To celebrate the upcoming Visual Studio 2013 sim-ship launch, I’m happy to announce our latest special offer promo for all MSDN subscribers around the world. This exclusive special offer gives you 20% off for new purchase of any Intersoft Studio subscriptions. On top of that, we will add another subscription to your account — free of charge.

Get it whilst its hot! Click
here to learn how to take advantage of this great offer. You can also contact me for more information about this offer.

Warm Regards,
Martin

The arrival of Windows 8 adds more choices to the platform stack that mobile developers should consider. So my question is, do you plan to build Windows 8 apps, or perhaps you already built one? As we’re planning our roadmap ahead, we’d love to hear from you – which platforms will you build your next apps on, the challenges you’re facing, and what tools you need to get your jobs done right.

Join our 2013 product survey and place your vote so we can align our next product roadmap to your development needs.

Your participation is an effective way to present your thoughts and opinions about our products and service to the management of Intersoft Solutions. I do believe that your valuable feedback would be very useful to help us improve our products and services in the future.

If you have any questions or technical difficulties, please don’t hesitate to drop an email to me at martin@intersoftpt.com.

Thank you for your time and participation.

Regards,
Martin

In this opportunity, I’d like to announce our special double promo in this month. If you purchase any of WebUI Studio subscription license, you will be given a direct 20% discount. Then, you will have a privilege to enter our Wheel of Fortune page to claim your prize. For more information about this lucky promo, see the following link:
http://intersoftpt.com/Corporate/News.aspx?page=News&EventId=211

The promo will be effective from 10th October 2012 until 30th November 2012. Don’t miss out this special promo! Grab your WebUI Studio subscription license today through our online store.

Please contact me immediately at martin@intersoftpt.com to join this limited offer.

Thank you and look forward to seeing you in our Wheel of Fortune promo.

Regards,
Martin

Your participation is an effective way to present your thoughts and opinions about our products and service to the management of Intersoft Solutions. I do believe that your valuable feedback would be very useful to help us improve our products and services.

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey now: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q9P9758

If you have any questions or technical difficulties, please don’t hesitate to send an email to martin@intersoftpt.com.

Again, thank you for your time and participation.

Warm Regards,
Martin Lie

To start off the New Year, we’re pleased to extend our holiday offers until the end of January 2012. Take an action now to get this opportunity before the offers end! Click here for more information about these great offers.

Visit our online store to get your copy along with the free second copy gift today, or feel free to contact me at martin@intersoftpt.com for any questions.

Thank you and we look forward to serving you in 2012!

Regards,
Martin

This great offer is not forever, means that it is limited only until 31st December 2011. So Hurry up! Don’t miss out this great opportunity! Time to save your money – take advantage of this special holiday offer and get two subscription licenses for the price of one. For more information about this promo, click here.

Visit our online store to get your copy along with the free second copy gift today, or feel free to contact me at martin@intersoftpt.com for any questions.

Thank you and happy holiday!

Regards,
Martin

While we’ve won awards before, it’s voter choice awards that mean the most to us because they come directly from you—our fans. We’re especially proud that we’re nominated for Best Vendor Support as our team is devoted to giving you the best support experience possible.

Vote today

When you vote, you’ll see that each category is numbered. You don’t have to vote for each category—just vote for the products you work with and (of course) for Best Vendor Support!

Intersoft Nominations:

7. Component Set: Intersoft Solutions WebUI Studio

12. Grid: Intersoft Solutions ClientUI UXGridView

16. Navigation Control: Intersoft Solutions ClientUI Navigation Controls

20. Scheduling Tool: Intersoft Solutions ClientUI UXScheduleView

23. Silverlight Product: Intersoft Solutions ClientUI for Silverlight

28. Best Vendor Support: Intersoft Solutions

Cast your vote now as voting ends this Wednesday, September 7^th!

Thanks again!

Intersoft Solutions has a history of winning awards. We were named as an SD Times 100 software vendor three years running, a Bestselling Publisher from Component Source five years in a row, Microsoft’s Best ISV Partner of the Year in 2008, and a People’s Choice .Net Choice Award in 2005. The DevProConnections nomination is fantastic and we look forward to seeing the results.

As we continually strive to offer the most valuable and rewarding to use products and services, we greatly appreciate your support. And thanks to DevProConnections for the opportunity.

Best,
Jimmy Petrus

We’ve recently updated our ClientUI online demos with the latest product builds which includes a host of major enhancements in various areas such as navigation framework, windowing and data controls, as well as stability improvements – thanks to your continuous support and feedback! Find out all enhancements introduced in the latest release here.

The update also includes numerous enhancements on the sample level such as treeview, resizable pane, grids, and much more. Click here to check out the updated ClientUI online demos.

In addition, we’ve also published several new HD-quality videos to compliment the latest ClientUI release. The 5-minute videos demonstrate the key features of each new control, giving you quick insights of what you can achieve with the new controls. Here the list goes.

Intersoft WebUI Studio 2011 Tour Video

This video outlines the new controls and enhancements available in WebUI Studio 2011 which also includes the much anticipated ClientUI 5, WebCombo 5 and much more. The latest ClientUI 5 focuses on a wide array of data presentation controls for Silverlight and WPF development. The major new controls are grid view, tree view, document viewer, navigation pane, and resizable pane.

GridView and Data Controls Overview

This video demonstrates the advanced capabilities and rich features of Intersoft’s flagship data grid control for Silverlight and WPF application development. UXGridView is a powerful, MVVM-ready data grid control with high-performance virtual data loading architecture.

TreeView Overview

This video demonstrates the advanced features of UXTreeView for Silverlight and WPF. UXTreeView is a versatile, feature-rich tree view control for displaying and navigating hierarchical data. Uniquely engineered with loosely-coupled architecture, UXTreeView enables full support for MVVM design pattern. It offers numerous advanced features such as child load-on-demand supporting both MVP and MVVM pattern, tri-state check boxes, customizable expand mode, multiple item selection, node editing and hierarchical template editing support.

Document Viewers Overview

This video demonstrates the rich features of XPS Document Viewers for Silverlight and WPF. UXDocumentViewer is the next-generation document viewing control with a sleek user interface, high-performance and pixel-perfect document rendering. It adds sophisticated document viewing capabilities to Silverlight business applications with easy document zooming, navigation, text selection, and searching, and printing.

Advanced Navigation Controls Overview

In today’s modern applications like digital dashboards, maximizing every pixel without cluttering the whole UI is a tough challenge, even for a UI designer. This video demonstrates the new UXNavigationPane control which is designed to address these challenges and at the same time improves user experiences.

That’s all for now. I hope you enjoyed our new HD tour videos. As usual, feedback and comments are warmly welcomed.

Best,
Jimmy

Just two days ago, we released the first service pack of WebUI Studio 2010, the most significant updates since its release few months ago. Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of our brand-new support site. Read the official press release here.

If you haven’t heard the buzz, we’ve just opened our first dedicated European office yesterday. Based in England, the European office is our long-term investment to better serve our European customers with more – and more responsive – services. And yes, we are already operating since the day one. Read the official press release here – you’re welcome to contact our European office for sales, marketing, corporate presentation, and even technical inquiries.

Today’s launching of our new support center resembles our continuous commitment in providing the most excellent product support on the top of our renowned quality toolset. We’ve put an enormous effort and detailed attention in this support area to bring a variety of resources and fresh content to the table, including video tutorials, text walkthroughs, knowledge base and blogs – all neatly organized into a centralized interface. Let’s tour some of the new features and fresh content available in the new support center.

Adding Over 1.5GB Worth of Fresh Content

Despite of the complete facelift of the user interface, what makes the new support center so significant is the huge amount of content we made available over months – topping off 1.5GB for all the new and updated content.

So what does this all mean to you? It could be many things, but one thing for sure is that you got the peace of mind developing your applications with WebUI Studio. We’ve got everything covered – from get started videos for first-timer and beginners, to comprehensive multi-series videos walkthrough for intermediate and advanced developers, to hundreds of text-based tutorials and how-to topics, and much more.

See the following screenshot for an example, a comprehensive ClientUI video tutorial fresh from the oven!

There are dozens of exciting features that we bring together in this release which are about to be discussed in the following. However, if you would like to play around with the new support center now, please head straight to intersoftpt.com/support.

Support Center Highlights

One of the goals that we want to achieve in this new support center is the tight integration to the main web site, making it seamlessly blended with the experiences that users already accustomed to. In our previous support center, the site was a completely different module and can be only accessed through separate browser instance. Not only it is difficult to locate a content, the experience was also somewhat unpleasant.

New Home. More Intuitive Layout.

The new support home welcomes you with a clean, unobtrusive design. Sophisticatedly designed to fit into the main corporate branding, you can now easily navigate from one page to another without leaving the browser instance you currently work with.

The improved home page layout lets you scan the fresh and features content at a quick glance. It also aggregates a variety of information from the community sites, blogs, and knowledge base into the front page – allowing you to swiftly locate the information you are looking for.

For first-timers and beginners, you would definitely love the new Solution Center that we added in this new release. These hand-picked topics are ranging from installation and licensing guides, to get started walkthroughs to deployment. See the screenshot below.

 

Modern Navigation Interface

It has always been a great challenge for user interface and web designers when it comes to designing navigation interface. How would you design a navigation interface that is both efficient and intuitive? Some would probably use tabbing, some possibly use accordion or even a dropdown menu.

At Intersoft, we always wanted to do something new and unique, particularly on the user interface and navigation experience. In this new support site, we ended up creating something what we called dynamic modern navigation where products are listed vertically on the left and having a callout pointing on the selection. See below.

The navigation interface was modeled upon an extensive usability research. You would mostly navigate to the Home or Featured (notice these two are grouped differently), or either the Suite products or the top 3 flagship products – which are all show up by default. This allows you to quickly locate the help content of a particular product based on the platform of interest.

Want to see all the available controls in a single page? Then the Browse All is your best bet. You can also bookmark it and load from it, or navigate directly from the browser’s address bar.

Product Page

Every product has its own unique content, including get started, walkthroughs and blogs that related to that particular product. The new product page adopts a modern layout that nicely arranges the common tasks in the main area, then followed with the detailed items such as features topics, blogs and so on.

The product page itself contains five major sections: Home, Tutorial, Knowledge Base, Blog and Version History, which are located in the top right section of the page for easy discoverability.

One thing that I really like in this product page is the new knowledge base presentation that employs a kind of compelling UX concept. The real challenge here is how we can reuse the screen real estate for showing both the list and the item details. Popping up a non-blocking callout doesn’t seem ideal, or even worse for popping up a new browser window.

Our solution is to use sliding menu UX, where we combine data extensive operation – such as sorting and paging – with content that loaded on demand. The result is stunning enough, users can click an item to slide the list and see the content coming in, then click back to do go back to the list. See below.

We have eventually packaged every details of the UX into Sliding Menu component that we included in WebUI Studio 2010. This means that you can also add the same rich experience to your web apps – easily and quickly!

Click here to experience this compelling UX concept for yourself.

Friendly URLs

Another feature that I think worthwhile to mention is the user-friendly URLs mechanism that we implemented consistently across the corporate website – from the product information, to community forums, and to support center.

Instead of remembering the long unique ID of a video tutorial, you can now simply remember the title of the video and type it in the address bar to watch it. For example, most of our resources have the title patterned using certain prefix. The getting started videos, for instance, mostly patterned with “Getting started with [control name]”. By just remembering that, you can swiftly locate a WebCalendar video by simply typing “/Video/Getting-started-with-WebCalendar” directly in the address bar.

See the following screenshot for details.

The same mechanism is also applicable for walkthroughs, how-to topics, knowledge base, blog posts and any navigable content in the support center.

Last but not least, enjoy our new support center experience!

All the best,
Jimmy

This is a great opportunity to build your next RIAs using our rich Silverlight UI controls. Furthermore, we will deliver over 50 new Silverlight UI controls by April 2010, giving you more power to build rich and interactive business applications with full integration with the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 and many more. To learn more about our upcoming release, please contact me to request the product roadmap and see for yourself.

This promo is valid until 28^th February 2010. Please click here for more details or email me at nathania@intersoftpt.com for any questions.

Warm Regards,
Nathania