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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

FactoryMaster blogged about us.

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

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.

Component Suggestions

If you did not find a component you are looking for on Bee Mobile web site, you can suggest a component at the bottom of the products web site at http://beemobile4.net.

You can either suggest a component for .NET Compact Framework or for Windows Phone 7 platform.

Video tutorials

We have released more video tutorials demonstrating the usage and capabilities of Bee Mobile components. Currently you can watch video tutorials for these components:

• ComboBox


• MonthCalendar


• OpenSaveDialog


• TouchList


• TVistaButton

New component - MonthCalendar

We are glad to announce the release of new .NET CF GUI component - MonthCalendar. It is useful for prompting users to choose a date - particularly a day within month. The user can navigate forwards and backwards between the current and next or previous month using his finger. MonthCalendar animates the transition between the months giving the application appealing look. You can also highlight holidays and planned appointments in the calendar. To find out more information and try out the trial version click here.

TouchList supports CheckBoxes

Bee Mobile TouchList component (used to create lists of items or menus) - now contains a new ItemStyle - ItemStyleCheckBox. When added to TouchList's row style it can contain check boxes within the rows thus extending the functionality and usability of this component.

You can download a sample Visual Studio project demonstrating this feature on this link.

Video tutorials

In an effort to decrease the time needed to grasp the behavior of Bee Mobile iPack controls we have started creating video tutorials which are available on You Tube.

The first video tutorial has been released today for TVistaButton control.

You can view it here.

Data binding support and slide features in TouchList control.

The new version of TouchList control (.NET CF GUI component - substitute for ListView) can now be bound to data source. Plus it has ability to slide to the left or to the right taking away the old list of items and bringing the new one into the view.

You can download and test the sample project which demonstrates this functionality at:
here.

The sample shows how TouchList can be bound to:
Array
List
DataTable
SQL CE Database (sdf file)

New tutorials

We have created tutorials for ToolBar and RegionControl.
You are welcome to provide feedback on the created materials by writing to support@beemobile4.net.

ToolBar tutorial:
http://beemobile4.net/?mod=tutorials&productID=23

RegionControl tutorial:
http://beemobile4.net/?mod=tutorials&productID=6

Bee Mobile releases iPack 2010

We are pleased to announce that we have released Bee Mobile iPack 2010.
Bee Mobile iPack 2010 contains a lot of improvements in the existing components and adds 3 new ones:
- OpenSaveDialog - prompts the user to pick a file in the file system. Fully finger controlled with sliding features.
- ToolBar - contains attractive visual effects (transparency, gradient-fills, ...). You can swipe your finger across to bring-in another set of tools.
- ColorPicker - useful for creating a palette of colors to pick from..








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Bee Mobile is now on Facebook.

We, at Bee Mobile, are pleased to announce that we created a Facebook community page. All visitors can find information about Bee Mobile products and other information on Facebook.

Click the image below to follow the Facebook page:

Daniel Zeller's Chess Clock Pro on Marketplace

We published a success story about Daniel Zeller's applications, they are available on Windows Marketplace.

More screenshots and a flash animation is available: here.

If you used BeeMobile controls in your application feel free to contact us and your product could be in the References:
http://beemobile4.net/?mod=references