We are coming close to yet another big release of VIBlend Controls for Silverlight. In the last 2 months, we spent much time on samples, themes and documentation. With the new release you will get 4 new themes for all of our controls.

Another highly anticipated addition to our DataGrid control is the enhanced cells and headers styling.

We will be glad to hear your comments or ideas about what can be improved in our Silverlight suite, so that it may be further extended and enabled with useful features.

The new version of VIBlend Silverlight Controls is coming soon.  Over the next couple of days we will share some more information about the key changes and improvements.
Based on your feedback we are adding one highly desired and very frequently used control – TabControl for Silverlight. The new control comes with all features you can expect:

• Item Alignment 
• Item Orientation
• Animated Scrolling
• Text and Image relation
• Item Templates
• Content Templates
• Optional Item close buttons
• Easy and intuitive Design-time support
• 11 built-in themes

Here are a few screenshots of the new control:

We hope that you will like this new control.  Feel free to write us at support@viblend.com about what can be improved and added to it.

We are pleased to announce the availability of the VIBlend Controls for WinForms ver. 5.0.0. the next generation of user interface controls for Windows Forms from VIBlend. The new release is expanding our commitment to business intelligence and data visualization by adding a Pivot Design panel. The Pivot Design panel integrates with VIBlend DataGrid for Windows Forms and provides an intuitive and easy to use drag and drop interface for defining pivot table views. You can choose the pivot rows, pivot colums, data fields and data aggregation functions.

Key benefits of the new release are:

- 2 new themes for all VIBlend WinForms Controls
- Pivot Design panel
- DataGrid Localization Provider
- Improved Ribbon Bar performance and rendering
- Quick Start projects now have a full support for VS 2010 which will decrease development time

If you want to check out the latest release, it is now available for download.

One of the key features that you can expect in the new release is the Pivot Design Panel.  The Pivot Design panel integrates with VIBlend DataGrid for Windows Forms. It provides an intuitive and easy to use drag and drop interface for defining pivot table views. You can choose the pivot rows, pivot colums, data fields and data aggregation functions.  This solution is ideal for building a wide range of in-house OLAP and BI applications.

Another improvement will be the DataGrid’s Localization Provider that enables you to localize the ContextMenu and FilteringWindow strings.

For more information regarding the new release, feel free to contact us at support@viblend.com