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Hi all,

We just released the SP1 for Intersoft WebUI Studio for Silverlight R1. For existing customers the new service pack can be obtain from Developer Network 3, under My Components, and for prospects customers you can download the new service pack from Request Trial page.

The main focus for this WebUI Studio for Silverlight SP1 is full Silverlight 3 support and .NET Ria support for all Intersoft Silverlight controls. You can perform binding to .NET Ria Services using element to element binding architecture to the following controls:

• Intersoft Presenter
  • Data Presenter Manager
  • Grid Presenter
  • List Presenter
  • Icon Presenter

• Intersoft Aqua
  • Cover Flow
  • Fish Eye

Note that you need .NET Ria Services installed before you can play around with this new enhancement which you can grab from this link. The latest one was July 2009 Preview.

Besides .NET Ria Support we also fix issue where Intersoft Aqua doesn’t work when opened in Silverlight Out of Browser environment.

You can check the details about this enhancement in the documentation that comes with the SP1 installer, or you can read the white paper from this link.

For full information about this new service pack you can check it here.

Hi all,

In the previous post we discuss about the various factor that you can do with data binding with intersoft presenter. Now i want to discuss about how to add additional query / custom query and how to change the data source of intersoft presenter at run time.

Using custom query

Often in developing an application we perform more complex query rather just selecting all the data and display it, and how can we achieve that using Intersoft Presenter and Intersoft Data Source?

As mentioned before there are two types of data binding in Intersoft Presenter:

1. Bound to Intersoft Data Source control.
2. Unbound to Intersoft Data Source control.

In unbound to Intersoft Data Source control, the developer only need to specify the ItemSource with the processed data source, so developer is responsible to give the ItemsSource with the correct data.

In bound to Intersoft Data Source control, the developer can interrupt the selecting process using Intersoft Data Source’s Selecting event handler and provide the custom query there.

Attach Selecting Event

Add the custom query at code behind.

Note that you might want to keep some of the sort / filter / paging expression from the actual data source select arguments. The above code shows you how to initialize the query and then put the custom / additional filter after it.

In this case i’m adding additional filter (Discontinued == false) so that it will shows Products data with page size of 20 and filter-out the discontinued products.

Changing Data Source at runtime

We also often developing an application where it requires us to change the data source of our presenter, you can do that by changing the data member of your presenter (for Bound to Intersoft Data Source control scenario) and call RefreshData(true) method, or you can specify the new ItemsSource using RefreshData(newItemSource, true) for Unbound to Intersoft Data Source control scenario.

During combox box items selection changed:

Results:

If you want to see the sample code, you can download it from here.

Regards

Andry

Hi all,

After receiving feedback and bugs reports from beta release, the Intersoft WebUI Studio 2009 R1 is finally ready for RTM. For the silverlight edition there are severals new API added which you can explore from our documentation. We also have numerous walkthrough and how-to topic in the documentation  to help you getting started with our products.

In this release we also launch our new website (www.intersoftpt.com) and live samples (live.intersoftpt.com) where you can see the overview of our product first and do some exploration about what our products can do.

Getting started

You can start your discovery from this page, by browsing the discovery section followed by explore section then build section. These pages contains information about why you should choose WebUI Studio 2009 R1 for your development tools.

If you like to directly browse through to what we have in WebUI Studio 2009 R1, follows are the direct link to see the overviews.

• Intersoft WebUI Studio 2009 R1 Premier
• Intersoft WebUI Studio 2009 R1 for ASP.NET
• Intersoft WebUI Studio 2009 R1 for Silverlight

For ASP.NET Development

• WebGrid Enterprise
• WebCombo
• WebInput
• WebDesktop
• WebTreeview
• WebScheduler
• ISDataSource
• WebTextEditor
• Spell Checker
• File Uploader
• WebUI Framework

For Silverlight

• WebAqua
• Data Presenter Manager
• Grid Presenter
• List Presenter
• Icon Presenter
• Astoria DataSource
• WCF DataSource
• XML DataSource

Download Trial

The trial version can be downloaded from http://webuistudio.net/try

That’s all for now
Regards

Andry

For better readability, i decided to pick a simplier theme with larger space. Hopefully this new appearance is more convenient to all of you.

Regards

Andry

New year, new resolution, new spirit, new attitude.

So here am I starting my own blog, and since currently i’m working for Intersoft Solutions and been very busy and also excited with the progress in our development area. I’ll dedicated most of the pages to update all of you with latest info right from the back office.

We’re going to launch CTP release for two new products in 2009 which are Intersoft Solutions Data Source for Silverlight and Intersoft Solutions Presenter for Silverlight quite soon (if everything goes well, by the end of next week you can download the preview right away).

And along with this CTP release, i’ll covers some of the concept behind the product along with the exicting features that we already had, so stay tune.