WPF Elements 3.0 – Important notice for WPF customers
Tagged as In the next couple of weeks we will be shipping WPF Elements 3.0, it will be the largest shake up to our WPF product line up to date and is great news for all our WPF Elements, WPF Property Grid and WPF Themes customers. Personally, I can’t wait to see this update come out and see some of the great applications that people will build with all the upgraded offering! :-)
Some important notes about the new release that all WPF customers should be aware of:
WPF Property Grid
We will be merging our WPF Property Grid control into the WPF Elements family. It will no longer be a stand alone product to purchase from our store. It’s interesting and a little sad to see it go as its own standalone product as it was Mindscape’s second product that was released to market but it’s also an important step in continuing maturity of our WPF offering.
What does this mean for existing customers? If you own the WPF Property Grid product you will automatically be migrated to owning WPF Elements 3.0 as part of your active subscription for free.
WPF Themes
We released a WPF Themes product that included 5 themes for all the built in WPF controls. We’ve decided that this would be better bundled up with WPF Elements 3.0 as well and will also be discontinuing the WPF Themes individual product when WPF Elements 3.0 is released.
What does this mean for existing customers? If you own the WPF Themes product you will automatically be migrated to owning WPF Elements 3.0 as part of your active subscription for free.
WPF Elements 3.0
Beyond doing the product line up tango, WPF Elements will also get a big upgrade by way of new features in existing controls and new control additions. We’ve received wonderful feedback from customers about what they would like to see added (for example, a WPF Scheduler control like the Outlook calendar) and I’m looking forward to seeing how customers make use of them.
Price changes – the call-to-action part of this post!
With WPF Elements 3.0 we will be increasing the price of the product which is why we’re making this announcement now. If you are currently evaluating any of our WPF products then it would be a very good idea to purchase a 12 month subscription today and lock in the current pricing for the next 12 months. If you already have a subscription, you may wish to extend it for another 12 months now. This will represent a substantial saving over buying the products or renewing them once WPF Elements 3.0 is released. Also, note that if you have an inactive subscription, you can still re-activate it and renew for 12 months at a reduced amount from your account page.
Existing customers can extend their subscriptions here
Cannot-wait-to-be-customers can purchase from the store here
We hope that you’ll love the new WPF Elements when we launch it later in July.
Happy coding!
Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 8 July 2010 
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