Infralution Support

[Infralution]

After much effort and anticipation we are happy to announce the release of Virtual Tree Version 3.0.0.

This release ports the Virtual Tree codebase to Visual Studio 2005. Previous versions of Virtual Tree were compiled under VS2003 to allow use with either .NET 1.1 or .NET 2.0 This, however, limited the ability to use new framework features introduced in .NET 2.0. Version 3.0 can only be used with .NET 2.0.

This release includes the following features:

• Changed header and row context menus to use the new (in .NET 2.0) ContextMenuStrip.
  
• Added support for Rich Text Format (RTF) text. This allows you to easily display cells containing text with multiple fonts and colors.
  
• Added AlwaysDisplayToolTip property to CellData and CellBindings. This allows you to specify whether the tooltip should always be displayed or only if the text does not fit in the cell bounds. The default value is false.
  
• Restructured assemblies to move design time classes into separate design assemblies. This reduces the size of the DLL's that you need to redistribute with your product by about 100Kb. It also removes the dependency of the redistributable DLL's on EnvDTE and VSLangProj which means you no longer have to exclude these in your Setup and Deployment projects.
  
• Removed the Infralution.Controls.EnhancedMenuItem class. The new .NET 2.0 MenuStrip classes provide the ability to display menu items with icons and should be used instead.
  
• Removed the Infralution.Controls.XpTheme class. The new .NET 2.0 VisualStyleRenderer classes provide theme support and should be used instead.
  
• Removed UseVisualStyles property from VirtualTree and other controls. Controls are now rendered with (or without) Visual Styles based on the value of the new (in .NET 2.0) Application.RenderWithVisualStyles system property. Added UseThemedHeaders property to Virtual Tree. This allows you to control whether row and column headers should be drawn using XP Themes (Visual Styles). These changes mean that you can now use custom styles for rendering the column and row headers while still having XP themed scrollbars and borders for the control.

IMPORTANT NOTES
This release is the result of a considerable amount of work and contains major new functionality. For that reason this release is a paid upgrade. We have attempted to keep upgrade costs reasonable (typically 1/4 of the original purchase price). You can purchase license keys for the new release from our Purchase Page.

The Version 3 installer does not upgrade and replace version 2 installations. This allows you to have both versions installed side by side to support existing VS2003 projects using Version 2 while developing new projects in VS2005 using Version 3. If you do not need this capability then we recommend uninstalling your current version of Virtual Tree before installing Version 3 to avoid possible confusion.
If you have defined custom header or row context menus then you will need to remove these from forms before upgrading to version 3.0.0 otherwise you will get errors when attempting to open the form in the designer.

See the Release Notes for full details.
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Infralution Support