Liquid Technologies Press Releases

Just Released - Liquid XML Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 with Full Support for Visual Studio 2010®

May 10, 2010 -- After the successful January launch of Liquid XML Studio 2010, an advanced XML Editor (http://www.liquid-technologies.com/XML-Editor.aspx) and development toolkit, Liquid Technologies have announced the availability of Service Pack 1 (SP1), which contains over 40 new features and enhancements plus general performance and stability improvements.

Following hot on the heels of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010® launch, Liquid XML Studio 2010 announces full support for Visual Studio 2010®. The XML Schema Editor (http://www.liquid-technologies.com/Visual-Studio-Plugin-XML-Schema-Editor.aspx), XPath viewer and Web Services Test Client plug-ins take the capabilities way beyond what Visual Studio offers XML developers out of the box.

This, combined with the powerful XML Data Binding (http://www.liquid-technologies.com/xml-data-binding.aspx) Code Generator that comes with the Developer Edition of Liquid XML Studio, and which now offers runtime support for the newly released Visual C++ 10.0 and .Net 4.0, means that Liquid XML Studio 2010 SP1, is a "must have", for all XML developers using Visual Studio 2010®.

Other new features include:-

  • Visual Schema Agent - visualises the hierarchical structure of interrelated XML Schema and allows the user to easily navigate between the schema with a single click of the mouse
  • XPath - build an XPath expression for any XML element directly from within the XML document by right clicking on the element
  • Find in Files - Improved find and replace - search projects, files or folders on your computer that are related by schema inclusion
  • Canonical form conversion - all XML documents can be converted to their canonical form which allows documents to be easily compared at their logical level, facilitating the digital signing of documents.

A full list of the new features and enhancements can be viewed at liquid-technologies.com (http://www.liquid-technologies.com/whatsnew.aspx).

Liquid XML Studio 2010 SP1 is a free upgrade available to all existing Liquid XML Studio 2010 licence holders or previous version users with a current USPP (Upgrade Support Protection Plan) contract.

Download Liquid XML Studio 2010 SP1, fully featured no cost 30 day trial (http://www.liquid-technologies.com/Download.aspx).

About Liquid Technologies

Liquid XML ... XML the smart way!™

Liquid Technologies Ltd is a privately owned company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, U.K. which provides world-leading productivity tools for XML software developers.

Liquid product details are available at http://www.liquid-technologies.com.

Liquid Technologies Releases New Liquid XML Studio 2010

Jan 5, 2010 --- Liquid Technologies Ltd (<http://www.liquid-technologies.com>) is pleased to announce the latest release of its graphical XML development environment, Liquid XML Studio 2010.
Liquid XML Studio 2010 extends and improves on the existing functionality by introducing other new tools and technologies that our users have requested in order to continue to make Liquid XML Studio the best value XML development environment available.

Starter Edition

Entry level IDE that is ideal for the Home or Educational user or light Business user. Unlike some competing products it is licensed for commercial use.

WSDL Editor

This new feature, available in the Designer & Developer Editions, is a Graphical WSDL (Web Services Description Language) Editor which greatly simplifies the task of designing complex WSDL. Full syntax validation, drag and drop functionality combined with the visual layout makes this an essential tool for facilitating standards based communications.

Schema Library Agent

Available in all Editions, this new feature gives access to all the Schemas stored in the online Liquid Schema Library. Open the Schema you require and simply select the components you need. This greatly reduces the time taken to take on board new Schema Standards. The online Schema Library contains over 80 industry schemas and will readily accept new standards for upload.

XHTML Editor

With Liquid XML Studio XHTML Editor you can easily create, edit, test and validate XHTML documents. The editor is included in all editions of Liquid XML Studio.

Visual Studio 2010

The plugins available in the Designer & Developer Editions will also be supported in Visual Studio 2010 after its general release.

KEY & KEYREF Support

All Editions now provide Schema support for KEY & KEYREF elements which greatly assists linking nodes in a single document.

Windows 64 bit Support

For power users all Editions of Liquid XML Studio can now be run under x64 versions of Microsoft Windows.

Visual C++ 64 bit Runtime

The Developer Edition XML Data Binding wizard now provides additional Project Files for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (9.0) 64 bit. This provides Royalty Free distribution of compiled code and the Liquid Runtime to end users on the 64 bit platform.

Supported File Types

The editor has been extended to support additional file types:

  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • DTD Schema (DTD)
  • Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
  • Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
  • Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
  • Text Files (TXT)
  • W3C XML Schema (XSD)
  • Web Service Definition Language (WSDL)
  • XML Document (XML)
  • XML Metadata Interchange (XMI)
  • XML-Data Reduced (XDR)
  • XQuery (XQUERY)
  • XSL Transform (XSLT)
General Improvements

Along with the new features outlined above, existing features have also been enhanced and improved with functionality requested by our users.

About Liquid Technologies

Liquid XML ... XML the smart way!™

Liquid Technologies Ltd is a privately owned company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, U.K. which provides world-leading productivity tools for XML software developers.

Liquid product details are available at http://www.liquid-technologies.com.

Liquid Technologies Releases New Freeware XML Studio And Silverlight Code Generator

Jan 5, 2009 --- Liquid Technologies Ltd (http://www.liquid-technologies.com) is pleased to announce the latest release of its free graphical XML development environment, Liquid XML Studio 2009.

Liquid XML Studio 2009 extends and improves on the existing functionality by introducing other new tools and technologies that our users have requested in order to continue to make Liquid XML Studio the best value XML development environment available, and include:

  • Silverlight code generation, which has been added to the Liquid XML Data Binder to generate code for Silverlight 2.0 in both C# and VB .Net, and includes new Runtimes for these new platforms.
  • An XML differencing tool, allowing users to easily compare two XML files in a graphical view and includes advanced filtering options.
  • Liquid XML Studio Project files, allowing easy access and grouping of all the files being worked with.
  • XSLT support, allowing XSLT files to be run within the editor to generate the XML output file from source XML data and transform.
  • Enhanced printing and previewing of XML Schema diagrams, allowing scaling of the diagram to a percentage height/width or to a fixed number of pages high and wide. This significantly improves the ability to view large schema in a printed form.
  • Improved large file support, allowing larger files to be edited within the XML text editor.
  • Fast Infoset (FI) support, allowing binary compressed files to be imported and exported directly from the Liquid XML Studio. This technology provides huge performance improvements as the FI files can be read and written very quickly by FI enabled parsers (such as the Liquid Fast Infoset Library).

Liquid XML Studio 2009 is available in three editions:

Freeware Community Edition
  • Fully functional product for commercial and non-commercial use
  • Graphical XSD Editor
  • XML/WSDL/XDR/DTD/CSS Editors
  • Web Service Call Composer
  • XPath Expression Builder
  • XSLT Editor
Designer Edition
  • Integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 & 2008, adding a Graphical XSD Editor, Web Service Call Composer and XPath Expression Builder to the Visual Studio environment
  • XML Differencing Tool
  • Full support for XML Schemas with include/imports
  • Branding can be turned off
  • No limits on XSD Document generation
  • Projects can be saved
  • 12 Months Email Support
Developer Edition
  • XML Data Binding (XML Code Generator) for Cross platform C++, C# 2003, 2005, 2008, Java, Silverlight 2.0 (C# 2008 & VB .Net 2008), VB.Net 2003, 2005, 2008, Visual Basic 6.0
  • Royalty-free distribution of compiled code and the Liquid Runtime to end-users
  • Fast Infoset Support in C++, C# and VB .Net
  • HTML Documentation Generation for the Generated Code Library
About Liquid Technologies

Liquid XML ... XML the smart way!™

Liquid Technologies Ltd is a privately owned company based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K. which provides world-leading productivity tools for XML software developers.

Liquid product details are available at http://www.liquid-technologies.com.

Liquid Technologies Releases A Freeware XML Development Environment

Oct 19, 2007 --- Liquid Technologies Ltd (http://www.liquid-technologies.com) is pleased to announce the release of its free graphical XML development environment, Liquid XML Studio, as part of the Liquid XML 2008 product line.

Liquid XML 2008 provides a feature-rich set of tools for developers and analysts including an advanced graphical schema editor, an XML editor, a Web Service browser, an XPath query builder, a documentation generator, and integration with the worlds leading XML data binding tool, Liquid XML Data Binder.

Liquid XML Studio 2008 (Freeware)

Liquid XML Studio 2008 is a new graphical XML development environment boasting features usually only seen on products costing hundreds of dollars and sets a new benchmark for high quality Freeware products.

Features include:

  • Graphical XML Schema Editor, displaying all XML Schema Element and Datatype content, split view showing text and graphical representations, context sensitive properties editor.
  • XML Editor, provides auto-complete intellisense, syntax highlighting and validation against a schema.
  • XPath Expression Builder, allows users to quickly construct complex expressions and visualise the results.
  • Web Service Browser, supports interrogating and calling Soap 1.1, Soap 1.2, HTTP GET and HTTP POST services.
  • Documentation Generator that produces an HTML representation of schema.
Liquid XML Data Binder 2008

Liquid XML Data Binder 2008 is the most comprehensive XML Data Binding tool available, reducing development and testing effort, driving down cost and risk.

XML Data Binding is the process of creating a class library from an XML Schema, bridging the gap between source code and XML by binding XML data to objects designed specifically for the data contained in those documents. This allows applications to manipulate data that has been serialized as either XML documents or Fast Infoset documents.

Liquid XML is a mature product, Liquid Technologies have been a leading force in XML data binding since 2001, and is used on many mission critical applications by industry leaders worldwide.

Features include:

  • Simple intuitive code, generating full projects not just a single file seen in competing products.
  • Unrivalled support for the W3C XSD standard, handling the most complex of schema, such as ACORD, Financial products Markup Language (FpML 4) and Health Level Seven (HL7) schema.
  • Language support for C++, C# .Net, Java, VB .Net & Visual Basic 6.
  • Fast Infoset Support in C++, C# and VB .Net.
  • Documentation generation specific for your code library.
About Liquid Technologies

Liquid XML ... XML the smart way!™

Liquid Technologies Ltd is a privately owned company based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K. which provides world-leading productivity tools for XML software developers.

Liquid product details are available at http://www.liquid-technologies.com.

Liquid Technologies Announces Successful Fast Infoset XML Interoperability Testing

Mar 7, 2007 --- Liquid Technologies Ltd is pleased to announce the successful interoperability testing of its Fast Infoset implementation with those from Noemax Technologies Ltd, OSS Nokalva Inc, Sun Microsystems Inc, and TMax Soft Inc.

Fast Infoset is an ITU-T and ISO defined standard that specifies a binary encoding for W3C XML Information Set. Unlike other XML representations, the Fast Infoset standard has the dual benefits of both compression and performance, making it the ideal choice for moving large XML data between disparate low bandwidth systems or for high performance systems such as those utilising Web services.

The interoperability testing effort shows that Fast Infoset is a mature, reliable technology. Software developers can now invest in Fast Infoset technology with the confidence that third parties will be able to interact with the XML data produced using a variety of vendors' products across many platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Linux and Sun Microsystems Solaris, using C++, Java or Microsoft .Net.

Liquid Technologies currently provides a cross platform C++ implementation and Microsoft .Net (C# and VB .Net) implementations of the Fast Infoset standard as part of its XML Data Binding toolset, Liquid XML. XML Data Binding is the process of creating a class library from an XML Schema, bridging the gap between source code and XML by binding XML data to objects designed specifically for the data contained in those documents. This allows applications to manipulate data that has been serialized as either XML documents or Fast Infoset documents.

Liquid XML is the most comprehensive XML Data Binding tool available, and it has been tested against many of the leading standards including the ACORD, Financial products Markup Language (FpML 4) and Health Level Seven (HL7) schema.

About Liquid Technologies

Liquid XML ... XML the smart way!™

Liquid Technologies Ltd is a privately owned company based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K. which provides world-leading productivity tools for XML software developers. Free trials, pricing and detailed documentation of all Liquid products are available at http://www.liquid-technologies.com.

Further information about the Fast Infoset Interoperability Project and its participants can be found at:

Fast Infoset Interoperability Project - http://fi-interop.dev.java.net
Liquid Technologies - http://www.liquid-technologies.com
Noemax Technologies - http://www.noemax.com
OSS Nokalva - http://www.oss.com
Sun Microsystems - http://www.sun.com
TMax Soft - http://www.tmaxsoft.com