Visit http://www.mirabyte.com/en/products/windows-mobile/touch-controls-suite.html for details and a video demonstration.

Join our application contest and develop a Windows Mobile application that uses Touch Controls Suite 2 (a fully functional demo version is available for free on the mirabyte Website!).

Next, send us some screenshots and a brief description about your application plus the compiled application to devsupport@mirabyte.com. After *** 07/15/2010 *** we will proclaim the winner who made the best application with Touch Controls Suite 2.

The first price is a free Touch Controls Suite 2 license (incl. source code), a value of 200 EUR; the second and the third price is a Touch Controls Suite 2 license (2x 70 EUR) and all other participants get a discount coupon for a rebate of 10% on Touch Controls Suite 2 (with source or without source).

We are excited to see your application! If you have any questions, feel free to contact us: devsupport@mirabyte.com!

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!

Of course TouchListBox is once again in the main focus of the whole suite. With version 2.0 you are able to create your own custom list items. Touch Controls Suite 2.0 already comes with some ready to use list item types like text item, checkbox item, radio button item (with grouping support). Also the memory footprint and the drawing performance have been dramatically improved. Touch Controls Suite 2.0 even runs fine on older, not so powerful devices such the HTC Nova etc.

Finally, one of the biggest innovations is the fact that all controls can also be used with the “normal” desktop .NET Framework. So if you plan to develop finger-friendly applications not only for Windows Mobile and .NET Compact Framework, you can now also address the new upcoming hype of touch-enabled applications on Windows 7!

Here is a video that shows some of the new features of Touch Controls 2.0; a new video will follow when the final version has been released!

So visit our Website in the next days for the new version!

By the way: If you have purchased Touch Controls 1.x within 2010, you get the update for free!

• GlassDialog – a new cool looking modal dialog
• TouchTextBox – a skinable text box control
• TouchCheckBox – a finger-friendly checkbox control

 Apart from that our TouchListBox now has the often requested “flip back” effect. You can now scroll below the start/end of a list and the list then flips back like a rubber band to the default position.

 For more details on the new version and a short video preview, please visit the forum: http://forum.mirabyte.com/thread-121.html

 More details about Touch Controls Suite is available on our Website: http://www.mirabyte.com/en/products/windows-mobile/touch-controls-suite/

By the way: We now also have compiled versions of the demo applications packaged as an installable CAB file. This allows you to quickly try out the controls on your device! Just visit the download section on the product Website!