New Version of Software Library PDF Direct & Quick View

Spreading of file formats PDF and PDF/A strongly increases during the last years, and this trend is stable. Since today the advantages of the file format for a safe and efficient exchange of electronic documents are universally recognized, PDF is established as a standard. Today at the document processing one must not renounce a platform covering retention of the representation quality and formatting of the original document, comfortable collaboration functions as well as independence from the original program with which the file was created.

New version of PDF Direct & Quick View 5
soft Xpansion takes into account the increasing significance of PDF format by the further development of new products. With PDF Direct & Quick View 5 the company publishes a new version of its developer library, which was firstly offered in 2002 to the implementing of PDF format in software applications.

With PDF Direct & QuickView 5, complicated developing projects can be realized in Visual C ++, .NET and in languages with COM support. Besides, the libraries allow a direct production and processing (PDF Direct) as well as announcement (PDF Quick View) of PDFs in software applications. This also concerns foreign, already created PDF files. The users of the application need therefore no additional programs to be able to produce, process, view and print PDF files. Both libraries offer a huge number of powerful options for a flexible implementing of PDF format.

Version 5 offers the following new functions and improvements:

• Support of 64-bit versions of Windows
• Production of PDF pages from content objects (text, vector and grid graphics)
• Processing of the contents of PDF pages (PDF Rich Edit)
• Combining of several PDF-pages in one page
• Import of HTML files and Web pages
• Import of GDI + metafiles
• Time stamp functions (insertion and validation)
• Trust-validation of signatures
• Improved import of pictures by the site production

The conceptual specific feature of PDF Direct & QuickView 5 lies in the modular construction of the library and in the adaptable price model linked with it: software developers can select PDF functions, which users of their application will need at their work with PDF files or to which they should have access. Cost-intense, unnecessary PDF functions should not be paid for.

Functional overview
Details about PDF Direct & QuickView 5 can be found in Internet on the product site in the area PDF Xpansion on http://www.soft-xpansion.com/.

Supported operating systems
PDF Direct and Quick View 5 can be used in applications, which run under the 32-or 64-bit versions of Windows Vista, XP (Home or Professional Edition), Server 2003 or 2000.

Price & availability
PDF Direct & QuickView 5 costs from €1.450,-.

The library is available from now on and is offered in several license models and component parcels, which allow an adaptation to the needs of the target group and the users of the respective purpose application. No other software components are required except for those, which are already installed with the operating system Windows.

The complete price list including a description of license models and component parcels can be downloaded on http://www.soft-xpansion.com/.

Demo-version and documentation
For a demo-version and the extensive documentation please send a short message to sales @ soft-xpansion.com.

About soft Xpansion
The company soft Xpansion is a international team of software developers, screen designers and product managers, which has developed more than 100 software products since its foundation in 1995. In addition to Germany, Austria and Switzerland, product markets are situated in a large number of other countries, in which localised product versions were published. Among them are Great Britain, France, Italy, USA, Benelux, Ukraine, Spain, Russia, Portugal, Australia and Turkey. soft Xpansion offers solutions (individual development and out-of-the-box products), which are focused on the areas of PDF-technology, system utilities, document and database management systems as well as data and application security.

Further information about the enterprise and the products you can find onhttp://www.soft-xpansion.com/.

LEAD Technologies Announces the Release of the First Imaging Specific WPF SDK

Today, LEAD Technologies, Inc. announced the release of the first imaging specific WPF SDK, with WPF functionality in our LEADTOOLS product line.

LEADTOOLS WPF Module will have WPF support included with LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging Pro and up. With this new release, LEAD has created LEADTOOLS for WPF and LEADTOOLS for WPF Express. The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation environment provides a consistent programming model for building applications. Directly related to XAML, it provides a clear separation between business logic and the user interface, enabling you to build applications that blend the user interface, documents, images, and other content for delivery on the desktop or across-the-web.

"LEADTOOLS for WPF takes full advantage of The WPF framework, to provide you with out-of-the-box support for displaying, loading, saving, converting or processing all image formats supported by the Microsoft Windows BitmapSource class in the WPF environment, as well as the 150+ formats supported by LEADTOOLS Raster Imaging toolkits", stated Rich Little, LEAD Technologies' President.

LEADTOOLS includes WPF source code examples making the integration of many years of LEADTOOLS imaging expertise into the latest Microsoft WPF technology a simple task.

New WPF Imaging SDKs in v15:

LEADTOOLS for WPF Express includes everything a designer or developer needs to start adding imaging elements to WPF applications, including a WPF Viewer that supports the Microsoft .NET BitmapSource object. It also includes full documentation for all Windows Presentation Foundation functionality supported by all LEADTOOLS products.

LEADTOOLS for WPF Standard contains full featured versions of the WPF Viewer and ImageList controls, Bitmap Effects, and 40+ WIC Codecs.

LEADTOOLS WPF Module leverages the features and power of LEADTOOLS 15 including OCR, image processing and all of the other features available in LEADTOOLS 15. It includes everything from Standard plus a RasterImageViewer control that has support for the LEADTOOLS 15 RasterImage class and Load/Save methods.

Developers can harness the robust power of LEADTOOLS extensive file format support and image processing features, while taking advantage of the newest UI development features provided by WPF. LEADTOOLS includes WPF source code examples making the integration of many years of LEADTOOLS imaging expertise into the latest Microsoft WPF technology a simple task.

Availabilty and Pricing
LEADTOOLS v.15 SDKs are available for immediate purchase through the LEADTOOLS website or by calling LEAD sales at 704-332-5532. Purchase may also be made through one of LEAD's authorized resellers or distributors.

Full Imaging evaluation toolkits are available free of charge from LEAD's website http://www.leadtools.com

About LEAD Technologies
Since 1990, LEAD Technologies, Inc. has been a global leader in the imaging developer toolkit market, providing programmers with feature-rich tools to "image-enable" their software applications. LEAD Technologies pioneered the fastest software-only image compression and continues to lead the field in advancing new imaging technologies and offering those technologies to programmers world wide.

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How to Use SQLXML to Retrieve Data from SQL Server Database

Using SQL Server 2000 and above versions you can retrieve data from SQL Server in XML format directly from the database. Many XML related features were incorporated in the SQL Server database. This enables the development of XML enabled applications very easy and it makes exchange of data over internet easy. In this article we will discuss about how to use SQLXML to retrieve data directly from SQL server database in XML format.

There are some SQL commands and clauses that help you to retrieve data from the SQL Server in the XML format. Syntax for such is given below:

SELECT ... FOR XML mode [, XMLDATA] [, ELEMENTS] [, BINARY BASE64]

There are different modes and that take the values of

• AUTO – In this mode every row of the result of the query forms an element in the returned XML document.
  
• EXPLICIT – This mode defines how to map the columns of the results returned by the query to the XML elements and the attributes.
  
• RAW - All the fields of the result are identified as attributes of an element.
  
• NESTED – The result of this mode is the same as the AUTO mode but the formatting has to be done at the client side.

A simple example of using the above syntax is given below:

SELECT TOP 3 * FROM (SELECT FirstName+' '+LastName as Name FROM Employees) FOR XML AUTO

The query produces this result:

Employees Name="John Peter"
Employees Name="Andrew Dixon"
Employees Name="Tom Hanks"

There are optional parameters in the ‘FOR XML mode’ clause. The XMLDATA option adds an XSD schema which describes the XML format of the result returned. The ELEMENTS options make the fields of the tables in the database to be returned as child elements. If the ELEMENTS option is not there the fields of the tables are returned as attributes instead of child elements of the XML document. The ELEMENTS option is allowed only in the AUTO mode. The BINARY BASE64 option is used to retrieve any binary data. The returned binary data is returned in BASE64 encoded format. The binary data can be retrieved in the RAW or EXPLICIT mode.

An example of the RAW mode is given below:

SELECT EmpName, EmpCity from EMP for XML RAW

The above code returns a result like,

row EmpName=”John” EmpCity=”New York”

In the above result you can note that the fields of the resultset are returned as attributes of the element.

.Net provides with managed classes for interacting with SQL Server. The managed classes of SQLXML provided by .Net are:

• SqlXmlCommand – This is used to perform queries that are stored in XML documents which are also called XML templates. This class also provides support for client side XML processing.
• SqlXmlParameter – this is used to provide parameterized values and is used along with SqlXmlCommand object.
• SqlXmlAdapter – this is the adapter class for SQLXML provider. This is used to fill the dataset.
• SqlXmlException – this is used to trap the error information from the SQL Server.

A sample code using the managed classes is given below. For detailed information on the usage of the above managed classes you can refer to the MSDN documentation.

static string cstr = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Server=(local);database=EmpPersonal;";

public static void testingSqlXml () {

   Stream oStr = Console.OpenStandardOutput();

   SqlXmlCommand sqlcmd = new SqlXmlCommand(cstr);

   sqlcmd.Root = "Employees";

   sqlcmd.CommandType = SqlXmlCommandType.Sql;

   sqlcmd.CommandText = "SELECT EmpName, EmpCity FROM Employees FOR XML AUTO";

   strm = sqlcmd.ExecuteToStream(oStr);

   oStr.Close();

}

Thus we have seen that SQLXML can be used to retrieve data directly from the SQL Server in XML format. It is easy to handle and transmit data through the internet if it is in the XML format and this can be easily achieved using the SQLXML.

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Thanksgiving Day Discount Special 25% on All 9Rays' Products

9Rays.Net has launched a Thanksgiving Day discount program that brings members of development usergroups a special 25% discount on all their products. This offer, which will be available only for a limited time (November 18th - 30th, 2007), considerably reduces the acquisition cost for the industry's next generation tools for .Net software lifetime management, code protection and optimization of .NET software, security & cryptography components and Windows.Forms/Asp.Net controls. The offer is open to all members of development usergroups. The coupon code: thanksgivingday.

Since 2001, 9Rays.Net has been at the forefront in providing .NET, VCL, and ActiveX components. Today, many industry professionals use 9Rays.Net components in their development cycle. The products are reliable, easy to use and up-to-date. They help developers build more secure .NET Framework-based applications, facilitate research and improve IT productivity. Six 9Rays' products - Spices.Net Suite, Spices.Obfuscator, Spices.Decompiler, FlyGrid.Net, FlyTreeView for Asp.Net, CryptoSharp- are available for download from the company's web site (www.9rays.net).

• Spices.Net Suite is an all-in-one suite of the components that enable developers to protect their .NET assemblies, decompile/disassemble to 6 languages, research assembly members relationships and structure of .NET assemblies, optimize and document code. Programming in Microsoft's .NET Framework gives developers extra opportunities to realize their ideas with an extensive set of features.
• Spices.Obfuscator is a .NET code protection tool that offers developers many advanced and patent pending technologies to protect their .NET code and intellectual properties. The obfuscator rebuilds .NET assemblies to the new format that it is impossible to disassemble, decompile, and impossible to understand. Spices.Obfuscator is distributed as a standalone product or as a part of Spices.Net Suite.
• Spices.Decompiler enables developers to decompile/disassemble .NET assemblies from MSIL binary format to well-formed and optimized source code. Six languages are available, such as MSIL, C#, VB.NET, Delphi.Net J# and managed C++. Spices.Decompiler is distributed as a standalone product or as a part of Spices.Net Suite.
• FlyGrid.Net delivers a fast, highly-customizable Tree/Grid for Windows.Forms in only 340 Kb. Unlike larger Windows.Forms DataGrid tools, FlyGrid.Net offers complete database interface management in .NET 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 along with flexibility and fast performance. For example, FlyGrid.Net can add 100,000 nodes in 0.2 seconds!
• FlyTreeView for ASP.NET is an advanced treeview solution built exclusively for ASP.NET 2.0, using its modern features and technologies. The control provides developers with the most powerful solution for the presentation of hierarchical data on the web. FlyTreeView for ASP.NET 2.0 features cross-browser support, client-side scripting model, unlimited drag-and-drop capabilities, dynamic populate, check boxes, radio buttons, context menu, unlimited style and behavior customization.
• CryptoSharp a security library offering a complete package of encryption tools to .NET developers.

For additional information on the 9Rays products, please visit www.9rays.net or contact the marketing manager at (877) 9RAYSNET / (877) 972-9763.

About 9Rays.Net, Inc:
Founded in 2001, 9Rays.Net is a developer and software lifetime management tools company specializing in .Net. With a Blue Chip customer base of over 100 government, enterprise, and independent software developers. 9Rays.Net prides itself on providing its customers with the most innovative and secure solutions available on the market today.

Their flagship products include (among others): Spices.Net Suite, Spices.Obfuscator, Spices.Decompiler, FlyGrid.Net, FlyTreeView for Asp.Net and CryptoSharp. 9Rays.Net is a Microsoft Partner Program member, a Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) and a Borland Technology Partner. The company's office is located in Alexandria, USA. For more information, please call (877) 9RAYSNET / (877) 972-9763 or visit www.9rays.net.

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Announcing DotNetBar for Windows Forms 7.0 Release With Office 2007 Style Controls

DevComponents LLC announced today release of DotNetBar Suite 7.0 a toolbox of 37 powerful User Interface components with Office 2007 look and feel that enable VS.NET developers to create professional user interface with ease.

7.0 release of DotNetBar includes 6 all new controls which dramatically improve developers ability to create professional looking applications in Office 2007 style.

New Date Time Picker control in Office 2007 styles removes the limitations of standard Date Time Picker control, like null value support, and adds built-in international support, custom buttons, extensive styling abilities and database binding options with custom parsing support.

New Advanced Month Calendar control in Office 2007 style enables developers to extensively customize control appearance without writing any code. Borders, gradient backgrounds, text colors and much more can be customized using Visual Studio.NET designers. Developers can also provide completely custom rendering for the control for unique look and feel.

Double and Integer input controls provide easy data entry and data binding to the numeric value types. Out of box international support is provided as well as database binding to any types through custom value parsing.

Reflection Image and Reflection Label controls provide an easy way to polish the application appearance through reflection visual effect that can be applied to images and markup text.

DotNetBar Suite 7.0 is compatible with the latest Visual Studio.NET 2005 as well as with all other publicly released Visual Studio versions.

DotNetBar Suite 7.0 includes following controls:

• Office 2007 Style Ribbon controls
• Dockable auto-hide windows with Diamond Docking Hints guides and split-view document docking technology
• Date/Time Picker Control
• Numeric Input Controls
• Month Calendar Control in Office 2007 style
• Reflection Image and Reflection Labels controls
• Tab control with 9 visual styles
• Explorer Bar control
• Side Bar control
• Flat Side Bar control
• Tab Strip control
• Balloon Control
• Alert Control
• Balloon-Tip Control
• Navigation Pane control
• Navigation Bar control
• OneNote style Tab Control
• Multi-Functional Panel Control
• Expandable splitter control
• Wizard Control
• Item Panel Control
• Office 2007 style forms
• Much, much more...

For more information and fully functional trial version please visit our web site at: http://www.devcomponents.com

DevComponents LLC is a leader in User Interface component design. Our award winning components and tools are benefiting large corporations, consultants and ISV's all around the world as a cost effective solution for building great applications. Our mission is to provide innovative frameworks and components that help developers build the best applications that today's competitive market place demands.

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Resco Releases Resco AdvancedTree .NET

Resco, a leading provider of advanced developer controls and tools for mobile devices, today announced availability of Resco AdvancedTree .NET control, optimized for .NET Compact Framework 2.0, integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

"Displaying child rows in the AdvancedList .NET control is a feature we have been asked for really often by our customers," says Vladimir Gregor, component developer at Resco Enterprise Solutions division. "That is why decided to create the AdvancedTree .NET control that is able to display data organized in a tree."

Resco AdvancedTree .NET is a control able to display a tree of data. Each node is displayed using a pre-designed NodeTemplate that can display text, links or images. Supports the DelayLoad functionality, which can be utilized to display large amounts of data in a short time. Strong Visual Studio Designer support is already a standard of Resco controls. The control is fully optimized for tricky environment of mobile devices.

"Presenting your data in an organized tree-like structure is a common practice in many user applications," says Harry Kelly, Managing Director of ComponentSource, the world's leading distributor of software components. "By releasing the AdvancedTree .NET control within their Resco MobileForms Toolkit package, Resco has provided mobile application developers with yet another key piece of functionality for their users."

Pricing and Availability
The Resco AdvancedTree .NET control is now available as a part of Resco MobileForms Toolkit package. The Standard Edition is priced at $399.95, the Professional Edition at $799.95, and the Enterprise Edition at $1,199.95. A free trial version is also available. Resco offers this product with 1 year of free support and upgrades.For more information, please visit http://www.resco.net/developer/mobileformstoolkit/advancedtree.aspx

About Resco MobileForms Toolkit
The Resco MobileForms Toolkit is a suite of Visual Studio controls designed specifically for mobile devices.

The suite contains:

• Resco AdvancedList .NET - professional list control suitable for small displays of mobile devices
• Resco AdvancedTree .NET - featured tree control excellent for displaying tree-organized data
• Resco DetailView .NET - elegant and quick way of creating user input forms
• Resco SmartGrid .NET - powerful grid control with built-in auto edit capabilities
• Resco OutlookShortcutBar .NET - popular shortcut control, common to all modern applications
• Resco OutlookWeekCalendar .NET - Day/Week appointment scheduling control
• Resco OutlookMonthCalendar .NET - Month/Year scheduling control
• Resco OutlookDateTimePicker .NET - modern version of common control providing advanced styles
• Resco InkBox .NET - ink control suitable for quick notes or signatures
• Resco CompactChart .NET - charting control supporting 5 chart types
• Resco Zip .NET - industry standard compression library

For more information, please visit http://www.resco.net/developer/mobileformstoolkit/overview.aspx

About Resco MobileApp Developer Pack
The Resco MobileApp Developer Pack is a complete suite of all Resco developer controls, libraries, tools and sample projects that help you develop professional mobile applications for Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms.

• Resco MobileForms Toolkit
• Resco Enterprise Samples

For more information, please visit http://www.resco.net/developer/mobileappdevpack/overview.aspx

About Resco
Resco is a leading developer of wide range of mobile software products for the Microsoft Windows Mobile software platform. Besides the best selling end-user mobile applications, Resco offers also powerful developer controls and tools as well as business mobile solutions.

For more information, visit http://www.resco.net/developer/default.aspx

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Master ASP.NET 2.0 Web Development with SitePoint's Latest Book

Frustrated by the abundance of thousand-page ASP.NET reference monstrosities on the market, sitepoint.com has joined forces with five world-class ASP.NET developers to create a book that gets straight to the heart of solving ASP.NET problems.

The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks will save you time, and eliminate the frustration of completing ASP.NET programming tasks, with a comprehensive collection of fully-tested and ready-to-use C# solutions.

This focused, easy-to-read book enables you to learn by example as you work through its impressive C# solutions.

Some of the treasures inside this book include:

• building a database access layer for portability
• sidestepping the ASP.NET Framework when required
• adding interactivity with Ajax and JavaScript
• building data-driven applications quickly with SubSonic
• handling errors effectively
• working with email: send, parse, and manage attachments
• using component-based development for flexibility
• And lots more ...

Stop wasting time with dry, academic texts; get the job done quickly and easily with this collection of vital C# solutions for ASP.NET developers.

ISBN: 978-0-9802858-1-9
Page Count: 596
Price: $39.95 USD / $51.95 CDN
Book Web Site: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/aspnetant1/

About SitePoint
SitePoint specializes in publishing fun, practical, and easy-to-understand content for web professionals. Its popular online magazine, blogs, newsletters and print books teach best practices to web developers and designers worldwide.
http://www.sitepoint.com/

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Codejock Software Introduces Xtreme ToolkitPro and SuitePro 2007 Vol. 2 for Visual Studio .NET

Codejock Software a leading provider of cutting-edge user interface components, today has announced the release of Xtreme Toolkit Pro and Xtreme Suite Pro 2007 Volume 2 for Visual Studio .NET®, providing a comprehensive set of fully customizable user interface components for use with Visual C++ MFC, ActiveX COM and Microsoft.NET development platforms. This release incorporates many new enhancements to the already full featured Codejock product line including:

• New Vista Style Task Dialog Control for ActiveX: A Windows Vista style Task Dialog control is now included with the SuitePro.
• Xtreme Controls for ActiveX: ActiveX now includes a Vista style Task Dialog, TreeView, ListView, Hex Edit, Progress Bar, Scroll Bar, Tray Icon, Web Browser, Tip of the Day Dialog, Browse Folder Dialog, Window List Dialog, Masked Edit, Slider and Month Calendar controls.
• Office 2007 Style HTML Super Tips: HTML tooltips allow valid snippets of HTML to be used to format tip windows.
• Outlook 2007 Style Calendar Appointment Categories: Categories replace the old appointment labels and there can be several categories set to any appointment.
• Excel Style Header and Footer Rows: Header and footer rows allows rows in the report to always remain visible at the top and bottom of the report.
• Multiple In-place Property Grid Buttons: Each property grid item can have several buttons associated to make it easier for users to select data for the item.
• Tabbed List and Tree View: Tabbed list and Tree view controls have the same functionality as a tab control, only they use an alternative method of navigation.

A great alternative to creating a series of confusing and difficult to understand dialog boxes with the MessageBox API would be to use a Vista Style Task Dialog. With a task dialog all the information a user needs to make an informed decision can be presented to them in an easy to understand and concise format. The design of the task dialog looks better and is much simpler, which improves usability by stating the purpose, providing self-explanatory responses, enabling expandable content for added instructions and rich text support to better layout information.

Xtreme Controls is now available for ActiveX as well as included with Xtreme Suite. ActiveX now includes a Vista style Task Dialog, Tree View, List View, Hex Edit, Progress Bar, Scroll Bar, Tray Icon, Web Browser, Tip of the Day Dialog, Browse Folder Dialog, Window List Dialog, Masked Edit, Slider and Month Calendar control. This comprehensive set of components has been designed to handle most any GUI application development requirement.

Office 2007 style HTML Super Tips allow HTML code snippets to be used to format the tip window. HTML features such as tables, font, color, image and many more can be used to create just about any style of tip needed.

Outlook 2007 style calendar appointment categories are what replaced the old label system. There can be several categories set to any appointment at the same time. Categories make it easy to organize appointments and see what category they belong to by assigning a color to the appointment.

Each property grid item can now have several buttons associated to make it easier for users to select data for the item. For example there might be a button for a drop-down list of image file names and another button to allow a browse folder dialog to open an image file not in the list.

Tabbed list and Tree view controls are just a fancy version of a tab control giving an alternative method of navigation. These use controls that users are already familiar with and put them to use navigating property sheets. The property sheets fully support the SkinFramework.

A complete list of all new features can be found in the release notes for each product, found on the company's website, www.codejock.com.

About Codejock Software

Codejock Software, a division of Codejock Technologies, LLC based in MORRICE, Michigan provides reusable software components that facilitate rapid user interface development using Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET® development platforms. Codejock Software is committed to helping developers realize their goals with cutting-edge components, superior customer service and technical support. Codejock Software's products and evaluation versions are available for download on the company's website, for more information visit www.codejock.com.

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Divelements enhances SandDock

Divelements Ltd announces the release of SandDock V3. SandDock brings advanced window management to your applications, making it easy to deal with multiple documents and views in your software by supporting techniques like docking, tabbing and floating for each window. Unparalleled design-time support and a great OO design make this library easy to integrate into your application.

What’s new Summary

*Office 2007 look and feel is fully supported.
*New layout engine ensures consistent window sizing in complex layout hierarchies.
*Window memory greatly improved for moving between the different dock states.
*Layout serialization can now be implemented without writing any code.
*Unpinned windows can now be created at design time.
*Design time user interface for resizing docked windows improved.

Tim Dawson, Technical Director and Owner of Divelements, said: “This exciting release combines a number of features that are often requested. We now supply an Office 2007 theme which fits in seamlessly with our other products, the improved layout engine enforces consistent window layout and memory on a par with Visual Studio .NET, and enhanced design-time support will lead to even greater productivity.”

Pricing and Availability
A fully functional 30-day evaluation copy is available from http://www.divelements.co.uk

SandDock for Windows Forms is priced at $169 per developer, with tiered pricing available for purchases of multiple licenses.

Screenshot - http://www.divelements.co.uk/net/controls/sanddock/screenshots.aspx

About Divelements
Divelements is an established supplier of quality user interface components targeted primarily at the Microsoft .NET platform. We pride ourselves on providing solid, robust components that take full advantage of the rich designer capabilities offered by Visual Studio. Our products are recognized across the industry as offering the rich features demanded by complex applications while retaining a simple, easy to use API and lightweight redistributables.

9Rays.Net Announces Release of New Security Software, the CryptoSharp Security Library

Developers need look no farther than the newly released 9Rays.Net CryptoSharp security software in their ongoing efforts to thwart hackers. Security tools, hash functions, and ciphers have been developed and bundled in a single library. With this security software, platform-independent code provides data compression and encryption functionality to enhance the security of 32 and 64 bit environments.

When using the 9Rays.Net CryptoSharp Security Library, file based data is protected using powerful encryption. Data compression is another function which is prominent in the new release, ensuring the best in data security. Standard .NET framework classes are used throughout the CryptoSharp Security Library, which simplifies the encrypted storage of existing programs, enhancing their security. Newly created security enabled applications are protected from their inception with the latest encryption.

Copying the required component set from the 9Rays.Net CryptoSharp Security Library allows the developer the ability to transparently load the compatible components for an environment. CryptoSharp will adapt automatically to the operating system, number of cores, and hardware configuration of the environment being used, basic and multi-threaded ciphers can be loaded into the Rays CryptoSharp Security Library simultaneously and are automatically accessed by single core and multi core systems as needed. A unique key server will be provided in the general release of CryptoSharp Security Library, which will make the developer's task of managing user supplied passwords and binary keys.

Secure data security storage is assisted by cryptographic hash functions. Cryptosharp uses SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5 and other secure hash algorithms for secure data security storage. 9Rays.Net CryptoSharp's security software also includes a file shredder, which securely removes the original code from a system after it has been encrypted, by overwriting data multiple times, modifying file sizes hide their actual length, renaming them multiple times, and deleting them over and over, making detection less feasible to such an extent that the original file cannot be reconstituted.

For more information on data security and CryptoSharp's new security software, visit the Web site at http://www.9rays.net/.

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Develop Intelligent Dashboards with the .NET Dashboard Suite 3.0

Perpetuum Software LLC, a global software vendor, represents a new version 3.0 of the .NET Dashboard Suite, a powerful medium of visual communication of data allowing the design of the most advanced digital dashboards for Windows Forms apps.

"Now, to develop an adequate dashboard or any other data visualization application, you don't need to look for separate components from different vendors, and solve the problem of their compatibility. We developed a pack of fully compatible components with ample capabilities for general and specific data visualization," says Kate Mokhoff, a head of Perpetuum Software sales department, about the new version release.

One of the main benefits of dashboard use is the ability to display data in various forms. The .NET Dashboard Suite provides the complete set of data visualization tools: high-resolution ready-made gauges, charts, graphs, diagrams and much more. Moreover, an intuitive designer of the product allows the creation of non-standard controls on the base of the existing ones as well as their design from scratch. And this new version of the .NET Dashboard Suite makes this process very simple, fast, and intuitive due to the improved designer; some properties are available not only in the property grid but also from the designer toolbar.

Particular visual analysis features are not only useful but essential for each data visualization tool. The unique architecture of the product provides an ability to combine objects arbitrarily, allowing the creation of controls configurations that are difficult or impossible to build using other approaches. So, you can create even the most complicated dynamic and interactive dashboards to monitor and analyze your critical data.

During the application creation process it is very hard to predict all the needs and requirements of the target user. The .NET Dashboard Suite gives developers a free hand over the dashboard customization: from the appearance to the behavior of the controls.

The .Net Dashboard Suite lets you monitor your business performance using highly visual gauges and charts on your desktop. It is agile and easy-to-use software, allowing any company or organization, of any level, to gain the competitive advantage of using real-time business dashboard software.

To learn more about the .NET Dashboard Suite, please visit:http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/Product.aspx?lang=en&pid=44&prw=db30

To download a fully functional trial version of the product, please follow this page:http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/Downloads.aspx?lang=en&pid=44&prw=db30

About the .Net Dashboard Suite
The .Net Dashboard Suite is package of the following components: Chart ModelKit, and Instrumentation ModelKit. All components are written in C#, fully compatible with each other and provide similar design-time and runtime customization facilities, common data management, and appearance customization methods. There are available two versions of the product: the .NET Dashboard 2.3 that is compatible with the .NET 1.1 and 2.0 and the .NET Dashboard 3.0 that is specially designed for the .NET Framework 2.0.

About Perpetuum Software
Perpetuum Software specializes in development of high-quality .NET and ASP.NET software components compatible with MS Visual Studio .NET, C# Builder, Delphi .NET and other IDEs supporting .NET Framework. Such use-proven components as Report Sharp-Shooter, Instrumentation ModelKit, OLAP ModelKit, Chart ModelKit, .NET Dashboard Suite and other .NET components by Perpetuum Software are already well known on the software development market and are used by developers in more than 50 countries.

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Active Up release ActiveUp.RTF V3

Active Up today released the latest version of their RTF and HTML converter control for .NET, Active RTF, ActiveUp.RTF V3.

ActiveUp.RTF enables any developer to convert documents from HTML to RTF and RTF to HTML or XHTML. It's easy to create customizable HTML templates using merge fields, and then convert the resulting document to its RTF version for later delivery. Producing easily editable invoices or any other documents on any computer has never been easier! RTF format is fully supported by 100% of the Windows based operating systems and widely used on the alternatives

What's new?

• Code was ported from C++.NET to 100% managed C#.
• Page break support in the RTF to HTML converter.
• Full featured sample application.
• Striketrought conversion support for RTF to HTML converter.
• Documentation improvements.
• Possibility to choose installation directory.

Pricing and Availability
A fully functional 30-day evaluation copy is available from http://www.activeup.com

ActiveUp.RTF is priced at $299 per single developer license.

ABOUT Active Up SPRL
Active Up SPRL is a rapidly growing software company based in Belgium. Founded in 2000, Active Up SPRL provides high-quality products for both ASP.NET and Windows Application developers. Active Up has many years experience in the development of Internet applications of all types. This experience has allowed us to push back the boundaries ever further, and it is with this aim in mind that Active Up is developing a whole range of products for creating Web applications.

All rights reserved. Active Up SPRL, the Active Up SPRL logo and ActiveUp.MailSystem is a registered trademarks of Active Up SPRL. All other products, logos, or brand names are service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks, and are the property of their respective owners.

New Version of Elegant Ribbon for .NET Developers Released

FOSS Software, an industry leader in developing GUI components for Windows applications, announced the release of Elegant Ribbon v.1.2, a set of .NET Windows Forms controls that allow C# and VB.NET developers to quickly and easily provide their applications with a new-generation user interface like that introduced in Microsoft Office 2007.

The new version introduces three major features: Quick Access Toolbar, KeyTips and the ability to use even more controls both on the ribbon and on the form. All the implemented features are fully compliant with the 2007 Microsoft Office System User Interface Design Guidelines.

You can learn about how to use the new features from the following two articles: Working with Quick Access Toolbar and Keyboard Navigation with KeyTips. A new sample called Elegant Controls demonstrates how you can use context-sensitive controls on the form.

The most powerful feature of Elegant Ribbon is true WYSIWYG support, which allows the developer to do almost all the work using the Visual Studio 2005 designer.

You can download a free, fully-functional evaluation version right now.

FOSS Software has been successfully developing and offering software solutions and GUI libraries since 2000.

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Codejock Software Introduces Xtreme SkinFramework Bundle 2007 for Visual Studio .NET

Codejock Software a leading provider of cutting-edge user interface components, today has announced the release of Xtreme SkinFramework Bundle 2007 for Visual Studio .NET®, providing a comprehensive set of fully customizable user interface components for use with Visual C++ MFC, ActiveX COM and Microsoft.NET development platforms.

Acquiring a professionally themed application just got easier. Codejock Software's Xtreme SkinFramework Bundle 2007 provides Windows developers with a highly sophisticated skinning technology that was developed with Windows Themes (Visual Styles) in mind. Achieving a completely themed application can be accomplished with simply a few lines of code.

The Xtreme SkinFramework Bundle provides maximum compatibility with existing Windows XP and higher Visual Styles. Developers are empowered with an enhanced set of highly sophisticated tools to completely skin their application framework and components on all Windows platform. Every piece of an application can be skinned including components such as the title bar, window frame, buttons, edit controls, check boxes, etc, delivering professional appearance.

Included in the bundle is Xtreme CommandBars A professional modern appearance can be achieved by using MDI tabs that are similar to many popular Microsoft products. The Xtreme Commandbars also includes an Office 2007 style Ribbon Bar, menus, pop-ups, and style toolbars and RTL support.

The Xtreme Skinframework Bundle 2007 gives your Windows application toolbars and menus a professional modern appearance similar to many popular Microsoft products. With a few lines of code the SkinFramework will completely skin every part of an application with today's most popular themes including Windows XP and Windows Vista themes.

About Codejock Software
Codejock Software, a division of Codejock Technologies, LLC based in Owosso, Michigan provides reusable software components that facilitate rapid user interface development using Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET® development platforms. Codejock Software is committed to helping developers realize their goals with cutting-edge components, superior customer service and technical support. Codejock Software's products and evaluation versions available for download on the company's website, for more information visit www.codejock.com.

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Resco Releases Resco CompactChart .NET

Resco, a leading provider of advanced developer controls and tools for mobile devices, today announced availability of Resco CompactChart .NET, the charting control optimized for .NET Compact Framework 2.0, integrated with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

"For quite some time now, our customers have been requesting that we create a charting control suitable for mobile devices” says Radomir Vozar, director of Resco, Enterprise Solutions. “By releasing Resco CompactChart .NET, our component offering became one of the largest offerings of components dedicated to mobile application development worldwide.”

Resco CompactChart .NET supports five chart types: Pie, Bar, Line, Doughnut and Area. The control has a comprehensive Visual Studio Designer support and its run-time layout is optimized for small displays of mobile devices, using features such as tap-and-hold tooltips to save space on mobile forms.

Pricing and Availability
The Resco CompactChart .NET control is now available. The Standard Edition is priced at $199.95, the Professional Edition at $399.95, and the Enterprise Edition at $599.95. A free trial version is also available.

Resco offers this product with 1 year of support and upgrades.

Resco CompactChart .NET is available free of charge for all subscribers of the following suites:

• Resco MobileForms Toolkit
• Resco MobileApp Developer Pack

About Resco MobileForms Toolkit
The Resco MobileForms Toolkit is a suite of Visual Studio controls designed specifically for mobile devices. The suite contains:

• AdvancedList .NET - professional list control suitable for small displays of mobile devices
• DetailView .NET - elegant and quick way of creating user input forms
• SmartGrid .NET - powerful grid control with built-in auto edit capabilities
• OutlookShortcutBar .NET - popular shortcut control, common to all modern applications
• OutlookWeekCalendar .NET - Day/Week appointment scheduling control
• OutlookMonthCalendar .NET - Month/Year scheduling control
• OutlookDateTimePicker .NET - modern version of common control providing advanced styles
• InkBox .NET - ink control suitable for quick notes or signatures
• Zip .NET - industry standard compression library

For more information, please visit www.resco.net/developer/mobileformstoolkit/

About Resco MobileApp Developer Pack
The Resco MobileApp Developer Pack is a complete suite of all Resco developer controls, libraries, tools and sample projects that help you develop professional mobile applications for Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms.

The suite contains:

• Resco MobileForms Toolkit
• Resco Enterprise Samples

For more information, please visit www.resco.net/developer/mobileappdevpack/

About Resco
Resco is a leading developer of wide range of mobile software products for the Microsoft Windows Mobile software platform. Besides the best selling end-user mobile applications, Resco offers also powerful developer controls and tools as well as business mobile solutions.

For more information visit www.resco.net/developer/.

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Active Up revamps their popular .Net email component suite

Active Up today released the latest version of their .NET email component suite, ActiveUp.MailSystem. ActiveUp.MailSystem is the (r)evolution of the popular ActiveMail product

ActiveUp.MailSystem is a powerful suite of .NET components that provide users with an extensive set of email tools and features. ActiveUp.MailSystem provides full support for SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 and NNTP. It also provides extended support for MIME and S/MIME, OpenPGP, vCard and vCalendar, and Mail Merging. ActiveUp.MailSystem also provides unique anti-spam features such as DomainKeys, RBL Block List servers and Learning Bayesian Filter.

What's new?
SSL support (secure communications) - Securing your communications is now as easy as using the ConnectSsl() method instead of the standard Connect().

S/MIME & OpenPGP support (encryption/decryption and signing of emails) - Attached and detached mail signing is supported which makes it possible to send and receive signed emails with little programming effort.

Asynchronous operations - Quickly and easily use non blocking methods in your application.

Anti-Spam features - Built-in support for major block list servers including spamhaus, DomainKeys and Bayesian filter. You can provide the same world-class Spam protection that is offered by leading web based mail system such as Gmail and Yahoo.

Groupware (vCard & vCalendar) support - Fully PDI-enable your email applications. Our Personal Data Interchange module uses the same technology that is found in Outlook and other world-class email clients and contact management/scheduling systems.

Pricing and Availability
A fully functional 30-day evaluation copy is available from http://www.activeup.com

ActiveUp.MailSystem is priced at $499 per single developer license

ABOUT Active Up SPRL
Active Up SPRL is a rapidly growing software company based in Belgium. Founded in 2000, Active Up SPRL provides high-quality products for both ASP.NET and Windows Application developers. Active Up has many years experience in the development of Internet applications of all types. This experience has allowed us to push back the boundaries ever further, and it is with this aim in mind that Active Up is developing a whole range of products for creating Web applications.

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All rights reserved. Active Up SPRL, the Active Up SPRL logo and ActiveUp.MailSystem is a registered trademarks of Active Up SPRL. All other products, logos, or brand names are service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks, and are the property of their respective owners.

Codejock Software Introduces Xtreme ToolkitPro and SuitePro 2007 Vol. 1 for Visual Studio .NET

Codejock Software a leading provider of cutting-edge user interface components, today has announced the release of Xtreme ToolkitPro™ and Xtreme SuitePro™ 2007 Volume 1 for Visual Studio .NET®, providing a comprehensive set of fully customizable user interface components for use with Visual C++ MFC, ActiveX COM and Microsoft.NET development platforms.

This release incorporates many new enhancements to the already full featured Codejock product line including:

• New Button, ComboBox, Label, ListBox, Resizer, Edit, CheckBox and Radio Button Controls for ActiveX: The Xtreme SuitePro now includes many new commonly used components all of which have design time support.
• New SyntaxEdit for ActiveX: This is the first release of the Visual Studio .NET style edit control for ActiveX.
• SkinFramework for .NET and RTL Support: Xtreme SkinFramework can now be used with Visual Studio .NET and it now has RTL support.
• New Vista Style Task Dialog Control: A Windows Vista style Task Dialog control is now included with the Toolkit Pro.
• Slider and Spin Button Controls for Property Grid: Slider and Spin button controls give you another way to get user input.
• Support for Multiple Resources for Each Calendar Day: The Calendar now allows multiple schedules to be added to each calendar day.
• Report Control Memory Manager: The custom memory manager allows large numbers of records to more efficiently be added and deleted any number of times.
• Updated Translation Resources and added Bulgarian and Turkish Support: Translation resources for all components have been updated as well as adding support for Bulgarian and Turkish.
• Update Office 2007 Theme for Report Control, CommandBars and DockingPane: Now each component more closely matches the appearance of Office 2007.

Xtreme SuitePro now provides many new commonly used controls including a button, ComboBox, label, resize, edit, checkbox, and radio button. Each of these components has design-time support and all support the SkinFramework. With SkinFramework support you can replace your existing common components with Codejock components so that your application can be completely skinned. For example, you can now have skinned picture buttons.

The Resizer control is another useful control that can automatically resize child controls so that they remain proportionate to the size of the parent container. Child controls can optionally be moved in proportion to the size of the parent container as well.

The new Visual Studio .NET style Syntax Editor Control provides your users with a highly sophisticated text editor control that supports advanced features such as text block grouping, syntax colorization, line numbers, font type, pre-defined color schemes, book marks, break points and many more advanced features.

Visual Studio .NET applications including C# and VB.NET can now take advantage of the SkinFramework. With Xtreme SkinFramework you can easily apply a custom "skin" to your .NET application to control how each individual component should be display. Everything can be skinned including components such as the title bar, window frame, buttons, etc. Included is several predefined skins, you can choose from Office 2007, Windows XP Royal Blue, or Windows XP Luna skins. In addition to the included skins, you can use any *.msstyles skin file. The possibilities are endless with how you can skin your application. With the newly added Right-To-Left (RTL) support applications that support RTL languages such as Arabic can bow enjoy custom skins.

A great alternative to creating a series of confusing and difficult to use dialog boxes with the MessageBox API would be to use a Vista Style Task Dialog. With a task dialog all the information a user needs to make an informed decision can be presented to them in an easy to understand and concise format. The design of the task dialog looks better and is much simpler, which improves usability by stating the purpose, providing self-explanatory responses, enabling expandable content for added instructions and rich text support to better layout information.

Slider and Spin button controls for the Xtreme PropertyGrid give you another way to get user input. The slider and spin button allow you to select from a range of values by sliding the gripper in the slider or by pressing the up or down button on the spin button.

Multiple resources / schedules can now be displayed for each individual day in the Calendar. This allows you to display a different schedule for the same person for each day of the week. Another possibility is that maybe a person only needs a schedule for 3 days of a week, the new resource handler allows you to display a schedule for a particular person for only the days desired.

Repeatedly adding and deleting a large number of records can cause the system not to free up memory. Using the Report Control's custom memory manager eliminates any memory management problems and allows any number of records to be freely added or deleted without consuming more and more resources.

Translation resources for all components have been updated and are now more complete than. Support for Bulgarian and Turkish languages have been added to increase the number of languages Codejock components support.

Now the Report Control, CommandBars and Docking Pane components more closely match the appearance of Office 2007. The Report Control added Office 2007 headers, CommandBars Ribbon updated to look more like Office2007 and DockingPane have a new Office 2007 style tabs.

A complete list of all new features can be found in the release notes for each product, found on the company's website, www.codejock.com.

About Codejock Software
Codejock Software, a division of Codejock Technologies, LLC based in Owosso, Michigan provides reusable software components that facilitate rapid user interface development using Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET® development platforms. Codejock Software is committed to helping developers realize their goals with cutting-edge components, superior customer service and technical support. Codejock Software's products and evaluation versions available for download on the company's website, for more information visit www.codejock.com.

Source: PRWeb

PDFTextStream v2.1 Adds Form Update Features to PDF Text Conversion Library

Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class PDF content extraction solutions, today announced the release of PDFTextStream v2.1 for Java, .NET, and Python. v2.1 adds form update functionality to the PDF text and metadata extraction library, a key requirement of many document-centric web applications and software package vendors. Such functionality is necessary for generating customized interactive PDF forms for customers, business partners, government compliance, and data archival requirements.

We have consistently heard from our customers that they wanted to see us add form update capability. It's a little out-of-the-box for us, since PDFTextStream has always been purely an extraction library, but the need for a combined solution was simply too great to ignore," said Chas Emerick, CEO and Founder of Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc.

"So many document workflows are moving to PDF, and getting custom form-generation tools into enterprise applications and shrinkwrapped solutions is becoming more and more important," he added. "We're glad to be able to make that growing requirement a little easier to fulfill today."

Enterprise-Class PDF Solutions, Continually Redefined
v2.1 expands PDFTextStream's lead in providing the highest level of functionality and performance in PDF solutions. Beyond adding form update functionality, v2.1 makes some additional nips and tucks to PDFTextStream's robust profile:

• Kodak print job data extraction (%KDK commands) is now supported
• Every aspect of PDFTextStream's documentation has been revised and improved
• Four additional widely-used PDF file format variants (which do not follow the official PDF document specification) have been identified and supported
• PDFTextStream's document merge utility has been patched to eliminate two bugs

PDFTextStream licenses start at $1,399 USD per server; redistribution licenses for OEM partners are available at reasonable royalty-free rates. For additional PDFTextStream v2.1 product details, please visit http://snowtide.com/PDFTextStream.

About Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc.
Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc. is a privately held software company headquartered in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Its high-performance software and custom development services enable large enterprises and government agencies to automate the extraction, conversion, and cataloging of content held in PDF documents. PDFTextStream, Snowtide Informatics' flagship product, is a software component library for Java, Python, and .NET environments that has been built from the ground up to rapidly and accurately extract text and metadata held in PDF documents. For more information about Snowtide Informatics Systems visit snowtide.com.

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Easy CGI Upgrades to .Net Framework 3.0

Pearl River, NY -- Easy CGI, a premier Windows web hosting provider, today announced an upgrade to .Net Framework 3.0 on its shared hosting servers. This upgrade allows developers to take full advantage of the robust .Net Framework.

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX) is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes.

"The .Net Framework 3.0 upgrade is a natural progression for Easy CGI" says Dan Richfield CEO of Easy CGI. "With the recent addition of AJAX 1.0, we now are able to give our customers a wide open playing field to developing powerful applications within the .Net 3.0 Framework."

The .NET Framework 3.0 comes with four new technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and Windows CardSpace (WCS, formerly "InfoCard"). .NET Framework 3.0 can be utilized to build applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, the ability to support a wide range of business processes, and an easier way to manage your personal information online. To learn more about the .NET Framework, visit http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663323.aspx.

About Easy CGI, Inc.
Easy CGI has been on the leading edge of the web hosting industry since 1994. Offering superior technology, cost effective, efficient solutions and exceptional customer service, Easy CGI's vision has made it the clear choice for over a decade. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.easycgi.com.

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