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Nightly news, 4 June 2010

Tagged as LightSpeed

Another quiet week on the fixes and enhancement front: here’s what we’ve delivered in this week’s nighty builds.

LightSpeed

• Designer support for nullable stored procedure arguments
• Fix for a LINQ issue using logical expressions involving nullable properties from Visual Basic

In other news, Jason has been forging ahead on WPF Diagramming 2.0, and it’s shaping up to be a very nice release with lots of cool new features. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback and suggestions!

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Posted by Ivan Towlson on 3 June 2010

WPF Diagramming 2.0 Planning

Tagged as WPF, WPF Diagrams

We have started work on the next generation of our popular diagramming products and wanted to get some feedback from current users. Let your minds run wild with the possibilities of what would help you build some truly stunning applications with WPF diagramming.

Some of our plans are…

When your powers combine…
Currently we’re retailing two diagramming products – WPF Flow Diagrams and WPF Star Diagrams. We’ll be merging these two into a single “WPF Diagramming” product. Developers have always been able to build far more than just Flow Diagrams and Star Diagrams with the foundation classes so we decided to simplify things and just have one tidy package for all customers. All customers who have active subscriptions to one of the diagramming products will be upgraded automatically to the joint offering of course :-) As an aside, that also means now is the best value time to purchase licenses!

Additional layout options
We’ve always included a force directed layout algorithm and a tree layout algorithm in the Star Diagrams product. We’re now working on making these work seamlessly with other diagram types as well as including several new layout algorithms to create even more attractive diagrams easily. Part of this work includes new path finding algorithms as well, so once the nodes are laid out nicely, you can control what routing algorithm is used to draw the connections between nodes.

More samples
Diagramming is a large domain to be working in and that means creating custom diagrams is not always as easy as you might hope. To help improve the situation for users, we’re planning to ship more samples that provide additional detail on how to achieve certain diagram types, work with custom nodes, configure layouts and path finding etc.

A whole bunch more
Obviously we’re including a slew of smaller feature enhancements and improvements, but what’s most important to us is that we get your feedback on what you would like to see. We’ve had solid feedback since we launched these products which has helped in the incremental improvements, and as we’re actively investing in 2.0 it’s important to hear your latest requests :-)

Never used our diagramming products? Check out WPF Flow Diagrams or WPF Star Diagrams.

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Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 1 June 2010