ComponentOne Europe Announces ComponentOne WinFX Schedule Control for Microsoft Windows Presentation

Added: (Thu Sep 15 2005)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Somerset, UK — ComponentOne today announced ComponentOne WinFX Schedule Control for Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly known as “Avalon”). This new control, available when Microsoft WinFX is released, will enable users to create a schedule application on the Windows Vista platform.
"This Microsoft Outlook-style scheduling control is the first in what will be a complete set of ComponentOne controls for the new Windows Presentation Foundation,” said Chris Geiger, Managing Director of ComponentOne Europe. “Our controls targeting the Windows Presentation will enable developers to quickly adapt to and take full advantage of Windows Vista.”
“Microsoft is excited that ComponentOne will offer its scheduling controls on top of the Windows Presentation Foundation,” said Forest Key, group product manager of the .NET Developer Product Management Group at Microsoft Corp. “Its scheduling controls will help make it easier for developers to create applications that enhance the user experiences on Windows Vista by enabling the presentation of appointments and schedules in an interactive and customized way.”
WinFX Schedule Control Features:
Format Appointments: This control enables users to present appointments arranged in a calendar format, similar to a paper-based day planner. They may view items for one or more days, including for example a week, work week, month, or arbitrary collection of days. All these views belong to the same schedule, and appointments are stored in a single data source.
Drag and Drop Functionality: Appointments can be rescheduled by dragging and dropping information within the schedule. For example, users can drag and drop to change the start time, end time, or to re-schedule the whole appointment to a different time or day. While the user drags appointments, the layout of the control automatically adjusts by opening for multiple appointments that overlap in time.
Ease of Customisation: The library includes a custom month calendar control that can be used to select the dates that should be displayed in the schedule. The controls are independent, however. Developers may use the custom month calendar, the regular calendar that ships with WinFX, or any other IU to select the dates that will be displayed.
Two-way binding: The appointments are stored in a regular DataTable object, which is automatically updated as the user modifies appointments in the control. The binding is two-way, so any changes made to the appointments in the data source are automatically reflected in the control as well.
Advanced Windows Presentation Foundation features: Animations, 3D effects, transparency, and dynamic styles based on triggers can be applied to the controls through styles created by graphics designers without any extra work on the part of the application developer.
The WinFX Schedule control provides a user experience similar to Microsoft Outlook, which enables users to easily navigate within the schedule application in no time. Although the controls look like Microsoft Outlook by default, they can be easily combined into more complex components and styled to provide complete integration within host applications.
About ComponentOne
ComponentOne Europe, based in the UK, is the subsidiary of ComponentOne LLC. ComponentOne is the premier provider of a diverse set of tools and solutions for software developers who work in Microsoft® Visual Studio®, Visual Studio .NET, Borland® C#Builder™, Delphi® for .NET environments, and Help authors who write and design Help systems. The ComponentOne product line includes ActiveX, .NET, ASP.NET, Mobile, and Help authoring tools and solutions used worldwide. ComponentOne has received numerous industry and user accolades for their component tools, including awards from Info World, PC Magazine, Software Development Magazine, SD Times, and Visual Systems Journal.