The Actipro Blog

We've done a lot of blogging in the past couple of weeks on new WPF controls that were being prepared for the next maintenance release of WPF Studio v3.5.  Well, I'm pleased to announce that all those controls are now live with today's latest build 425.

New Controls and Components

A slew of new controls and components are included in this build.  Here is a brief list of the major new ones, with links to the previous blog posts that describe them:

• Breadcrumb control, like the Vista explorer addressbar
• Ribbon textbox and combobox hint text
• Aero wizards
• Vista-like command button for use in Aero wizards and task dialogs
• Animated progress bar
• Popup button control, with the ability to show context menu or any other WPF content in its drop-down
• Glass window class, which makes it easy to extend Aero glass into the client area of the window
• Many new value converters, enumerations, and helper methods

Improved Documentation

Our already-thorough documentation has been further enhanced, with a lot of new topics. 

Many New Samples

We've continued to add many new samples to the Sample Browser with this build.  In fact, there are 16 new samples added in this maintenance release!

How to Download?

If you already own WPF Studio v3.5, just go to your Organization Purchases page and download the new maintenance release from there.  If you don't own WPF Studio v3.5, you can get it from the Download page.