Monday, October 5, 2009

ComponentOne's Web Parts Focus on Interactivity

.NET control maker ComponentOne has delivered a new batch of Microsoft Office SharePoint Web Parts that it says will make portals more interactive, with drill downs into data and custom behaviors. Last week's 2009 v2 release included Web Parts for charts, for a data grid and for a mapping component. Each Web Part has built-in designers for configuring and styling data views without coding, as well as a new code editor for developers.
Also new to this release, the ComponentOne Web Parts can connect to each other, eliminating the need for page refreshes and server post backs. The mapping Web Part has a geocoding capability that associates address information to geographic coordinates to enable drill-down information. “In the first release, we focused on a code-free experience for the novice Office SharePoint user, and in the 2009 v2 release, we focused on making the experience more customizable and flexible for power users and developers,” said Dan Beall, product manager at ComponentOne.
The Web Parts work in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment and with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The cost is US$500 per Web Part per server, with $15 per Client Access License (CAL) for the first 100, and $5 for each CAL thereafter, said communications manager Eve Turzillo.
-- David Worthington, SD Times senior editor

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