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Nightly news, 17 June 2011

We’ve been busy this week closing down LightSpeed 4 (soon, we promise!) but does that mean we haven’t been busy on our existing products? Of course we have! Here’s what’s new in the latest nightly builds. Free and trial editions from the downloads page, retail editions from the store.

LightSpeed

• Fix for multiple spurious loads when forcing a load by redundantly setting an association property
• Fix for presence validation on value object fields
• Added support for querying the presence or absence of an association from the non-foreign-key end of a one-to-one association
• Fix for an entity getting a replacement change tracker when you added it to a many-to-many association
• VerboseLogging can now be set through the configuration file
• Fix for cascade delete when removing the non-FK end of a one-to-one association to a class table inheritance derived class
• Fixed an issue with combining Single with Take(1)
• Added right-click > Add New Entity menu command, for you folks who are too cool to hang out in the Toolbox with everyone else

WPF Diagrams

• Added support for setting position calculators in code

Silverlight Elements

• Added radial gauge control

WPF Elements

• Added radial gauge control

Radial gauge control ported to WPF and Silverlight

A couple of days ago I wrote about how to use and customize the radial gauge control from Mindscape Phone Elements, our suite of controls for WP7. We have been asked if we will create a WPF version of this control and so you will now find the radial gauge in WPF Elements and Silverlight Elements as well. Both of these control suites include 5 themes for the radial gauge to get you started. OfficeBlue, OfficeSilver, OfficeBlack, Alloy (Expression Blend), and AlloyLight.

You can download the radial gauge control right now through the current nightly builds. For the trial versions, check out the Downloads page, or go to your account page if you are a customer.

This control provides all the basic functionality of displaying a value between a specified range, and animating the needle as the current value changes. If there are other types of gauge controls that you would like us to implement, or if there are features you would like us to add to the radial gauge then we would love to hear from you. Let us know by leaving a comment on this blog post, or come visit our forums: Phone Elements, WPF Elements, Silverlight Elements.

Nightly news, 10 June 2011

Short week down here (gawd bless yer, ma’am), so short blurb to introduce a short list of the fixes and features in this week’s nightly builds. Usual rules apply: free and trial versions from the downloads page, retail editions from the store. Enjoy!

LightSpeed

• Fix for nulling a foreign key not removing the entity from the parent’s children collection
• Fix for changes not being tracked when nulling a one-to-one association
• Fix for order by’s not being aliased correctly when there is a sequence numbering alias applied because a parent instance of a table is in scope.
• Fix for association change tracking not being reset during SaveChanges
• Added option flag for removing deleted entities from the unit of work after the delete has been committed
• You can now specify the same grouping key multiple times with different functions applied to it

WPF Elements

• Fix for a possible negative width error in rose charts

Silverlight Elements

• Fix for a possible negative width error in rose charts

Phone Elements

• Fix for a possible negative width error in rose charts. (Did you guess?)

WPF Diagrams

• SelectedElementsChanged was not always being raised when using marquee select
• Fix for XML serialisation in cultures that use a different numeric format from the invariant culture

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Note: This sale has now ended.

For our friends in the northern hemisphere it’s that time of the year – it’s warming up and there’s a holiday approaching. We thought it would be a great time to offer a special for the summer so that you have a great toolbox at your disposal for when you’re coding away on the beach.

Here’s the deal:

For the price of our WPF or Silverlight suites you can get a full Mindscape Mega Pack upgrade at no extra charge! And to save you money in the long run we’ll also add an additional six months of updates! Now that will afford you a few extra Mojitos!

So that’s every Mindscape product — WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, LightSpeed, SimpleDB, you name it — and 18 whole months of nightly builds, upgrades and entirely new products! All at a fraction of the price of other competing suites.

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Nightly news, 20 May 2011

Lots of updates in the nightly builds this week, so let’s cut to the chase.

WPF Diagrams

• Ongoing improvements to the zoom-to-centre feature
• Fixed a potential issue when data binding the Diagram and Formatter properties

LightSpeed

• Fix for database synchronisation failing if you quoted the database name in the SQL Server connection string
• Fix for column names on value object fields causing the prefix to be ignored during Update Database
• Added support for server-side entity projections so that subsequent traversals can be performed server-side
• Added LINQ support for Convert.ToInt32 method

Phone Elements

• You can now use DataSeries.Visibility to collapse individual data series
• Fixed an error when setting the ItemsSource of a stacked series before adding it to a chart in code
• DataSeries.SelectedDataPoint can now be used as a binding source
• DataSeries.SelectedDataPoint is now cleared when necessary
• Added DataSeries.SelectedDataPointChanged event
• StackedBarSeries can now create side-by-side stacked bar charts
• Now includes an initial drop of the polar charts from Silverlight Elements. You should consider this experimental for now!

Silverlight Elements

• Fixed an error when setting the ItemsSource of a stacked series before adding it to a chart in code
• DataSeries.SelectedDataPoint can now be used as a binding source
• DataSeries.SelectedDataPoint is now cleared when necessary
• Fixed event handlers still being hooked up after a series was removed from a chart
• Added ChartAxis.MinimumRange property
• Minor updates to polar chart mouse events
• Added visual states for polar bars
• Added selection modes for polar series and PolarChart control
• Numerous performance enhancements

WPF Elements

• Added Enter key handling for AutoCompleteBox
• Added DataSeries.SelectedDataPointChanged event
• Fixed event handlers still being hooked up after a series was removed from a chart
• StackedBarSeries can now create side-by-side stacked bar charts
• Added ChartAxis.MinimumRange property
• Numerous performance enhancements
• We proudly note a commit comment consisting solely of the character “!”, nicely rounding off Victor Hugo Tribute Week here at Mindscape HQ

Whew! Get ‘em before Jason collapses from exhaustion — free editions from the downloads page, retail editions from the store!