ASP.NET WebForms, MVC and Core - Tips & Tricks (January 2020)

We’ve compiled a short list of new help topics, code examples and interesting support tickets that may be of interest to those of you using our ASP.NET Subscription. As always, feel free to share your favorite support tickets with the DevExpress developer community in the comments section below.

New Examples

We published several new examples onDevExpress GitHub. Please let us know if you have any questions or encounter any issues.

Rich Edit for Angular

• RichEdit Angular Application (Ready-To-Use) (T848108) ( View on GitHub)
• RichEdit for Angular - How to customize the built-in ribbon (T848130) ( View on GitHub)

Diagram for Web Forms

• Node and Edge data sources - How to bind the control to in-memory data sources (T848274) ( View on GitHub)
• Tree from Linear Data Structure - How to bind the control to in-memory data sources (T848292) ( View on GitHub)
• How to bind containers to an in-memory data source (T854632) ( View on GitHub)

File Management for ASP.NET Core

• File Manager - How to use it in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (T848278) ( View on GitHub)
• File Manager - How to open different files in a popup dialog (T849071) ( View on GitHub)
• File Uploader - How to upload images in Razor Pages (T848532) ( View on GitHub)

Interesting Technical Support Tickets

Common (ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms)

• Performance is slow because client-side initialization takes too much time in IE11 (T836311)

ASP.NET Web Forms 

• GridView - How to export its content to several (multiple) files (T837818)
• Grid View - How to get the ID and status (checked or not) of the selected row server side? (T844604)
• Grid View - How to change Columns captions at runtime and take these captions into account while exporting data (T838057)
  

• ASPxSpinEdit - How to implement large Increment/Decrement buttons for touch devices (T851262)
  

• Scheduler - How to display all resources in Appointment Dialog including after hiding specific items in the FilterResource event handler (T834629)
  

• HtmlEditor - How to convert an end-user's text to Upper case automatically (T837389)
  

• DockManager - How to rearrange Dock Zones (Dock Panels) automatically on small screens (T850346)
• Dock Manager - How to arrange Dock Zones horizontally (similar to Trello columns) (T847841)

ASP.NET Core

• RichEdit for Core - How to capitalize the first letter at the beginning of a new sentence/line (T852581)
• RichEdit for ASP.NET Core - How to load and save a base64 string (T700238)

ASP.NET MVC

• Grid View - How to bind Combobox column to Enum values with corresponding display names (T853026)
• Grid View - How to add a custom label (text) into a built-in toolbar (T847980)

Documentation Topics

The following article describes how you can add our ASP.NET Core RichEdit control to an Angular application.

Add RichEdit to an Angular Application

We also created a set of topics for the Gantt Control’s UI elements and its API members (how to manage appearance and functionality):

ASP.NET WebForms

Tasks,  Dependencies,  Resources

ASP.NET MVC

Tasks,  Dependencies,  Resources

We also added code examples to our documentation to illustrate how to use header and cell bands in MVC GridView.

Feedback

Feel free to share your thoughts on these items or anything else that may be on your mind. As always, we thank you for your continued business.