Perpetuum Software announces the availability of a new version of the free UI controls set for Windows 8, Perpetuum UI Controls for Windows 8. This set of Windows Design controls is designed for data input and layout.
The version 2.0 adds new XAML-based WinRT controls to make development of Windows Store applications even faster and resource saving. New UI controls include Accordion, Breadcrumb, Tree view, Range slider, Tab control and Layout transformer.
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Last week we’ve published a new version of SharpShooter Reports. This new product version features brand new report viewer for WinRT, significant changes made to the report designer and Silverlight, WPF reports viewers.

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Add Professional Reports to Your Windows 8 Applications!
Ekaterina NeboginaPerpetuum Software finally announces the availability of a powerful reporting tool for WinRT-based Windows 8 applications, SharpShooter Reports.WinRT.
The component is able to generate all types of reports: simple, group, master-detail, subreport, cross-tab, hyperlink, side-by-side and other even the most complicated reports and seamlessly add them to Windows Store applications.

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University. Lecture on higher algebra. A professor proves a theorem at the school board.
- It’s obvious that in this case A is a sub-group of B.
The professor keeps silent, falls into thinking, looks at the board for 5 minutes and goes out of the lecture hall.
In half an hour he comes back very cheerful:
- Yes, this is really obvious.
Short introduction
When I studied at the university, a wonderful scientist world-known for his achievements in higher algebra and having a couple of theorems named after him gave us lectures.
He worked with the students from the secondary school passing his sincere and fanatic love for mathematics. And as many talented scientists he had a very specific ingredient of character. From time to time, the professor forgot that he was talking to newbie students and started explaining the information in the way that implied us, students who has just graduated from school, have the same knowledge and expertise of the topical area as well as scoop that he had.
It inspired and motivated some of us making us get deeper into the science and try to understand what the professor talked about and understand peculiarities of his discipline. But most students just didn’t understand him, fall asleep and tire of the classes. Excessive difficulty on the initial stage demotivated and pushed the students off.

Some background
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