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Document Toolkit Roadmap

With the release of Silverlight 4 Beta it is time to reveal some details about the upcoming versions of Document Toolkit.

Document Toolkit for Silverlight is a fast, feature-rich and 100% client-only XPS document viewer library for Silverlight. Document Toolkit offers a range of features that enables easy document access and document display in Silverlight applications.

Document Toolkit 1.1 update

An update of Document Toolkit 1.1 for Silverlight 3 is scheduled to be released within a couple of weeks. This maintenance update contains a number of fixes and minor updates. New samples will be added to the Document Toolkit Sample Browser. The samples demonstrate a variety of features that have been requested by the community.

Document Toolkit 2

Document Toolkit 2 is the next major version and will be exclusively available for Silverlight 4. The following Silverlight 4 features will be used extensively;

• Printing API (obviously)
• Right-mouse click context-menu's
• Built-in mousewheel support
• Clipboard API
• Document viewer with drag-drop support

Document Toolkit 2 contains a number of breaking changes and is not backwards compatible with Document Toolkit 1.x. Among others the API contains the following changes;

• FixedDocumentViewer deprecated in favor of a DocumentViewer capable of viewing entire XpsDocuments instead of FixedDocuments
• New re-usable asynchronous page virtualizing collection
• Proper IItemContainerGenerator implementation (available since SL3)

And last but not least, Document Toolkit 2 will add native support for document types other than XPS. More details available when a public preview will be published (which is scheduled end Q4 2009, begin 2010).

Disclaimer: This roadmap is for information only and represents First Floor Software's current view of its product direction. None of the information should be interpreted as a commitment on the part of First Floor Software. First Floor Software makes no warranties, express or implied, in this document.