Welcome to WebUI Studio 2009 R2 – the most anticipated web development toolkit releases with over 150+ new features, refinements, and fixes delivered in one box. Be prepared for jaw-dropping features, breath-taking performance, and head-turning UI presentation you never see before.
Featuring the blazing fast WebScheduler 3, trendsetter WebGrid Enterprise 7, and supercharged WebInput 4, WebUI Studio 2009 R2 lets you tap into the next wave of web development with its innovative and advanced lineups – enabling you to create even richer, faster and more scalable business applications in dramatically reduced time and efforts.
What's New in WebUI Studio 2009 R2 Premier?
WebUI Studio 2009 R2 includes over 150 new features, among them:
· Significantly improved page load speeds for WebScheduler 3: Thanks to the new ViewPort paging technology, a smart rendering engine that automatically detects the available viewport and renders the events to fit. This feature significantly improves page load speeds, improving the overall user experience, particularly on thin clients. WebScheduler 3 also introduces Outlook-style time interval customization with options ranging from 15 minutes to one hour, all of which can be easily configured through a single property set. Time intervals can also be modified directly by end users through a convenient contextual menu to deliver best-in-class user experiences.
· WebGrid Enterprise 7 introduces Editor Pack 3 and New visual themes: WebGrid now includes three new visual themes: Windows 7, Glassy Black, and Metallic Silver. WebGrid Enterprise 7 also introduces Editor Pack 3, a new collection of custom editors that are highly integrated into WebGrid's inline editing architecture. The editor pack includes a versatile Vista-style calendar featuring innovative date selection behaviour and a new custom editor for integration with WebTextEditor, Intersoft's rich text editing component. The enhanced WebGrid also delivers numerous top-requested features such as Windows 7 style column action user interface, customizable column's context menu, enhanced batch update client-side events, improved designer and pixel-perfect XHTML rendering support.
· WebInput 4 adds data entry features for date and time input: Quick date selection lets you select a range of date with fewer clicks in less time. For more advanced date and time selection, WebInput also introduces linked WebInput. The core concept behind this time-saving feature is two WebInputs. One is the start time selector and another is the end time selector, and the end time value must be greater than the start time value. The built-in validation engine ensures the date selection is correct and valid.
· WebGrid's Component Designer: WebGrid's Component Designer now provides superior shortcuts to all features, especially those new to the 2009 R2 release. For example, a new Style section keeps WebGrid's themes arranged in icon view for easy browsing and selection. WebTextEditor and WebCalendar are now included in the custom editor section for instant access as well.
What's New in WebUI Studio 2009 Service Pack 1 Refresh?
· Updated Live Samples for ASP.NET and Silverlight to support x64 edition of Windows
· Support medium trust hosting permission for all products
· Presenter 1.0.1000.6: Microsoft Expression Blend 3 now will not crash when Presenter control is used
· WebCombo 4.0.7200.217: Support usage in ModalContentWindow using Mozilla Firefox browser
· WebGrid 7.0.7200.306: Supports SharePoint Server 2010
What's New in WebUI Studio 2009 Service Pack 1?
Full support for Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services, DomainDataSource data binding, Windows 7 ready and over 150 other improvements like WebTextEditor now supports right-to-left text direction, new script injection prevention, reduced output size, improved XHTML support, and dozens of new APIs and client events; WebScheduler includes support for 12-hours format, daylight saving, SSL support, faster timeline rendering and more; while WebGrid includes better client binding support for section 508 standards, more flexible batch update configuration, and improved support for Firefox 3.5.
WebUI Studio 2009 now works with the Japanese versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
WebUI Studio 2009 Service Pack 1 includes full interoperability and support for .NET RIA Services and DomainDataSource control, which enables automatic data processing such as when performing data update (CRUD), sorting, paging, and filtering operations.
WebUI Studio 2009 Premier includes both WebUI for ASP.NET and WebUI for Silverlight offering altogether over 40 advanced components for building rich, next-generation RIA business applications. WebUI Studio 2009 Premier Subscription also includes products updates and upgrades for a full year from the purchase date. WebUI Studio 2009 Premier Subscribers also enjoy high priority support via phone calls, live chat or conference meeting, as well as direct collaboration with Intersoftpt Engineers.
WebUI Studio for ASP.NET gives the speed and flexibility you need to create rich, state-of-the-art applications, featuring advanced innovations such as client-side binding, native JSON support, LINQ to SQL, CSS compression and more, WebUI Studio for ASP.NET delivers products are optimized differently according to its specific scenarios, thus producing lightweight results which ultimately translate to faster, more responsive user interface. WebUI Studio for ASP.NET lineups requires very minimum learning curve. Bundled with resourceful MSDN style documentations, thousands of samples, and handfuls of walkthroughs, WebUI Studio for ASP.NET accelerates your productivity and helps you create rich experiences application from day one.
WebUI Studio for Silverlight features over 10+ innovative Silverlight components for building next-generation Silverlight business applications. WebUI Studio for Silverlight includes advanced technologies such as VirtualFlow for CoverFlow, VirtualScroll for Presenter and ServerPaging for DataSource that loads millions of data in a fraction of seconds, as if it were loading only dozens of data. WebUI Studio for Silverlight is both a developer and designer friendly toolset. Its native support for Expression Blend and Visual Studio enables a team of developers and designers to work with their preferred development tools to achieve results in parallel. This creates a more effective and efficient teamwork collaboration to reduce development cycle which translates to faster time to market.
WebUI Studio for ASP.NET includes
WebScheduler: Powered with over hundreds of advanced features, helps you to build a rich and interactive Scheduling application in a single drag and drop. The TripleLoad technology makes WebScheduler a very fast Scheduling component too. WebScheduler.NET allows you to bind the Scheduling data to your database schema with no restriction or what-so-ever and in an elegant approach. Plugged into ISDataSource control, WebScheduler allows you to bind multiple tables in a single encapsulation.
WebTextEditor: WebTextEditor provides from basic text formatting and spell checking to mail-merging and file uploading. A centralized task pane provides lightning fast access to media collections, form controls, and table configurations. Everything a user needs is within easy reach. WebTextEditor provides Word 2007-like spell checking in web applications. The integrated spell checker provides two modes to choose from. Simply click a button to activate the spell checker, and use the word suggestion dialog to navigate and correct typos, or let the enhanced context menu offer suggestions. Either way, WebTextEditor makes producing high quality content online every bit as easy as desktop editors. WebTextEditor includes WebSpellChecker and WebFileUploader:
· WebSpellChecker introduces more natural, intuitive way to perform spell checking with red wave highlight feature. To correct misspelled words, just right click on each word and choose the correct word from the displayed context menu. It makes spell checking faster and easier than ever. The red wave highlight feature can only be enabled on editable IFRAME.
· WebFileUploader introduces a panel interface that provides a rich uploading interface by presenting complete commands in the interface. End users can easily and conveniently add files, remove files, upload multiple files, cancelling running upload, and more. WebFileUploader also includes Webfarm and multiple worker requests support with built-in FileStateServer.
WebTreeView: Intersoftpt latest ASP.NET server control enables you to easily create a hierarchical data presentation. WebTreeView incorporates numerous features which makes it flexible and highly customizable to meet your design needs. Features in WebTreeView include Tristate checkbox, Load On Demand, sophisticated drag and drop ability, standard keyboard navigation, and built-in animation during expanding and collapsing the node. This fully-featured control will benefit developers in creating a data hierarchical presentation, window-to-window navigation and also structural navigation.
WebGrid Enterprise: WebGrid Enterprise is an advanced DataGrid component for ASP.NET Web development. WebGrid Enterprise provides comprehensive Grid functionalities enabling enterprise-class information to be delivered in hierarchical navigations with sophisticated user interaction, allowing users to work with the information in a more effective and productive way. Features include: Localization Manager, OnTheFly Postback, Advanced Load on Demand and Excel style column freezing.
WebCombo: WebCombo is an AJAX-based combo box component providing numerous advanced input functions and features. With its built-in filtering feature, you can easily add professional "auto complete" input interface to your ASP.NET 2.0 Web application in no time. Using the company's proprietary AJAX technology named FlyPostBack™, WebCombo is capable to load filtered results from large dataset in high performance fashion. WebCombo adds many design-time features such as declarative data binding, SmartTag action panel, and all-new Component Designer. This means you can now use WebCombo and perform data binding in a more productive way, faster and easier without the need to write any single line of codes.
WebInput: WebInput is a multi-talented masked input component for ASP.NET 2.0 Web development offering features such as display and edit formatting, character highlighting, validation, etc..WebInput provides formatting, masking and validating that works similar to the input behavior in Microsoft Access. Using WebInput, you can now provide sophisticated and rich input in your Web application for entering fields such as Social Security Number, Extension, and Phone Number in any .NET supported cultures. You can use any mask format as long as it conforms to the Microsoft Access masking specification. End users have been very familiar with Windows date input control where they can use keyboard to select each element of the DateTime and easily change part of the DateTime element by either spinning the value up and down, or by typing directly into that element such as the day element or month element. With WebInput.NET, now you can do the same for your Web application plus the ability to select from the calendar dropdown. As for currency input, WebInput.NET also has a special feature which allows users to input the number using Microsoft Money style Calculator Editor.
WebDesktop: AJAX-enabled Web presentation components designed to help you professionally build sophisticated "desktop-style" web user interfaces. Developers are enabled to develop enterprise-grade Web application with the richness of Desktop application in their behaviors and styles. With WebDesktop.NET end users can now experience the same behaviors and appearances of today's popular Desktop application, from mouse and keyboard interaction to extensive drag and drop capability. WebDesktop includes +10 highly advanced components such as DesktopManager, PaneManager, FlyPostbackManager or AJAX-Manager component, WebExplorerPane, Tab, ToolBar, MenuBar, ContextMenu, Notification System, StyleManager, DialogBox, NavPane and Button.
WebDesktop also includes XmlCompression and CssOptimizer technology for improving performance. Eight other technologies (TrueShape, ClickAndEdit, ClickAndSelect, TrueFill, TrueDock, HighClarityDesktop, InteractiveDesigner and GenericPersistence) takes developers to a new level of Web application development with advanced visual WYSIWYG experience designed exclusively for Visual Studio 2005 development environment.
ISDataSource: ISDataSource is a data source component for ASP.NET 2.0 with the ability to support declarative multiple table views and hierarchical-relational dataset. There are many data-related functionality, unique to ISDataSource -- such as advanced file server caching, cache configuration, load on demand and much more. ISDataSource is designed to resolve limitations in the existing data source control that shipped with ASP.NET 2.0. Comes with an intuitive and time-saving Wizard, you can easily connect to business object in few clicks only. In addition to the exclusive support for WebGrid Enterprise and WebCombo, ISDataSource component can also be used in standard .NET data bound controls.
WebUI Studio for Silverlight includes
WebAqua: A collection of innovative UI controls including dock navigation and cover-flow media player for building exceptional multimedia/business Silverlight applications. Full support for Siverlight 3. WebAqua delivers a spectacular, crystal-clear UI for your next generation web application. Version 2 contains two Silverlight controls: FishEye and CoverFlow. CoverFlow lets you browse and play multimedia instantly in a modern iTunes-style cover flow interface.FishEye is a high performance docking navigation control, featuring a modern design and interactive animation. Zoom animation provides a sleek, smooth sensation with no distortion to adjacent buttons.
Presenter:A collection of 5 advanced presenter controls that revolutionize data visualization experience with its hybrid multiple viewports, built-in data drilling capability and declarative binding concept. Full support for Siverlight 3. With declarative databinding, it is easy to connect to any data source, from ADO.NET data services and WCF services to XML. Presenter makes scrolling smooth and precise with VirtualScroll technology, whether you're scrolling through a few rows, or a few million. The fully configurable client/server data processing capability avoids performance bottlenecks. Presenter also includes a convenient editing feature, allowing your users to easily add, edit, or delete their data. With comprehensive API, Presenter also gives you the flexibility to code, so you can add your own custom validations to ensure accurate and error-free data entry.
DataSource: A collection of 3 data source controls with declarative databinding capability and advanced caching which helps you build your data-driven Silverlight applications in less time and less effort. DataSource supports easy data access to any "Cloud" data source. DataSource handles repetitive data access operation and ultimately transforms lengthy codes into simple, easy-to-maintain declarative markups, so that you can focus on what's matter most - designing inspiring UX and improving your business requirements. Intersoftpt Datasource lets you instantly connect to Web 2.0, cloud-based data services - such as Web Service, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and the cutting-edge ADO.NET data service (Astoria). Datasource leverages your existing server-side infrastructure, enabling your Silverlight application to access your server-side data source in the same way and manner as you access them in ASP.NET application, makes the most out of your data assets.
WebUI Studio 2009 Premier Subscription includes products updates and upgrades for a full year from the purchase date. WebUI Studio 2009 Premier Subscribers also enjoy high priority support via phone calls, live chat or conference meeting, as well as direct collaboration with Intersoftpt Solutions Corporation Engineers.
Licensing
WebUI Studio 2009 Premier Subscription: One Full Subscription License is required per Developer. Run-time royalty free.
WebUI Studio 2009 Premier Full Subscription includes:
· Free products updates and upgrades for a full year from the purchase date
· Monthly hotfixes and updates
· Exclusive early access to all WebUI Studio's latest Betas and CTPs
· Access to Intersoftpt Developer Network 3, the Intersoftpt Forum, and more for immediate technical assistance with guaranteed 24-hour response time
· Premier subscriber enjoy high priority support via phone calls, live chat or conference meeting, as well as direct collaboration with Intersoftpt Solutions Corporation Engineers
Important - Please note that this software requires Activation and that before you can distribute this software you will need to receive a runtime license key.
WebUI Studio 2009 Premier Suite: One Developer License is required per Developer. Run-time royalty free. Does not include subscription.
Site Wide License: Unlimited Developers at a Single Physical Address.