Archive for the ‘Silverlight’ Category

Perpetuum Software at the Microsoft Professionals Community Meeting!

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Being engaged in development of up-to-date components, Perpetuum Software specialists are always glad to share their experience with any communities and user groups.

We have a sponsorship program for .Net and Silverlight communities and user groups which is aimed at supporting software researches.

Last week our Silverlight developer, Sergey Piskov, was speaking at local .net user group meeting. This meeting was devoted to Silverlight technology examination.

Sergey was speaking about:

  1. Silverlight in comparison with Flash.
  2. Silverlight versions, changes and peculiarities in each version.
  3. XAML – Extensible Application Markup Language.
  4. Creation of applications which use XAML as an example of Silverlight applications.

We strongly believe that our developers experience will help Silverlight newbie to quickly understand all advantages of Silverlight and create their own interesting solutions based on this technology.

We are always glad to support any user groups!

February 18th, 2011

Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services is reviewed by Code Magazine!

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Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services by Perpetuum Software has been reviewed in the CODE Magazine – an advanced technology magazine for Microsoft-oriented developers and technical managers, focused on providing in-depth information to the .NET community.

Each bi-monthly issue of CODE Magazine contains detailed and very practical explanations of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, as well as other Microsoft technologies and developer tools. Written by developers who actually use the tools they write about, CODE Magazine is the trusted source of information for working developers seeking to complete their latest software development projects.

One of the articles of the January/February issue of the CODE Magazine highlights the use of SQL Server Reporting Services in Silverlight applications, and of course, this topic cannot be fully covered without telling about Perpetuum’s Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services since it is the unique product on the market which provides the ability to view Reporting Services reports in Silverlight applications without using any workarounds and limitations.

Exclusively for the readers of CODE Magazine, Perpetuum Software has prepared the unique offer: buying or renewing the subscription for CODE Magazine you get a license for Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services absolutely FREE of charge:
www.codemag.com/subscribe/prs2011

January 20th, 2011

Development of Perpetuum’s products for Silverlight 5!

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Past months Silverlight community buzzed like a disturbed beehive. The news that Microsoft is „shifting its Silverlight strategy“ and going full forward to embrace HTML 5 as its cross-browser cross-platform solution cut a splash among developers and IT specialists.

Silverlight controls

But, this panic about “Silverlight is Dead” was premature. At the beginning of December, all the myths about Silverlight future were shattered. New features of Silverlight 5 were announced on Silverlight Firestarter event.

Improvements in Silverlight 5 will deal with media support and UI capabilities, rich application development environment that enables you to build great business applications. The precise description on these features can be seen on Microsoft Silverlight site.

In connection with this Perpetuum Software LLC starts the development of its products according Silverlight 5 functionality. Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight and Silverlight Viewer for reporting Services are two products intended for the creation of feature-rich corporate applications in Silverlight.

These components has already proved themselves as flexible reliable native Silverlight controls which address the most sophisticated demands of up-to-date technologies. Silverlight 5 will allow us to improve:

  1. Printing in Silverlight Viewer. There will be available full-fledge vector printing.
  2. Text rendering.
  3. Performance of text output.

We believe that this key functionality will considerably increase components productivity and provide our clients with more abilities in RIA creation and, as a result, business success.

If you have any suggestions please post them on our forum. Your opinion will help us to develop solution exactly for you!

Download Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight and Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services…

December 10th, 2010

How To Work With New Functionality of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.6.

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Perpetuum Software is proud to announce the next release of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.6 – a native Silverlight control for output of SQL Server Reporting Services reports in Silverlight applications.

I’ve already described the features of this release in the previous post. In this post I will describe how to work with such new features of Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services 2.6 as customization of parameters visibility and check of parameters values input by the user.

  • So, how to customize parameter visibility.

In order to change parameter visibility, you need to subscribe to the ParameterVisibilityChanging event of the ReportViewer object in the parameters toolbar. You should change the visibility value for the parameter in the event handler.
For example:

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December 3rd, 2010