Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Bee Mobile introduces Metropolis











We are pleased to announce a new product - Bee Mobile Metropolis.

What is Metropolis?

Metropolis means a fusion of Microsoft Metro design of Windows Phone 7 and the masses of users who typically live in a great Polis (City). Experience the power of Bee Mobile Metropolis on your Windows Phone 7 platform. It currently contains 3 Silverlight components which implement progressive ideas:
  • BookControl - create a GUI in which users can flip through pages of a book.
  • RegionControl - create clickable and highlightable regions of arbitrary size and shape.
  • WaitingBar - let the users wait with style.
Find out more information at http://beemobile4.net/products/metropolis

Complete redesign of Bee Mobile web site











We would like to announce that we completely redesigned the look of Bee Mobile web site. Our effort was mainly to:
  • improve orientation and navigation on the web site
  • provide more information in less time
  • make browsing of our web site more enjoyable experience
You are welcome to take a look yourself at:
http://beemobile4.net/

You are welcome to leave your comments at:
http://beemobile4.net/company/contact-us

Thursday, April 28, 2011

New sample projects for Windows CE

To let people run Bee Mobile components on Windows CE even more easily we created a few sample projects specifically for Windows CE which show how to:

  • Display PNG images on Windows CE using TPictureBox
  • Create a transparent label on Windows CE using TLabel
  • Create a transparent container panel for Windows CE using TPanelVista
The sample projects can be found here, here and here.

Friday, April 8, 2011

iWheel component available for .NET Framework (desktop)


We are happy to announce that we have released a new version of iWheel component for desktop computers (.NET Framework 3.5). The famous wheel control can now be used in the development of desktop applications to provide a uniform look on both - Desktop Windows and Windows Mobile.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

New components added into iPack

We have released 3 new components which are also now part of Bee Mobile iPack. The new components are:
  • iMenu - use it to create an iPhone-like menu on Compact Framework
  • TextViewer - you can finally read long texts by using you finger
  • RoundTextBoxMultiline - create attractive looking Forms with stylish input fields made of transparent round TextBox
Bee Mobile iPack now contains 28 components all designed to take GUI of your Windows Mobile or Windows CE application to a completely new level of visual appearance.



Thursday, January 27, 2011

iPack Samples video

We have created a video which demonstrates all the components found in the current version of Bee Mobile iPack 2011. Check it out at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyLuK0lb7dg

You can download the source code for the whole application as part of Bee Mobile iPack installer. The source code is also part of free trial version.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Bee Mobile releases a new version of iPack 2011


New version of iPack has been released today - iPack 2011. It contains 25 .NET Compact Framework GUI components. We have been focusing on improving the stability of existing components and on extending their portability.

Improvements include:
  • ProgressBar component supports transparency - it can be rendered semi-transparent.
  • RoundTextBox component has been re-written from the scratch. It is now completely written in managed code and it can be rendered semi-transparent.
  • TransparentControls now contain static properties used to assign images to them. This helps to conserve memory.
  • TouchList and TouchListLite can load PNG images from byte array - useful when images are loaded from a database or from web.
The GettingStarted application which is automatically installed will help the new users to start using Bee Mobile iPack.

Friday, January 14, 2011

New version of Free Utils released.

We have released a new version of the popular open source project - Bee Mobile Free Utils. As the name suggests - it is completely free of charge and includes the source code. The purpose of this project is to help the developers with some typical programming tasks involved in creation of Windows Mobile applications. Check its features on our web site at:
http://beemobile4.net/?mod=products&action=det&id=3

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

FactoryMaster blogged about us.

Our partner - FactoryMaster - blogged about our cooperation on their company blog here.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Tab Control


We created a sample application which shows how TabControl can be made of a ToolBar and TPanelVista.

A TabControl can be used as an alternative to a scrollable panel. The contents of a scrollable panel can be distributed among the pages of a TabControl. Also the icons of the ToolBar can be finger-scrolled therefore you can have many more "tabs" using this approach compared to traditional System.Windows.Forms.TabControl.

The sample application can be found here.