Silverlight Studio released
We're extremely proud to have completed the first version of
Silverlight Studio,
our bundle of controls for the Microsoft Silverlight 4 platform.
Silverlight Studio includes a port of our WPF SyntaxEditor and Views control products, along with a Silverlight Shared Library that
has a number of useful controls and components.
SyntaxEditor for Silverlight
is a port of our popular WPF-based syntax-highlighting code editor control.
Imagine what you can do now that you are able to bring Visual Studio-like code editing to within the browser!
Create online IDEs, edit scripts, and much more.
SyntaxEditor for Silverlight has 100% implementation of the WPF text/parsing assembly and roughly 90% of the UI features found in SyntaxEditor for WPF.
Everything such as lexing, parsing, code outlining, IntelliPrompt completion lists, quick info, and adornment layers are fully supported.
Views for Silverlight
is a port of our customized panels that support fluid item animations, along with a ZapPanel control.
More custom panels are planned for the coming months.
The Shared Library for Silverlight
includes some great controls such as drop-shadow, popup button, menu, context menu, toolbar, and more.
The SyntaxEditor and Views products share codebases between the Silverlight and WPF platforms wherever possible, thereby
allowing you to easily reuse code if you have the products in both platforms.
Download Silverlight Studio today and try it out for free.
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SyntaxEditor for WPF enhancements
Development on the WPF-based SyntaxEditor has continued to move forward and a lot of great features have been added over the past few months.
Collapsed text regions allow you to effectively hide any range of document text in the UI, even without the use of code outlining.
The screenshot above shows two SyntaxEditors that are editing the same document.
The XML comment text is hidden in one but not the other.
Intra-text spacing lets you insert space between any text characters, and via the use of our powerful adornments mechanism, you can
inject images or any other WPF control in place of the space.
Code outlining allows you to designate ranges of text that are collapsible nodes that the user can interactively expand and collapse.
An outlining margin reflects the outlining node hierarchy and in the text area, collapsed nodes are represented by customizable adornments.
Other recent major new features include multiple highlighting style registry support, and
IME support that makes the control compatible with text entry of any language's characters.
We have already started work on some major new feature areas for SyntaxEditor that will bring us closer to being able to port over
the popular language add-ons that are available for our WinForms version.
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Views
Views is our new product for WPF and Silverlight offering a range of panels that support fluid animations of their child elements.
Several built-in animations are included, which can be easily customized, or you can build your own using native WPF and Silverlight animations.
Drop-in replacements are available for several native WPF panels, including Canvas, DockPanel, StackPanel, and WrapPanel.
Views includes additional panels that use unique layout logic, not found natively in WPF/Silverlight, such as ZapPanel.
We have more completely custom panels in the works and on the way too.
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Editors for WPF integration with MS DataGrid is open-sourced
In case you weren't previously aware, a while back we made our MS DataGrid enhancements assembly for WPF completely open source on Codeplex at:
We also have an Editors/DataGrid integration assembly that more recently has been made open source as well.
This newly open-sourced assembly has a number of helper classes that make it easy to integrate the editor controls in the Actipro Editors for WPF product
with the Microsoft Datagrid found in the WPF Toolkit and in .NET 4.0.
Since our pre-built assemblies target .NET 3.5 SP1, we reference the DataGrid in the WPF Toolkit and not the one in .NET 4.0.
Now that this project has been made open source, you can download it and change it to use the .NET 4.0 DataGrid instead if you are using that version of the DataGrid.
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WPFpedia re-launch
Our free WPF resource guide web site at WPFpedia.com was relaunched in May
with a fresh new site design that makes it easier than ever to locate resources on the web that will aid your WPF development.
WPFpedia has been designed to provide a clean interface for finding information on WPF development topics.
Everything in it is tagged and is searchable. Vote on resources you like and leave comments.
Check out WPFpedia.com today, and remember that it's 100% free!
WPF Studio general updates
The WPF Studio 2010.1 release back in April made a couple of major updates to the suite.
First, since .NET 4 was released and we try to follow a "one-behind" policy for target frameworks,
all products were migrated to target .NET 3.5 SP1.
This allowed some products to take advantage of new framework features that were previously unavailable to us.
Please note that even though we target .NET 3.5 SP1, all our products work great in .NET 4 applications as well!
Second, we added Visual Studio 2010 and Expression 3/4 designer support.
All of our samples are provided in both VS 2010 and VS 2008 project formats, so that those still using VS 2008 can continue working with our newest builds.
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SyntaxEditor for WinForms updates
Recent updates to SyntaxEditor for WinForms have included the addition of free new sample languages such as C, C++, and RTF.
The .NET Languages Add-on has seen a lot of updates too, especially for Visual Basic IntelliPrompt.
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What's next?
Getting our first Silverlight Studio version out was a major accomplishment for us, however it did
take a bit longer than expected to finish and polish off, thereby pushing our WPF control development schedule back.
Nevertheless, we are currently back on WPF development full steam now and have some exciting updates planned for the coming months.
We have already begun work on the WPF Studio 2010.2 codebase.
Our development roadmap for the the coming months includes these planned updates (in product alphabetical order):
- Docking/MDI for WPF - Many new options and features added that we've been planning for a while.
- PropertyGrid for WPF - UI performance improvements.
- Ribbon for WPF - Office 2010 themes.
- Shared Library for Silverlight - Enhance the ToolBar control to support overflow and vertical orientation.
- SyntaxEditor for WPF/Silverlight - Grammar/AST framework added, opening the door for the WinForms advanced language add-ons to be ported over.
- Views for WPF/Silverlight - Innovative new panel controls added.
2010 has been great year for us so far and we are happy to continue adding significantly more value to our products with the features mentioned above.
Keep an eye on our blog for news on product development.
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