What We Accomplished

In this quarter we published the 2013.2 version of our WinRT/XAML controls, as well as large maintenance releases of our other products with a lot of new features.

Our free Code Writer Windows 8 app saw a new release that added support for Windows 8.1, and took advantage of new UI concepts available in that version.

Behind the scenes, we also completely restructured and improved our internal process for source code management and build processes.  These updates have streamlined our day-to-day work and will allow us to serve our customers better.

What’s Coming Next

We are back from the holiday break and ready to dive right into new product development, along with enhancements to our existing controls, especially SyntaxEditor.

Blog Post List

Control Product Development

• Visual Studio 2013 Supported
• More Windows Workflow Designer Sample Updates
• SyntaxEditor - Search Pane Result Highlights
• SyntaxEditor - Incremental Search Result Highlights
• SyntaxEditor - Incremental Search
• SyntaxEditor Adding Multi-Line Editing Features

Control Product Releases

• WPF Controls 2013.2 Build 592 Released
• WinRT XAML Controls 2013.2 Build 131 Released
• Silverlight Controls 2013.2 Build 162 Released
• WinForms Controls 2013.1 Build 312 Released
• WinRT XAML Controls 2013.2 Released
• WPF Controls 2013.2 Build 591 Released
• Silverlight Controls 2013.2 Build 161 Released
• SyntaxEditor for WinRT - Ready for Beta Testing

Code Writer App

• Code Writer v2.1 Released

WPF Controls 2013.2 build 592 has been released and is now available for download.  This build focuses on numerous enhancements and bug fixes.  While many updates were made, major ones are listed below.

See the announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.

• Added the ability to alter the label positioning mode algorithm for a series.

• Improved support for high DPI scenarios.
• Improved support for highlighting tabs when interop controls get focus.

• Added support for the Metro Dark theme.

• Added a new Property Dialog QuickStart that shows how to display a dialog from a property editor.

• Added the ability to edit multiple lines of text at the same time when block selection is active.
• Added incremental search features.
• Added the ability to highlight search match results within a view.
• Added support for alpha-blended foreground/background style colors.
• .NET Languages Add-on - Added a 'deprecated' quick info note on types/members flagged as Obsolete.

• Improved WindowChrome (and RibbonWindow) rendering in various scenarios.

WinRT XAML Controls 2013.2 build 131 has been released and is now available for download.  This build focuses on numerous enhancements and bug fixes.  While many updates were made, major ones are listed below.

See the announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.

• Added the ability to alter the label positioning mode algorithm for a series.

• Added the ability to edit multiple lines of text at the same time when block selection is active.
• Added incremental search features.
• Added the ability to highlight search match results within a view.
• Added support for alpha-blended foreground/background style colors.
• .NET Languages Add-on - Added a 'deprecated' quick info note on types/members flagged as Obsolete.

Silverlight Controls 2013.2 build 162 has been released and is now available for download.  This build focuses on numerous enhancements and bug fixes.  While many updates were made, major ones are listed below.

See the announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.

• Added the ability to alter the label positioning mode algorithm for a series.

• Added the ability to edit multiple lines of text at the same time when block selection is active.
• Added incremental search features.
• Added the ability to highlight search match results within a view.
• Added support for alpha-blended foreground/background style colors.
• .NET Languages Add-on - Added a 'deprecated' quick info note on types/members flagged as Obsolete.

WinForms Controls 2013.1 build 312 has been released and is now available for download. Several enhancements and bug fixes are part of this build.

The most notable improvement is the SyntaxEditor ability to edit multiple lines of text at the same time via block selection, as described in this previous blog post.

See the announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.