a less heavyweight form than a full-on data grid. In addition, we know a lot of people need to be able to display tabular information against hierarchical data, so we’ve also provided a MulticolumnTreeView (or “tree list view”).

Scheduler

Time-based display is a common requirement for business applications. The Scheduler control supports displaying items in a similar way to the Outlook calendar, with options for daily, weekly and monthly summary views. Use it for appointments, bookings, task management, equipment utilisation or whatever your time-based requirement is.

RichTextEditor

The Silverlight Elements RichTextEditor supports the most common HTML editing requirements and is suitable for rich text notes, forums-type software, etc.

ColorPicker

The last control in the suite is a compact selection tool for colours. Users can choose from standard colours, including an attractive Office-style palette or a custom palette, or mix their own. There’s also a PaletteColorPicker for when you want to keep users to a specific set of “theme” colours.

Where can I get it?

Silverlight Elements is currently available in preview form to all customers. The components are currently of beta quality so please let us know when you run into bugs or if you have ideas about how things could be made easier or more convenient. The preview is free to all existing customers, so jump into the store and give it a spin!

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Posted by Ivan Towlson on 28 February 2010

LightSpeed support for Visual Studio 2010 RC

Tagged as LightSpeed

A quick note to those that are exploring the Visual Studio 2010 release candidate – we have published a test version of the LightSpeed designer in the online store. If you are using VS 2010 RC then head over to your account page and grab the download. It installs side by side with the VS 2008 LightSpeed designer so it’s really easy to get up and running with.

There are no feature differences – just that we support VS 2010 :-)