Posts Tagged ‘controls’

Introducing UltimateEditor

UltimateEditor helps you add a Microsoft Word-like rich text editor to your ASP.NET application in a matter of minutes. It includes a rich text editor, built-in spell checker, life-saver samples and all .NET editions in one package.

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UltimateSearch 3.6 for ASP.NET

Hit Highlighting: In addition to highlighting search terms in search results list, you can also highlight them in those pages listed in the search results. For HTML-based pages, you will need to add a Javascript block to your pages. You can add it to an include header file or a master page to cover all pages easily. It will also highlight search terms in a PDF document by passing them in the page url. 

Stemming: When you search for a word, you can expand your search results by using related words based on stemming. It will search for the words expanded from the search term as well as the words expanded from its stem. For example, if you search for "thicken", it will also search for "thickened" that is expanded from "thicken". It will also find "thick" as the stem of "thicken", and look for "thick" and other words expanded from "thick". 

Synonyms: When you search for a word, you can expand your search results by using related words based on synonyms. For example, if you search for "cook", it will also search for "bake", "heat", "fry", and so on. 

Negative Search Terms: You can exclude pages that have some unwanted words from search results by adding a minus sign prefix to those words. For example, if you search for "apple -book", it will display pages that have "apple", but don’t have "book" in them. 

Mixed Search Types: You can enter search terms in mixed format such as exact, partial, any, all, and negative in one string. For example, you can search for [speed "electric mixer" ingre* low OR high -meat].

Return Current Page Only: You can set this property to false in order to return entire search results. Then you will be able to update search results such as remove items from search results or sort results in a different order. However, you should use caution before doing so as it will adversely affect the search performance. If your search returns a lot of results it will drastically increase the search time because it will need to retrieve information on each document and return everything back to the client.

Reproduced from http://www.karamasoft.com/UltimateSearch/History.aspx?referrer=ccuse36

Please visit http://www.karamasoft.com/UltimateSearch/History.aspx?referrer=ccuse36 for more information and live demos of UltimateSearch 3.6

Gaia Ajax 3.6 Alpha Released: GridView and Adaptiv Rendering

Reaching the first release of Gaia Ajax 3.6 is a great step for us. For those who have waited for it; we hope you will be rewarded with a great, new web development experience. We think 3.6 is not only an important step for us, but also for the future of web development itself. It is our vision to bring you the finest quality platform for developing ajax applications  on ASP.NET. The 3.6 version comes with practical innovation previously unavailable to ASP.NET developers. It’s going to brings back memories from the first time Microsoft unveiled ASP.NET and the "goosebumps" it brought.

Adaptive Rendering Adaptive Rendering is a mind-blowing concept that enables dynamic insertion, removal, moving and replacement of individual controls. Adaptive rendering will replace partial rendering. This concept represents a major breakthrough in making Gaia Ajax an even better choice for your web application development.

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Gaia Ajax GridView The Gaia Ajax GridView is a premier example of adaptive rendering as it enables the worlds most advanced GridView for ASP.NET. Some beat us on design, but nobody beats us on Ajax+GridView architecture.

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Please visit http://gaiaware.net/ for more information and also to download the latest bit of the product.

Product Review: TeeChart for .NET

The ASP.NET Chart control provided by Microsoft may not suit the requirements of all developers, as many prefer to implement advanced out-of-box functionalities for their projects.

I recently happened to test-drive TeeChart, www.steema.com/products/teechart/net, and was surprised to see that this chart control contained many charting features. Developed by Spain-based Steema Software, www.steema.com, the product is available in Lite and Professional editions. The Lite version has fewer features than the Professional edition but is suitable for small projects. The product enables a developer to build applications for ASP.NET but Windows Forms and projects that target .NET Compact Framework.

The vendor provides a fully functional limited trial license that you can use to explore Teechart’s features. The Lite edition ships with only the standard chart types, including Line, Bar, Area, Pie, FastLine, Horiz.Area, Horiz.Bar, and Horiz.Line charts. The following screenshot shows the standard chart styles.

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Telerik and Imaginet Resources Introduce Free Developer Team Management Tools Built with RadControls for WPF

Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today introduced TFS Work Item Manager (Beta)and TFS Project Dashboard (Beta), a new class of developer workload and resource management applications built with RadControls for WPF by Imaginet Resources Corp. Inspired by agile development methodologies, the free tools are designed to facilitate project progress visualization, drastically reduce project overhead and enhance accountability for development teams working with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server. Since the TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard have been used extensively internally at Telerik and Imaginet for over six months with great results, development teams can immediately utilize these tools and see the same benefits.

“Telerik’s RadControls for WPF suite provided an amazingly flexible foundation for the TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard tools, allowing the team to quickly implement a user experience that was fresh and intuitive. In addition, Telerik’s mature software engineering practices truly inspired the team to find better ways to visualize the software construction process as well as help to rethink how to update Microsoft Team System work items," said Joel Semeniuk, Imaginet Co-CEO. "This partnership has resulted in a work item management tool for all members of the software team as well as a rich project feedback platform inspired by highly efficient manufacturing processes.”

Brought to life by Imaginet’s extensive expertise in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and influenced by Telerik internal development processes, TFS Work Item Manager is aimed to help teams be more agile in their day to day work. TFS Work Item Manager leverages the powerful capabilities of Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server to help developers access and alter all their tasks in a visually appealing and user-friendly way. With this innovative and easy to use platform, teams will also enjoy improved collaboration resulting in less time needed for managing work items, reports, and cross-team efforts. In these lean times where development teams are being asked to do more with less, the TFS Work Item Manager helps free up more developer time to actually write code, not manage what they have to do.

TFS Project Dashboard assists the coordination of teams responsibilities even further. This unique stand-alone console connects to Team Foundation Server and pulls workload data to be displayed as various widgets. The application shows all significant indicators in real time at a glance including build history, recent check-ins, assigned tasks, bug history, and more. The instant and accurate reports allow for improved accountability of personal tasks, workloads and release schedules. The TFS Project Dashboard increases team transparency and is designed to end the question from management of "what are we doing” or “who broke the build?"

"TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard are an excellent demonstration of how RadControls for WPF can be used to build key line of business applications in an efficient and effective manner," said Vassil Terziev, Telerik Co-CEO. “Furthermore, these applications are not just a showcase but ready-to-use tools that will aid developers in release schedule planning. Our development teams use the tools internally which also helped to built in them some of Telerik development best practices. We are happy to share yet another free productivity tool with the developer community."

About Imaginet Resources

Imaginet is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that has globally helped organizations in the areas of Team System training, .NET application development, Portal & Collaboration solutions with Microsoft Office, SQL Server Business Intelligence solutions. They are recognized as leaders in Application Lifecycle Management best practices, consulting for Visual Studio Team System and .NET development.  Read more at http://www.imaginets.com/

Extracted from ASPAlliance

DXperience v2009 vol 2 Released

DevExpress.com is proud to announce the immediate availability of DXperience v2009 vol 2 – award winning and feature-complete Presentation Components, Reporting Controls, IDE Productivity Tools, and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio 2008/2010. With DXperience v2009 vol 2, DevExpress officially releases 8 unique WPF libraries. Some of the new features available to you in the DevExpress WPF product line include:

WPF DataGrid by DevExpress (DXGrid)

- Significant Performance Improvements

- WYSIWYG Printing/Reporting by Rendering the DXGrid

- Outlook® Style New Item Row

- Summary Computation UI

- Outlook® Style Column Chooser/Customization

Learn more at: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/WPF/Grid/

WPF Charts by DevExpress (DXCharts)

- New 2D Financial Series Charts

- New 3D Charts (Point Charts, Bubble Charts, 3D Area Charts, 3D Stacked Area Charts, 3D Full Stacked Area Charts)

- Chart Series Label Management to Eliminate Overlaps

Learn more at: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/WPF/Charting/

WPF Printing and Reporting by DevExpress (DXPrinting)

- Render-Print Visual Controls, including the DXGrid

- Render-Print Tabular Reports

- WPF Export to PDF, XLS, and other popular file formats.

Learn more at: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/WPF/Printing/

WPF Data Editors Library by DevExpress (DXEditors)

- New Spin (Up-Down) Control

- Advanced WPF Data Validation

Learn more at:

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/WPF/Editors/

WPF Window Docking Library by DevExpress (DXDocking)

- Auto-Hide Panel Support

- Intuitive Closed Panel Access

- Dock Window Behavior Customization

- WPF Toolbar Menu Integration

Learn more at: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/WPF/Dock_Windows/

WPF Toolbar Menu System by DevExpress (DXBars)

- New WPF Context (Popup) Menu Control

- Improved Customization Window/Options

Learn more at:

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/WPF/Bar_Menu/

For a complete list of the new WPF controls, features and options available to you with DXperience v2009 vol 2, visit DevExpress online at:

http://devexpress.com/Products/NET/DXperience/WhatsNew2009v2/

http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/DXperience/

Nevron Vision 2009

Nevron has announced the immediate availability of the new major version release (2009 Vol.2) of Nevron SSRS Vision suite – the leading Data Visualization suite for SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 and 2008. In 2009 Vol.2 we have introduced many improvements in the Chart for SSRS and the new Nevron Gauge for SSRS – 8 new Charting Types with many variations, complete set of Gauge Types, Gauge Formulas, Save/Load Chart and Gauge Templates, Code Customization which allows you to use the full Nevron Chart for .NET API in SSRS and much more.

For full details about this new major release, please visit http://www.nevron.com/Nevron.Company.NewsAndEvents.NevronNews.aspx

Nevron SSRS Vision suite includes two products – Nevron Chart for Reporting Services and Nevron Gauge for Reporting Service. Below are the product URLs:
Nevron SSRS Vision suite (SSRS 2005/2008)

http://www.nevron.com/Products.SQLServerReportingServices.Overview.aspx

Nevron Chart for Reporting Services (SSRS 2005/2008)
http://www.nevron.com/Products.ChartForSQLReportingServices.Overview.aspx

Nevron Gauge for Reporting Services (SSRS 2005/2008)
http://www.nevron.com/Products.GaugeForSQLReportingServices.Overview.aspx

Working with FileUpload Control

Uploading files to a folder on the web server is made easy with ASP.NET 2.0. In this step-by-step article, you will learn how to achieve this task with the help of code samples in C# and Visual Basic .NET.

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