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 What's Inside
Product Spotlight
ComponentOne WebReports for ASP.NET
Words From the Editor
Try Our New Upcoming Technologies & Get a ComponentOne Baseball Cap
Featured Article
Slimming Down for 2009: Reduce the Size of your XAP Files up to 70% with ComponentOne XapOptimizer
What's New
Want Smaller XAP Files that Download Faster?
Just Added: Studio for iPhone CTP Examples
Studio for Silverlight: Build 63
Enter for Your Chance to Win Studio Enterprise
Award Center
SD Times 100 Nominations
Event Center
Visit us at VSLive! This Month
Survey Center
February Quick Survey
January Survey Results
 Resource Center
ComponentOne Webcasts
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Studio for WinForms Offer - $100 off!

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 Product Spotlight
ComponentOne WebReports for ASP.NET
Create and Integrate Quality, Interactive Reports into ASP.NET Web Applications
ComponentOne Grid for WPF

Based on its Windows Forms equivalent, ComponentOne Reports for WinForms, WebReports for ASP.NET is a Web Forms control that runs within Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and includes many powerful and flexible features allowing you to stream complex HTML and PDF reports to your client's machine.

 Learn more about WebReports for ASP.NET.
 Read how company saved 30% development time, 50% UI time, 70% reporting time, and 50% overall support with ComponentOne ASP.NET components and report designer. Learn more.
 
 Words From the Editor
Gustavo Eydelsteyn Try Our New Upcoming Technologies & Get a ComponentOne Baseball Cap
Gustavo Eydelsteyn, Co-founder

We now have three Community Technology Previews (CTPs) for you to download: Studio for iPhone, Web parts for SharePoint, and XapOptimizer. The first two were discussed in the last Studio Tech Connection, and the third is the most recent. ComponentOne XapOptimizer is for Silverlight developers looking for faster downloads. It is stand-alone utility that processes your Silverlight applications (XAP files)
and generates an optimized Silverlight application up to 70% smaller than the original XAP file size. You can try out XapOptimizer online at no cost by uploading your XAP files to process and we will e-mail you the optimized file. You will be amazed at the results.

While Studio for iPhone, Web parts for SharePoint, and XapOptimizer are almost ready to ship, we welcome your feedback. This helps to let us know what features you would like to see in the final version, or if you are really happy with the CTP. As Oscar Wilde said, "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing". As a token of our appreciation, the first 50 people who share with us their feedback will receive a ComponentOne baseball cap. Get started with all of these CTPs by visiting labs.componentone.com. Try out our controls, Web parts, and stand-alone utility and let us know what you think.

 
 Featured Article
Chris Meredith Slimming Down for 2009: Reduce the Size of your XAP Files up to 70% with ComponentOne XapOptimizer
Chris Meredith, Product Manager

With the release of Silverlight, Microsoft has introduced an entirely new way to develop Web applications. But with new technology comes new concerns that developers must keep in mind and Silverlight is no exception. When a user browses to a Silverlight site they need to download the application (XAP file); therefore, the larger the
XAP file the longer the time it takes to download and initialize the Silverlight application. But what if there was an option to optimize your XAP file? A way to trim down the size of your XAP file with no loss in functionality. Well, now you can with ComponentOne XapOptimizer.
Read the full article.
 
 What's New

Want Smaller XAP Files that Download Faster?
Optimize your files with ComponentOne XapOptimizer

ComponentOne XapOptimizer

Try it for free online!

Reduce the size of your Silverlight applications (XAP files) by 30-70% with ComponentOne XapOptimizer. This stand-alone utility processes your XAP files and generates an optimized Silverlight application with improved start-up time, thus reducing network traffic.
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Just Added: Studio for iPhone CTP Examples

The new Studio for iPhone demo includes five examples showcasing AJAX search, a login form, the use of the C1MultiView and C1TabBarController controls, and segmented buttons. Launch this demo in your Safari browser. View Studio for iPhone Demo.
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Studio for Silverlight: Build 63 Just Released

Update to Maps for Silverlight: A new vector layer has been added to C1Maps, which allows you to draw geometries/shapes/polygons/paths with geo coordinates on top of the map. The vector layer is useful to draw:
  • Political borders (such as countries or states)
  • Geo details (for example, showing automobiles or airplane routes)
  • Choropleth maps (based on statistical data, such as showing population per country)
You can use the vector layer instead of the regular Microsoft Virtual Earth source to show a world map representation. It supports basic KML import/export KML is the standard file format to exchange drawings on top of maps).
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Enter for Your Chance to Win Studio Enterprise

Did you know that by downloading ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, you can be entered to win a copy of Studio Enterprise? Visit www.componentone.com/giveaway, login or create an account to be entered in the contest! Download the Studio Enterprise bits and start creating next-generation UI's today. All entries must be received by 5:00PM EST March 31, 2009. Winner will be notified by email.
 
 Award Center
SD Times 100 Nominations Now Being Accepted
SD Times 100 Nominate ComponentOne! Fill out the short online form.

Each year the SD Times 100 recognizes companies, non-commercial organizations, open source projects and other influencers for their innovation and leadership. Nominations are being accepted now through March 13, 2009.

 
 Event Center
Visit us at VSLive! This Month
VSLive! 2009
February 23-27, 2009
San Francisco, CA
Stop by our booth (Feb 23-25): We have so much to share with you about ComponentOne's current cutting-edge technologies in addition to what's new.
 
 Survey Center
February Quick Survey
Please take a moment to answer the following question. We will publish the results next month so you can see what your peers had to say.

Do you use LINQ?
Please click your answer.
LINQ, what is that?
Currently evaluating
Can't live without it
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Last Month's Survey Results
Last month, we asked how you prefer to learn new products. Here are the results:
January Survey Results


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