A week or so ago in our newsletter we officially announced the development of Actipro Docking for WPF and Actipro SyntaxEditor for WPF. These two products when completed will be added to our WPF Studio control bundle.
Also note that we have some other special controls in development as well, but we'll keep those under wraps for now.
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A WPF window showing tool windows that are docked and in auto-hide mode, along with a SyntaxEditor control in the content area of the DockSite
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Actipro Docking for WPF
The Docking product is progressing very nicely and is expected to be the next major product added to WPF Studio. Its design harnesses our themes framework, thereby making it easy for us to provide alternate themes such as Aero, or Office themes with minimal effort.
Docking includes many of the extremely flexible behavior options that have made our UIStudio Dock for Windows Forms product very popular. We also have some surprises in store. We'll get into some of these options and new features in future posts.
Actipro SyntaxEditor for WPF
We're approaching the SyntaxEditor product as an opportunity to do a lot of neat new things and make improvements to the SyntaxEditor for Windows Forms product that is recognized as the industry leader in syntax highlighting editor controls.
One design goal of ours is to try and separate out the document/parsing model to a .NET 2.0-based assembly that could be used by both SyntaxEditor for WPF, SyntaxEditor 5.0 for Windows Forms, and a future CodeHighlighter.
We are working on doing some big language design enhancements too. Even though what we have now is great, we have a lot more ideas that we want to integrate, making it easier for you to develop both simple and complex language parsers for your editor.
More Sneak Peek Posts
Stay tuned to the blog for more information on Docking, SyntaxEditor and other new controls. We'll continue to post new information as development progresses.