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If you are then this release from RESCO just might be what you need for versatile image control supporting various graphics formats.

Resco, a supplier of advanced developer tools and components for mobile devices, today announced the availability of Resco ImageBox for .NET CF Beta. This professional Visual Studio control allows developers to open, display, modify and save images in various formats. Supported formats include jpg, bmp, multiframe gif, png, tiff, and more. The ImageBox control also supports the touch scroll feature which allows users to scroll images using their finger instead of the stylus.

“Having the ability to display and process images in .NET Compact Framework was really something that customers were missing and looking for,” said Roland Haulitusz, Resco’s component developer. “By implementing Resco ImageBox for .NET CF the developers will gain a fast and memory-conserving tool for image manipulation on mobile devices.”

Resco ImageBox for .NET CF offers the following functionality:

• Loading of images from different locations (file, data stream, or Internet)
• Image loading optimized for speed or quality
• Zooming, resizing and cropping of images
• Rotation of images and color inversion
• Adjusting of brightness, contrast and gamma correction values
• Saving of images in selected file format
• Touch scroll support

“Resco has extensive experience in processing images on mobile devices which was gathered during the development and refinement of the Resco Photo Viewer application,” said Radomr Vozar, director of Resco Enterprise Solutions. “Now we are offering our know-how to the developers in form of this professional control.”

The increasing performance of today’s mobile devices as well as the variety of hardware equipment, such as cameras, offers new possibilities of utilization of these devices. An insurance agent, for example, could use an application allowing him to take a picture of the scene of accident, modify it and send it to the central database for further reference. Other business sectors requiring photographic documentation, such as real estate agents or machinery servicemen, also require this kind of applications. The Tiff file format support is suitable for fax transmission applications.

Pricing and Availability

Resco ImageBox for .NET CF Beta is now available for download at: http://www.resco.net/developer/mobileformstoolkit/imagebox.aspx.
It is available free of charge and is intended for testing purposes.

Full version of Resco ImageBox for .NET CF is scheduled for release in June 2008. It will be included in the Resco MobileForms Toolkit Volume 2 license and all customers with valid subscription will be able to download it free of charge.

For more information about Resco MobileForms Toolkit visit http://www.resco.net/developer/mobileformstoolkit.

About Resco

Resco is a developer of wide range of mobile software products for Windows Mobile. Besides the best selling end-user mobile applications, Resco offers also powerful developer controls and tools as well as business mobile solutions.
For more information, visit http://www.resco.net/developer/default.aspx.

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