Throw the Switch on Some Very Exciting Bits.
Martin Lie, Vice President of Marketing
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This month, we're extremely proud to launch our ClientUI for LightSwitch suite to
coincide with Visual Studio's groundbreaking new LightSwitch release. While Microsoft's
powerful new capabilities make it possible for you to build professional quality
applications minutes, ClientUI for LightSwitch provides the key pieces that multiply
the efforts of one developer to better handle work formerly shared by a staff of
five or ten.
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Our powerful suite of certified Lightswitch Extensions introduces a host of new
data entry controls, including masked input for validated user entries, currency
editor for handling denominated values, calendar control for drop in schedule selection,
and the password control for hashed log–in functionality. Now that you're taking
a look at everything Lightswitch has to offer your team, download ClientUI for LightSwitch
and see how quickly you can build the application features your business users are
clamoring for.
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Beyond the exciting Lightswitch, look for the world's first MVVM ready schedule
control – and not any control, but a gorgeous, easy to use, intuitive Intersoft control.
UXScheduleView is crafted with the attention to detail that you expect from us and
provides except support for the for the MVVM design pattern.
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We're also hard at work building more than twenty new data–centric controls for
ASP.NET, Silverlight and WPF, so I'm especially proud of our team for moving the
ball forward with this exceptional release.
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As always, if you have any feedback, please feel free to email me at
martin@intersoftpt.com.
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ClientUI for Visual Studio LightSwitch Available Now.
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We're pleased to announce that ClientUI for Visual Studio LightSwitch is now immediately
available for download.
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In this first release, ClientUI for LightSwitch introduces 15+ data entry controls,
ranging from masked input, currency editor, date time picker, to slider bar and
calendar control. All of these extension controls are built on the top of ClientUI's
mature and rich Silverlight controls, which means you can enable the same set of
features in LightSwitch just as easy as you did in Visual Studio or Blend.
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LightSwitch provides two kind of properties customization: screen designer and runtime
designer. Both types are fully supported in this release of ClientUI for LightSwitch.
See below
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For more information about the product and the controls included in this release,
please download ClientUI for LightSwitch Product Sheet (PDF).
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Download now.
Get started
with ClientUI for LightSwitch today. You will need Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM and Intersoft ClientUI 5 pre–installed. If you're not familiar
with LightSwitch yet, please take a tour.
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Industry's First MVVM–ready Scheduling Control.
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Designed from the ground up, UXScheduleView is engineered with rock–solid architecture
to provide the very best support for the MVVM design pattern. UXScheduleView will
support both data display and editing using MVVM and Repository pattern, which allow
you to directly interact with the control using your own classes and entities –
all without requiring additional proxy classes or custom interfaces.
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The beauty of the MVVM pattern implementation is that it allows you to generalize
the ViewModel implementation which is useful to share common functionalities in
multiple applications. As such, many of the commands are already implemented in
the base classes of the ViewModel provided in UXScheduleView – saving you countless
development hours.
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UXScheduleView marries powerful architecture with superior user experiences to provide
a luxurious look and feel that belies its extensible scheduling view architecture.
You can easily create your own custom views such as Daily, Next 3 Days and Agenda
views that are instantly plug 'n playable.
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And the best of all, all the amazing features in UXScheduleView aren't exclusive
only to Silverlight. They are very well supported in WPF too, including the razor–sharp
lines rendering, sophisticated editing capabilities, and the full MVVM design pattern
support. Click here to learn more about the upcoming UXScheduleView control.
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First Look: Intersoft Ribbon UI for Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET.
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As a leading UI component vendor, we are aimed to deliver the very best UI controls
in the upcoming 2011 R2 release. One of the major new controls is the Ribbon UI
which is designed to fully comply with Office's Fluent User Interface specification.
Our goal is to create feature–rich Ribbon control that pay very detailed attention
to the user experiences, yet incredibly easy–to–use.
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Introducing Intersoft Ribbon UI for all platforms, you can now build impressive
Ribbon–friendly applications with your platform of choice – whether it is Silverlight,
WPF, or ASP.NET – without trading–off any of your existing technology investment.
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Built from the ground up to create Office's latest fluent user experiences, our
upcoming Ribbon control (UXRibbon) employs modern API and design that directly refers
to the Office 2010 specification. As a result, UXRibbon is more sophisticated in
terms of design, yet fully customizable in terms of usage.
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UXRibbon will ship with a multitude of features and new controls that are redesigned
to match the Ribbon user interface. Key features include blazing–fast fluid resizing,
contextual tab, backstage view, gallery list, smart text wrapping and pixel–perfect
layout rendering.
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Join Jimmy Petrus, Intersoft's chief architect, in his blog post announcing the upcoming Ribbon control with all
user experience aspects covered!
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Community corner.
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Silverlight Rumors Debunked.
Community member Andre asks wonders about his investment in Intersoft pending Microsoft's
Window 8 development plans, and fears that Silverlight won't be an option. Of course,
as a Microsoft Partner, Intersoft is dedicated to Windows development interoperability
and will make all controls available in WinRT. Read the full thread for details..
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XML Injection Errors.
Eric stumbled across a potential WebGrid 6 security problem between XML and XSS,
and needed to verify that the control is "XSS safe." The upcoming WebGrid 2011 R2
completely eliminates this risk by ditching XSS and implementing JQuery in its place.
For more about Eric's issue, check out the thread..
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Get the Dirt on Silverlight ReportViewer.
Community member "bap" is looking forward to the upcoming Silverlight ReportViewer
and asked for more information about how it works, specifically security and forms
authentication. We poked the developers and detailed the security inner workings
for you in the conversation..
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Tips and Trick.
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Add Color to the Grid
Member Ryan asks, "How do you change the background color of UXGridView's SelectedRow
in Silverlight?"
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Simply generate the default style with Microsoft Expression Blend.
- Right click your XAML page and open in Expression Blend.
- Right click UXGridView>>Edit Additional Template>> Edit RowStyle.
- The default style should be generated automatically. Then save the XAML.
- Go back to Visual Studio. In Resources>> Visual State, Background Rectangle. Then
find Rectangle with Background Rectangle and change the color in the gradient.
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Paging Parameters in ISDatasource
ISDatasource supports the select parameter control, but you need to make sure the
back end filters against the parameters, or only the first page of your data will
be filtered properly. Using this trick, ISDatasource handles all the filtering and
reduces calls.
In the selection logic, use the following code:
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DataView view = new DataView(table);
view.RowFilter = "VisitDisplayName = " + "'moduleName'";
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Be sure to download a working free trial of WebUI Studio for 30 days
if you aren't already using our award–winning software.
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