Easthampton, MA, USA – August 31st, 2006 – Atalasoft, Inc., a leading provider of imaging components for Microsoft .NET Framework-based developers, today announced the preview release of DotImageFX. DotImageFX is a library of selected image enhancement effects for Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Bitmap Effect layer. WPF is the presentation layer for Microsoft’s new Vista operating system due to be released in January 2007. WPF is included in the Microsoft .NET 3.0 Framework (formerly WinFX) to be included in Vista, and available for Windows XP Service Pack 2.
DotImageFX makes it possible to apply many effects in XAML to images and any WPF user interface element. With DotImageFX, Atalasoft now provides early support for developers experimenting with WPF, providing illustrative image support of over 60 effects including Mosaic, Oil Paint, DuoTone, and transforms including Ripple, Lens, Ellipse and Perlin Noise.
[Quote here from WinFX PM about this advanced offering from Atalasoft]: “Microsoft is pleased to see Atalasoft provide advanced support of imaging for the WinFX platform”]
DotImageFX is a product of Atalasoft’s Research and Development and serves as a technology demonstration. It includes selected effects from Atalasoft’s highly successful DotImage imaging toolkit. The download of DotImageFX includes several demos showing how to use effects with Data Binding, XAML, Animation, and 3D. These effects can be used to enhance user interfaces by being dynamically applied to vector based user interface elements with a single line of XAML markup, or can be more traditionally applied to raster images.
DotImageFX illustrates the extensibility of Atalasoft’s imaging platform as well as the commitment of the organization to new technologies including Microsoft .NET 3.0 Framework and WPF. DotImageFX is free to download and use until Microsoft Windows Vista is released. More information is available at http://www.atalasoft.com/products/dotimagefx/.
About Atalasoft
Established in 2000, Atalasoft is a provider of a high-performance, standards-compliant .NET Framework imaging libraries targeted towards authors of document processing and management systems and photographic imaging. Atalasoft offers unparalleled ease of integration through CLR compliant objects, logically laid-out object hierarchies, rock-solid implementation, and first-rate support.
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