Released on: November 22, 2007, 12:49 pm

Press Release Author: Xceed Software

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: MONTREAL, QC - November 12, 2007 - Xceed today released
version 1.3 of Xceed DataGrid for WPF, featuring Visual Studio 2008 and Expression
Blend support. The product has also been renamed to reflect the availability of
Express and Professional editions of the grid control.

Press Release Body: MONTREAL, QC - November 12, 2007 - Xceed today released version
1.3 of Xceed DataGrid for WPF, featuring Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend
support. The product has also been renamed to reflect the availability of Express
and Professional editions of the grid control.

In line with the naming convention Microsoft has adopted for Visual Studio 2008, the
free version of Xceed's Windows Presentation Foundation datagrid control is now
called Xceed DataGrid for WPF Express Edition. Powerful and fully functional, this
version-which remains free of charge-delivers a complete set of functionalities
suitable for more casual users. This edition continues to provide full distribution
rights, bugfixes, updates, and an unlimited number of licenses per company. Xceed
DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition provides additional advanced features for the
most demanding developer.

New features debuting in version 1.3 of both the Express Edition and the
Professional Edition include Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend
design-time support. The datagrid installs into the Visual Studio toolbox and lets
developers set its properties in the IDE's property grid. And by supporting
Microsoft's Expression Blend, Xceed delivers the ability to customize the look and
feel of Xceed DataGrid for WPF in an environment targeted at designers, which
eliminates the need for developer intervention, increases productivity, and extends
an application's impact. Also new is a scroll tip that displays information about
the first visible row in the viewport when the grid is scrolled. Finally, a VB.NET
template with a tutorial is also provided for setting up a new theme project for
creating custom themes, complementing the previously available C# template.

The Professional Edition of Xceed DataGrid for WPF v1.3 features the addition of
Excel-like end-user automatic filtering, which filters items in the underlying data
source. This edition provides several other advanced features that distinguish it
from the Express Edition, such as fixed columns, rich printing and XPS export
capabilities, and statistical functions, as well as Office 2007 (blue, silver, and
black), Windows Media Player 11 themes, and Glass themes. Standard e-mail support is
provided with the Professional Edition, but adding a Vanguard subscription gives
developers upgrades and priority support for a year. Users who have purchased a
Vanguard subscription with a previous version of Xceed DataGrid for WPF are now
automatically owners of a Professional Edition and a Vanguard subscription.

A preview of an album-cover 3D-view that will be made available in an upcoming
release can be seen at minute 15:55 in a Channel9 video interview that Microsoft has
published.



About Xceed Software Inc.

Xceed Software Inc.-a leading developer of high-quality components and UI controls
for Windows developers since 1994 and one of today's leading component vendors-is
devoted to the development and support of its products, and ardently promotes
component-oriented programming. Today, over 25,000 developers use Xceed components
worldwide, including Microsoft, which uses Xceed Grid for .NET and other Xceed
controls for part of the interface of Microsoft Office 2007 (an online demo of
Xceed's grid in Microsoft Accounting Professional 2007 can be seen on Xceed's
website). For more information and product or evaluation downloads, please visit
http://xceed.com/.


Contact: Charles Duncan (duncanc@xceedsoft.com)
Xceed Software Inc.
1555 Jean-Paul-Vincent, suite 180
Longueuil (Quebec), Canada, J4N 1L6
(450) 442-2626, ext. 228

Product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective
owners.




Web Site: http://xceed.com

Contact Details: jimmy.alexis@xceedsoft.com

1555 Jean-Paul-Vincent suite # 180,
Longueuil, Québec, Canada, J4N 1L6