Users have accessed this article 689 times.

Extensions Update

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 NavigationTabs (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 extension 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 you actually buy it.

To enable quick registration of extension libraries we enabled to register controls using a wild card as in the following sample:

This registers all 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 extension – Providing for office behaviors and look and feel.
• Charting extension – Providing for integrated charting.
• Messaging extension – Providing for messaging and real time behaviors.

  NavigationTabs Moved
  
  Moved to Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office and should be registered in the web.config.
  
  SchedualeBox Moved
  
  Moved to Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office and should be registered in the web.config.
  
  Panel.PanelType = PanelType.Titled Obsolete
  
  Declared obsolete and HeaderedPanel was added to the Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office
  
  TabAppeance.Workspace Obsolete
  
  Declared obsolete and WorkspaceTabs was added to the Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Extended

  Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Charts Added

  This library currently implemented using VISIFire is a general purpose charting library which will have the ability to switch presentation providers, which will enable to generate flash / Silverlight or static images usage without changing the code. The extension is provided as a preview to what we are working on. This will be licensed in the next versions.

  Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Office 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 Added

  Also added in this version is the Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms.Extended extension which is a library that offers free of charge goodies. Support for these controls is 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 of course the standard library.

  Silverlight presentation layer

  Our new Silverlight presentation layer which supports Silverlight 2 beta 2 has lots of new additions including a fully functional extensibility and customization capabilities. Those 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 23 of July.