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With the release of a new feature pack for Visual C++ 2008, developers can now write applications that feature the Office 2007 appearance, a Microsoft senior executive announced this week. At the same time, the company also discontinued support for its aging Visual Basic 6 integrated development environment, or IDE — to the dismay of some die-hard users.
“I am pleased to announce that the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has shipped,” S. Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft’s developer division, said on his blog this week.
“The Feature Pack provides several exciting features for C++ developers, such as a major update to MFC [Microsoft Foundation Classes] and an implementation of TR1 [Technical Report 1],” the post said.
The MFC gives C++ users access to the Windows programming interfaces, while TR1 is a set of suggested additions to the International Organization for Standardization’s C++ standard. Using the newly added MFC components, “developers can create applications with the ‘look and feel’ of Microsoft’s most popular products — Microsoft Office, Visual Studio and Internet Explorer,” his posting continued.
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Nevron development team announces the release of the new version of Nevron .NET Vision advanced, professional component suite for data visualization and GUI creation in the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.
With this release we introduce new smooth area chart series with different variations - Standard Smooth Area, XY Smooth Area and Date-Time Smooth Area- says Bob Milanov a lead developer at the company The Chart also has the Numeric Display Panel introduced in this version which features various display styles, control over the decimal formatting, full control over the panel appearance and size and many others.
Shell MegaPack.Net 9.0 recreates the entire Windows Explorer file/folder browsing UI functionality in your app in just a couple of seconds.
It provides a familiar yet powerful file/folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to. Consisting of a folder tree control, a file/folder list control and a drive-selection control, it mimics every Windows Explorer UI feature including Thumbnail/Details/Group Views, dragdrop, icons, context menus, virtual items, infotips and renaming. Its powerful behavior control and customization functionality takes it miles ahead of Windows Explorer by adding features like item filtering, item checkboxes, custom items, custom columns and customization of context menus, dragdrop, appearance, display names, icons, overlay icons and infotips.
Smart PropertyGrid.Net Version 2.0 is a major milestone for developers because it supersedes the Microsoft PropertyGrid in every way. The addition of several critical features makes this custom PropertyGrid developed entirely from scratch the best choice for those who want to include such a control into their desktop applications and who care about the experience of their end users.
Sky Software is pleased to announce the release of FolderView.Net 8.0 Control which brings drop-in Windows-Explorer-like folder browsing UI functionality to your applications
It provides a familiar yet powerful folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to.
Shell MegaPack.Net 8.0 recreates the entire Windows Explorer shell browsing UI functionality in your app in just a couple of seconds.
It provides a familiar yet powerful file/folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to. Consisting of a folder tree control, a file/folder list control and a drive-selection control, it mimics every Windows Explorer UI feature including Thumbnail/Details/Group Views, dragdrop, icons, context menus, virtual items, infotips and renaming.
FileView.Net Control 7.1 brings a drop-in Windows Explorer-like listview to your application complete with Thumbnail, Details and GroupView, AutoUpdate, dragdrop, icons, contextmenus, non-filesystem items, default key-handling, infotips and renaming.
It features powerful behavior control and customization functionality that takes it miles ahead of Windows Explorer by adding features like filtering, checkboxes, custom items, custom columns and dragdrop control and customization of default contextmenus, displaynames, icons and infotips.
I have been working on my vbGORE engine for quite a while now, and have finally got to the point where I am comfortable releasing the first version. A list of all the features can be found here and all the screenshots here.
vbGORE is an Online RPG engine designed for performance and optimization rather then ease-of-use like most all the ORPG engines out in Visual Basic. It includes many things you will not find in most all other VB ORPG engines such as byte array packet sending/handling with Winsock API, complete DirectX 8 interface, in-game mailing and much more. This project is far from finished, but is far enough to do most of the basic to intermediate Online RPG functions such as walk, talk, cast spells, fight NPCs, buy/equipt items, raise stats, etc.