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SyntaxEditor for WPF with a custom theme loaded
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Yesterday evening we published WPF Studio 2009.1, which includes the first SyntaxEditor for WPF public beta and the official release of Editors for WPF. These products have been highly requested by our customers so we’re very pleased to get them out into your hands.
We posted on the Actipro Twitter immediately after the new version was live, so customers who follow us were able to get the new version immediately. If you use Twitter, be sure to follow us for the latest updates from Actipro.
SyntaxEditor for WPF
SyntaxEditor is a powerful text editing control that is packed with features for efficient code editing, including syntax highlighting, line numbers, block selection, IntelliPrompt UI, split views, zooming, bi-di support, and much more. It has many of the same code editing features found in the Visual Studio code editor.
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Mouse wheel zooming with animated zoom level display
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SyntaxEditor is built on top of our next-generation extensible text/parsing framework. While over 20 sample languages are available to get you started (such as C#, VB, XML, and more), custom language definitions can be developed and distributed with your applications as well. SyntaxEditor is designed for use in IDE (integrated development environment) applications, however there are many other applications out there than can take advantage of such a control.
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Several instances of SyntaxEditor for WPF with syntax highlighting using the included Oslo Dataflow Add-on, which integrates SyntaxEditor with MGrammar DSL parsers
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A free add-on is included that integrates domain-specific language (DSL) parsers created using Microsoft Olso's MGrammar with SyntaxEditor, allowing it to syntax highlight code based on the DSL parser.
Editors for WPF
Actipro Editors is a control suite that implements several data entry controls for the Windows Presentation Foundation framework, including a masked textbox and parts-based editors. Each control has numerous options available and allows for a more intuitive/natural data entry.
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The built-in DateTime and Guid edit boxes
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The masked textbox can be used to restrict user input to a preconfigured regular expression mask, with support for alternations and quantifiers. Parts-based editors allow the various "parts" of an associated type to be modified individually, such as entering only the month part of a date. Several parts-based editors are provided for existing .Net types, including brushes, colors, and dates/times.
Helper assemblies are included to make integrating Editors into PropertyGrid or Ribbon a breeze.
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Ribbon with various built-in Editors embedded in its groups; note the styling matches the ribbon theme
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Versioning Changes
As you can see, we’ve altered the version naming of WPF Studio products. The previous version was v4.5, but moving forward we’re going with a year and volume-within-that-year naming convention. The version that was released yesterday is displayed as 2009.1, and the actual version on the assembly is v9.1. The 9 means 2009 and the 1 means volume 1.
The current subscription mechanism hasn’t changed. This means that while your subscription to a WPF control product is kept active, you are eligible to get any new upgrades to that product for free.