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A letter to customers using Rogue Wave® Stingray® products

Re: coming Stingray enhancements – 2009 product roadmap

As part of our ongoing commitment to the Stingray product, Rogue Wave Software is adding significant new functionality in 2009 and beyond.

Recently, Microsoft has made significant enhancements to the MFC libraries with the release of the MFC Feature Pack, and much of our effort will be addition of support for the MFC Feature Pack. In addition, we are adding new support for other MFC components as well as features of Windows, Office and .NET.

Key highlights will include:

  • Support for and ease of migration to MFC Feature Pack
    The Microsoft MFC Feature Pack is not built on top of MFC, it is a separate package. As a result, there is some migration effort for existing MFC and Stingray developers who want to use it directly. The Stingray Objective ToolkitEx will be designed to not only support the capabilities in the MFC Feature Pack but also to make the migration to this new technology easier than using MFC + MFC Feature Pack alone.
  • Support for XP/Vista themes
    The new Windows Vista look and feel is one of the most popular features in Vista. Future versions of Stingray Objective Grid and Objective Chart will use new MFC 9 components and support XP/Vista themes and colors.
  • .NET interoperability
    Improved embedding of .NET components (including WPF components) in a Stingray application, and vice-versa (requires mixing managed and unmanaged code in your application).

We will be sending more updates as release dates are available. We appreciate the investment that you have made in Stingray, and invite your comments and suggestions at (sales@roguewave.com).

Best regards,

Patrick

Patrick Leonard
VP, Product Strategy & Marketing
Rogue Wave Software
pleonard@roguewave.com


Rogue Wave Stingray®

Quickly Build Professional Windows GUIs

Rogue Wave Stingray® delivers integrated and reusable GUI components with a familiar Microsoft look-and-feel that are designed to handle the low-level details of user-interface application development. The components are proven, easy to use, shorten development time and make it easier to maintain and evolve GUI applications.

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Comprehensive GUI Development Solutions

Rogue Wave solidifies its leadership in Enterprise C++ with Stingray®. The Stingray product line was built by GUI application development experts to provide a broad set of flexible, comprehensive components. These components handle the details of GUI functionality and allow developers to focus on end-user requirements and the business logic of an application.

Advanced Look and Feel

Stingray components provide rich interfaces that can be used to mimic the look and feel of Microsoft applications such as Excel®, Chart®, Visio®, Visual Studio® and Outlook®. Stingray's libraries of MFC extension classes work seamlessly with other technologies, like ActiveX® and the Microsoft .NET® framework, in both 32-bit and 64-bit environments.

Faster Time-to-Market

Stingray's highly reusable user interface components provide advanced functionality that integrates with existing code. It increases developer productivity and accelerates time-to-market resulting in a reduction of costs, schedule risk, and reliability issues.

Rogue Wave Stingray® is loaded with features that allow developers to deliver advanced applications that emulate Microsoft's look and feel.

 
Features Benefits
A spreadsheet with many of the same features as Microsoft Excel® including database connectivity. Development managers and ISVs choose Rogue Wave Stingray for these benefits:
A docking window architecture that provides a modern look and feel that emulates Microsoft Visual Studio®. Create uniform and consistent GUI applications.
An advanced text editor for source code editing with syntax highlighting and viewing similar to Microsoft Visual Studio. Avoid low-level details of implementing an IDE interface.
Over 30 graph types with support for legends, titles, labels and curve fitting. Reduce customer learning curve with its consistent Microsoft look and feel.
A drag-and-drop drawing canvas used to draw and manipulate symbols and graphics comparable to Microsoft Visio. Maximize customizability by including full source code.
An embeddable shortcut bar that closely mimics Microsoft Outlook®. Shorten time-to-market with reusable components.
 

All Stingray® Studio components are available in demonstration application form.

Objective Toolkit *

Objective Toolkit

A library of controls and utilities for enhancing the GUI of custom applications.

Download Objective Toolkit Demo

Objective Grid

Objective Grid

An advanced grid component that mimics Microsoft Excel® features, including an advanced formula engine, hierarchical Grids, embedded custom controls and database connectivity.

Download Objective Grid Demo

Objective Edit

Objective Edit

Offers an advanced text editor component useful for implementing an interactive environment, similar to the Microsoft Visual C++® editor, for viewing and editing source code, scripts and mark-up languages including C++, JavaScript, VBScript, and HTML.

Download Objective Edit Demo

Objective Chart

Objective Chart

Delivers high-performance, advanced charting capabilities, including a variety of two-dimensional chart types.

Download Objective Chart Demo

Objective Views

Objective Views

Components for building drag-and-drop graphical interfaces that are comparable to Microsoft Visio in functionality and for incorporating custom graphical objects and enhanced drawing capabilities.

Download Objective Views Demo

* These components also available separately

Stingray® Studio Edition 10.1

Stingray Studio Edition 10.1 is the successor to Stingray® Studio Edition 10.0. The primary enhancements for this version are:

  • Support for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008* operating system
    • The Stingray Studio 10.1 Microsoft Foundation Class libraries have been updated to run on the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system.
  • Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008** Service Pack 1
    • The Stingray Studio 10.1 Microsoft Foundation Class libraries have been updated to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

Additional Product Enhancements:

  • Unified output directories for dependent RWUXTheme libraries, allowing integrated compilation with the rest of the Stingray Studio suite of products across multiple compilers and multiple architectures.
  • Improved build processes for ease of use and compilation of all products from within a single IDE solution file, importing/exporting library symbols, manifest file generation, and platform targeting.
  • Improved Readme documentation. Readme documents now contain more readable and easier to understand Change History information, i.e. versioned bug fix and enhancement lists, for each product.
  • Rebuilt Demobrowsers to include bug fixes and enhancements as listed below.
  • Additional Bug fixes and enhancements for the product versions listed below. Please review each Product's Readme file for detailed information.
    • Objective Chart (OC) 10.0.1
    • Objective Edit (OE) 10.0.1
    • Stingray Foundation Library (SFL) 5.0.1
    • Objective Grid (OG) 12.0.1
    • Objective Toolkit (OT) 11.0.1
    • Objective Views (OV) 11.0.1

64-bit support

Stingray is now available in two versions: 32-bit and 32/64-bit. 64-bit support provides increased performance. Please see the Stingray support matrix for the most up-to-date support.

Streamlined Visual Studio integration in the Installer

No need for a separate Wizard to integrate to Visual Studio, Stingray products now provide full integration of the development environment as part of the install process.