Creating Line of Business applications using DevExpress WPF controls is just a breeze. The actual application is nice looking too! Since there are a couple of skins available and the good thing is the skin also changes the look and feel of standard WPF controls!

 

I started checking out the new Silverlight 4 Beta this week and the most important feature (for me) added to this release : FlowDirection. If you’re not a WPF guy, this is the equivalent of RightToLeft in WinForm world, just recently added to Silverlight. If this works the way the same feature in WPF works, all custom controls built in this platform will automagically have correct RightToLeft behavior, “Almost” without any additional code from component vendor / developer. Sounds too good to be true, but it is. 

For a site I'm working on using ASP.NET MVC, I intended to place a Date badge beside the blog and news posts I'm writing. Since in ASP.NET MVC there's no notion of custom controls (well, at least not like in WebForms) you'll have to do this manually, but as it turned out it was pretty easy to do. 

Finally the 2.1 version of FarsiLibrary is released. Here are the changes made into this version. 

There's been a lot of request for web and windows controls supporting multiple cultures and calendars, like the already existing WinForm Controls of Farsi Library. The existing ASP.NET Calendar control does not render correctly when used in other cultures and this is the case when you're using FA-IR culture.