New features
1.ToolBox Control allows to create Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2003 and Visual Studio® 2005-style toolboxes . This control supports the following features:

• Add and edit ToolboxGroups and ToolboxItems with full design-time support.
• Switch between Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2003 and Visual Studio® 2005 styles at the runtime.
• Drag & drop toolbox items within groups, between groups or outside of the Toolbox.
• Set palette mode (toolbox items aligned by line and displayed without text) individually for each group.
• Adjust item's icon and text location.
• Manage groups and items at run-time.
• Use global or local Visual Manager.

2.Microsoft® Office 2007-style Color Picker . The Color Picker can work in gallery mode and "in-Ribbon" mode (the color picker is embedded into Ribbon panel). It implements the following features:

• "More Colors" button, which displays an advanced color selection dialog.
• "Recent Colors" palette, which can be modified at the runtime.
• "Automatic color" button.
• "No Fill" button.
• Ability to assign custom colors to any color category (theme, recent, simple).
• Design-time support

3.DesktopAlert Control implements a popup window similar to Microsoft® Office popup control, which allows to display short-time messages. In opposite to the standard message box, this window doesn't require from the user to close it by clicking "Ok" button and it automatically disappears after short time. The control is fully customizable and a developer can tune its look and functionality by the easy way:

• Content can be created from an user-defined resources or it can be automatically generated from the given text and image.
• Various looks: Office XP/2003/2007, MSN Messenger .
• Various animation types: fade, slide and unfold.
• Semi-transparent background.

4.The following gadgets (mainly aimed to use in Ribbon control) have been added:

• LinkLabel - an URL link which can be placed on the Ribbon or toolbar .
• SmartUndoButton - a button, which maintains a stack of values. Can be used for undo/redo interface .
• ToolbarSpinButton - represents an edit control with spin (up and down) buttons, which allow to increment or decrement value in the edit control .
• ToolbarDateTimeControl - a button that hosts a date-time control .
• ToolbarTrackBarButton - a button that hosts a track bar control .
• ToolbarProgressBarButton - a button that hosts a progress bar .

5.The new method DockingPane.SetRecentFloatingSize allows to specify the initial size of floating docking pane (or reset this size to desired dimensions).

6.The new property CommandBar.CanFloat allows to enable or disable floating of command bars.

7.The new property CommandBar.CanTrack allows to enable or disables tracking of command bars (so if you set CanTrack and CanFloat properties to false a command bar will be completely locked on its site).

8."Recent documents" collection is automatically serialized and de-serialized for Ribbon-based applications.

9.Added new class RecentlyUsedDocumentButton, which wraps the data provided for recently used documents. ExecuteCommandEventArgs contains a reference to such button and thus you can easily determine that the ExecuteCommand event raised in response to user selection of a recent document. See our MSOffice2007Sample for more info.

10.The following new examples have been added:

• PopupDemo - demonstrates the DesktopAlert Control.
• RibbonGadgets - a comprehensive sample with all available Ribbon gadgets.
• SmartUndoButtonDemo - illustrates usage of the newly added Undo button.
• ToolboxDemo - demonstrates the Toolbox Control.

Fixes

1.Fixed some problems with layout recalculation in design mode.

2.Fixed some problems related to collection editing via Custom Collection Editors in design mode.

3.MinimumSize and MaximumSize properties now take effect in Office 2007 style.

4.Form's size correctly calculated in maximized state when Office 2007 style is selected and there is a visible Task Bar on the desktop.

5.Main Form doesn't lose the focus when Visual Manager 2007 is activated or deactivated.

6.In Office 2007 style the library correctly hides minimize and maximize buttons if you set in the designer MinimizeBox and MaximizeBox properties to false.

7.It's possible to assign .ico images to toolbar buttons.

8.MainRibbonButoon correctly handles transparent color specified for its image.

9.Some other visual glitches and problems have been corrected.