.NET component and application framework maker
Developer Express will place a greater emphasis on Silverlight and Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF) this year, according to its 2010 road map,
announced on Tuesday.
DevExpress' Silverlight components will deliver full
design-time support for Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 3. Upcoming
Silverlight 3 controls will include charting, data editing and a scheduler. A Silverlight
4 printing control will also be introduced.
"We feel we are late to the party, but then again,
Silverlight is changing a lot," said DevExpress CTO Julian Bucknall. Aside
from controls, the company is integrating Silverlight into its eXpressApp Framework,
he added.
Some of its upcoming WPF controls will include final
versions of DevExpress' pivot grid and layout manager, data editor, ribbon,
report view, and scheduler.
DevExpress' embrace of Silverlight and WPF comes at the
expense of Windows Forms development. Bucknall said that WinForms controls are
being deemphasized, but development will continue with more chart types, VS
2010 and Client Profile support for controls, as well as new user interface
styles to match the appearance of Windows 7 and Office 2010.
VCL (Visual Component Library) controls will be
likewise updated with additional views and similar user interface options for
the Microsoft stack.
DevExpress will continue to forge ahead to update its
existing ASP.NET controls, and it will begin to deliver new controls that
exploit the new capabilities that will be introduced by .NET 4.0, Bucknall
said. He is being more circumspect about developing components for ASP.NET's
Model-View-Controller pattern, but the company will introduce a navigation bar
and tab control nonetheless.
Lastly, new editions of the company's next IDE
productivity tools, including CodeRush and Refactor Pro, will be released later
this year around the time that VS 2010 ships, Bucknall said. "There were
big changes in Visual Studio 2010," he added.
By David Worthington
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