The release of Studio Enterprise v2 introduces two innovative products, ComponentOne DynamicHelp and ComponentOne InputPanel for your Windows Forms applications.
ComponentOne DynamicHelp ComponentOne DynamicHelp for WinForms is a container that allows you to view help files in your Windows Forms applications. With this new component from ComponentOne, you can add context-sensitive Help to any form. DynamicHelp supports several Help formats including CHM or HTML-based help. With DynamicHelp for WinForms, developers and Help authors can work harmoniously together. You don't have to keep passing a topic map back and forth to a Help author. By using DynamicHelp’s authoring mode you can expose the topic map for your application. You simply set up your form to use the C1DynamicHelp component and then let the Help author do all the work.
ComponentOne InputPanel for WinForms ComponentOne InputPanel for WinForms is the new paradigm to create and maintain data-entry forms. It is a panel that can be placed on a Windows Form to help developers create powerful data input applications. Developers define what input fields they would like to expose using any combination of the nineteen native data input controls provided or any third party .NET control. Or simply connect the InputPanel for WinForms to a data source, select the record set, and an input control for each field is automatically created for you. Make changes to your form without worrying about restructuring the entire form with InputPanel for WinForms automatic alignment, tab order, accelerator key assignment, and validation. This easy setup paired with low maintenance yields increased productivity. Stop spending hours building data forms, when you can generate polished, interactive data forms in minutes with InputPanel for WinForms. Data entry has never been easier.
“Microsoft is pleased with the tools ComponentOne is offering to Visual Studio developers. ComponentOne’s most recently added InputPanel component simplifies the creation of data entry forms, and the DynamicHelp component enables you to easily add context-sensitive Help to Windows Forms application with developer and Help author collaboration,” said Jay Roxe, group product manager, Developer Division, Microsoft Corp. “We appreciate that ComponentOne shares our commitment to increasing developer productivity.”
Additional new features included in Studio Enterprise v2 include:
ComponentOne Preview for WinForms ComponentOne Preview for WinForms now supports all your reporting needs. Also new for 2008 v2 is the stand alone C1ReportDesigner application’s Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon-style interface. The C1ReportDesigner ships with Preview for WinForms and allows you to quickly create, edit, preview, load, and save report definition files without writing a single line of code. With the familiar Office 2007 Ribbon-style interface, you will adapt quickly to the familiar interface and perform tasks efficiently by accessing commands in a reachable and discoverable layout.
Preview forms can now be exported to PDF acroforms. Previously rendered as images, check boxes, combo boxes, radio buttons, and text boxes are now exported to PDF as form fields.
Preview for WinForms is the most unique solution available to provide dynamic and flexible previewing, reporting, formatting, printing, and exporting capabilities for your applications.
