We've been hard at work on Web.UI 2008.1 for a few months now, and I am happy to report that we are rapidly approaching the feature-complete beta milestone for the next major Web.UI release. This means that we are ready to announce what will be included in v2008.1 as well as our anticipated release dates. Web.UI 2008.1 Overview The upcoming Web.UI release will include the following major new features: New control: ComponentArt Upload for ASP.NET Extended suite-wide support for web service binding Expanded Editor features: New "Media Explorer" dialog, with uploading capabilities Streamlined skinning We are on schedule to ship the full production release of Web.UI 2008.1 by the end of March. The first public feature-complete pre-release build of v2008.1 should be available in about two weeks. New Control: ComponentArt Upload for ASP.NET We are excited to yet again expand the Web.UI suite by adding a highly demanded file upload control. As always, we are aiming at the very top of the market, so this control will include all the high-end features that you've come to expect from ComponentArt's ASP.NET controls: multi-file uploading, AJAX progress indicators, comprehensive client-side API, full control over the upload file and folder details. We were able to put our client-side templating technology to a good use to provide some snazzy and highly customizable UIs. I'll give you a taste of what's coming by including a product screen shot from our development branch: More info and some live demos featuring our Upload control will be available in the coming weeks. Update (March 27, 2008): The full Web.UI 2008.1 release is now available. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
