The last few weeks we’ve been working very hard on migrating the documentation to a new documentation system on a new location: http://docs.catelproject.com After evaluating our options for the documentation, we’ve decided to go with the docnet solution written by Frans Bouma. This has the following benefits: We can write the documentation in markdown We generate static htm pages so the site is superfast It should be easier for people to contribute to the documentation (since it only requires a GitHub acccount) We have decided not the migrate the older 4.x documentation, we will keep that on it’s existing location. So the documentation for the upcoming version (Catel v5) will… read more →
We are always looking for better ways to manage the code that ships with Catel. Over the years, Catel has grown a lot and many extensions were created for Catel: Catel.Extensions.CSLA Catel.Extensions.Controls Catel.Extensions.DynamicObjects Catel.Extensions.EntityFramework Catel.Extensions.FluentValidation Catel.Extensions.Interception Catel.Extensions.Memento Catel.Extensions.MVC4 Catel.Extensions.MVC5 Catel.Extensions.Prism4 Catel.Extensions.Prism5 Catel.Extensions.Prism6 Catel.Extensions.Wcf.Server Since we support a lot of target frameworks, this leads to over 100 projects in the solution. This is a very unwelcome situation for the following reasons: Developing with such a huge solution is very slow (even on fast development machines) Whenever we update an extension, we need to deploy Catel as a whole People that want to contribute to Catel get overwhelmed Therefore we have decided… read more →
For years we’ve been managing issues for Catel in JIRA. Although we love this product, we felt it was too much separated from where the open source software (OSS) development was happening (on GitHub). Therefore we’ve decided to migrate all the issues from JIRA to GitHub. All the existing issues have been recreated in GitHub and can be found at https://github.com/Catel/Catel/issues If you have used our support link (http://www.catelproject.com/support/issue-tracker/), then you can keep using this link since it will now redirect to the issues on GitHub instead. Migration background We’ve used the doctrine migration scripts to migrate JIRA to GitHub. For 3rd party JIRA servers, the scripts needed to be… read more →
We have been working very hard on creating, improving and supporting Catel the last 6 years. Last week we released another update for Catel (4.5). This is probably going to be the last release in the 4.* versioning range. Change of focus One of the spear points for Catel is the (long-term) support for businesses and frameworks. For example, it’s one of the last (feature-rich) frameworks supporting Silverlight. However, with the usage of Silverlight declining (as it should), we must shift our (valuable and scarce) resources to where our company can benefit the most of Catel. We haven’t been using the Silverlight / Windows 8.* deployments ourselves for more than… read more →
Today we have released Catel 4.5.0. The list below shows the most important changes. We also have a full list of changes. We strongly recommend to update to the latest version. The longer you wait, the harder the updates will be in the future. Most important changes We won’t list all the changes here, we have an issue tracker for that. But here are the most important changes: Improved support for UWP apps, Catel is being used in several popular UWP apps now CacheStorage now disposes objects implementing IDisposable when cache is being invalidated (also configurable to disable this) Views based on Catel can now define the container name resulting… read more →
Today we have released Catel 4.4.0. The list below shows the most important changes. We also have a full list of changes. We strongly recommend to update to the latest version. The longer you wait, the harder the updates will be in the future. Most important changes We won’t list all the changes here, we have an issue tracker for that. But here are the most important changes: Added support for Prism 6 (as an extension) More types are now supported by the serializers out of the box Lots of performance improvements
Today we have released Catel 4.3.0. The list below shows the most important changes. We also have a full list of changes. We strongly recommend to update to the latest version. The longer you wait, the harder the updates will be in the future. Notice for future versions Our mission is to make Catel easier to maintain in the future. One way to achieve this is to remove unused features and components. We are actively removing features by marking them obsolete. If nobody complains, we will remove the features in the next major release: Catel.Extensions.CSLA Catel.Extensions.Wcf.Server We are still heavily investing into Catel on all possible platforms. Interested in helping… read more →
There are lots of open source components built on top of Catel. Recently, Geert van Horrik has started a series about discovering useful open source WPF components. A nice fact is that all these components use Catel as the base for the awesome features they provide. The articles in the series will be published on a weekly basis and are very informative for WPF application developers. Subscribe to the RSS feed so you don’t miss any posts. The first blog post is an overview of a lot of open source WPF components that he will be writing about. Below is the list of items for your convenience. Orc.Analytics Makes it… read more →
Today we have released Catel 4.2.0. The list below shows the most important changes. A full list of changes can be found here. It has become a very large release including over 80 changes and improvements. We strongly recommend to update to the latest version. The longer you wait, the harder the updates will be in the future. Platform support changes This releases adds support to Windows 10 Universal App Projects and .NET 4.6. We also added PCL versions of Catel.Extensions.Data / Catel.Extensions.DynamicObjects and Catel.Extensions.Memento. We removed support for Windows 8.0 (since it’s no longer supported in VS 2015). Upgrade your projects to 8.1 instead. Notice for future versions Our… read more →
Today we have released Catel 4.1.0. This is a maintenance release of features that didn’t make it into 4.0. The list below shows the most important changes. A full list of changes can be found here. We strongly recommend to update to the latest version. The longer you wait, the harder the updates will be in the future. Most important things first This release contains 1 breaking change for users that already updated to Catel 4.0.0. Unfortunately we made a bad design decision to fully convert the IUIVisualizerService to async. We have reverted this change and added addtional methods with an Async postfix for the async implementations. For users coming… read more →
