January 2009 | Visit ComponentOne | Live Chat
 What's Inside
Product Spotlight
ComponentOne Grid for WPF
Words From the Editor
New Year, New Product Lines
Featured Article
Always Working For You: ComponentOne Preview for WinForms
What's New
It's here! Studio for iPhone CTP
Introducing ComponentOne WebParts for SharePoint
New Webcast Added: Skinning with Expression Blend
Enter for Your Chance to Win Studio Enterprise
Event Center
Visit us at VSLive! Next Month
Survey Center
January Quick Survey
 Resource Center
ComponentOne Webcasts
 Download Center

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 Offer of the Month

Studio for Silverlight Offer - $100 off!

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 Product Spotlight
ComponentOne Grid for WPF
Full-featured DataGrid Component for WPF
ComponentOne Grid for WPF

ComponentOne Grid for WPF takes the standard grid to a whole new level with revolutionary dynamic data manipulation and a powerful carousel panel. Traditional grids allow you to display, format, and edit tabular data; Grid for WPF builds on this

enabling you to adapt grid appearance, behavior, and layout to create a completely tailored user experience quickly and easily.
 Learn more about Grid for WPF.
 
 Words From the Editor
Gustavo Eydelsteyn New Year, New Product Lines
Gustavo Eydelsteyn, Co-founder

Since welcoming in the New Year, we've taken large strides at ComponentOne to bring you two new CTPs (Community Technology Preview): ComponentOne Studio for iPhone CTP and ComponentOne WebParts for SharePoint CTP. Some of you may already know about our Studio for iPhone suite of ASP.NET controls since we have discussed them in previous Studio Tech Connections. To recap, Studio for iPhone controls
allow web developers to design websites that mimic the look and feel of the iPhone and iPod Touch interfaces without the need to learn a new technology. Studio for iPhone controls are built on the ASP.NET Framework and are optimized for viewing in Mobile Safari or Safari for the PC or Mac. Just after the New Year, the CTP was made available to download.
Today I am just as pleased to announce to you our new web parts for Microsoft SharePoint: ComponentOne WebParts for SharePoint. The first version includes three web parts, each sold separately: DataGrid, Chart, and Maps. All powered by Silverlight, these web parts enable you to deliver rich, compelling SharePoint sites without writing a line of code. They come with many powerful, built-in features to make exploring and navigating data, creating dynamic data visualization, and rich, deep-zoom mapping a breeze.
You can find all download links enclosed in this issue of Studio Tech Connection. I encourage you to sign-up for the CTP program, download the bits, and begin using them today.
 
 Featured Article
Steve Basl Always Working For You: ComponentOne Preview for WinForms
Steve Basl, Technical Engagement Engineer

Deep in the ComponentOne Laboratories, our developers have been envisioning new and improved ideas to enhance our current controls. This is no different with ComponentOne Preview for WinForms. A major enhancement has been made to Preview for WinForms: forms can now be exported to PDF Acroforms.
In previous versions of Preview for WinForms, RenderInput controls were exported to PDF simply as images, whereas now they are exported to PDF as form fields. With you - the developer - in mind, ComponentOne has included four supported controls: Text, RadioButton, ComboBox, and CheckBox.
To demonstrate this feature, this article takes you through the steps of creating an employee information form. These forms are extremely useful as they are applicable in every department. Creating the forms with Preview for WinForms is a breeze.
Read the full article.
 
 What's New

It's here! Studio for iPhone CTP

Studio for iPhone

Download it

Benefit from this new generation of web controls. Sign-up for the CTP program, download the bits, and begin using these great new controls in your mobile websites today.
ComponentOne Studio for iPhone is sure to satisfy developers looking for a new way to reach the growing number of mobile web end-users without the need to learn a new technology. This suite contains seven controls (Button, LaunchPad, MultiPage, NavigationList, Slider, SwitchButton, ViewPort) that mimic the look and feel of the iPhone and iPod Touch user interfaces when rendered in Mobile Safari.
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Introducing ComponentOne WebParts for SharePoint

ComponentOne WebParts for SharePoint

Get the new CTP!

Your custom web parts for SharePoint have arrived. Leveraging the power of Microsoft's Silverlight technology, ComponentOne WebParts bring superior performance, styling, animations, and interactivity. Version 1 includes three feature-packed web parts, each sold separately:
  ComponentOne DataGrid™ for SharePoint
  ComponentOne Chart™ for SharePoint
  ComponentOne Maps™ for SharePoint
Benefit from the enormous value that this new generation of web parts provides by downloading the bits and using these great new web parts in your SharePoint sites today. Enjoy savings of up to 50% off list price on the purchase of individual ComponentOne WebParts through February 14, 2009.
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New Webcast Added: Skinning with Expression Blend

Join ComponentOne's own "Chief Creative Ninja", David May as he shows you how to use Microsoft's designer tools to create engaging, professional-looking Silverlight and WPF applications. The next Webcast is scheduled for Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 11:00AM (EST).
Click here to sign-up.
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Enter for Your Chance to Win Studio Enterprise

Did you know that by downloading ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, you can be entered to win a copy of Studio Enterprise? Visit www.componentone.com/giveaway, login or create an account to be entered in the contest! Download the Studio Enterprise bits and start creating next-generation UI's today. All entries must be received by 5:00PM EST March 31, 2009. Winner will be notified by email.
 
 Event Center
Visit us at VSLive! Next Month
VSLive! 2009
February 23-27, 2009
San Francisco, CA
Stop by our booth (Feb 23-25): We have so much to share with you about ComponentOne's current cutting-edge technologies in addition to what's new.
 
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