Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Krypton 3.5 Beta 2 Released
This new beta has quite a few changes based on the feedback from testers of the first version earlier in the week. Most of the changes are in the date time picker and month calendar controls. Here is a full list of changes since the first beta…
KryptonDateTimePicker
- Text property now returns the actual displayed text, used to always return an empty string.
- MouseWheel now performs the key up/down action of the active text field.
- Entering 31 for the day number would not select the correct day.
- Up/Down actions on the day would not overflow within the same month.
- Mouse down on non-day parts of calendar would dismiss the context menu.
KryptonMonthCalendar
- Drawing was corrupted for many non-English culture settings.
- Can now set the background to transparent so parent background shows through.
- Changing the DayStyle could crash when using a KryptonPalette.
- When number of rows and columns were different mouse selection could crash.
- Can now enter 1 or 2 digits for the descriptive month field to change the value.
Other
- Palette upgrade tool now converts versions 12 and below to latest version 13.
- Switching Navigator between Outlook modes would cause a crash.
- KryptonComboBox would select text when you minimize/restore the form.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
What about Silverlight toolkit?
March 20th, 2009 at 9:47 am
The release of Silverlight 2 and the upcoming Silverlight 3 certainly look very interesting. But I am not sure at the moment what would be the best approach to creating Silverlight controls. What are your ideas on what would be needed for Silverlight development?
March 20th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Well, Silverlight 3 has a public Beta with very very interesting features. I think that Silverlight 3 will be the future of application development and most of the web oriented developers and some of the winforms devs will start using it more and more. A Silverlight toolkit coming from Krypton will make many people happy.
I will be glad if I can help you with it, as I am a big fan of ComponentFactory :)
March 20th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Yes but what would be in the Toolkit? What controls or features do people need? There are already plenty of useful controls out of the box.
March 20th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
There always will be competition, but everyone can make buttons. The focus I think should be on some more complex controls such as grid, editor, charts, etc.
March 20th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Hey Phil it would be great if we continue our discussion about Silverlight via emails. I think I have some great ideas. I hope I will be able to share some of them with you and you will be interested in.
March 20th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Feel free to email me directly or how about having a forum thread if you are happy to discuss ideas in public?