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Silverlight Studio 2011.1 build 112 has been released and is now available for download.

This maintenance release adds several large new features for SyntaxEditor and its add-ons:

• SyntaxEditor: Updated the XML language definition to support !DOCTYPE internal subsets.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Documents no longer need a filename set to get automated IntelliPrompt working, making it easier to get started.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Improved the resolver to support generic method type inference, lambda expressions, and more.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Added numerous features to make the editing of XML comments easier.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Improved all automated IntelliPrompt features.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Added code outlining for #region blocks and documentation comments.

See the announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.

WPF Studio 2011.1 build 544 has been released and is now available for download.

This maintenance release adds several large new features for SyntaxEditor and its add-ons, as well as for Docking/MDI.

• Docking: Added option to enable/disable live splitting of docking windows.
• Docking: Added new option to allow rafting windows to be maximized when their title bar is double-clicked.
• Docking: Added new option to automatically wrap DocumentItemsSource and ToolItemsSource items with a ContentControl in order to preserve visuals as when changing selected tab.
• Ribbon: Added the Ribbon.KeyTipModeShortcuts property, which allows control for which keys toggle key tip mode.
• SyntaxEditor: Updated the XML language definition to support !DOCTYPE internal subsets.
• SyntaxEditor: Added extensibility for the default context menu.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Documents no longer need a filename set to get automated IntelliPrompt working, making it easier to get started.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Improved the resolver to support generic method type inference, lambda expressions, and more.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Added numerous features to make the editing of XML comments easier.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Improved all automated IntelliPrompt features.
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on: Added code outlining for #region blocks and documentation comments.
• SyntaxEditor Web Languages Add-on: Added options to allow the XML validation to support DTDs.

See the announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.

What We Accomplished

In this quarter, we continued enhancing the 2011.1 versions of WPF Studio and Silverlight Studio.

Docking/MDI for WPF received an innovative linked DockSite feature, that allows you to drag docking windows between two or more separate DockSites.  Auto-hide flyouts were updated to support interop content.

PropertyGrid for WPF added a new interop feature for allowing customers transitioning from WinForms to use their old UITypeEditor’s in drop-downs or dialogs, just like they did with the WinForms PropertyGrid.

Editors for WPF added support for entering gradient brushes in BrushEditBox, part of those updates being the addition of ColorComponentSlider and GradientBrushSlider to the Shared Library.

SyntaxEditor added support for AST node ID values and code generation from the Language Designer.

The SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on received an enormous number of new resolver and automated IntelliPrompt features: completion, generic types, type inference, extension methods, doc comment display, doc comment stub generation, generic method type parameter inference, lambda expressions, and much more.

What’s Coming Next

We’ll hopefully be publishing another maintenance release of the 2011.1 WPF and Silverlight products in the next week or two.  This release will include all of the new features recently blogged about for the SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on, along with other miscellaneous updates to various products.

Following that, we will begin work on the 2011.2 codebase.  We already have a very good start on a new product that will be added for that codebase, which we will reveal in time.  We also will be jumping back into adding more features to the core SyntaxEditor control.  Things like parameter info, single line mode, etc. have been requested by a lot of customers and we plan to deliver those in 2011.2.

Blog Post List

Here is a quick categorized list of useful blog postings made in this quarter.  More...