Essential Studio 2013 Volume 2 ships with more than 50 new controls and hundreds of new features and updates to all supported platforms including WinRT, WPF, Silverlight, Windows Forms, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. Some of the key highlights include an ultra-fast DataGrid for WinRT, WPF and Silverlight; touch-optimized Scheduler control for WinRT, new Carousel control for Windows Forms, TreeMap for all XAML platforms including Windows Phone, Sparkline for all XAML platforms, new Barcode control for ASP.NET, Theme Composer for ASP.NET MVC, and much more.
Cool, grabbed a copy as I've been pondering the possibility of attempting a Metro app...So is this a standalone IDE, or an add-on for MSVS, or both? -Stoic Joker (June 27, 2013, 11:38 AM)
Cool, grabbed a copy as I've been pondering the possibility of attempting a Metro app...So is this a standalone IDE, or an add-on for MSVS, or both? -Stoic Joker (June 27, 2013, 11:38 AM)No, it's controls for use in Visual Studio. I evaluated for work, but we ended up not using it because of politics, even though I liked it and the company better than the alternative.-wraith808 (June 27, 2013, 11:42 AM)