JAKARTA – April 24, 2009 – Intersoft Solutions is proud to announce the availability of WebUI Studio 2009 Beta, a highly anticipated release that delivers a total of 9 new components for the ASP.NET and Silverlight application development. Intersoft WebUI Studio 2009 is a breakthrough release that includes hundreds of new features designed to address the most demanding web applications requirements, while at the same time accelerating development cycle and improving productivity. This beta release provides you with a complete sneak peak on WebUI Studio 2009’s new innovations and technologies.
WebGrid Enterprise® 7 Delivers Advanced Batch Update and 10x Faster Data Processing Performance
The new WebGrid Enterprise® includes two major features, SmartBatchUpdate™ and ClientBinding™.
SmartBatchUpdate™ is a new innovation that makes data editing faster and more intuitive by eliminating client-server roundtrips required for each transaction update. It intelligently manages editing information in the client-side and later submits it to server in single AJAX request – making efficient use of resources and at the same time enhancing editing experience.
New to WebGrid 7, ClientBinding™ is an innovative technology that significantly improves performance and data throughput by slashing client footprint by over 90% – making it the perfect solution for highly scalable enterprise application. With ClientBinding™, you can easily display data from web data services in an elegant, declarative-style configuration. It supports just any data services: Web Service, WCF Service, cutting-edge ADO.NET Data Service, or other Cloud-ready data service.
One of the key innovations of ClientBinding™ is the comprehensive support for existing features. That means you can continue using your favorite features – such as column freezing, preview row, and more – while at the same enabling client-side binding mode.
“We are pushing Web technologies to the fullest with comprehensive web data service support and high performance client-side binding,” said Jimmy Petrus, chief software architect at Intersoft Solutions. “WebGrid 7 is a revolutionary release that strongly focused on resolving top performance-related bottlenecks, while introducing inspiring new features that are intuitive to both developers and end users.”
Presenter® for Silverlight Presents Information the Way You Want
For the Silverlight development, Intersoft Solutions introduces Presenter®, a suite of next-generation data visualization components for building rich, line-of-business Silverlight application. Featuring multitude of innovative technologies such as hybrid views, declarative data binding, virtual scrolling and more – Presenter gives the power, speed and flexibility that developers need to create stunning, rich experiences Silverlight application rapidly. Presenter is designed with easy-to-use, intuitive development features. It provides comprehensive design-time support for Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 and Visual Studio 2008 – enabling a solid team-based collaboration for both designers and developers.
Intersoft Presenter is also the first in the industry that introduces hybrid views capability, an innovative feature which enables developers to present information in various presentation layouts. In this release, Presenter ships with four presenter components: unique list and icon presenter, an advanced grid presenter, and a stunning 3D coverflow presenter. With these components, developers can easily create a Silverlight application that lets end users analyze information in the way that makes more sense to them.
Unique to Presenter is VirtualScroll™ – a powerful technology that radically improves data display performance which is critical for highly scalable, enterprise-level application. It enables responsive data browsing and scrolling experience regardless of the number of data in your presenter.
An advanced Grid Presenter is also included in the Presenter Suite featuring comprehensive data-aware features – such as data grouping, filtering, server-side paging, data-drilling, hybrid child view and more. It is designed with solid architecture for high performance data display, and highly customizable settings for ultimate flexibility – making it the ultimate tools for building rich, data-aware Silverlight application.
WebTextEditor® Revolutionizes Editing Experience with Integrated Media Gallery, Spell Checker, and Real-progress File Uploader
At the same time, Intersoft Solutions also delivers the long-awaited, most anticipated text editing component for the ASP.NET platform in the WebUI Studio 2009 release. WebTextEditor is a business-oriented text editor that delivers breakthrough editing experience by combining powerful tools and sophisticated user experiences right into a box – making content authoring easier and more intuitive than ever.
The multitude of powerful editing tools – such as built-in media gallery, table designer, innovative red-waved spell checker, and real-progress file uploader – makes it easy for developers to build next-generation, advanced CMS application that delivers unique and rich experiences. For end users, WebTextEditor makes editing feels just like in the desktop word processing application, where everything is simply a click away.
Well-designed interfaces and state-of-the-art experiences are what set WebTextEditor apart from other editors in the industry. Smart toolbars that won’t clutter up your page, intuitive Microsoft Word-style floating toolbar, and adaptive task panes are just some of the WebTextEditor’s unique experiences that ultimately simplify content authoring tasks and enhance user’s productivity.
Intersoft WebTextEditor also includes a powerful file uploader with unique DirectUpload™, an innovative technology that lets users uploading large files in the background, while allows them to continue writing at the same time. With intuitive progress bar right inside the editor interface, users will be notified on the current uploading status and estimated completion time – something no other editor is capable of doing on the ASP.NET platform.
New WebUI Studio® Editions and Enhanced Installation Experiences
In addition to delivering 9 new components in this WebUI Studio 2009 release, Intersoft Solutions also introduces three new WebUI Studio editions, WebUI Studio for ASP.NET®, WebUI Studio for Silverlight®, and the ultimate WebUI Studio® Premier edition which includes complete development tools for both ASP.NET and Silverlight platform. The features, pricing and availability details of these editions will be announced separately in the final release of WebUI Studio 2009 which is scheduled on late May 2009.
To reflect on these new editions, the beta version of WebUI Studio 2009 already includes a new, download-on-demand installer technology that enables developers to select a preferred edition right within the installation user interface. The installer will then download only the necessary files required to the selected edition– making installation a hassle-free experience, while at the same time minimizing download time and network resources consumption.
Customers and active subscribers can get the beta copy from Intersoft Developer Network 3. For prospects, please send an email request to Intersoft Sales.
About Intersoft Solutions Corporation
Intersoft Solutions is the industry leader in Rich Internet Application components, providing a broad range of innovative, high performance ASP.NET and Silverlight tools for professional developers, independent software vendors, and enterprise technology partners. With the vision to create a better web experience, Intersoft Solutions has built over 30 state-of-the-art components since 2002 – empowering millions of users with richer, more intuitive web applications, while giving developers and users the benefits of easy-to-use software and enhanced productivity.
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