About Nevron
Nevron Software is a pathfinder company for component based data visualization technologies. Nevron is a synonym for premium quality product and customer support. The company portfolio includes the leading Charting, Diagramming and UI components for .NET-centric technologies (WinForms, ASP.NET, SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint), which aim to provide data visualization, reporting and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched.

Designed by professionals for professionals, Nevron Data Visualization technology delivers rich functionality with exceptional features to your Presentation, Scientific, Financial and Business Intelligence applications.

• Gеneral Features
  
  

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  - Support for SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 and 2008
  - Support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems
  - Multiple Charting Areas
  - Multiple Legends
  - Multiple Titles
  - Unlimited Number of Chart Series
  - Unlimited Number of Data Points
  
  
• Charting Series
  
  

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  - Bar Charts, Horizontal and Vertical Bars
  - Area Charts
  - Smooth Area Charts
  - Line Charts
  - Smooth Line Charts
  - Step Line Charts
  - Pie Charts
  - Point Charts
  - Bubble Charts
  - Float Bar Charts
  - High Low Charts
  - Stock Charts
  - Funnel Charts
  - Radar Charts
  - Polar Charts
  - Surface Charts
  - Combo Charts
  
  
• Chart Axes Features
  
  

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  - Chart Primary and Secondary X and Y Axes
  - Chart Depth Axis
  - Special Radar and Polar axes
  - Numeric Scale
  - Categorical Scale
  - Advanced Axes positioning options
  - Axis Title customization
  - Ruler
  - Control over the range displayed by the axis
  - Axes gridlines customization
  - Ticks appearance and position
  - Axis Stripes
  - Axis Sections
  - Const Lines
  - Scale Breaks
  - Label Layout
  - Label Formatting
  
  
• Advanced Features
  
  

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  - Nevron Chart for SSRS introduces the fastest rendering chart inside Reporting Services - in both 2D and 3D modes.
  - 3D Charting - Nevron Chart for SSRS has the best layout in 3D and the most advanced feature set in 3D - including: 11 predefined lighting modes, ability to specify element materials (control the way in which elements reflect light) ant the largest charting types set in 3D
  - 2D Charting - Nevron Chart for SSRS is the only chart for Reporting Services to provide Adobe Photoshop like image filter effects, which are applicable to all chart elements - these include bevel, emboss, lighting filters, shadows etc.
  - 2D/3D Consistency, mixing 2D and 3D chart areas in a single chart control.
  - Visual Effects - introducing numerous Lighting Models, Orthogonal Projection with Depth Offset, Soft Shadows based on image filters, Blur, Glow, Lighting, Bevel and Emboss image filters.
  - Numerous XY and XYZ scatters - the industry leading support for XY and XYZ scatters inside Reporting Services.
  - XML Formatted Texts
  - Multithreaded UI
  
  
• Additional Customization Properties
  
  

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  - Walls
  - Legends
  - Per Series (Values Data Groupings) Properties
  - Data Groupings Editors
  - Rendering Customization
  - Appearance Customizations
  
  

Nevron Gauge for Reporting Services is now underway - introducing a new level of data visualization, designed to extend your reports within Microsoft Reporting Services. Nevron Gauge for SSRS includes Linear and Radial Gauges, Numeric Display Panels and support for unique functionality and visual styling.

About Nevron
Nevron Software is a pathfinder company for component based data visualization technologies. Nevron is a synonym for premium quality product and customer support. The company portfolio includes the leading Charting, Diagramming and UI components for .NET-centric technologies (WinForms, ASP.NET, SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint), which aim to provide data visualization, reporting and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched.

Designed by professionals for professionals, Nevron Data Visualization technology delivers rich functionality with exceptional features to your Presentation, Scientific, Financial and Business Intelligence applications.

About Nevron
Nevron Software is a pathfinder company for component based data visualization technologies. Nevron is a synonym for premium quality product and customer support. The company portfolio includes the leading Charting, Diagramming and UI components for .NET-centric technologies (WinForms, ASP.NET, SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint), which aim to provide data visualization, reporting and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched.

Designed by professionals for professionals, Nevron Data Visualization technology delivers rich functionality with exceptional features to your Presentation, Scientific, Financial and Business Intelligence applications.

• New Chart Series
  
  

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  Range Series - The Range series can display 2D or 3D shapes defined by the begin / end values of their bounding boxes. It can be used for display of histograms, bars with custom sizes, 3D ranges etc.
  
  Vector Series - The vector series allows for the display of 2D and 3D vector fields, with controllable vector position, vector direction and color.
  
  
• 3D Chart Fit In Box
  
  

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  All Cartesian 3D chart can now be forced to fit their entire content (axis labels, series etc.) into the content area box defined by their panel.
  
  
• Chart Axes Improvements
  
  

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  Range Label Improvements - Range labels have been improved to support additional tick styles as well as options for automatic fitting and clipping.
  
  View Range Inflate - All axes can now be configured to inflate their logical range in several modes. You can now specify whether the axis range should be rounded to the nearest major tick or specify custom logical or absolute inflate.
  
  Hierarchical Scale Improvements - The hierarchical scale configurator has been extended to support first level and group level grid style and controllable label overlapping behavior that differs for first and group level labels. The configurator has also been extended to support level padding allowing for better readability of the labels.
  
  Timeline Scale Improvements - Both the NValueTimelineScaleConfigurator and the NRangeTimelineScaleConfigurator have been extended to support custom step for each timeline row. The NRangeTimelineScaleConfigurator has also been extended to support level padding.
  
  
• Gauge Improvements
  
  

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  Numeric Display Improvements - The numeric display panel has been extended to support sign display with several options.
  
  Gauge Indicator Value Dampening - Both value and numeric indicator can now use a value dampening effect that smooth the transition of the indicator from one value to another.
  
  Knob Indicator - The knob indicator is a new type of value indicator with controllable style that provides the end user with an easy way to modify the values.
  
  

• DOM Improvements
  
  

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  Groups - Support for expandable/collapsible shapes (groups).
  
  Decorators - Support for shape decorators. In this release we have implemented the following decorators:
  - Frame Decorator - adds a header and background to a shape.
  - Expand Collapse Decorator - adds an expand/collapse toggle button to a shape.
  - Show Hide Subtree Decorator - adds a show/hide subtree toggle button to a shape.
  
  Support for Table Shapes - Table shapes are similar to the tables used in HTML (i.e. each cell can span several rows and/or columns, and may contain images and/or text).
  
  Support for UML Shapes - Built upon the Table Shape, they allow the user to create UML class diagrams with ease. The UML shapes also supports different notations for its UML members.
  
  Support for ERM Shapes and Connectors - With ERM Shapes and Connectors you can easily display any Entity Relation diagram.
  
  
• Diagram Layout Improvements
  
  

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  The Balloon Tree Layout supports properties to control the sector angle for the children of the root vertex and the children of the other vertices, as well as the start angle at which to begin the layouting of the shapes.
  
  The Radial and the Single Cycle Layouts allow the user to control their aspect ratio.
  
  The Tip-over Tree Layout supports a different placement specifier for the tree leafs.
  
  The Layered Graph Layout allows the user to specify the position of each node in its layer individually using its Layout Data.
  
  The Layout Context allows the user to specify the shapes and/or groups he wants to layout.
  
  
• New Diagram Importers (Database and Class Importers)
  
  

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  The Database Importer allows the users to import the entire hierarchy of a database, which makes the task of creating database entity relation diagrams easier than ever before.
  
  The Class Importer allows the users to create complete class hierarchy diagrams based on a given class with only few lines of code.
  
  
• Fixed Issues and Optimizations
  
  

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  - The hit test of diagrams with thousands of shapes has been significantly optimized.
  - The cloning and binary serialization of user defined tags has been fixed.
  - The Disconnected event is now raised when you remove a connected shape.
  - The Random Graph Generator now always generates connected graphs.
  
  

About Nevron
Nevron Software is a pathfinder company for component based data visualization technologies. Nevron is a synonym for premium quality product and customer support. The company portfolio includes the leading Charting, Diagramming and UI components for .NET-centric technologies (WinForms, ASP.NET, SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint), which aim to provide data visualization, reporting and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched.

Designed by professionals for professionals, Nevron Data Visualization technology delivers rich functionality with exceptional features to your Presentation, Scientific, Financial and Business Intelligence applications.

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About Nevron
Nevron Software is a pathfinder company for component based data visualization technologies. Nevron is a synonym for premium quality product and customer support. The company portfolio includes the leading Charting, Diagramming and UI components for .NET-centric technologies (WinForms, ASP.NET, SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint), which aim to provide data visualization, reporting and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched.

Designed by professionals for professionals, Nevron Data Visualization technology delivers rich functionality with exceptional features to your Presentation, Scientific, Financial and Business Intelligence applications.

• Mixing 2D and 3D charting types in one chart control
  
  

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  Each chart panel now supports the Enable3D property allowing you to dynamically switch the chart rendering from 2D to 3D and vice versa. This feature allows mixing of 2D and 3D charts in a single chart control.
  
  
• Axis Ruler Caps
  
  

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  Axis rulers can now be decorated with begin and end cap style allowing the visualization of scientifically looking charts. Additional features include the ability to break the ruler painting if it crosses a scale break, increasing chart readability.
  
  
• Custom Value and Range Labels
  
  

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  You can now add custom value or range labels. This feature can be very useful when you have to explicitly denote values or ranges on the scale. Value and range labels come up with a variety of customization options including controllable visibility and tick style as well as the ability to mix the automatic labels with the custom ones in one scale level.
  
  
• Hierarchical Scales
  
  

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  This is a new type of scale configurator utilizing the range labels feature in order to create scales with hierarchical (tree) structure. This type of scale is widely used when you have to display grouped categorical data.
  
  
• Value and Range Timeline Scales
  
  

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  Timeline configurators allow you to configure a scale to display date/time information by decorating the scale using several date/time units. By doing this the scale becomes more informative to the end user as it allows him/her to view important date/time events that happen inside the date/time range displayed by the scale.
  
  
• XML Formatted Text Improvements
  
  

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  The XML formatted text specification has been extended to support the shape tags allowing you to insert shapes with controllable fill, stroke and shadow in any text displayed by the component.
  
  
• Automatic Walls Visibility
  
  

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  The walls of the chart when working in 3D mode can dynamically change their visibility depending on the user viewpoint so that they do not obscure the chart content. This feature is very useful when you want to give the user the ability to look at a chart from a different angle and want to ensure that the chart content remains completely visible.
  
  
• Automatic Axis Position
  
  

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  The axes of the chart when working in 3D mode can dynamically choose a dock zone depending on the user viewpoint so that they do not obscure the chart content.
  
  
• Pie Chart Improvements
  
  

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  The pie chart series can now render pies with the following new shapes Ring, Smooth Edge Ring and Cut Edge Ring.
  
  
• Range Sliders
  
  

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  The axis scrollbar is extended to support range sliders thus allowing the user to change the visible axis range with the mouse.
  
  
• Polar Chart Improvements
  
  

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  The Polar chart has been improved to support docking of angle axis on the outer rim of the polar chart as well as docking of value axes to the sides of the polar. Value axis support reflection painting, which allows for better readability of polar charts. A new scale configurator has been added to address the specifics of dynamic angle step calculation and decoration. In addition polar charts now support line, area and point series.
  
  
• Radar Chart Improvements
  
  

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  The Radar chart has been extended to support scaling of multi dimensional data.
  
  
• Light Model Improvements
  
  

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  The light model now allows for easier configuration of point, spot and directional light sources. The position of each light source can be in model or camera space. Several new lighting schemes are added to the predefined light schemes supported by the component.
  
  
• Compatible with IIS7
  
  

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  Nevron Chart now meets the new requirements of IIS7 and can be safely deployed to IIS7 servers.
  
  
• Dynamic Image Size
  
  

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  In AJAX mode the Nevron web controls can be resized dynamically through asynchronous requests.
  
  
• Image map with Instant Callback
  
  

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  Because the Nevron Instant Callback cannot read result data from the server when a request completes, the client side image map cannot be update dynamically. There are cases, though, such as toolbars or other navigation elements, when an image map is required but it does not change over time. Now the Nevron web controls generate an initial image map also when using Instant Callbacks, extending the range of cases, when Instant Callbacks can be used to optimize the application performance.
  
  
• Nevron JavaScript Library Optimization
  
  

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  The JavaScript files that are loaded by the Nevron web controls at the client are extensively optimized in size, which speeds up the initial parsing of the code, saves traffic and reduces the file transfer time.
  
  
• Nevron JavaScript Library Documentation
  
  

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  Full code reference is available for the client side JavaScript library that is used to enable AJAX for the Nevron web controls. The reference allows Nevron clients to extend the Nevron JavaScript Library and to empower their scripts by the rich functionality that this library offers.
  
  
• Nevron JavaScript Library Extensibility
  
  

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  The Nevron JavaScript Library comes with full code reference and can be used for custom JavaScript development. Custom commands and tools can be implemented to extend the built-in functionality.
  
  
• Extended JavaScript Diagnostics Capabilities
  
  

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  The Nevron JavaScript Library provides a rich set of diagnostic utilities for developers.
  
  

• Map Import
  
  

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  Full featured import of ESRI shape files with support for the following types of projections:
  Aitoff, Bonne, Lambert, Behrmann, Tristan, Edwards, Peters, Gall, Balthasart, EckertIV, EckertVI, Equirectangular, Hammer, Kavrayskiy VII, Mercator, MillerCylindrical, Mollweide, Orthographic, Robinson, Stereographic, Van Der Grinten, Wagner VI and Winkel Tripel. The ESRI import can easily be extended to include custom data formatting. For the purpose of displaying maps in diagrams, layers have been extended to support conditional visibility based on the zoom factor. When maps are imported in multiple layers you can define the zoom range in which each particular layer is visible. This helps you implement maps, which support zoom based level-of-detail. For the purpose of maps the NPointElement has been extended to support text. This helps you display geo points as labeled point shapes, which are independent of the zoom factor.
  
  
• Data Import
  
  

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  Support for automatic import of tree and graph data structures from tabular data sources. The new data import feature supports the following data sources: DataTable, DataView, OleDbDataAdapter, SqlDataAdapter, OdbcDataAdapter, OleDbCommand, SqlCommand, OdbcCommand. The data import provides you with the ability to control the data records information shown for each record.
  
  
• DOM Improvements
  
  

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  We have added the NSegmentLabel, which gives you the ability to anchor text to a predefined or custom model segment. The NSegmentLabel can be instructed to keep text upward orientation as well as to follow the segment orientation. Shapes now have the SizeToText method, which attempts to size the shape to the primary (default) label size. The NDrawingDocument has been extended to provide the MeasureStringInWorld and MeasureStringInScene methods.
  
  
• New Predefined Shapes
  
  

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  In this release we have added new shapes in the following shape factories:
  - Symbol shapes - 7 new shapes
  - Food shapes - 11 new shapes
  - Brainstorming shapes - 18 new shapes
  
  
• Layouts Improvements
  
  

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  All graph layouts have been revised to support self loops and bi-links. With this improvements the Nevron Diagram layouts engine is now capable of arranging any type of graph. The compact depth and layered tree layouts have been improved to support plug spacing.
  
  
• Windows Forms Improvements
  
  

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  Following is a list of the new behavior improvements of WinForm views:
  - Shift modifies the resize behavior of side handles - when pressed aspect ratio is preserved.
  - Shift modifies the resize behavior of corner handles - when pressed aspect ratio is broken.
  - We have added support for auto scrolling when the dragged object area hits the window scroll margins.
  - We have added the NMouseWheelScrollAndZoomTool. By default the mouse wheel scrolls the drawing view horizontally. When Shift is pressed the view is scrolled vertically. When Control is pressed the view is zoomed in or out. Click the middle mouse button to activate anchor scrolling (similar to MS Internet Explorer, MS Visual Studio, MS Visio etc.).
  - We have added the NLibraryWheelScrollTool - it is similar to the NMouseWheelScrollAndZoomTool, but does not support zooming (since library views cannot be zoomed).
  
  
• Compatible with IIS7
  
  

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  Nevron Diagram now meets the new requirements of IIS7 and can be safely deployed to IIS7 servers.
  
  
• Dynamic Image Size
  
  

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  In AJAX mode the Nevron web controls can be resized dynamically through asynchronous requests.
  
  
• Image map with Instant Callback
  
  

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  Because the Nevron Instant Callback cannot read result data from the server when a request completes, the client side image map cannot be update dynamically. There are cases, though, such as toolbars or other navigation elements, when an image map is required but it does not change over time. Now the Nevron web controls generate an initial image map also when using Instant Callbacks, extending the range of cases, when Instant Callbacks can be used to optimize the application performance.
  
  
• Nevron JavaScript Library Optimization
  
  

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  The JavaScript files that are loaded by the Nevron web controls at the client are extensively optimized in size, which speeds up the initial parsing of the code, saves traffic and reduces the file transfer time.
  
  
• Nevron JavaScript Library Documentation
  
  

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  Full code reference is available for the client side JavaScript library that is used to enable AJAX for the Nevron web controls. The reference allows Nevron clients to extend the Nevron JavaScript Library and to empower their scripts by the rich functionality that this library offers.
  
  
• Nevron JavaScript Library Extensibility
  
  

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  The Nevron JavaScript Library comes with full code reference and can be used for custom JavaScript development. Custom commands and tools can be implemented to extend the built-in functionality.
  
  
• Extended JavaScript Diagnostics Capabilities
  
  

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  The Nevron JavaScript Library provides a rich set of diagnostic utilities for developers.
  
  

Coming soon - Nevron Chart for SQL Reporting Services
We're excited to announce the upcoming releases of the new Nevron Chart for Reporting Services, powered from the leading data visualization technology from Nevron Software.

Nevron Chart for Microsoft SQL Reporting Services product aims to deliver consistent, powerful and complete 2D and 3D charting functionality to your reporting projects. It exploits the Nevron Chart engine as base for chart generation and wraps it in a completely visual interface, which allows for the creation of complex charts that are tightly integrated with your report data.

Contact Nevron Sales Team for more details.

About Nevron
Nevron has been the pathfinder company for the component based data visualization technology. Today Nevron is a synonym of premium quality in terms of product abilities, usability and customer support. The company portfolio includes the most advanced Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for .NET, which aim to provide data visualization and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate data visualization solution and graphical user interface technologies for the .NET platform.

Nevron Data Visualization controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms are of the highest quality, designed by professionals for professionals.

• Styling Support
  
  

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  The control features an embedded styling support, allowing you to quickly apply a style sheet in order to change the appearance of the chart contents. In addition you can create your own, custom style sheets using a set of style sheet configurators and palettes. The styling mechanism is also open for extension.
  
  

• Automatic Pie Chart Data Label Layout
  
  

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  The layout algorithm used to resolve label overlapping in 2D is extended to support 3D pie charts as well. The pie chart labels are automatically positioned in a manner that doesn't allow them to overlap with each other. The label layout is similar to the spider mode.
  
  

• Improved Panel Layout
  
  

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  All content panels in the control are extended to support Margins and Padding allowing for a fine gradient control over the panels spacing.
  
  
• Improved Text Rendering Speed
  
  

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  The text rendering speed for all labels has been significantly improved.
  
  
• Improved Hit Testing Speed in 3D
  
  

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  Hit testing speed in 3D has been improved. You will find out that the new version behaves much better when hit testing large data sets.
  
  
• Border Style
  
  

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  All content panels now support a border style allowing you to place a border around the panel content. Radial Gauges have been extended to support custom border styles like Circle, Cut Edge Circle and Rounded Outline.
  
  

• Paint Effects
  
  

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  All content panels now support a paint effect that emulates the reflection of glass or gel cap over the panel content. This feature allows for the creation of more visually appealing gauges and charts.
  
  

• Automatic Jittering
  
  

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  In WinForms applications using 3D charts the control can automatically detect a period of inactivity between chart refresh calls and use it to antialias the 3D scene. This greatly improves the visual appearance of 3D charts as jagged edges are removed at minimal performance cost.
  
  
• Redesigned Examples
  
  

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  All examples of the components have been redesigned in order to take advantage of the improvements in styling, borders, paint effects and layout.
  
  
• Improved Documentation
  
  

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  The documentation of the component has been improved in order to be more user friendly.
  
  

• Improved Layouts
  
  

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  The following layouts were significantly improved:
  • Layered Graph Layout - Added support for orthogonal edge routing, with integrated bus spacing, which allows for the generation of very nice looking orthogonal graph drawings. Added support for node alignment options, which help you specify the relative alignment of nodes inside the layer. Added support for different node ranking policies. Added support of in and out plug spacing, which work very well with bus spacing and further increases the drawing readability.
    
    
  
  • Dock Layout - Added support for different filling and fitting modes.
    
    
  • Orthogonal Graph Layout - Added support for plug spacing.
    
    
  
  
  All layouts were carefully profiled and as a result the layouts now perform much faster.
  
  
• Improved Documentation
  
  

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  The documentation of the component has been improved in order to be more user friendly.
  
  

Following is a list of fixes introduced in this release:

• Saves / Loads correctly the state of the Toolbars.
  
  
• Saves / Loads correctly the order of AutoHide panels.
  
  
• Setups the width of NVScrollBar nad NHScrollBar less than the system default.
  
  
• When selecting an item in a combo box with two or more items with equal text the SelectedIndex property can now correctly distinguish between such items.
  
  

About Nevron
Nevron has been the pathfinder company for the component based data visualization technology. Today Nevron is a synonym of premium quality in terms of product abilities, usability and customer support. The company portfolio includes the most advanced Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for .NET, which aim to provide data visualization and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate data visualization solution and graphical user interface technologies for the .NET platform.

Nevron Data Visualization controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms are of the highest quality, designed by professionals for professionals.

• Scale Breaks
  
  

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  The component introduces scale breaks with controllable position, scale break inflate and style (wave, straight and zig zag). There are two types of scale breaks:
  
  

- Automatic Scale Breaks - automatic scale breaks allow you to dynamically analyze gaps in data and collapse parts of the chart x, y or depth axis so that the data becomes more readable.

- Custom Scale Breaks - custom scale breaks allow you to collapse user defined ranges on the chart axis. You can mix automatic and custom scale breaks on every chart axis.
• Automatic Chart Axis Labels Orientation
  
  

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  The component will automatically orient labels in 3D to the scale ruler orientation when you rotate the chart thus making it more readable. You can also instruct the component to prevent texts from flipping.
  
  
• Automatic Gauge Axis Labels Orientation
  
  

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  The component will automatically orient gauge axis labels relatively to their position on the radial or linear gauge ruler. You can also instruct the component to prevent texts from flipping.
  
  
• Automatic Pie Data Label Layout
  
  

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  The component will automatically layout the pie labels so that they do not overlap.
  
  
• Dynamic image map in AJAX mode
  
  

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  In Q1 2008 Nevron web components now support a dynamic image map that can be automatically updated at the client on every callback. The developer has control over when the image map is generated when is and updated on the client. The dynamic image map allows client side filtering of mouse events and prevents unnecessary callbacks for server side hit testing.
  
  
• Controller-Tools Architecture in AJAX mode
  
  

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  Controller and tools are added to the Nevron client side JavaScript framework. All mouse events are now processed by the controller, which allows for implementing complex mouse handling logic and combining callback event processing with pure client side event processing.
  
  
• New AJAX tools
  
  

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  Based on the controller-tools architecture, the following tools were added: - Click, double click, mouse down, mouse up, mouse move, mouse over and mouse out callback tools – intercept the mouse events and route them to the server for processing; - Dynamic cursor tool– changes the mouse cursor over interactive visual elements; - Redirect tool– redirects the browser to a specified URL when interactive visual elements are clicked; - Tooltip tool– displays tooltips over interactive visual elements.
  
  
• Print Manager for Web Forms
  
  

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  None of the most popular web browsers is capable of printing really large images. Nevron .NET Vision Q1 2008 introduces a new HTTP handler that generates HTML, suitable for printing.
  
  

• Support for inward–outward port connections
  
  

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  In this release we have implemented support for inward-outward ports. This feature lets you interactively glue an outward port to inward port. When an outward port of a shape is connected to an inward port, the shape will translate and rotate together with the shape owning the inward port. The translation aims to match the outward port location to the inward port location. The rotation aims to match both ports direction angles. For each type of port we have provided an extensive set of predefined modes in which a port can automatically determine its direction angle. Custom (user specified) direction angles are supported by all ports. This feature is extremely useful for interactive construction of connected shapes structures without edges. For example: in a floor plan diagram you can have a table with 4 inwards ports designated for the possible places where chairs can be placed. Chairs can have a single outward port. The placement of the chairs around the table is then a matter of simple drag and drop – Nevron Diagram will perform the snapping and glueing of the chairs to the table for you. When you move, rotate or resize the table the chairs will stay on their places.
  
  
• Powerful support for graph, tree and cells layouts
  
  

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  In this release we have added enterprise quality support for automatic layouts. The layouts are generally grouped in the following categories:
  
  
• Graph Layouts – perform automatic arrangement of graph vertices and edges. Included the following layouts:
  • Force Directed Layouts - barycenter, spring and symmetrical. The implementation provides supports for lots of supplemental data provided on per edge and vertex basis. It addresses issues like magnetic fields, gravity force and vertex overlapping. The performance is significantly optimized due to the use of local temperatures. The overall quality of drawing is also improved because of the used global cooling method. It is suitable for any type of graph. Produces straight line graph drawings.
    
    
  • Layered Graph Layout – represents a classical implementation, which layouts a graph in layers. The layout addresses issues like crossing and bending minimization. It is suitable for any type of graph. Produces polyline graph drawings.
    
    
  • Orthogonal Graph Layout – represents a layout, which draws a graph only with horizontal or vertical line segments. The layout addresses issues like crossing minimization, bends minimization and overall compactness of the drawing. It is suitable for any type of graph. Produces orthogonal graph drawings.
    
    
  • Radial Graph Layout - represents a layout, which draws a graph in radial circles. It is suitable for any type of graph. Produces straight line graph drawings.
    
    
  
  
  
• Tree Layouts – perform automatic arrangement of tree vertices and edges
  • Layered Tree Layout – layouts a tree in layers. The layout addresses the breadth compaction of the drawing. Produces straight line and orthogonal tree drawings. Compact Depth Tree Layout – layouts a tree with minimal depth. The layout also addresses the breadth compaction of the drawing. Produces straight line and orthogonal tree drawings.
    
    
  • Compact Depth Tree Layout – layouts a tree with minimal depth. The layout also addresses the breadth compaction of the drawing. Produces straight line and orthogonal tree drawings.
    
    
  • Tip Over Tree Layout - layouts a tree by placing children in either a row or a col. The row column children placement is controlled on a per vertex basis. Addresses the overall compaction of the drawing. Produces orthogonal tree drawings.
    
    
  • Balloon Tree Layout – layouts the tree in by placing the vertex children in a circular fashion. Addresses the overall compaction of the drawing. Produces straight line tree drawings.
    
    
  
  
  
• Cell Layouts – perform automatic arrangement of the vertices of a graph
  • Stack Layout - represents a directed constrained cells layout, which stacks the cells in horizontal or vertical order. Depending on the layout direction the layout is constrained by either width or height.
    
    
  • Flow Layout - represents a directed constrained cells layout, which arranges the cells in horizontal or vertical lanes.
    
    
  • Dock Layout – represents space eating cells layout, which places vertices at per-vertex specified docking areas of the currently available layout area. Table Layout - represents a directed constrained cells layout, which arranges cells in a tabular manner.
    
    
  
  
  
• Dynamic image map in AJAX mode
  
  

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  In Q1 2008 Nevron web components now support a dynamic image map that can be automatically updated at the client on every callback. The developer has control over when the image map is generated when is and updated on the client. The dynamic image map allows client side filtering of mouse events and prevents unnecessary callbacks for server side hit testing.
  
  
• Controller-Tools Architecture in AJAX mode
  
  

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  Controller and tools are added to the Nevron client side JavaScript framework. All mouse events are now processed by the controller, which allows for implementing complex mouse handling logic and combining callback event processing with pure client side event processing.
  
  
• New AJAX tools
  
  

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  Based on the controller-tools architecture, the following tools were added: - Click, double click, mouse down, mouse up, mouse move, mouse over and mouse out callback tools – intercept the mouse events and route them to the server for processing; - Dynamic cursor tool– changes the mouse cursor over interactive visual elements; - Redirect tool– redirects the browser to a specified URL when interactive visual elements are clicked; - Tooltip tool– displays tooltips over interactive visual elements.
  
  
• Print Manager for Web Forms
  
  

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  None of the most popular web browsers is capable of printing really large images. Nevron .NET Vision Q1 2008 introduces a new HTTP handler that generates HTML, suitable for printing.
  
  

About Nevron
Nevron has been the pathfinder company for the component based data visualization technology. Today Nevron is a synonym of premium quality in terms of product abilities, usability and customer support. The company portfolio includes the most advanced Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for .NET, which aim to provide data visualization and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate data visualization solution and graphical user interface technologies for the .NET platform.

Nevron Data Visualization controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms are of the highest quality, designed by professionals for professionals.

• Nevron Chart is now compatible with SQL Server and State Server session state modes.
  
  
• You can chose from all .NET raster image formats in AJAX mode.
  
  
• Extended server side interface for AJAX configuration. Now event queueing can be configured at server side.
  
  
• Added CallbackExecuting and CallbackExecuted events for generalized handling of AJAX callbacks. The INHttpHandlerCallback interface is extedned with OnCallbackExecuting and OnCallbackExecuted methods.
  
  
• Custom command events in AJAX mode now provide a way to return custom result to the client from within custom command handlers.
  
  
• Added image map in AJAX mode. Now mouse events interception at client side can be filtered by custom regions, defined when the web control is initialized at the server, saving in this way bandwidth and server resources.
  
  

• Nevron Diagram is now compatible with SQL Server and State Server session state modes.
  
  
• You can chose from all .NET raster image formats in AJAX mode.
  
  
• Extended server side interface for AJAX configuration. Now event queueing can be configured at server side.
  
  
• Added CallbackExecuting and CallbackExecuted events for generalized handling of AJAX callbacks. The INHttpHandlerCallback interface is extedned with OnCallbackExecuting and OnCallbackExecuted methods.
  
  
• Custom command events in AJAX mode now provide a way to return custom result to the client from within custom command handlers.
  
  
• Added image map in AJAX mode. Now mouse events interception at client side can be filtered by custom regions, defined when the web control is initialized at the server, saving in this way bandwidth and server resources.
  
  

In this release Nevron User Interface for .NET includes a powerful new control named NTreeList. The control is based on the NTreeViewEx and extends it by adding list-view functionality. This combination allows for complex data-related tasks like grouping, sorting, binding, etc. The control appearance and functionality is highly customizable. Following are the some of the major features of the control:

• Freezable list view columns
  
  

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  You can choose some columns to be displayed regardless how the user scrolls horizontally. This is feature is very useful when you need to make sure that important data is always displayed.
  
  
• Binding to a Data Table
  
  

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  This feature allows you to import the NTreeListData from a DataTable object, as well as to implement custom data import.
  
  
• Extensible row filtering
  
  

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  You can combine several types of predefined filters to selectively display rows in the list.
  
  
• Sorting
  
  

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  The controls allows you to sort by rows with the same tree depth as well as to sort recursively (that is sort the children of these nodes as well).
  
  

About Nevron
Nevron has been the pathfinder company for the component based data visualization technology. Today Nevron is a synonym of premium quality in terms of product abilities, usability and customer support. The company portfolio includes the most advanced Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for .NET, which aim to provide data visualization and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate data visualization solution and graphical user interface technologies for the .NET platform.

Nevron controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms are of the highest quality, designed by professionals for professionals.

"Our customers have always valued the ComponentSource Web site and our extensive on-line product catalog as being the best worldwide source for commercial quality software components and development tools. We are pleased to announce the second annual winners of our Awards program to help our customers assess and differentiate products more easily, while at the same time rewarding our leading product publishers for their successes.", explained the ComponentSource CEO, Sam Patterson.

About ComponentSource
ComponentSource was founded in 1995. Headquartered in the USA in the Atlanta area with offices in Reading, England and Tokyo, Japan, today ComponentSource is home to the world's largest marketplace for reusable software components.

About Nevron
Nevron is the pathfinder company for the component based data visualization technology. Today Nevron is a synonym of premium quality in terms of product abilities, usability and customer support. The company portfolio includes the most advanced, Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for Windows Forms and Web Forms (ASP.NET) that aim to provide data visualization and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate data visualization solution and graphical user interface technologies for the .NET platform.

Nevron controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms are of a highest quality, designed by professionals for professionals.

• Improved AJAX Support for Web Forms (VS 2005 Specific)
  
  

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  • Improved browser compatibility.
    
    
  • Extended client side JavaScript class interfaces.
    
    
  • The Nevron Instant Callback technology was added as an alternative to the MS AJAX Callback, which greatly improves the performance of the web controls.
    
    
  • Configurable event queuing at client side makes mixing of mouse move, mouse click events and auto refresh possible and native to the web site visitors.
    
    
  • Improved behavior of the web controls on communication breakdown; a wait message is displayed and the server is queried periodically for availability; when the connection with the server is reestablished, the web controls continue normal operation.
    
    
  
  
  
• Improved Web Controls in Postback Mode (VS 2005 Specific)
  
  

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  HttpHandler image generation was added as an alternative to the traditional temporary image files used by Nevron web components. Now Nevron web components register an *.AXD virtual file in web.config and stream on demand images to the client through it.
  
  
• New Charting Types
  
  

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  • Kagi
    
    

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    Kagi is a type of financial chart that illustrates the forces of supply and demand on a security. It is focused on price action and disregards the passage of time.
    
    
  • Renko
    
    

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    Renko is a type of financial chart that is very effective for traders to identify key support and resistance levels. It filters minor price movements and emphasizes on general trends.
    
    
  • Point and Figure
    
    

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    Point and Figure is a type of financial chart that is designed to filter non-significant price changes and to focus on the main price trends. Point and Figure charts are usually used for longer term price movements.
    
    
  • Three Line Break
    
    

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    Three Line Break is a price change financial chart that is similar in concept to Kagi, Renko and Point and Figure.
    
    
  
  
  
• Ability to Drag Gauge Indicators
  
  

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  Added is the ability to drag gauge indicators with the mouse as well as to protect gauge indicators from dragging. You can also use the new Value Snapping to snap gauge indicators to certain values when dragging.
  
  
• Improved Performance
  
  

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  The chart axis zoning and calculation is optimized. The conversion from logical to scale units and vice versa is optimized.
  
  
• Improved Value Snapping
  
  

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  All objects that reference an axis value can now snap in variety of ways including: snap to major ticks, snap to minor ticks, numeric snapping (based on an origin value and step), date time snapping (based on an origin date and date/time step) and ruler min max snapping.
  
  
• Improved Data Zooming
  
  

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  You can now set how the axis scrollbar treats the reset button – by resetting the axis view range to it’s default state or by reverting the state to the last valid zoom in operation thus enabling you to perform better data drilldown.
  
  
• Ability to export images in EMF file format
  
  

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  The component can save images in EMF file format as well as to copy EMF images to the clipboard.
  
  

• Improved AJAX Support for Web Forms (VS 2005 Specific)
  
  

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  • Improved browser compatibility.
    
    
  • Extended client side JavaScript class interfaces.
    
    
  • The Nevron Instant Callback technology was added as an alternative to the MS AJAX Callback, which greatly improves the performance of the web controls.
    
    
  • Configurable event queuing at client side makes mixing of mouse move, mouse click events and auto refresh possible and native to the web site visitors.
    
    
  • Improved behavior of the web controls on communication breakdown; a wait message is displayed and the server is queried periodically for availability; when the connection with the server is reestablished, the web controls continue normal operation.
    
    
  
  
  
• Improved Web Controls in Postback Mode (VS 2005 Specific)
  
  

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  HttpHandler image generation was added as an alternative to the traditional temporary image files used by Nevron web components. Now Nevron web components register an *.AXD virtual file in web.config and stream on demand images to the client through it.
  
  
• Ability to export images in EMF file format
  
  

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  The diagram component can save images in EMF file format as well as to copy EMF images to the clipboard.
  
  

• DataGridView (VS 2005 only)
  
  

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  The NDataGridView is an extended System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView control which modifies the appearance to match the Nevron one, adds custom scrollbars, column and row headers and features like additional predefined column which displays child relations in a drop-down manner.
  
  
• TreeViewEx (VS 2005 only)
  
  

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  The NTreeViewEx is a completely custom control written from scratch in 100% C# code. Its main purpose is to eliminate most of the drawbacks of the standard tree-view which ships with Windows Forms while providing superior performance and memory optimization. The control is capable of displaying 100 000+ nodes with ease and in the same time resizing remains instant. Following is a brief description of the control's main features:
  • Simple and intuitive object model.
    
    
  • Extremely fast and optimized. Can be resized instantly.
    
    
  • Rich event model allowing for virtually any behavior to be overridden and/or extended.
    
    
  • Completely customizable appearance based on visual states per tree-view or node basis. Complete adorners (boxes and lines) control.
    
    
  • Rich texts per tree-view and node basis.
    
    
  • Super tips and context menus per node basis.
    
    
  • Checkbox support - standard and/or radio. Check style per tree-view and node basis. Smart check support - for example if a node's check state changes all ascendants and descendants are updated to reflect this change.
    
    
  • Indicator - either on left or right edge. Predefined indicator images.
    
    
  • Item drag-and-drop with rich visual feedback.
    
    
  • XML persistency - the entire tree may be saved to and loaded from XML files.
    
    
  • XML viewer - given a XML file the tree-view may populate its content in a human-readable manner.
    
    
  • Scroll support - you have complete support over the scrolling behavior of the control.
    
    
  
  
  

About Nevron
Nevron has been the pathfinder company for the component based data visualization technology for more than 9 years now. Today Nevron is a synonym of premium quality in terms of product abilities, usability and customer support. The company portfolio includes the most advanced Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for .NET, which aim to provide data visualization and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate data visualization solution and graphical user interface technologies for the .NET platform.

Nevron controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms are of the highest quality, designed by professionals for professionals.

• AJAX Support for Web Forms
  
  

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  Nevron Chart for .NET Q2 2007 now supports ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0. Nevron web controls allow AJAX callback handling of the following mouse events: click, double click, move, down and up. Also, the web controls can be forcibly refreshed at client-side and auto-refresh feature is available. For more details on AJAX in Nevron web controls refer the AJAX topic.
  
  
• New Charting Types
  
  

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  Triangulated Surface series - this charting type can display a set of points with X, Y and Z coordinates as a 3D surface. In contrast to the Mesh Surface chart, the Triangulated Surface doesn't require the points to be ordered in a network. The control creates a triangular network automatically.
  
  
• Improved Grid Surface and Mesh Surface
  
  

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  Grid Surface and Mesh Surface series now support smooth shading.
  
  
• Data Binding with Custom Data Sources
  
  

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  The chart now supports data binding with custom data sources that implement the IBindingList and (optionally) the ITypedList interfaces.
  
  
• Gauges for .NET
  
  

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  The component introduces new linear and radial gauge panels allowing you to display virtually any linear or radial gauge. Gauge features include multiple indicators, multiple gauge axes, intelligent gauge scale decorations and many more. The gauges in Nevron Chart for .NET use extensively the Nevron Smart Shape technology as well as the Nevron Scale technology. Developers familiar with chart scale programming will find the new gauge axis API very easy and straightforward.
  
  

• AJAX Support for Web Forms
  
  

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  Nevron Diagram for .NET Q2 2007 now supports ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0. Nevron web controls allow AJAX callback handling of the following mouse events: click, double click, move, down and up. Also, the web controls can be forcibly refreshed at client-side and auto-refresh feature is available. For more details on AJAX in Nevron web controls refer the AJAX topic.
  
  
• New shapes
  
  

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  - Food shapes - included are 22 shapes related to food.
  - Weather shapes - included are 26 shapes related to weather.
  
  

• Gallery Panel
  
  

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  The NGalleryPanel is an item-container control which mimics the Microsoft® Office 2007 galleries. 4 different types of item layout are provided so that the panel may be used as an extended list-box or list-view. Based on the Nevron generic UI element, the NGalleryItem component is highly customizable in each aspect of visual representation, including rich texts, alpha-blended images, custom item size, etc.
  
  
• ListView
  
  

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  The NListView extends the standard Windows Forms ListView control and adds missing features like complete control over header and header items, alternating rows, column sorting, sorted column glyph, sorted column shading, custom scrollbars, etc.
  
  
• Rotator
  
  

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  The NRotator is a very useful control which brings the popular "Rotator" feature from ASP.NET to your Windows Forms. The control contains a collection of frames where each frame is described by a generic UI element providing complete control over visual appearance, image and text. The well-designed set of properties will enable you with fine-tune control over frame duration, animation speed, animation direction plus much more.
  
  
• Command Bars - ImageTextRelation
  
  

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  Provides complete control over the image and text entities of an NCommand object by specifying the ImageTextRelation property of its parent.
  
  
• Task Dialog - Radio Buttons
  
  

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  The NTaskDialog is further extended and now it supports a set of radio-buttons for richer user experience. The radio buttons are layouted just below the Content section of the dialog.
  
  
• Docking Panels - Sizing Restrictions
  
  

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  Nevron Docking Panels are now enabled with sizing restrictions in floating state. You may alter the MinimumSize, MaximumSize and Sizable properties of a floating container directly.
  
  
• Docking Panels - Visual Tab Navigation
  
  

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  Nevron Docking Panels are the only Docking Library which enables you with the advanced CTRL+TAB visual navigation found in Microsoft® Visual Studio 2005. Pressing Ctrl+Tab will display a NPopup containing two gallery panels - one containing all active docking panels and one containing all active documents. Optionally this feature may be turned on and off via the VisualTabNavigation property of an NDockManager. You may also change the shortcut which triggers the pop-up.
  
  
• Navigation Pane - Expand/Collapse
  
  

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  The NNavigationPane is extended with the Collapse/Expand feature found in Microsoft® Office 2007. By clicking the button on the caption of the pane you toggle its state. When the pane is collapsed you may display the currently active band by clicking in the area below the caption and above the buttons stack.
  
  

About Nevron
Nevron has been the pathfinder company for the component based data visualization technology for more than 9 years now. Today Nevron is a synonym of premium quality in terms of product abilities, usability and customer support. The company portfolio includes the most advanced Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for .NET, which aim to provide data visualization and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate data visualization solution and graphical user interface technologies for the .NET platform.

Nevron controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms are of the highest quality, designed by professionals for professionals.

We are very pleased to announce that for a second subsequent time Nevron has won an award in the Best .NET Libraries and Controls category (Finalist), which is a significant recognition of our .NET components product line received directly from the .NET development community. Nevron .NET Vision has won this award in direct competition against exceptionally strong opponents.

"We applaud all of today's winners and finalists on their achievement in winning our Readers' Choice Award," said Roger Strukhoff, Editorial Director and Group Publisher of SYS-CON Media. ".NET developers represent a vibrant community in the world of enterprise IT development, and their enthusiasm is reflected in their advocacy of the winning technologies in each category. I’m sure our award winners are proud of being recognized by their peers and customers."

"This award is a significant recognition of our constant efforts to deliver best of the breed data visualization components for the professional .NET developer", says Ivo Milanov, CTO of Nevron. "Winning this award is very exciting and is a great motivator to continue the development and enhancement of the Nevron .NET Vision suite. We would like to thank everyone who supported and voted for us."

Nevron .NET Vision - the ultimate .NET component suite for creating unique and powerful data presentation applications with spectacular data visualization capabilities. Flexible and extensible, it delivers powerful Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for Windows Forms and ASP.NET with rich functionality and exceptional features.

For more information on SYS-CON Readers' Choice Awards and this year’s winners, please take a look at:
2007 .NET Developer’s Journal Readers’ Choice Awards

About SYS-CON Media
SYS-CON Media, listed in the Inc 500 three years in a row as the fastest-growing, privately held publishing company in the U.S., is the world’s leading publisher exclusively serving i-technology markets.

About Nevron
Nevron is the pathfinder company for the component based data visualization technology for more than 9 years now. Today Nevron is a synonym of premium quality in terms of product abilities, usability and customer support. The company portfolio includes the most advanced, Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for .NET that aim to provide data visualization and presentation capabilities that are not to be matched. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate data visualization solution and graphical user interface technologies for the .NET platform.

Nevron controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms are of a highest quality, designed by professionals for professionals.