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Overview

Aurora XAML Designer is a customizable authoring and design toolkit for embedding into third-party .NET applications as a WPF control for developing user interfaces and graphics for Windows desktop and web applications. Aurora has a full object model allowing for programmatically generating graphics on the design surface. Developers can access the XAML document tree, toolbars, menu, property panel items and even embed their own WPF components.

Aurora generates the XAML markup required by Visual Studio® for developing .NET 3.5 applications. Aurora authors traditional style dialog boxes and windows using common controls and works in multiple layers like many graphics design products. Aurora has a gallery of royalty-free clip art, supports 2D vector graphics and has powerful brush options for specifying linear, radial, visual, image and video brushes. Unlike some design products and export plug-ins that produce markup completely as paths, the output from Aurora XAML Designer is optimized so that the individual graphics can be easily integrated with .NET code-behind.

Features:

  • Embed the entire XAML designer into your own .NET WPF or WinForms application
  • Provide your own custom UI for custom controls
  • Easily create custom plug-ins
  • Add or remove toolbars, menus, and other user-interface features
  • Add your own XAML clipart to the clipart gallery
  • Create custom project types
  • Add your own custom WPF controls
  • Provide custom commands to the command manager
  • Receive user events from the design surface
  • Add custom context menu items
  • Customize drag/drop operations on the design surface
  • Supports XAML projects
  • Add WPF content and controls as custom panels
  • Full Object Model and Plug-in architecture
  • Add custom property panel items
  • Hook property panel events
  • Hook document tree events

Benefits:

Licensing Aurora XAML Designer for embedding can potentially save you hundreds of development hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs. Leveraging the vast feature-set of WPF will give your applications a fresh, new look and add functionality that was difficult to implement in previous platforms.

Getting Started:

Contact sales@mobiform.com to request the embedding toolkit. This toolkit includes basic and advanced examples, as well as documentation.

Support:

Your feedback is very important to us, especially if you run into any issues with our embedding toolkit or its accompanying documentation. Please embedding_support@mobiform.com explaining the issue in detail.

Cost:

Please contact sales@mobiform.com when you are ready to discuss licensing Aurora XAML Designer for embedding.