Showing posts with label ComponentOne. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Technology: ComponentOne Studio for WinForms named `Best of Tech-Ed 2008`

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - ComponentOne today announced that its Studio for WinForms was named as a winner of the "Best of Tech-Ed 2008 Developer Awards" in the Database Development by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro(R) and SQL Server Magazine(R).

The judges reviewed over 65 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 13 finalists to be interviewed at Tech-Ed 2008 Developers Conference in Orlando, Fla. The interviews were conducted June 3-4, 2008. Winners were announced on June 5 at an evening reception held at Universal Studios, Florida.

"For our seventh annual Best of Tech-Ed awards competition, we've once again seen an impressive and expanding slate of entries," said Karen Foster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

"We selected among the many admirable products, choosing winners that most clearly demonstrated strategic importance to the market, competitive advantages, and value to the customers."

ComponentOne Studio for WinForms is a collection of over fifty-five enterprise-ready .NET components, including charts, grids, scheduling, reporting, menus, toolbars, editors, navigation, data input, validation, and export/import.

With rich design-time support consisting of wizards, designers, and SmartTags, Studio for WinForms allows you to develop cutting-edge interfaces and highly sophisticated applications with less code and in less time than ever before.

"ComponentOne offers the widest range of data-aware components that make the development experience as smooth as possible. Being named Best of Tech-Ed 2008 clearly demonstrates that we at ComponentOne, continue to be the leaders in the component industry and have been providing award-winning products for more than 20 years," stated Chris Meredith, product manager at ComponentOne.

Key Features of Studio for WinForms
-- Over fifty-five data-aware and productivity components and controls
-- ComponentOne SmartDesigner technology for a code-free development experience
-- Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 themes to professionally style your UI
-- Broadest range of components for enhanced database application development (Grid, Charting, Reporting, and Data conversion)

ComponentOne Studio for WinForms is available for download at http://www.componentone.com and is one of the five development suites included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is the largest and most complete set of development components for building all layers of Windows, Web, and Mobile applications. Studio Enterprise accelerates visual development with drag and drop components that simplify the design-time experience and extend the power of Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005.

Now you can develop cutting-edge interfaces and add the most sophisticated feature sets to your applications.

Pricing and Availability ComponentOne offers the full version of Studio Enterprise for $1,100.00 per developer. This license includes all of the controls included in our WinForms, WebForms, WPF, Mobile, and ActiveX suites and comes with a one-year subscription service that entitles you to free updates, product enhancements, and new products for the life of the subscription.

Customers with an active subscription who have registered with ComponentOne will also receive an email with instructions to access and license our new ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight, upon its release.

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has continued leadership in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry, and has been a premiere partner of Microsoft for over 20 years. ComponentOne's flagship product, ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is the industry's broadest and most complete suite of development components for developing all layers of Windows, Web, WPF, and Mobile applications. With the most powerful components designed for the .NET framework, Studio Enterprise delivers the tools developers need to produce next-generation UIs for Windows and the Web.

Studio Enterprise allows developers to create rich user experiences with ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web interfaces, enterprise-level .NET Windows Forms applications, as well as newly emerging WPF and Silverlight technologies with less code and in less time. ComponentOne is also the provider of Doc-To-Help, DemoWorks, and FrontLine.

ComponentOne is a privately held company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information on ComponentOne or its products, visit http://www.componentone.com

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Penton Media's Windows IT Pro, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Pro also includes SQL Server Magazine and Office SharePoint Pro. The Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters.

Windows IT Pro is the world's leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT and developer professionals. For more information visit: http://www.windowsitpro.com Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month.

The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S.

Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit http:/www.penton.com

SOURCE: ComponentOne
CONTACT: Eve Turzillo of ComponentOne, +1-412-681-4343, PRESS@COMPONENTONE.COM
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

ComponentOne releases next generation Doc-To-Help 2008

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - New Interface Provides Unprecedented Ease of Use and Efficiency ComponentOne today announces the release of its next generation Doc-To-Help product.


ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008 supplies streamlined new authoring features, with state of the art end-user features, all within the brand new Microsoft Office 2007 style interface.

ComponentOne, a Premier Microsoft partner, utilizes the latest design standards in creating its interfaces. ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008 features Ribbon tool bars, option dialog boxes, and Microsoft Outlook-style panes for modern design and ease of use.

Other visual organizers such as the Topics Grid and the Related Topics Editor were also added. The Topics Grid provides a customizable view of all topics used for setting properties and adding elements such as context IDs and keywords.

The related Topics Editor allows you to view, edit, and create related topic links with drag and drop operations, making content management effortless. By adding this streamlined workflow to the already powerful single-source publishing capability, ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008 is truly your tool to "Write today. Publish tomorrow." ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008 also debuts its Style Sheet Editor that configures style sheets in a point-and-click interface. With ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008 you'll be able to create better documentation, eliminate the need to understand CSS tags, and enjoy the flexibility of its output options.

"We streamlined the workflow and user experience with Microsoft Office 2007-style interface, visual content organizers, and intuitive dialogs," said Dan Beall, Product Line Manager at ComponentOne. "We created the ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008 user interface to allow all levels of content authors to efficiently produce the content they need, at professional quality, without specific technical expertise."

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008 is compatible with ComponentOne DemoWorks, an intuitive application that allows you to record anything on your screen then produce a polished shareable demo in minutes. ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008 showcases the ability to insert ComponentOne DemoWorks created Flash movies in Word documents for online output.

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help automatically excludes the movie when generating print versions. ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2008 and ComponentOne DemoWorks are offered individually but may be bundled together for extra savings.

"ComponentOne believes that this bundle is important, as we strive to provide technical content authors, regardless of their focus, a credible set of tools that give them everything needed to create visually impressive and interactive user assistance, training, and marketing materials," said Steve Day, Director of Global Sales and Marketing at ComponentOne.

Visit http://www.componentone.com to purchase your bundle today.

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has over 20 years of experience as a Microsoft Premier partner and is the provider of ComponentOne Doc-To-Help, DemoWorks, and FrontLine.

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help provides technical communicators and policy authors with the industry's leading content authoring product. The award winning ComponentOne DemoWorks video creation software empowers anybody to produce professional quality demonstration videos without programming, multi-media, or graphic design expertise. ComponentOne FrontLine is an easy-to-own, Web-based help desk and knowledgebase system empowering smaller enterprises to provide world class online support and knowledge resources. ComponentOne is a privately held company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

For additional information or to schedule an interview, please contact Communications Manager, Eve Turzillo at 412.681.4343 or e-mail press@componentone.com

SOURCE: ComponentOne
CONTACT: Eve Turzillo of ComponentOne, +1-412-681-4343, press@componentone.com
Web site: http://www.componentone.com

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

ComponentOne supports Microsoft software & services initiative

ComponentOne Supports Microsoft Software & Services Initiative by Integrating Silverlight and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007


Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - ComponentOne demonstrated its support for Microsoft's Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint by showcasing the ComponentOne Stock Portfolio Silverlight application.

This application illustrates the deployment of a Silverlight application in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 using the blueprint SilverlightPart Web part.

John Juback, technology evangelist at ComponentOne, co-presented, "Build Interactive User Experiences with the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint" at the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference held March 3 - 6, 2008 in Seattle, WA.

"We are excited to have ComponentOne's support and value their adaption of our Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint.

ComponentOne will be providing supportfor SharePoint Server 2007 developers based on their Silverlight and ASP.NET components," stated Tom Rizzo, Director of SharePoint,
Microsoft.

ComponentOne explains that by simply creating a wrapper class, SharePoint Server 2007 developers can use the Silverlight and ASP.NET components in their applications, including powerful grids, charts, and basic UI components such as buttons, containers, date/time, lists, sliders, and text.

In keeping with the ComponentOne tradition of offering rich user experiences, developers can use these components as building blocks for custom Web parts, key performance indicators, and dashboards.

Many developers have been using Sapphire, ComponentOne's Studio Enterprise Silverlight Toolset; a complete RIA (rich internet application) toolset. Each component leverages Microsoft's Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) technology and the powerful graphics and design features found in the new Microsoft Expression Studio, a suite of products to fully support skins, graphics, and animation.

Together with the promotion of its Microsoft Silverlight initiatives, and launching new suites in WinForms, ASP.NET, and WPF, ComponentOne continues its reign as a premier provider of award-winning tools and components.

Visit http://labs.componentone.com/ to see the action for yourself, and sign up for a free demo today!

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne is a premier provider of award-winning tools and components for software developers building advanced, enterprise-style Microsoft Windows Forms, Web-based and Mobile applications; Help authors who write and design Help systems; and support centers who utilize self-service and knowledge management solutions. For more information on ComponentOne or its products, visit, http://www.componentone.com

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE: ComponentOne
CONTACT: Eve Turzillo of ComponentOne, +1-412-681-4343,
press@componentone.com
Web site: http://www.componentone.com
http://labs.componentone.com

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