Straightaway to 2.0

2.0. Seems this version is very close!

It will be the first major upgrade. Yep, it's great time.

It's been 3 years (whole three years) since the version 1.0 got published. You know, it's quite a long period, full of support, various bugfixes and features implementations. Yeah, it's been a good work I guess.

So, back to 2.0, what will be the updates?

• The great opportunity to store any data inside the skf files. This will allow to have any information to be in a skin, which will allow to have everything to be tuned up with the skin style. 3rd party controls, most of them available on today's market are quite customizable, now it will be possible to make their data to be skin-dependable. I think the ability to store music and video data in the skin will let to perform quite a nice functionality.
• New licence policy, we are changing  major\minor versions upgrades to a year subscription. All versions released within the year from the moment of the purchase will be given for free.
• New pricing, since 2.0 we divide SkinCrafter ActiveX and SkinCrafter.Net into separate products. Moreover our financial dept has decided to increase the price for retail versions. One licence will cost US$ 399, so be quick and purchase SkinCrafter now to apply to a free upgrade offer.

Well, that's it for now, if you guys will have more questions, please - do not hesitate and address them directly to me. I would be glad to help anyone!

 

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SCI 2.0 is published

It's pretty nice to see the product being released.

All features were mentioned before and might be found in the forum announcement section .

You may wonder, what are the next plans for now? Well, we are planning to release SkinCrafter v1.9.2 with bugfixes and corrections pretty soon and go further to the first major update in a three years productions.

Also, I think of putting the most frequently asked questions on the forum into a sticky FAQ post. As it turns to be so much of efforts for our customers to use search feature of the forum ;) but on the other hands it might save quite a bit of time for newcomers. Well, need to be back to the working process.

Cheers,

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SkinCrafter Installer

Hey!

Today we are all about the last changes and things to release new version of SkinCrafter Installer version 2.0
We plan to release in the beginning of the next week.

What's the new? Well, the first thing and most noticable is that SCI is not a freeware anymore. It will cost $39 per product licence since 2.0. Why? Well, SC is a commercial project and it should be profitable. When spending more resources and time on some software it grows with additional functionality and higher quality!



The features added are those asked by our users. Option to set an icon for the generated exe, command line mode and command line parameters support.

Well, that's it... hope to see it released soon..

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The very first official SkinCrafter blog's post

Dear friends,

It's been a while since we decided to start a blog for our product, but only now it comes to the reality.

That's the first post here, isn't that great?

I assume we will be blogging the info about our future plans, current problems and fresh solutions for everyone who wants to get his application skinned.

Skins are becoming an integral part of every software on the market, and it doesn't matter whether it's freeware or shareware. End users got accustomed to the nice look of the programs they are working with. That's what our team is here for. Our designers and programmers are the pros in skinning industry, we've studied tons of skins under most of Operation Systems, we know the features which are required and we're trying to offer a professional but yet not-so-hard-to-use solution for the development teams.

This blog will help those coders who is looking for the skinning technique tips. Also, I believe this blog might be used as a rapid information spreading place. If we'll have some news which are not so important or informative to release a newsletter, they'll be placed here.

We run SkinCrafter forum for all technical and other questions discussions, so everyone's welcome to join and get they questions answered shortly.

The MAIN news for now is SkinCrafter.NET 2.0 release, which we expect to be published quite soon. We've met a number of innovations which required us to change the code of even offer the workarounds to the customers. We've add support to new strip-like controls. So, for now that's only left to wait for the release and see your comments on it.

That's it for now.

Be skinned, be sold....