We have been working very hard on finishing up our upcoming Actipro Silverlight Studio suite over the past several months. I wanted to share a screenshot of where it’s at and give some status updates.
SyntaxEditor for Silverlight
The biggest part of Silverlight Studio is SyntaxEditor for Silverlight. It is a port of our popular SyntaxEditor for WPF control, which is an extremely powerful and customizable code editing control similar to the VS 2010 code editor.
Once this control is out, you will have the ability to create online IDEs, since you’ll have a syntax-highlighting editor control that will work in any browser that supports Silverlight and has advanced features like code outlining, custom adornments (squiggles, inline images, etc.), parsing, and much more.
I just opened a 2MB C# file from my hard drive and it opened immediately, ready for editing, and with full syntax highlighting active.
SyntaxEditor for Silverlight is very near code complete for its first release now. We tackled the biggest open remaining issues this week. There are just a few minor things left to do.
As you can see from the screenshot, the very first version will ship with over 40 individual samples for SyntaxEditor alone.
Views for Silverlight
Silverlight Studio will also ship with Views for Silverlight, which is a port of our Views for WPF product. Views includes a number of panels that make it easy to create fluid animations of child elements, along with a new ZapPanel control, and some more new panels on the way soon.
Views for Silverlight is all ready to go for the Silverlight Studio launch.
Shared Library
Our Silverlight Shared Library has some helpful controls built into it such as a fully working Menu, MenuItem, and ContextMenu setup. It also has a port of our transition controls that are found in WPF Studio. We’ll talk more about these and more soon.
What’s left to do?
We are currently working on a last couple minor features for SyntaxEditor. Then we need to finish some of the intro documents and feature lists for the products. Once we have our deployment code written, we will post a live demo of Silverlight Studio on our site so that you can try it out.
We will likely then open up closed beta testing to customers who contact us. During that testing period we’ll be working on documentation, web site pages, and doing some other finishing touches.
Summary
We’re really excited about this upcoming products, and based on our customer feedback, you are too. It won’t be long now before we can post something on our site for you to try. Keep an eye on our blog as we’ll post here as more information becomes available.