The Actipro Blog

What We Accomplished

In this quarter we got Silverlight Studio 2010.2 released and focused on enhancing our existing WPF products.  Ribbon for WPF got some huge updates that added the nicest Office 2010 themes available with Backstage support.  SyntaxEditor and other controls got a number of minor improvements too.

We moved our web site to a newer faster server and redesigned the look of our blog to improve readability and overall aesthetics.

What’s Coming Next

We’re planning on launching WPF Studio 2011.1 sometime in January.  This new version will have a number of new features mentioned in recent posts such as Docking/MDI’s new MVVM support and Prism integration, large updates to the SyntaxEditor LL(*) Parser Framework, and numerous enhancements to our other controls.  It will also have several new components that we’ll mention in the coming posts.

WPF Studio 2011.1 will also showcase the first public beta release of the .NET Languages Add-on for the WPF platform.  While this first beta won’t have automated IntelliPrompt yet, it will have parsing, AST construction, syntax error reporting, and automatic outlining for C#/VB.

We’ll get Silverlight Studio 2011.1 out shortly after WPF Studio 2011.1’s release.

Blog Post List

Here is a quick categorized list of useful blog postings made in this quarter. 

General

• December 2010 Newsletter Published
• The Actipro Blog gets a facelift
• Web sites migrated to newer server
• The future of WPF, Silverlight, and HTML5 - Are they dead?

WPF Development

• Last December 2010 Development Update
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on for WPF Progress - Part 2
• SyntaxEditor .NET Languages Add-on for WPF Progress
• Query on Prism (Composite WPF) Integration with Docking/MDI
• Docking/MDI for WPF - MVVM Beta Testers Wanted
• WPF Studio 2010.2 build 533 released
• WPF development - .NET Languages Add-on and Docking/MDI MVVM
• Handling Ribbon Backstage airspace issues with interop content
• WPF Studio 2010.2 build 532 released - Adds Ribbon Backstage application menu
• WPF Ribbon Backstage updates include new controls and styles
• Enhancing WPF Ribbon’s Backstage with recent document management
• WPF Ribbon Backstage coming soon!
• Important WPF Studio 2010.2 update, also with new Gauge and SyntaxEditor features

Silverlight Development

• Gobble up some savings on Silverlight Studio
• Actipro Silverlight Studio 2010.2 released!
• Printing support added for the upcoming SyntaxEditor for Silverlight 2010.2 version

WinForms Development

• WinForms Controls Maintenance Release