Version 6.1.1 Breaking changes and features

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Version 6.1.1 came out earlier this week. It includes numerous bug fix and new features.
Here are the breaking changes and features in that version.

Extensions.Extensions are libraries which extend the basic behavior of Visual WebGui and provide more capabilities over the standard library. Most of these extensions will be offered under a commercial license in a reasonable price. Some controls like Navigation Tabs (outlook tabs) and schedulebox have been moved to these extensions. While these controls are commercialized we will provide the ability for existing community members to receive a free of charge license.All of the commercial extensions will be fully functional within the community installation but will require a license for deployment. This will enable you guys to check out the extensions usability before actually buying it.

To enable quick registration of the extensions libraries we allow registering the controls using a wild cards as in the following sample:<Control Type="Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.*, Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=d50c2c7452ba77d9 " />

This registers all the controls under the Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms namespace and that are in the Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office assembly.

Here are some sample extensions to give you a general idea of what extensions are:
Office extensions – Provide an office-like behaviors (such as look and feel.)
Charting extensions – Provide an integrated charting.
Messaging extensions – Providing for messaging and real time behaviors.

Navigation Tabs.
The Navigation Tabs was Moved to Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office and should be registered in the web.config.SchedualeBox.
The SchedualeBox was Moved to Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office and should be registered in the web.config.Panel.PanelType = PanelType.Titled.
PanelType.Titled declared obsolete.
HeaderedPanel was added to the Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office to replace it.TabAppeance.Workspace.
TabAppeance.Workspace declared obsolete.WorkspaceTabs were added to the Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Extended to replace it.Gizmox.

WebGUI.Forms.Charts.
Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Charts was added. This library currently implemented using VISIFire , VISIFire is a general purpose charting library that will be able to switch presentation providers, that will enable to generate flash / Silverlight or static images usage without changing the code. The extensions are provided as a preview to what we are working on. This will be licensed in the next versions.

Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office
Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office was added. This library will provide for creating office look alike applications including both look and feel and actual behaviors. This will be licensed in the next versions.Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Extended.
Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Extended added. This library offers goodies free of charge. Support for these controls are limited and will not be part of the commercial roadmap. These controls are either included as cool code or useful code that did not make it into the commercial or standard library.The catalog will include usages of these extensions to provide first aid tutorial on how to use the different controls within. We will be releasing in the near future as part of our intensive documentation effort more and more documentation on each of the components within these extensions and off course the standard library.Silverlight presentation layer. Our new Silverlight presentation layer which supports SL 2 beta 2 has lots of new additions including a fully functional extensibility and customization capabilities. These features will be documented extensively in the quick starts released with these version and will also be presented in a MSDN web cast on the 23rd of July.The Silverlight presentation layer was broadened and now supports almost all the controls and all the controls functionality that were supported in the DHTML version and missing in the last version. BindableHtmlElement control was added. This control allows to embed an HTML page inside a Silverlight application.Also added in this version is the ability to embed a flash object in a Silverlight application.

A new SurfacePanel control was added in this version. The SurfacePanel allows you to easily move objects, that were added to the surface, around By clicking on the objects in the center and sliding them to a different location on the screen. By clicking on the corners instead, photos could be sized and rotated with ease.

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