by mbcrump via Michael Crump on 4/1/2011 2:15:19 PM
GIVEAWAY OVER! CHECK BELOW TO SEE WHO WON!
This month, we will give away 7 great Silverlight products and have 10 different winners (Telerik is giving away 3 license). This way the Silverlight community can grow with more than just one person winning all the prizes. This month we will be giving away:
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Winners Announced! Actipro Silverlight Studio 2011.1 – @theraisr IdeaBlade DevForce Universal – @deleolowoyo Devcomponents – @bbakermai SyncFusion Reporting Controls. – @AbdouMoumen Telerik Windows Phone 7 Controls (3 License Giveaway) – @kashyapas, @zebslc, @ganshani Silverlight Spy – @AlexSorokoletov Win a FREE developer’s license of one of the products listed above!
Winners Announced!
Actipro Silverlight Studio 2011.1 – @theraisr
IdeaBlade DevForce Universal – @deleolowoyo
Devcomponents – @bbakermai
SyncFusion Reporting Controls. – @AbdouMoumen
Telerik Windows Phone 7 Controls (3 License Giveaway) – @kashyapas, @zebslc, @ganshani
Silverlight Spy – @AlexSorokoletov
Win a FREE developer’s license of one of the products listed above!
10 winners will be announced on May 1st, 2011! To be entered into the contest do the following things: Follow me on twitter. Leave a comment below with a valid email account and leave your twitter username as well. (I WILL NOT share this info with anyone.) Retweet the following : I just entered to win free #Silverlight controls from @mbcrump . Register here: http://mcrump.me/fTSmB8 ! Don’t change the URL because this will allow me to track the users that Tweet this page. Don’t forget to visit each of the vendors sites because they made this possible. MichaelCrump.Net provides Silverlight Giveaways every month. You can also see the latest giveaway by bookmarking http://giveaways.michaelcrump.net .
10 winners will be announced on May 1st, 2011!
To be entered into the contest do the following things:
Don’t forget to visit each of the vendors sites because they made this possible.
MichaelCrump.Net provides Silverlight Giveaways every month. You can also see the latest giveaway by bookmarking http://giveaways.michaelcrump.net .
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Actipro Silverlight Studio 2011.1
Actipro Silverlight Studio is a bundled suite of professional user interface controls and components for the Silverlight framework. The company behind Silverlight Studio, Actipro Software, is a leader in the WPF UI control market and has brought that expertise to Silverlight, with product offerings that are code compatible with their WPF control counterparts where possible.
The Silverlight Studio suite includes all of Actipro’s Silverlight control offerings, in one easy-to-use bundle.
A free online demo is available here.
In this review, I’d like to focus on the Actipro SyntaxEditor control, which is the flagship product included in the suite. It is a truly unique offering as it makes it easy to bring a Visual Studio-like code editing experience into your own Silverlight applications.
SyntaxEditor has been natively built for Silverlight based on Actipro's years of experience as the market leader in syntax-highlighting code editor controls. In fact it shares a codebase with the WPF version of SyntaxEditor, so code is compatible between the two platforms.
While SyntaxEditor includes over 25 language definitions to get you started, you can easily define syntax languages for any custom languages that include syntax highlighting, multi-threaded parsing, automatic outlining, adornments (squiggle lines, highlights, etc.), IntelliPrompt quick info, completion lists, and much more. Syntax languages are service-based and the product’s object model is primarily implemented as interfaces, leaving everything fully extensible.
A Language Designer application is included that walks you through quickly developing language definitions for custom languages, and provides code generation for many common language services.
SyntaxEditor includes the free LL(*) Parser Framework, which is Actipro's own framework for constructing robust text parsers that work standalone or with code editor controls like SyntaxEditor. The framework features grammars that are written in C#/VB using EBNF-like notation, customizable AST construction, advanced error handling/reporting, easy code injection, a complete debugger UI, and much more. Use it to easily build SyntaxEditor-compatible parsers for your own custom syntax languages with minimal effort.
Actipro also offers several premium add-ons that can be purchased separately to add advanced code editing features for common languages. The Web Languages Add-on includes parsing, AST building, syntax error reporting, automatic outlining, IntelliPrompt quick info, text formatting, and more for the XML language.
The .NET Languages Add-on includes parsing, AST building, syntax error reporting, automatic outlining, and automated IntelliPrompt features (coming soon) for the C# and VB languages.
Over 75 individual samples and detailed documentation that walks through all the SyntaxEditor features is included to get you going.
Actipro’s other controls in their suite are very nice too, and more are on the way. The Views product has some custom panels that allow for interesting fluid effects and a Book control:
Wizard allows developers to put together complex wizard dialogs in a matter of minutes:
Bar code supports the vector-based generation of the most common 2D and linear bar code symbologies:
And the Shared Library has some great controls like a PopupButton, Menu, ContextMenu, ToolBar, and more:
IdeaBlade DevForce Universal
You can download a Trial now at: http://www.ideablade.com/DevForceUniversal/DevForceUniversal_DownloadEditions.aspx
Let me be the first to tell you that this tool is what WCF RIA Services should have been. I have used this product in an Silverlight application and they guide you step by step. They even have project templates setup to make your life easier. I would really recommend watching this video first.
People who make Rich Internet Applications (RIA)—people like you—focus primarily on client-side development because that’s where the users are. The application succeeds only to the degree that end users interact with it efficiently and productively.
That’s why you try to spend most of your time on client-side development.
Of course your responsibilities don't end on the client. RIA depend upon back-end services and data storage. You need to build those services too and must manage communications between the client application and the server. You need to find a way to write and maintain both the front- and the back-end in a way that keeps your productivity high and your focus on the best possible user experience. Every minute spent on infrastructure is a minute better spent building perceived customer value.
DevForce is a framework for building and operating RIA. It's specifically designed to take advantage of client-driven development and provides the tools, techniques, and libraries you need to build powerful RIAs fast.
DevForce helps keep your focus on the client by:
· Establishing a uniform programming model for both client and server
· Encouraging client-side development
· Minimizing differences between client code and server code
· Eliminating cross-project code-generation magic
· Facilitating quick and easy evolution of the entity model
· Maintaining small, stable service APIs
· Taking full advantage of LINQ , Entity Framework, and OData technologies
Watch a video, take a hands on developer's tour, and learn more. Build powerful RIA fast—with DevForce.
DevComponents – I am showing the Silverlight Components but this also comes with the WPF Components.
Ribbon control with Office 2010 style, Black, Silver and Blue color schemes, custom color scheme blending, super-tooltips, ribbon hyper menus, ribbon tabs, auto ribbon sizing and more...
Scheduler/Calendar control. Great looking schedule with multi-user support, powerful recurring appointments engine, Office 2010 styling and 4 views.
Navigation Pane control. Navigation pane control with built-in collapse/expand functionality and Office 2010 like styling.
Clock control. Analog clock control with 2 predefined styles and automatic system time display mode, custom time display mode and drag & drop time edit.
SuperTooltip component. Office 2010 style Super-Tooltip for Ribbon, Toolbar or any other Silverlight control in your app.
Toolbar component. Toolbar control with horizontal and vertical layout, split-buttons, popup menus and overflow support.
SyncFusion Reporting Controls
There is a lot of great reporting controls for Silverlight in this package. Here is a list of them and click on the title to read more about each one.
Essential XlsIO
Essential XlsIO is a .NET library that can read and write Microsoft Excel files. It features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office Automation libraries. It can be used on systems that do not have Microsoft Excel installed, making it an excellent report engine for tabular data. Essential XlsIO enables users to create document based report in Windows, Web, WPF, MVC and Silverlight applications.
Essential DocIO
Essential DocIO is a .NET library that can read, write and modify Microsoft Word files. It features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office Automation libraries. It can be used on systems that do not have Microsoft Word installed. Essential DocIO enables users to create richly formatted Microsoft Word reports in Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight applications.
Essential PDF
Essential PDF is a .NET library that can create and modify Adobe PDF files. It does not have any external dependencies and can be used from Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight applications.
Essential Calculate
Essential Calculate allows you to add extensive calculation support to your business objects. Easily setup forms that have calculation dependencies among various controls. Essential Calculate comes with a functions library of more than 150 entries, and it supports cross-sheet references. When used in conjunction with Essential XlsIO, you can fully load, manipulate, and compute Excel spreadsheets with no dependence on Excel.
Essential Grouping
Essential Grouping is a high-performance grouping engine that can group any list of data. It is highly optimized and can handle large amounts of dynamic data. It features support for related data and filters. All aspects of the grouping engine are extensible and users can add functionalities, as needed.
Telerik Windows Phone 7 Controls
RadControls for Windows Phone are built from the ground up for the Windows Phone 7 Operating System offering controls and capabilities that are currently not available in the UI Toolbox for Windows Phone 7 and not even in the OS. The suite is trusted by a number of customers whose apps are already on the Marketplace, it is featured in industry leading media, provides the most comprehensive learning resources and the best support you could possibly find.
Silverlight Spy
Silverlight Spy is a runtime inspector tool that will tell you pretty much everything that is going on with the application. Basically, you give it a URL that contains a Silverlight application and you can explore the element tree, events, xaml and so much more.
This has already been reviewed on MichaelCrump.net.
Silverlight Show T-Shirt
My son showed this shirt off for Twitter a few days ago. Sorry but I can only ship to USA.
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