Perpetuum Technical Blog

The beginning of the year was marked for Perpetuum Software with hard work on a
new release of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2008.

Planning the release, first of all we take into consideration requests and suggestions of our clients. And now we are glad to announce that the release is almost ready to see the world.

We finished the work on errors handling. At first sight this functionality doesn’t seem to be essential. But when it comes to work with the component and getting errors this functionality becomes very important. It saves time on looking for the reason of the error and eliminates the clients and our technical support staff headache. The possibility to record errors to the log file on server will be available. To make this feature more user-friendly we will create an option that will allow switching on/off recording. On the clients side the error will be visualized. It will provide possibility to the developer to see and solve the problem himself or to send it to our technical support team.

Getting Started documentation and Getting Started example are reviewed. Examining the troubles of our customers we found out that there are some problems connected with the clients hosting. Modifying the example we tried to cover all these problems to make the use of our product independent from the hosting type.

But everything appeared to be not as perfect as we expected. Unfortunately, we failed to include the local report server support in this release due to some peculiarities of beta release of Visual Studio 2010. But we strongly hope that the final release of Visual Studio 2010 will make it possible to implement this feature into our product.

The final release of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is expected at the end of February, 2010.

Be that as it may, we are not going to stop there and planning to release the next version in April 2010. You can see roadmap on this version on our Perpetuum Software website.

And we are still waiting for your suggestions and feature requests on Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services at sales@perpetuumsoft.com.

Our aim is your comfortable and successful work!

In the 21st century new technologies have been developing rapidly. In connection with it one of Perpetuum Software goals is to make our products support such new and up-to-date tools and technologies as Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 and MS Silverlight 4.0.

In 2010 we’ll continue to work to meet highest requirements of our clients for optimizing the performance, adding new controls as well as features and enhancements. We are also planning to utilize a wide variety of NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 features and work hardly on Report Sharp-Shooter and Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services.

Report generator will get not only new WPF User Interface including ribbon toolbar and docking feature but also new export filters and enhancements to existing ones. Easy start and overall developer convenience will be reached by new documentation.

In February 2010, Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services will be released in its final version. It will provide developers with local report server support, advanced troubleshooting and error handling, usability improvements and documentation. In the future we plan to work on Drilldown, bookmarks rendering and additional pagination modes.

Welcome to view Perpetuum Software 2010 Roadmap!