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ASP.NET, DevExpress, ASP.NET MVC, WebForms, ASPxGridView, Controls and News - This is The ASPx Blog, Mehul Harry's work blog. I write about all the latest info on DevExpress ASP.NET news and bring you relevant developer content including: Screencasts, How-Tos, Videos, and new features/controls from Developer Express.

Case Study: Help & Manual Creates Revolutionary UI

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Check out this week’s case study with EC Software. Help & Manual, their flagship product, is an XML authoring tool for web-based and local online help (along with print documentation and PDF files). Their latest release, version 5, packs some pretty cool features:

  • User Interface
  • Multi-User Authoring
  • Pure XML
  • Skins and Snippets
  • Premium Packs

They have created a fantastic new UI for Help & Manual 5 using DevExpress controls. Check out the screenshots below:

Help & Manual - Main Application Window

Help & Manual - UI Details

Read the full EC Software case study to see how they redesigned and rebuilt their flagship product.

Published Jul 07 2009, 04:52 PM by Mehul Harry (Developer Express)
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Technorati tags: Case Study, VCL, ExpressBars, Ribbon

Comments

 

Steve Sharkey said:

I knew I loved Help & Manual for a reason....

Having evaluated many packages this was the one that won by some margin - it didn't have some of the features included in other packages but it had a clean interface that assisted without getting in the way and was easy to pickup and use. This is key to allowing the writer to concentrate on helpful help rather than using the package. Nice to know I have indirectly contributed more to the DX coffers....

July 8, 2009 2:37 AM
 

Jens Fudickar [DX-Squad] said:

The cool thing is:

This is advertising for the VCL CONTROLS :-)

Kind regards

Kens

July 8, 2009 3:32 AM
 

Junior Thurler said:

It's good read the case studies that the OLD AND GOOD Delphi remains lives in good applications and is good to DevEx to know that many bussiness stil uses VCL Controls in yours applications (like mine).

July 8, 2009 8:22 AM
 

Saif Khan said:

Dou you guys have a page editor with margins?

July 8, 2009 3:24 PM

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Mehul Harry is an ASP.NET technical evangelist at Developer Express. You can reach him directly at mharry@DevExpress.com. You can also follow him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mehulharry
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