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We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Touch Controls Suite 2.0. Touch Controls Suite is a control suite for the .NET Compact Framework. It allows software developers to create great looking user interfaces (UI) for “stylus-free” applications that support finger-based interaction on the Windows Mobile and Windows CE platform.

Touch Controls Suite consists of more than 10 controls. The core control is TouchListBox. It is the most sophisticated list box control that is currently available for .NETCF/Windows Mobile. It supports smooth, kinetic scrolling as well as various animation effects. TouchListBox is a universal control that can be used for all kind of lists, menus and catalogues. This makes it the perfect core control for creating intuitive, finger-friendly applications on Windows Mobile devices. Several very useful accessory controls like TitleBar, ButtonBar, TouchCheckBox, TouchPictureButton or TouchTextBox offer extended touch screen support for any aspect of finger-based applications and help creating visually compelling user interfaces with ease.

 The new version comes with many improvements and several great new features:

• TouchListBox with kinetic scrolling and optional scrollbar indicator
• Intelligent caching mechanism for fast scrolling, even through long lists (unlimited list items)
• Low memory footprint and carefully optimized drawing algorithms for excellent overfall performance
• Custom list item types (text, text+icon, header, check box, radio box (with grouping), …), additionally, fully owner-drawn item types are also possible now
• List items can have different sizes
• New Glass-Dialog that supports also custom controls
• ButtonBar (toolbar) with unlimited number of buttons
• Compatible with all standard .NETCF controls (no proprietary form classes required!)
• Improved support for images with alpha transparency (PNG) in all controls (incl. TouchPictureButton, TouchTextBox and TouchCheckBox)
• Support for .NET Compact Framework AND also for the “full” .NET Framework (desktop version)

Because Touch Controls Suite is based on the .NET Compact Framework, it can be used with programming languages like C# or VB.NET. But the new version of Touch Controls Suite can not only be used for Windows Mobile / Windows CE development – it is also fully compatible to the full .NET Framework that is used on desktop computers. So Touch Controls Suite can now also be used to create touch screen enabled applications for the desktop with exactly the same controls as for the mobile devices. Porting mobile applications to the desktop and vice-versa has never been easier and gives the developer a full set of new possibilities.

For those that already have licensed Touch Controls Suite 1.x, a discounted update is available.

Please visit the Touch Controls Suite 2.0 Website for more details!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 19:21 and is filed under General, Mobility, Products, Touch Controls Suite, Windows Mobile. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.