Thinking Out Loud

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Would it be possible to have the Rich edit control in the book? If yes, can each page of the book show each page of the rich edit? Another words, you attach one rich edit to the book, and you can turn the UI of a Rich Edit as a book? Read-Only?

Looking good ray!!

@Ben: Judging from the way Silverlight/WPF does composition I am sure it will be possible.

Very nice.

You might want to consider adding something like this to this book control, or at least some navigation functionality from it.

www.bigbang.si/aktualniKatalogPregled

I can see that this might be useful to replace some of the 'flash' based Catalogs that some Retailers create that allow you to turn pages, but apart from that my imagination struggles to see it as anything but 'gimmicky'.  What uses to other readers see for it? I'd like to hear some ideas.

From my perspective at present, it holds little value for a business application developer.  I'd much rather see a Silverlight based equivalent of things like the existing DX Scheduler control that could offer real incentive to shift to Silverlight.

That said, it does look *schmick*. Well done.

Cheers.

Great, but not in a business application. Have you ever think about these technologies when started programming with my first PC after C64.

That is really which I want. I am developing e-learning and this one is useful for my e-books. ;o)

Thanks

Nice, but like others mentioned: we don't need this in a business application.

We develop a standard application for our customers and we can not use WPF, until there is all functionality of the actual WinForms controls.

I find this very useful in business apps.  Take for example an e-commerce site, you could allow your customer to view your current catalog with a catalog appearance.  Or another example is the online help, you could implement a wiki type help and flip through the pages as well.  I think its pretty cool Ray.

I would like to see a blog on the data virtualization of the RTE and the book, where as each page is turned, then the next two pages are loaded by the RTE engine on the fly. I think combination of these controls open great solutions. Any plans for the RTE to support PDF, XPS and HTML formats?

Thanks!

Doesn't thrill me, at least from the little info in this blog post, but I'm sure others may find it of use.  I'd rather have a Silverlight image gallery like the javascript lightbox control.  I suggested it here for those that want to track the suggestion:

www.devexpress.com/issue=S132288

This is a cute litle addition to the toolbox, but isnt it straying from the core controls sorely needed for a true WPF/Silverlight business application.  For some reason, DevExpress, normally a market leader seems to be falling behind the other vendors in WPF/Silverlight.  Before creating toys like book controls, can we work toward a serious toolkit of edit controls and other equivalent controls to the wonderful and highly useful controls you've created for WinForms?

I think this great. The Best. I've been waiting for something like this. Have many applications for it. Is there a winform verision?

Will it be possible to have hiperlinks on the books?

Neal, have you seen the "Image Gallery" from here:

demos.devexpress.com/silverlight

Great!  This opens new possibilities in a world which expects more and more dynamic systems with animations and interactivity.

We're just about to release v2009.2 and it would be a good idea to have an "accumulator"

I like this alot. However, I think it would be more effective if the border image looked more like a book, instead of simply using a drop shadow.

Helen