Codejock Software Releases 4 New UI Components for Visual Studio .NET
Owosso, Mich. (PRWEB) October 4, 2005 -- Codejock Software, a division of Codejock Technologies, LLC is a leading provider of reusable software components for Visual Studio .NET® facilitating rapid Graphical User Interface (GUI) development. The company announced today the release of four new product lines including Xtreme TaskPanel, Xtreme ShortcutBar, Xtreme Report, and Xtreme Calendar. The Xtreme component product line provides the most comprehensive set of fully customizable user interface components for the development of Microsoft® style applications for use with Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC), ActiveX and Microsoft.NET development platforms.
Along with the 4 new components, the company has also released version 9.80 of Xtreme Toolkit Professional Edition v9.80 for Visual Studio .NET®, including Xtreme Suite, Xtreme Command Bars, Xtreme Docking Pane, and Xtreme Property Grid. This new release incorporates many new enhancements to the already full featured Xtreme Product Line including:
* Popup Date Picker support.
* Enhanced methods to load and save layout information for the Command Bars, Docking Pane, Report Control, and Task Panel.
* Enhanced Status Bar Control.
* Printing support for the Report Control.
* New "Explorer" and "Office 2003" themes added for the Report Control.
* Enhanced theme support including Visual Studio 2005 theme.
* Visual Studio 2005 style docking stickers.
* Visual Studio style cascading Docking Panes.
* Shell auto-complete functionality for combo and edit command bar controls.
* Multi-line and variable cell height for Property Grid and Report Control.
* Enhanced tool tip support which includes balloon tip windows and customizable colors.
* Multi-row tabs and "Rotated" tab allowing multiple rows of tabs to be displayed both horizontally and vertically.
* Command Bar Support for Access 2003.
It is now fast and easy to save and load layout information for the Command Bars, Docking Pane, Task Panel, and Report Control. Several different layouts can be saved to the system registry, a binary file, or an XML file. Multiple layouts for all four controls can be saved or loaded to or from a single data source. In addition to layout information, the functionality to load and save additional strings and integers is provided as well.
Xtreme Command Bars now comes with an enhanced Status Bar control. Controls such as images, edit controls, animated gifs, and progress bars can easily be integrated into the status bar.
Enhanced theme support provides additional enhancements to the already professional customization capabilities for the Command Bars, Docking Pane, Report, and Tab controls. Several new themes have been added to the Docking Panes including the new Visual Studio 2005 docking and tab style. Both the Tab Control and Command Bars have been updated to support the new Visual Studio 2005 style as well. The Report Control has added two new themes including the Office 2003 theme.
Visual Studio style cascading docking panes makes it effortless to organize panes with a compact easy to use approach. Pane captions can be displayed both vertically or horizontally, Xtreme Docking Pane has built-in functionality that will automatically select the best fit.
The tabs used in the Command Bars, Docking Pane, and Tab Control now support multi-row tabs making it easy to see large numbers of tabs in a single view, there will be no more scrolling to find a specific tab. Tabs can also be displayed vertically or horizontally, this provides a unique way to display tabs whether they are displayed on the top, left, bottom, or right side of your application.
Both the Report Control and Property Grid now have support for multi-line rows and variable row heights. This allows multiple lines of text to easily be displayed. In addition to multi-line support, the Property Grid now allows icons to be displayed in any cell.
Reports can now easily be printed using the Report Control's built-in printing functionality. You can print a report to a file such as a PDF or directly to the printer.
Enhanced tool tip windows bring a fresh new way to display help to users. Almost all of Codejock's controls can display tip windows such as a balloon tip or Rich-Text-Format (RTF) tip with support to change the text and window colors.
A complete list of all new features can be found in the release notes for each product, found on the company's website, www.codejock.com.
About Codejock Software
Codejock Software, a division of Codejock Technologies, LLC based in Owosso, Michigan provides reusable software components for thousands of corporate customers worldwide facilitating rapid Graphical User Interface application development using Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET® development platforms. Codejock Software is considered a leading component provider, and is committed to helping developers realize their goals by providing superior customer service and technical support in addition to their already top notch components. Codejock Software's products and evaluation versions for the products are now available for download on the company's website. For more information on Codejock Software's products including software trial downloads visit www.codejock.com.
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