FPS Components Blog: News about WPF and Silverlight Component Development

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2009-12-24T12:48:00Z

First of all take our team best wishes on coming holidays and New Year to those who celebrates! We wish you bug-less year, stable income and strong health!

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FPS Components is a .net component vendor that is standing on customer development model. Please check our products at www.fpscomponents.com

Have an idea? Share with us! Win a prize!

2009-12-24T12:45:00Z

Dear customer, you have an idea of any component to be done (WPF and Silverlight as top priority) and can give real facts of its need on the worldwide market then share it with us. Best ideas will be awarded by our component packs on Monthly basis and when product will be completed you can be seens as idea-creator of that product.

It can be innovative way to organize and visualize data, a need of components as port from desktop wolrd into web world to use in RIA applications (throught Silverlight). We will evaluate ideas from most detailed ones with compehensive list of features and possible future plans for updates and will try to reply to each and every such request. Please do not hesitate to contact us via email contact @ fpscomponents.com (remove spaces).

FPS Components is a .net component vendor that is standing on customer development model. Please check our products at www.fpscomponents.com

Major Update of FPS Input Controls for WPF is available

2009-12-18T12:18:00Z

New version of FPS Input Controls for WPF is now available for public to download and evaluate.

Per number of requests, we have reworked this product and implemented few important features. These are:

1) Additional tool has been added into the product package. Now your own layouts and languages can be added with a simple drag-drop operations and can be saved into XML files.

2) Custom themes support added an example of how to create users’ own themes.

3) The ability to switch current language of windows system by new keyboard function.

4) Some minor fixes provided

5) Standalone freeware application, that can be used by anyone for free, it shows ability to use our Keyboard Component in touchscreen or desktop application. Read more here : Web Touch

What do you receive: Buying any license of FPS Input Controls for WPF, you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications. All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding new Language layouts, skins/themes, adding new features and bug fixing if any. We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time.

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2009-11-27T14:22:00Z

Greetings. Please visit our website and check discounts that are available only few days.

You can save around 50% on every our product, due to americal holidays and Black Friday, we give you such a great opportunity. Save 50% or buy 2 products at same price as yesterday you could do only one. This proposal is valid from now (November 27th , 2009) till 30th November 2009.

This proposal is valid from now (November 27th , 2009) till 30th November 2009.

FPS Components team wishes to our customers and website visitors Good luck and happy celebrations.

FPS Maps for WPF Released

2009-09-26T19:01:00Z

We're proud to annonce next component pack for WPF

FPS Maps for WPF is a brand new component with set of built-in country maps. List of Countries can be found below in Key Features list. We have provided samples how to create and customize map with some additional information that can be from any data source and Layers support.

15 Inbuilt Countries: There are such countries as: Canada, USA, Australia, France, Ukraine, China, India, Mexico, Germany, Argentina, Brasil, England, Italy, Poland, Spain.

Navigation: Maps navigation can be performed via Navigation bar which supports Themes and mouse. You can pan with mouse or zoom in/out with mouse scroll. More options will be added in future releases.

FPS Maps for WPF contains samples how to work with it and customize:

What do you receive: Buying any license of FPS Maps for WPF, you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications. All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding new features and bug fixing if any. We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time.

Good News. We're joined Microsoft BizSpark startup program.

2009-06-25T12:17:00Z

We're proud to annonce that we got BizSpark program member as new IT startup.

We're happy to use all of this program benefits to produce better quality products to our customers. Thank you Microsoft for such a good idea.

PS. Just some stats, over 12 000 of companies are received BizSpark membership.

FPS Controls for WPF Released

2009-04-10T17:54:00Z

We're proud to annonce next component pack for WPF.
FPS Controls for WPF contains : Navigation Control, DateTime Picker, Month Calendar, Multimonth Calendar, Color Picker. using 8 predefined themes as for previous our components.
What do you receive: Buying any license of FPS Controls for WPF, you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications. All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding new features and bug fixing if any. We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time.
We're in beta testing of few other WPF Components, that will be presented on website next few weeks. These components as well as old ones will be supplied as 1 pack: FPS Studio for WPF!

Updates for FPS Wizard and FPS InputControls

2009-04-07T10:26:00Z

New version FPS Input Controls and Wizard for WPF is now available for public to download and evaluate.
MAC Os like theme is now available for Wizard and InputControls
Minor fixes and features added for FPS InputControls
These are:
1) design time issue fixed.
2) Setup visibility of some buttons on NumPad. Check all options of visibility features in new VirtualKeyboard sample, that is coming in latest installer.

Update for FPS Input Controls for WPF is released.

2009-04-07T10:23:00Z

New FPS Input Controls for WPF is now available for public to download and evaluate.
Per user requests, we have added new features and possibilities to this product.
These are:
1) ability to change visibility to common system buttons, such as F1..F2, Escape, TAB, CTRL, MENU, Win, Alt.
2) IsStandAloned property for keyboard control makes ability to use it in one window as usercontrol or as standalone application, that is similar to Windows Keyboard or real hardware keyboard.
What do you receive: Buying any license of FPS Input Controls for WPF, you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications. All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding new Language layouts, skins/themes, adding new features and bug fixing if any. We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time.

FPS Input Controls for WPF Released

2009-01-12T18:13:00Z

FPS Input Controls for WPF is now available for public, to download and evaluate.

As far as we revised online it's first ever TRUE screen keyboard represented. It's divided into 2 controls, such as
main keyboard part and NUMPAD. You can use it for your touchscreen applications for example, as keyboard takes input from active window.
Other components like screen TAB Control and other touchscreen or just special input controls will be provided during this year.

Buying any license of FPS Input Controls for WPF , you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications.
All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding new Language layouts, skins/themes , adding new features and bug fixing if any.
We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time.

FPS Barcodes for WPF Released

2008-12-31T16:35:00Z

FPS Barcodes for WPF is now available for public, to download and evaluate.

We present it in WPF, so barcodes are in vector format, can be resized.The most common symbologies are all supported. Including EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, Code 39 (and full ASCII variant), Code 93 (and full ASCII variant), Code 128, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, and Postnet.

What do you receive: Buying any license of FPS Barcodes for WPF, you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications. All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding new symbologies types, adding new features and bug fixing if any. We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time.

We supply to customers WPF Barcode product with few important features
Common Features are compatibility with XPS Documents, Render to bitmap, flexible Width, Height of barcode, with correct alignments. and more..
15 Common Symbologies Supported : EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, ITF14, Postnet, Code39, Code39 Extended, Code93, Code93 Extended, Code128 (Auto, A,B,C), Interleaved 2 of 5, Standard 2 of 5.

FPS Gauges for WPF Released

2008-12-30T15:44:00Z

This WPF product contains number of linear,digital and radial guages, that aim to visualize changing data.

Great set of components that can visualize data in a user friendly way. We propose number of gauges and related components for a low price, with support and updates ( New Components and features will be added within your subscription). Among components you can find few general gauge types, such as linear, radial, dual radial, clock like. But also you can find something specific, such as thermometer, oil, speed or battery indicators.

What do you receive:
Buying any license of FPS Gauges for WPF you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications.
All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding new gauges types to set, adding new features and bug fixing if any.
We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time.

Here's small list of what we propose at the moment:

Linear gauges, with custom stlye thermometer like gauge

Radial gauges, dual radial guages, clock like gauge

Automobile guages: Speedometer, Taxometer....

World Clock Sample, is a sample of our unique clock style, you can use upon purchasing our FPS Gauges product.

FPS Wizard for WPF Released

2008-12-30T15:39:00Z

New styled Wizard component for WPF with 10+ transition effects, 7 themes

WPF Wizard with defined custom window, with number of themes, navigation buttons and transitions. Robust event handling system, for common events such as NextPage, PrevPage, Finish, Help buttons Clicked.

What do you receive:
Buying any license of FPS Wizard for WPF, you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications.
All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding new themes wizard styles and transition types, adding new features and bug fixing if any.
We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time.

We supply to customers WPF Wizard product with few important features:
Themes Support : 7 Predefined themes with custom styled window is supported: Office Blue, Silver, Black, Orange, Green, Vista(non transparent), Media Player 10. New themes will be developed in new versions of custom window and components that include this window.

Transition Effects : Currently you can use such transition effects, as: Fade, NY Times, Rotate, Wipe, Zoom, Flip, Door, Rotate 3D, Skew, Roll, Page, Tranlate, Fade and Grow. Many more effects will be added in new versions of Wizard Component.

FPS Food Icons Released

2008-12-18T13:42:00Z

2 weeks after our first components released, we propose to customers another Icons Pack. This is a food pack that is containing 200 icons for websites and applications, or even for XPS documents. Target platform can be any POS system, or Touch screen terminals in fast food or other related industry. We propose an innovative way in our services. Our innovation is that we supply raster icon format ( PNG, ICO) along with a pretty new vector format named XAML. XAML version of all icons is quite good for developers and designers working with Microsoft Expression Blend, or just with WPF, Silverlight applications.

What do you receive: Buying just 1 license of FPS Food Icons, you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications. All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding new icons to this pack, and fixing especially XAML format if any of issues or performance upgrades will be mentioned. We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time.

So FPS Food Icons in details is : 200 icons of different formats and sizes:

PNG Format : 128x128 pixels 32BPP , 64x64 pixels 32BPP, 32x32 pixels 32BPP, 16x16 pixels 32BPP
ICO Format: 32x32 24BPP
XAML: designed under 128x128 pixels, but it's a vector format, so it can be resized without losing quality.

This is totally 1200 icons made in this pack.

FPS Flags Pack Released

2008-12-10T12:24:00Z

Yet another product is released. This is a pack containing 227 flags for all counties, and other organizations (e.g. UN). It can be used for websites and applications, or even for XPS documents. We propose an innovative way in our services. Our innovation is that we supply raster icon format (PNG, ICO) along with a pretty new vector format named XAML. XAML version of all icons is quite good for developers and designers working with Microsoft Expression Blend, or just with WPF, Silverlight applications. What do you receive: Buying just 1 license of FPS Flags Pack, you can use it with no royalties in any of your applications. All major and minor updates and fixes for one year are guaranteed. It might be: adding a few new icons to this pack, and fixing especially XAML format if any of issues or performance upgrades will be mentioned. We are always glad to hear what people say about our products, and we would like to provide you with desired updates in a short period of time. So FPS Flags Pack in details is : 227 flags of different formats and sizes: PNG Format : 256x128 pixels 32BPP , 128x64 pixels 32BPP, 64x32 pixels 32BPP PNG Format with gradient: 256x128 pixels 32BPP , 128x64 pixels 32BPP, 64x32 pixels 32BPP ICO Format: Not yet supplied, will be provided upon client's requests. XAML: designed under 256x128 pixels, but it is a vector format, so it can be resized without losing the quality.

This is totally over 1500 flags done in this pack.