ASP.NET Report Designer (Coming soon in 14.1)
I decided to steal some of Seth's thunder and give all of you a sneak peek into our upcoming ASP.NET Report Designer. We are expecting to release the designer as a beta in 14.1.As you can see by the...
View ArticleMobile Evolution: Obj-C –> TypeScript with DevExtreme
It still amazes me, the number of developers who have put writing mobile apps into the ‘too hard’ basket. The scenario is the same around the world… someone at a corporate level decides it would be...
View ArticleNetherlands TechDays 2014 recap
Last week, we had the pleasure of attending TechDays 2014 in The Hague in the Netherlands. Present from DevExpress were Mark Miller, Mehul Harry, John F Martin, Don Wibier (our new Dutch hire for the...
View ArticleDevExpress MVVM Framework. Coming Soon in v14.1.
Adapted from relevant xkcdThere are several free frameworks to help develop MVVM applications. All frameworks are different: some are light and easy to use, others have great capabilities for building...
View ArticleTestCafe - the way the web was meant to be tested
We all understand the importance of a good testing framework, Test Driven Development (TDD) significantly reduces the maintenance cost of software and provides for cleaner, tidier code, but what about...
View ArticleNew CodeRush Plugin Template – NewContext
What is context?The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.What does CodeRush use context for?CodeRush uses context (in...
View ArticleDevExpress Universal Wins 2014 JOLT Award as Best Programming Library
In the last six months, we've been honored with numerous industry awards and just last week, we were informed that DevExpress Universal was chosen as Best Programming Library of 2014. "Given the...
View ArticleWinForms Token Edit Control (Coming soon in v14.1)
One of the new controls we'll be shipping in v14.1 is our Token Editor for WinForms. If you've used Microsoft Outlook or other Email Clients, you will be familiar with its usage and hopefully you'll...
View ArticleRAD Studio XE6 supported with DevExpress VCL
Just a quick note to let our VCL customers know that the latest minor release of the DevExpress VCL product fully supports Delphi and C++Builder XE6, for both 32-bit and 64-bit. And, just as a little...
View ArticleCharting: New Chart Types, WPF Improvements and Simplified Display Options...
As we near 14.1 release time I wanted to show you a couple of great features we are adding to our charting offering. Nested Donut Series ViewIn this particular case we are looking at a number of data...
View ArticleMicrosoft TechEd 2014 and the fun DevExpress events to attend...
Next week, on May 12th through the 15th, Julian Bucknall, Seth Juarez, Amanda Christensen, Mark Miller, and yours truly (Mehul Harry) will be in Houston, Texas for Microsoft TechEd 2014:I'm excited to...
View ArticleKansas City Developer Conference 2014–Come See Me!
I’m pretty excited to be heading out to Kansas City right after our stint at TechEd (take a look at what Mehul had to say on that). One of my favorite parts of what I do involves getting out and...
View ArticleWinForms Outlook-Style Navigation Controls (Coming soon in v14.1)
We are working hard to get v14.1 out the door by the end of this month. In the meantime, I wanted to share a few more new features we have planned for our WinForms product line (and yes, many of what...
View ArticleVote for DevExpress at Microsoft TechEd 2014
Are you attending the Microsoft TechEd 2014 conference?Help DevExpress by voting for the excellent DevExpress Universal that you love and use.Best of TechEd 2014 - FinalistDevExpress has been selected...
View ArticleHere is your latest DevExpress Technical Evangelist from Rotterdam, The...
My name is Don Wibier, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and I’m the latest addition to the DevExpress team.Here's a quick video introduction:BackgroundBefore joining DevExpress, I have designed and...
View Articledotnet Cologne 2014 - Thanks for seeing us there!
John and I were in Cologne, Germany yesterday for the annual dotnet Cologne event. It was great: a day of high quality technical sessions and community networking. The organizers did a great job...
View ArticleASP.NET: GridView Context Menu (What's new in 14.1)
The DevExpress ASP.NET GridView just got a great new feature: A context menu!A contextual menu is a menu that appears when you right-click on an application.A context menu offers a limited set of...
View ArticleReporting: Improved Data Access (Coming soon in v14.1)
While I’m here at TechEd I thought I would show you some of the great features we are adding in our 14.1 series of releases. In this release we have seriously put a lot of legwork into making the...
View ArticleWinForms iPad Style Ribbon (coming soon in v14.1)
With the release of Office for iPad, Microsoft made significant changes to its Ribbon to accommodate the touch-first nature of tablet devices. In our upcoming release, we've updated our WinForms Ribbon...
View ArticleDevExtreme CSS Theme Builder (Coming soon in v14.1)
Our upcoming release will introduce a new Theme Builder for our client-side HTML 5 widgets - a standalone app allowing you to modify themes we ship with our DevExtreme HTML 5-JavaScript product...
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