Third parties make themselves known at PDC 09
November 24, 2009 :: 1103 Views
The following article was written by David Worthington and published on SDTimes
Microsoft's development platform announcements grabbed the headlines at PDC, but as usual, its partners injected their own innovations into the new technology. Here are some of the highlights from the show floor:
ComponentOne introduced Studio Enterprise 2009 v3. The release features a new Silverlight theme manager called ClearStyle that allows developers to make changes to controls without having to create templates, according to managing director Gustavo Eydelsteyn. ComponentOne also introduced a new client-side PDF control for reporting and printing, as well as eight Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls, which were ported from Silverlight.
Dundas showed off a new visualization data suite called Dundas Dashboard. Dundas Dashboard is designed for business intelligence software, and includes collaborative designers and wizards for creating visualizations. It includes Silverlight 3 controls for animation and interaction.
Gizmox, makers of Visual WebGui, announced that its application platform will run atop Windows Azure to migrate .NET desktop applications to the cloud. The process does not require a rewrite; instead, developers copy and paste Windows code into Visual WebGui, then select Windows Azure for runtime, according to the company.
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