What's New in the .Net ModelKit Suite
.Net ModelKit Suite™ 4.0.1.0 (02.04.2009)
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 4.0.1.0 (02.04.2009)
New: Support for the right to left text writing in the PDF Export Filter.
New: IntelliSense for scripts binding in Toolbar.
New: Ability to change standard adapters with the custom ones in the export filters.
New: The PlaceInBottom property of the Footer section. This property allows the location of Footer always at the bottom of the page.
Fixed: Excel export filter. Now the cell size remains invariable during the export to Excel.
Fixed: Execution of Page.GenerateScript more than once.
Fixed: Page breaking in AdvacncedText.
Fixed: Pages visibility in sub reports.
Fixed: Symbols size in PDF Export Filter.
Fixed: Visible property in the PivotTable element.
Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight™ 4.0.1.0 (02.04.2009)
New: Ability to save data to the set folder.
.Net ModelKit Suite™ 4.0.0.0 (26.03.2009)
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 4.0.0.0 (26.03.2009)
New: Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight
.Net ModelKit Suite™ 3.9.0.0 (13.02.2009)
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 3.9.0.0 (13.02.2009)
New: 90 new gauges and 180 new charts are available to visualize report data;
New: Ability to get data source field value through the GroupBand element;
New:Complete functionality required to design custom report designer became public;
New: Support for LINQ to SQL queries as a data source;
Fixed: Location of the text in the AdvancedText element;
Fixed: Text paging in the AdvancedText element;
Fixed: Bug in the aggregate collection editor;
Fixed: Picture zooming when exported to HTML;
Fixed: Display of print dialog on 64 bit operating systems;
Fixed: Display of Header section on every page(RepeatEveryPage = true);
Fixed: Exporting documents with high resolution pictures to RTF;
Fixed: Setting of a picture quality when document is exported to RTF;
Fixed: SideBySide sections visibility;
Fixed: Extra pages between two pivot tables in the report;
Fixed: Label in the Code39 Extended Bar code;
Fixed: Incorrect displaying of the underlined text in the PDF documents;
Fixed: NewPageaBefore and NewPageAfter properties for the subReport element;
Fixed: Error handling when ReportSlot state doesn’t allow storage of the document;
Fixed: Compression of the PDF document;
Fixed: Compatibility of the report web viewer toolbox with Mozilla Firefox;
Fixed: Work of the report web viewer component with AJAX;
Fixed: Reciprocal output order for PageHeader, PageFooter;
Fixed: Japan postal Bar Code;
Fixed: Passing DataBand record number to sub-report;
Fixed: Passing report parameters from sub-report to master report;
Fixed: Sorting in the DataBand component;
Fixed: Pictures export to RTF.
Chart ModelKit™ 3.9.0.0 (13.02.2009)
New: Ability to set background image and fill for Bar charts;
New: Ability to add new chart element directly into the chart tree view;
New: 180 new charts designed in 10 new styles;
Improved: Chart ModelKit Samples Center and Wizard include newly designed charts.
Instrumentation ModelKit™ 3.9.0.0 (13.02.2009)
Fixed: Setting of the slider step;
New: Ability to add push buttons to the gauge;
New: Ability to add new gauge elements directly into the gauge tree view;
New: 90 new gauges designed in 10 styles;
Improved: Instrumentation ModelKit Samples Center and Wizard include newly designed gauges.
.Net ModelKit Suite™ 3.8 (28.04.2008)
New: Support for Visual Studio 2008. You will able to use all products included in the .Net ModelKit Suite™, if you decide to upgrade to the most advanced and effective Microsoft tools.
New:Report Sharp-Shooter™ features new QR Barcode that is very popular in Japan.
Improved: Report Sharp-Shooter™ features master style support. Now, styles specified in the master report are available in sub reports, they can be assigned to any report element. This new feature will reduce time required for templates development, since there will be no need to duplicate styles. At the same time master reports and sub reports will have unified style and this will make your reporting system more professional.
Improved: Instrumentation ModelKit™ and Chart ModelKit™ sample centers are amplified. New charts and instruments using new attractive styles are added.
Improved:Updated user interface in all designers and viewers. New icons on the toolbars will make your application even more professional.
Improved:OLAP ModelKit™ features highlighting of insert area, where a field can be placed.
Improved:Localization to basic languages is complete.
Fixed:Minor errors and bugs are fixed.
.Net ModelKit Suite™ 3.7 (12.03.2007)
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 3.7 (12.03.2007)
New: Integrated SQL and XML data sources support. The connection string and query text are specified for SQL data source. XML data source support is based on XML file and XPath format query. End user can edit data sources directly in the report designer.
Improved: XPS export is fully integrated in WebViewer. Just place XpsExportFilter on the page and the export option will be automatically available for users.
Improved: A lot of modifications in charts and gauges (3D effects, rich library of templates, new frame types, enhanced palette) allows you to represent the report data in a more attractive form.
Chart ModelKit™ 3.7 (12.03.2007)
New: Imitation of 3D effects on chart series elements in PieSeriesView, PointSeriesView and BarSeriesView.
New: Option for BarSeriesView design change allows the display of elements with rounded corners;
New: Ability to display custom image in the BarSeriesView columns;
New: Mechanism for bevels setting makes the process of unique charts development less time consuming;
New: Bevels types: ellipse, standard (rectangular) and custom (rectangular bevel with possibility of any parameter customization);
New: Color shade palettes. Already existed palettes were extended. Now you can create bright and colorful charts and diagrams which address the most sophisticated requirements;
Redesigned: Templates library. Now, charts and diagrams, created on the basis of new templates, will advantageously distinguish with their attractive appearance.
Instrumentation ModelKit™ 3.7 (12.03.2007)
New: DigitalText instrument element. This element is intended for the display of text and numbers using LED markers;
New: Mechanism for bevels setting makes the process of unique instruments development less time consuming;
Redesigned: Templates library. Now, instruments, created on the basis of new templates, will advantageously distinguish with their attractive appearance;
Improved: Custom functions are available in the visual expressions editor. By setting your own function for instruments creation you will save your time and efforts.
OLAP ModelKit™ 3.7 (03.11.2007)
New: Cube layout allows you to specify headline, header and footer printed out and taken into account when the document is exported to Excel, Html and Pdf formats. Headers and footers are edited in the wizard available for both developers and end users.
Improved: User functions are available now in the visual expressions editor.
.NET ModelKit Suite™ 3.6
New: Support for smart tags functionality provides access to the .NET ModelKit Suite components’ common properties in a smart tag window, invoked by a mouse pointer.
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 3.6 (10.10.2007)
New: Report Manager editor makes reports design process much easier and faster: a double click on the ReportManager component invokes a special editor that allows editing collections of reports and data sources.
New: Smart tags functionality in the Report Viewer allows you to quickly and easily access any Viewer properties in the smart tags window, thus to adjust Viewer much quicker.
New: XPS (XML Paper Specification) export filter provides the ideal tool for data storing, displaying and publishing. It is intended to display a document in the same way across the machines independently from the software installed.
New: Support for PDF417 2D barcode that is irreplaceable for the applications where the data must travel with the labeled item. It can store up to 1,800 printable ASCII characters per symbol and can be used for hazardous materials labeling, storing technical specifications and calibration data on electronic instruments.
Improved: Export to PDF is considerable improved. Now your PDF documents become dramatically smaller due to the files compression.
Improved: Error handling (exception handling) becomes much easier with Report Sharp-Shooter™ 3.6.
Chart ModelKit™ 3.6 and OLAP ModelKit™ 3.6 (10.10.2007)
Improved: Tighter integration of OLAP ModelKit and Chart ModelKit provides the ability to dynamically represent OLAP data as feature-rich charts. No need to adjust components to each other or write sophisticated code. Just place Chart Viewer on the form the DataCubeGrid is located on, few mouse clicks and your data is transformed into useful and meaningful information.
OLAP ModelKit™ 3.6 (10.10.2007)
Improved: Export to PDF is considerable improved. Now your PDF documents become dramatically smaller due to the files compression.
.NET ModelKit Suite™ 3.5.1.2 (12.09.2007)
Fixed: Problem with design-time components licensing appeared on Windows Vista x64.
Fixed: Some other slight problems with licensing.
.NET ModelKit Suite™ 3.5
New: The localization of the Sample Center allows the developer to examine the example in the chosen language.
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 3.5 (25.07.2007)
Updated: Demo application. All the examples are placed in a single Sample Center. The examples were redesigned.
New: Ability to add StrikeOut in the TextBox.
Fixed: Bug in the GrowToBottom property in AdvancedText.
Fixed: Bug in page break of the pivot table.
Fixed: Bug in TextBox.
Fixed: Bug in DataBand with empty data source.
Chart ModelKit™ 3.5 (25.07.2007)
New: A Web Forms viewer allows the developers to display charts and graphs in ASP.NET applications.
.NET ModelKit Suite™ 3.0
New: Pure .NET 2.0 component.
Improved: Visual Interface. Automatic layout of localized interface elements allows the correct displaying and positioning of these elements in the property grid and on the toolbar.
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 3.0 (17.05.2007)
New: Designer. All text properties can be easily changed from the associated toolbar buttons. Expressions toolbar provides a more convenient way of assigning expressions for a selected element property. Fill editor helps developer set fill of a selected control. The following fill types are available: solid, gradient, multigradient, spherical, hatch, and conical.
New: Syntax editor. New syntax editor is similar to those in Visual Studio.Net. It provides the code completion and syntax highlighting features.
Improved: Report viewer.
Improved: Mechanism of data grouping. It is possible to sort groups and their elements. Master-Detail reports are designed the same way as Group reports are created.
Improved: DataBand functionality. It is possible to perform filtering and sorting of the displayed data.
Improved: Mechanism of working with aggregate functions. A wide range of aggregate functions is available: sum, minimum, maximum, average, standard deviation, estimate of standard deviation, variance, estimate of variance, median, skewness, and kurtosis. Group totals are calculated automatically. It is possible to calculate running totals and totals by page.
Instrumentation ModelKit™ 3.0 and Chart ModelKit™ 3.0 (17.05.2007)
New: Designer. It is possible to easily manage elements’ visibility, smoothness, define if the element is active or not, change elements’ style, font and size if applicable from the designer toolbar. Fill editor can also be invoked by clicking an appropriate button. The following fill types are available: solid, gradient, multigradient, spherical, hatch, and conical. You can also set a line style including line width, color, type, etc.
.NET ModelKit Suite™ 2.3
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 2.3 (24.01.2007)
Improved: The SharpWebViewer component: it is possible to set the custom method of the temporary storage of a generated document on the server side.
Improved: HTML export filter: the direction of the text (left to right, right to left) is saved at the document export.
Fixed: Bug in the RTF export filter: it is possible to set image alignment and bounds while exporting an image; adequate output of the last page at the document export.
Fixed: Bug in the PDF export filter.
Fixed: Bug in the PivotTable element designer.
OLAP ModelKit™ 2.3 (24.01.2007)
New: The $Value variable provides access to the source data records and not just to their fields.
New: The ProfessionalPainter style.
Fixed: Bug in the data source setting designer occurred while working with the .NET Framework 2.0.
Fixed: Bugs in the work with date functions.
Instrumentation ModelKit™ 2.3 (24.01.2007)
New: The UseRoundValues property allows the display of round values on the axis and in the grid in the most convenient manner.
Chart ModelKit™ 2.3 (24.01.2007)
New: Ability to create multicolumn legend.
Improved: The Qualitative ScaleType property speeds up the process of charts generation.
New: The UseRoundValues property allow displaying of round values on the axis and in the grid according to the integral values on the axis.
New: The $Value variable provides access to the source data records and not just to their fields.
New: Nonstandard series types allow displaying of charts data in the form of spectrum analyzers, thermometers or tanks located along the scale.
Fixed: Bug in the Alignment property of the Title element.
Fixed: The CustomPalette bug.
Fixed: Bug in decimal data type setting.
Fixed: Bug in the data source setting designer occurred while working with the .NET Framework 2.0.
.NET ModelKit Suite™ 2.1
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 2.1 (13.10.2006)
New: Built-in component for charts and graphs creation.
New: Built-in component for creating digital dashboards and KPIs.
New: New capabilities for WMF/EMF pictures drawing.
Fixed: Bugs in the Spanish and Turkish localization files.
OLAP ModelKit™ 2.1 (10.13.2006)
New: Compatibility with Chart ModelKit™ that allows developers to represent calculated in the OLAP cube data as charts and graphs.
Instrumentation ModelKit™ 2.1 (10.13.2006)
New: High-level elements: RangedLevel, LinearLevel, Tank, ScaleTitle, ScaleMarks, Hightlight, Gear.
New: A Unified Samples Browser.
New: The ConicalFill fill type.
Improved: Scale architecture:
- It is possible to perform an automatic layout of such scale elements as ticks and labels taking into account the specified values, font, size etc.
- MimLimit and MaxLimit properties that can be assigned both in absolute and relative values. It is possible to assign the Auto value.
- The Origin property allowing a developer to assign a reference point manually taking into account the step.
- The Step property which makes it possible to specify the interval value between divisions. When the Auto value is specified for the Step property the interval is defined subject to the number of divisions on the scale.
Improved: The Labels element.
- The Fill and Stroke properties which are used for background and frame drawing can be used now for each single label.
- The Position property allows labels alignment
- The OddLabelDistance property provides space-saving layout of labels due to the shift of odd labels in relation to even ones.
- The CustomLabels element has been amplified with the Value property allowing exact positioning of each label on the scale. This new property can be assigned in absolute or relative values or take the Auto value.
Improved: Instruments designer interface. It provides access to any properties of the visual element with a mouse clicks. Elements under the mouse pointer are automatically highlighted.
.NET ModelKit Suite™ 2.0 (04.04.2006)
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 2.0.4 (06.19.2006)
New: Import from Active Reports.
Fixed: Problem of the Designer property grid compatibility with Visual Studio 2005.
Fixed: Problem of the Image Editor compatibility with Visual Studio 2005.
Fixed: Bugs in the Excel (XML) export.
Fixed: Bugs with the use of MasterReport and sub-reports functionality: now when a template is rendered from several pages, a final document is paged.
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 2.0.3 (06.07.2006)
New: Ability to export reports with pictures to multi-page TIFF format.
Improved: HTML export filter: it is possible to set fixed table size.
Fixed: Bug in expressions: the priority of operations is taken into account now.
Fixed: Bug in the RTF export filter concerning cells size.
Fixed: Bug in Advanced Text export to PDF format.
Fixed: Bug in the WebViewer component: two Web Viewer components can be used now on a single page.
Fixed: Bug in the WebViewer component: parameters can be used now in the query string.
Fixed: Bug in the Advanced Text rendering.
Report Sharp-Shooter™ 2.0 (04.04.2006)
New: The Master Report concept. Having the functionality similar to Master Page in ASP.NET 2.0, this Master Report concept allows developers to create of a single master form which appearance adheres to corporate standards, and then use it in further report designs.
New: Parameterized reports.
New: Parameterized sub-reports.
New: New rendering concept - the SideBySide band that allows placing separate report parts in parallel with horizontal shift.
New: Integrated OLAP component.
New: The Report Manager component intended for managing a set of report templates.
Improved: System of reports serialization.
Updated: The Web Viewer component. It includes a modified Toolbar. Search option and settings of reports exporting and printing are added.
Updated: The base of utilization examples.
OLAP ModelKit™ 2.0.1 (07.18.2006)
New: More then 30 new styles performed in various palettes.
Improved: Filter setting dialog.
OLAP ModelKit™ 2.0 (05.22.2006)
New: Calculations can be carried out in a standalone thread without «freezing» application’s user interface.
New: Possibility to manage calculations manually; a developer can deactivate automatic calculating and recalculate the pivot table according to the user’s demands. It is possible to specify a set of filters and then to recalculate a pivot table.
New: Interactive grouping of values.
New: Sorting by total.
New: Possibility to acquire a set of source data used for any pivot table cell calculation and to analyze and edit these data.
New: PDF export filter.
New: A unified sample browser.
Updated: The built-in expression language. The new functions for work with dates and strings are added.
Updated: Rearranged library core increases calculation speed and decreases short-term memory usage.
Updated: The list of localizations. It contains now Romanian, Thai, Danish, Czech, German, Turkish, Portuguese, Italian and Russian localizations.
Updated: Excel export filter. Total values are exported now as cells with number format.
Fixed: Bug with the use of the data source that contains the Null value in a field of the DateTime type.
OLAP ModelKit™ 1.7 (04.07.2006)
New: Support for nested data sources.
New: Ability to edit styles at run time.
Improved: Expression editor. It provides a convenient visual interface for writing expressions using all available expression language constructions and elements, as well as data source fields.
OLAP ModelKit™ 1.6 (04.01.2006)
New: The DataCubeGrid.ActiveCell that allows a user to get the information on active table cells.
New: Ability to dynamically change the cell style subject to data contained in it.
New: Ability to draw a grid cell manually.
Fixed: The behavior of the DataCubeGrid control. Now the DataCubeGrid control placed on the TabControl in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 works properly.
Instrumentation ModelKit™ 1.6 (04.01.2006)
Improved: Expression editor. It provides now a convenient visual interface for writing expressions using all available expression language constructions and elements, as well as data source fields, while viewing and editing.
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