WPF Coming into the mainstream with excellent component vendor support

I love the ecosystem around Microsoft technology... The 3rd party component vendors add some much jazz and productivity to our platforms. I recently saw a list of the component vendors already shipping products for WPF and I couldn't help but share it.

Are there any I am missing? What has your experience with these been?

Actipro WPF Studio: Ribbon, Bar Code, Wizard, DateTime, Calendar, Transition, Color Selection, Transition Effects Library

Divelements: Office UI, Window Management

DevComponents: Office UI, Window Management

SoftwareFx: Charts

Infragistics: Carousel, DataPresenter, Grid, Masked Edit, DateTimeEdit, CurrencyEdit, NumericEdit, CheckEdit, TextEdit, ThemePacks, Chart

Component One Schedule, MonthCalendar, Chart, Grid

Xceed: DataGrid

identity mine

Blendables: Zoombox, ElementSnapshot, Carousel, ChromelessWindow, DragAndDrop, Pie Chart, OS Check, Timeline Panel, Binding MarkupExtensions, NumbericRangeToObjectConverter

Mindscape: ProperityGrid

neodynamic: BarCode

Syncfusion: Docking, Office 2007 Ribbon, GroupBar and Char

Orbifold: diagramming tool (free and commercial versions)

Kevin's Bag-o-Tricks: tons of UI controls and samples

Published 23 January 08 09:06 by BradA

Filed under: WPF

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# WPF Coming into the mainstream with excellent component vendor… said on January 24, 2008 12:55 AM:

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# John-Daniel Trask said on January 24, 2008 2:33 AM:

Released only days ago, Mindscape has released the first 100% WPF Property Grid control.

http://www.wpfpropertygrid.com

Disclaimer: I work for the company, would love for you to add a reference and screenshot to your blog post!

Cheers,

John-Daniel Trask

Mindscape

# BradA said on January 24, 2008 2:58 AM:

Thanks John.. I added Mindscape... keep them comming!

# John-Daniel Trask said on January 24, 2008 5:08 AM:

Thanks for adding it Brad :-)

As an update, our first control is not a DataGrid, it's a PropertyGrid (like the property editor in Visual Studio or Blend), not a generic data grid.

Thanks again!

John-Daniel Trask

Mindscape

# Venugopal said on January 24, 2008 7:58 AM:

Hi Brad,

Syncfusion has also released a full suite of WPF controls including Docking, Office 2007 Ribbon, GroupBar and Chart. More information is available at:

http://www.syncfusion.com/products/wpf/

Could you please add them to your post?.

Thanks,

Venugopal

# DamianH said on January 24, 2008 8:48 AM:

It's kind disappointing that there are no significant open source component suites, particularly for open-source apps.

# Matt said on January 24, 2008 9:40 AM:

Orbifold (the WPF port of Netron graph control) is available here (and has an open-source version too)

http://www.orbifold.net/Unfold/info.php

# BradA said on January 24, 2008 12:28 PM:

OK -- I got that round of updates done... please keep them comming!

# Andrew Webb said on January 24, 2008 12:55 PM:

The software stack that really needs the component vendor love in order to thrive is Workflow Foundation. Microsoft's WF Designer is unusable by normal humans (i.e. non devs); where's the 3rd-party version that really is fit for end-user consumption?

# Oran said on January 24, 2008 3:05 PM:

Nice to see a big name in Microsoft pushing WPF again! Now if only someone could persuade ScottGu to do the same. I believe it's in his job description, but he sure doesn't act like it.... :(

# Dusan Kocurek said on January 24, 2008 4:52 PM:

We also has done our application in WPF http://www.scrumdesk.com. We will release it soon.

# Christopher Steen said on January 25, 2008 1:57 AM:

Link Listing - January 24, 2008

# Christopher Steen said on January 25, 2008 1:57 AM:

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# ansonli said on January 25, 2008 11:35 AM:

where's Microsoft's product? Even microsoft doesn't use WPF, why should we developers use it in production? I have been asking this question for a year.

# Kevin Moore said on January 27, 2008 11:31 PM:

Thanks for the great list and the plug, Brad.

FYI: the new permanent URL (with fresh updates) is always here - http://j832.com/bagotricks

# Aaron said on January 28, 2008 4:17 PM:

@ansonli -- Microsoft doesn't sell third party components for WPF -- which is the point of Brad's post. For examples of WPF applications, look at the Microsoft Expression Suite -- applications written using WPF.

# Anonymous said on February 6, 2008 9:03 AM:

Infragistics now includes Chart and Ribbon

# adospace said on April 2, 2008 8:38 AM:

Hi Brad,

AqiStar provides a wpf syntax highlighting text editor with great features.

www.aqistar.com

I'm glad if you please could add it to your post.

Thank you very much!

# John-Daniel Trask said on April 10, 2008 5:50 PM:

Hi Brad,

Mindscape has just released another WPF offering - WPF Elements a suite of the following controls for line-of-business applications:

* WPF Multicolumn TreeView control (aka WPF TreeListView)

* WPF Currency Text box

* WPF Integer Text box

* WPF Numeric Text box

* WPF Masked Text box

* WPF DateTimePicker

* WPF DropDownDatePicker

* WPF MonthCalendar

* WPF Spin control (aka up-down control)

* WPF Spin decorator

* WPF DropDownEditBox

* WPF ProportionalStackPanel

Would love if you could add this to your list (images and related content can be found here: http://www.mindscape.co.nz/products/wpfelements/)

Many thanks,

John-Daniel Trask

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