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<p>October 27, 2008<br /><strong>Xceed Provides WPF DataGrid Used for Popular Application Life-cycle Management Solution</strong></p>
<p>MONTREAL, QC - October 27, 2008 — Xceed today proudly announced that Microsoft Corp. has used Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition to implement part of its upcoming <em>Visual Studio Team System 2010</em> product.<br /><br />Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition is a datagrid control for Windows Presentation Foundation that lets developers add 2D and 3D data presentation and editing capabilities to their applications. Released nearly two years ago, the product has already undergone 7 major releases and has seen a total of 20 updates. “It is the most rock-solid, time-tested grid control for WPF. And because it can handle millions of rows and thousands of columns, its performance is nothing less than unbeatable,” said Odi Kosmatos, vice president of research and development at Xceed.<br /><br /><em>Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010</em> is an integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance. A standalone test case management tool included with the product lets users create, organize, and manage test cases across both the development and test teams through a simple UI specialized for displaying test artifacts. “By letting Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition handle test pass display duties in Visual Studio Team System 2010, Microsoft chose the most mature, most powerful, and fastest grid control available for Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation,” noted Mr. Kosmatos.<br /><br />“Using Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 helped us greatly reduce the time and resources necessary for developing all the data presentation features we needed. Working with Xceed has been a pleasure, and they update the product often and provide innovative new features such as 3D views for visualizing data. We will certainly continue to look at their technology in the future as a complement to our products,” said Norman Guadagno, director of product marketing for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.<br /><br />Featuring in-place editing that delivers 12 flexible, themed, and themable editor controls that are also usable outside the grid (including a datepicker and a masked textbox), Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition has powerful hierarchical master-detail and grouping. It also provides an interactive Cardflow 3D view with multiple card layouts, as well as traditional 2D table and card views. End-users can switch between any 2D and 3D view on the fly while retaining the datagrid’s state.<br /><br /><strong>About Xceed Software Inc.</strong><br /><br />Xceed Software Inc.—a leading developer of high-quality components and UI controls for Windows developers since 1994 and one of today's leading component vendors—is devoted to the development and support of its products, and ardently promotes component-oriented programming. Today, over 50,000 developers use Xceed components worldwide, including Microsoft, which uses Xceed Grid for .NET and other Xceed controls for part of the interface of Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007. <br /></p>
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