Maximize Widgets!

Dynamic Dashboards Version 3.2 is ready. 

New version includes lots of enhancements and performance optimizations.

Below is a list of new features and changes.

NEW FEATURES

* Added widget maximize functionality.

- You can set a widget maxizable so that user can maximize widget. WidgetType.WidgetProperties

 can also be used to set if a widget can be maximizable by default. 

 WidgetInstance.Properties.MaximizeSettings.Notify property can be used if you want to be

 notified when a user maximizes widget.

   - You can assign MaximizeMode.External to WidgetProperties.MaximizeProperty.WidgetMaximizeMode so that 

 widget is displayed inside an iframe element instead of inline.

* DashboardSurface.GetWidgets method implemented. 

GetWidgets returns a list of WidgetInfo object which contains WidgetInstance reference 

and your user control instance.

* DashboardEditor page redesigned. Added localization support.

* Added four new themes; Kalitte, KalitteBlue, Slate and Access.

* You can now set widget mask is automatically displayed when a postback occurs in your widget.

Set a value WidgetType.WidgetProperties.PostbackMask or use WidgetInstance.Properties.PostbackMask

to show a mask message during update.

* Implemented an overloaded version of DashboardSurface.CreateWidget. 

Simplyfies creating of a widget inside dashboard.

* Dashboard handlers and modules are automatically added to web.config for IIS7.

* Added Toolbar auto hide feature. You set it using WidgetInstance.AutohideToolbar property.

* Removed page scroll position restoring after postback.

* Added WidgetContainer control. You can use WidgetContainer to display a widget outside dashboard.

* Added two (C#, VB.NET) Hellow World application. You can use these applications as a template

for your dashboard application.

BUGS RESOLVED

* Bug related with persisting ColumnPadding data in SQLServerProvider fixed.

BREAKING CHANGES

* Update your application's web.config file.

- Change AjaxRequestModule to DirectRequestModule.

* Execute following script on your SQL Server before upgrading:

alter table WidgetInstance

add [Properties] [ntext] NULL;

alter table WidgetType

add [WidgetProperties] [ntext] NULL;

* WidgetEditor.aspx file changed. Create a new file using smart-tag of DashboardSurface control.

* Add maximizeWidgetUrl to KalitteDashboardFramework section. Below is an example;

  <KalitteDashboardFramework editorUrl="~/Pages/Dynamic/WidgetEditor.aspx" widgetMaximizeUrl="~/widgetMaximize.aspx">

  You can see a sample of widgetMaximize.aspx in sample web project (inside Pages/Dynamic folder)

* Dont forget to update assembly version from 3.1.0.0 to 3.2.0.0. 

We have published an open source project on codeplex.

Here is description.

SharePoint Geographic Data Visualizer includes an Asp.Net server control and Microsoft Sharepoint web part which your users can use to visualize any data on a BingMap Silverlight Control. Library supports polygon background coloring and drawing different symbols on map.

More info can be found @ http://mapvisualizer.codeplex.com/ 

We have published source code of AccessDashboardProvider, SQLDashboardProvider and SessionDashboardProvider classes. You can download (Providers.zip (104.22 kb)) them and use as a startup to develop your own providers.

About Dynamic Dashboard Providers:
Dashboard Providers allow Dynamic Dashboards to store metadata (i.e. dashboards, commands or widget instances) without a dependency to a particular database. You can also implement your own provider. We currently have three built-in dashboard providers named SQLDashboardProvider, AccessDashboardProvider and SessionDashboardProvider which uses MS SQL, MS
Access and Http Session Object to store metadata respectively.

You can now use Component Source to purchase Kalitte Dynamic Dashboards. Component Source, as a worldwide reseller for software components and tools since 1995, also provides toll free support phones and consultancy about Dynamic Dashboards. More information can be found here.

Version 3.1 is published.

V3.1 includes DashboardTabView control which you can use tı display dashboards inside tabs.

We have also prepared a detailed User Guide document. Click here (3.10 mb) to download documentation in PDF format.

We have finished developing pop3 client widget. With this widget, a user can easily display his emails on dashboard. 

Widget also supports SSL, so you can use it to retrieve e-mails from gmail.

Here a sample can be found.

BTW an article is published on ArticleBlast.

We have published silverlight widget. This is a "ready to use" widget to host silverlight applications.

A demo can be found here. 

Dynamic Dashboards Version 2.3 is ready!

New version includes following enhacements;

- AccessDashboardProvider is now available. 

- You can use dynamic dashboards framework with virtual directories.

- Bug related with DashboardViewList's fixed.

You can download v2.3 from here.

We have published source code of SQLDashboardProvider. You can use it as a base to develop new providers.

Developing a new dashboard provider for metadata storage is so simple. Just inherit from abstract class Kalitte.Dashboard.Framework.Providers.DashboardProvider and implement abstract methods. Method names are meaningful (i.e. GetAllWidgetTypes, GetWidgetInstances, ...).

Also, upon purchase of Dynamic Dashboards we provide you support while you're developing your provider. 

Click to download Kalitte.Dashboard.Framework.SQLProvider.zip (24.19 kb)