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Nightly news, 9 September 2011

Big anticipation here at the Mindscape office as our new Kinect accidentally falls out of its box, at the same time as the Kinect SDK accidentally installs itself onto Jason’s computer. They say accidents come in threes, so we are just waiting for Jason to accidentally write a bunch of cool Kinect programs. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, some rather more mundane developments in the latest nightly builds…

LightSpeed

• New Show Data command for, well, showing your data
• Fixes for certain CTI join scenarios

NHibernate Designer

• We now support per-project code generation templates for you hacker types

WPF Diagrams

• Added new hit testing methods, and fixed a bug in the FindElementAtPoint method

WPF Elements

• UI zooming and panning support for alternate Y axes

Silverlight Elements

• UI zooming and panning support for alternate Y axes

All these updates are available in the current nightly builds — free editions from the downloads page, full editions from the store.

Nightly news, 19 August 2011

I hereby declare this to be snow week, the funnest week in the history of Wellington. Oh hush, you northern hemisphere types, we only see snow here in tropical Wellington every fifty years or so. Indulge us. Here’s what we’ve been doing while we’ve been snowed in.

LightSpeed

• Compiled queries! Yay!
• Fix for an error when projecting only base class fields while filtering only on derived class fields in class table inheritance
• Fix for a class table inheritance cascade delete issue
• Fixed a column mapping issue with unversioned partial updates
• Fix for BeginEdit on a distributed entity

WPF Diagrams

• Performance and functionality improvements to the A* pathfinder
• Added an option for marquee selection to select when the marquee intersects a node rather than only when it wholly contains a node

WPF Elements

• Fixed an error when typing non-Latin characters into a numeric text box
• Fixed an issue where the minimum and maximum values of an alternate Y axis could not be set automatically

Phone Elements

• Fixed an issue where the minimum and maximum values of an alternate Y axis could not be set automatically
• Fixed a font sizing issue with the picker controls

Silverlight Elements

• Fixed an issue where the minimum and maximum values of an alternate Y axis could not be set automatically. Coincidentally enough

All these features and fixes are in the current nightly builds. Free editions are available from the downloads page, and full editions from the store.

Nightly news, 5 August 2011

It’s been a busy week with a whole bunch of updates to report, so let’s dive straight into what’s new in this week’s nightly builds.

LightSpeed

• Fixes for a couple of issues with cascading deletes into and through a class table inheritance hierarchy
• Fix for a join issue
• Backstop for when an indirect circular association could lead to a stack overflow
• Optimisation to avoid saving unmodified foreign keys when performing a partial update
• Ensure that a nullable foreign key is nulled out when the association is nulled out through a cascade delete
• Designer support for ForeignKeyFieldAttribute on one-to-one associations

Silverlight Elements

• Fixed some localisation bugs in the scheduler control

WPF Diagrams

• We’ve added a hook that allows you to keep the same element IDs when deserialising and re-serialising a diagram
• Added some options to simplify toolbox styling
• Added an option to the A* pathfinder to avoid parallel connection overlaps

Web Workbench

• We’ve fixed an issue where some users were getting a “custom tool failed” error after rebooting
• Added support for functions as mixin arguments
• Added support for Sass @each loops

SimpleDB Management Tools

• Added export to XML

As usual, free editions from the downloads page, retail editions from the store, and VS2010 extensions from the Updates tab in Extension Manager.

New versions of WPF Elements, Silverlight Elements, Phone Elements!

We’re pleased to announce a trio of releases: WPF Elements 4.1, Silverlight Elements 2.1 and Phone Elements 1.1!

This point release occurs at the same time as it represents primarily the addition of new charting types across the product line and the sharing of performance improvements across them all. There is also a roll up of individual product improvements in each product as well.

What’s new in all three products?

• Polar charts including rose charts, radar charts and polar scatter/bubble charts
• Additional events for interactive chart usage (e.g. DataSeries.SelectedDataPointChanged)
• Added ChartAxis.MinimumRange, TitleVisibility and LabelStep properties
• DataSeries.Visibility can be used to collapse a series on the chart
• Additional performance improvements

We have also rolled up a number of general enhancements – for example basic image support in the Silverlight Rich Text Editor, improved keyboard navigation in the Book and Coverflow controls and new colour palettes for WPF and Silverlight.

This brings the number of overall controls to 45+ for WPF Elements, 40+ for Silverlight Elements and 30+ for Phone Elements. If you haven’t tried these products before but want to create amazing user experiences you can download the trials free from the download page. Customers already have the latest builds available on their account pages.

To whet your appetite, here’s an example application built using WPF Elements charting:

We would, as always, love to hear your feedback on what’s new and what you’d like to see in the future.

Happy coding!