Check out the SharpPieces home site! You can find a lot of explanatory docs, various use case scenarios in live demos and goodies.


Here you can find the version history vs previous release (SharpPieces 2.2):

General

1. Change: All controls are moved in a single assembly
2. Fix: All controls have proper security attributes.

Upload

1. Fix: Fixed IE errors when unloading the page by removing the element in Swiff.Base.js
2. Fix: Scroll into view bug for Firefox, fixed wmode
3. Fix: Swiff.Uploader.js: Added anti-cache fix for IE and small improvements for parameters
4. Change: Added more checks to make SWF-JS communication more stable
5. Fix: Fixed the use of the Upload control inside MasterPages.

LiveGrid

1. Change: Rico 2.0 RC1 integrated.

ExtendedDropDownList

1. New: SelectedGroup - new property, to get the text of the selected group.

DynamicImage

1. New: The image output type can be set (.jpeg, .bmp, .gif, .png)
2. New: Plug-in-able system for image creation and transformation (check out the new demos).

CaptchaImage

1. New: The char array source can be specified
2. New: Two more render types
3. New: "Random" render type.

GradientButton

1. New: Hover effect (check out the updated demo)
2. New: New inner border property
3. Fix: Round corners can be used the maximum to create round buttons.

The demo app is now Web Application (used to be Web Site); if you use VS 2005 without SP1, do this update.

For the LiveGrid demo, in demo app you need to get the AdventureWorks database and modify the web.config connection string.