Actipro’s unique bundle of Windows Presentation Foundation user interface controls offers everything developers need to add advanced UI functionality to their Windows Presentation Foundation applications.
Cleveland, OH – April 12, 2010 – Actipro Software has enhanced their WPF Studio user interface control suite to fully integrate with Visual Studio 2010. Integration includes Visual Studio designer surface extensibility for quick control customization, item templates that get customers up and running quickly, and toolbox entries. In addition, the hundreds of product samples packaged with WPF Studio are included in Visual Studio 2010 project format.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is now the best-of-breed IDE for creating Windows Presentation Foundation applications. Microsoft has built upon the strengths of Visual Studio 2008 and improved features across the board. The numerous productivity, debugging, testing, and extensibility enhancements undoubtedly cut down on application development time. As Windows Presentation Foundation application developers migrate to Visual Studio’s latest version, they can rest assured that Actipro Software’s Windows Presentation Foundation user interface control products are designed to integrate with and take advantage of new functionality found in Visual Studio 2010.
“Many of our customers have indicated to us that they plan on moving to Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 platform immediately upon RTM,” said Bill Henning, President of Actipro Software. “It’s very important for us at Actipro to support our customers as we move into the Visual Studio 2010 era and make sure that our products fit well into the workflow of their application creation. Not only have we added design-time support for Microsoft’s new IDE version, but we have also moved our own product codebases to the latest as well.”
The WPF Studio suite includes 12 products, with a total of over 55 Windows Presentation Foundation user interface controls: Bar Code, DataGrid, Docking & MDI, Editors, Gauge, Navigation, PropertyGrid, Ribbon, SyntaxEditor, Views, Wizard and the Shared Library.
“We think that WPF developers will find many enhancements made in the .NET Framework 4 very appealing,” continued Bill Henning. “The capabilities added by the Dynamic Language Runtime provide for more language choice, parallel programming features help take advantage of multi-core processing, and new WPF controls and components make it easier to perform common tasks.”
“Microsoft is pleased that Actipro, a Visual Studio Industry Partner, has invested early in supporting Visual Studio 2010 and our next-generation application development platform, and is this week simultaneously shipping the WPF Studio 2010.1 control suite,” said Dave Mendlen, senior director of Developer Marketing at Microsoft. “Products like the WPF Studio 2010.1 control suite help customers to simplify their development process from design to deployment when using Microsoft products like Visual Studio 2010 and.NET Framework 4.”
Pricing and Availability
The 2010.1 version of the Actipro WPF Studio suite that includes complete Visual Studio 2010 integration launches April 14, 2010. Single developer licenses for the bundle start at $649, which include a free subscription to obtain all product updates for a year. Bulk license discounts up to 40% off are available, as are Site and Enterprise licenses. Product source code is available via a Blueprint license. Visit www.actiprosoftware.com for details.
About Actipro Software
Actipro Software is a leading provider of .NET user interface controls for the WPF and WinForms frameworks. They have been making .NET UI controls since the inception of .NET and were the first vendor to release a commercial WPF control. Their WPF Studio suite contains everything a WPF application developer needs, including docking windows, MDI, ribbons, property grids, gauges, editors, and much more. Actipro is most well-known for their robust SyntaxEditor syntax-highlighting code editor control, which allows developers to easily bring a Visual Studio-like code editing experience into their own applications.