WinForms Workspace Manager (Save/Restore Runtime App Settings)
v14.2 ships with a number of usability/productivity features we hope you can leverage going forward. Last week I wrote about our Image Collection and Gallery for WinForms...today, I'd like to share...
View ArticleDXSplashScreen and LoadingDecorator
Splash Screen is a view to be displayed while users wait for load operations to complete. While the splash screen view is in the foreground, the loading of required data, resources, libraries and other...
View ArticleTestCafe v14.2 - Using the DevExpress Test Recorder
Yesterday I discussed the new features we're shipping in TestCafe v14.2 - among them our new and improved visual Test Recorder. In this blog post, I'll describe the ease with which you can create your...
View ArticleSilverlight’s future at DevExpress
Over the past year, it has become increasingly apparent to the Microsoft development market that Silverlight has become sidelined. Silverlight 5, the current major version, was released December 9,...
View ArticleWinForms Layout Control: Design-time templates
As with all matters in development, oftentimes we find ourselves building a user interface or part of a UI that is remarkably similar to something that we’ve just built. To avoid the repetition – in...
View ArticleTestCafe v14.2 - IFrame Support
In the most recent release of TestCafe v14.2, we've improved how you record test steps for elements located within IFrame.Simplified SyntaxSteps are now executed within the document's IFrame context....
View ArticleASP.NET File Manager Enhancements: Context Menu, Custom Toolbar, and Custom...
The DevExpress ASP.NET File Manager control is getting three new features that help you deliver a great file management experience for your end-users in the current v14.2 release:Custom Columns Custom...
View ArticleLearn HOW to Build a site like DX Hotels
A few months ago we presented a webinar on what went into building the ASP.NET DX Hotels demo that starting shipping in the v14.1 DevExpress ASP.NET Subscription. The feedback was overwhelming, you...
View ArticleASP.NET - Create Full-width Submenu (like devexpress.com - v14.2)
With the v14.2 release, you can now create a menu that behaves like the one at devexpress.com: This slick new feature of the DevExpress ASP.NET Menu control is called 'full-width submenu'. And yes, the...
View ArticleWebinar: TestCafe - Powerful Extensions
One of the aspects of my role here at DevExpress is to share all the cool tools, and TestCafe certainly fits that description. Since its inception TestCafe has taken a unique fresh approach to...
View ArticleTime to drop IE7 support in v15.1?
In the next major release of DevExpress (v15.1), we are going to drop support for Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). Here's why...Legacy browsers like IE7 are a headache for web developers to support. This...
View ArticleDataExplorer - The Future
When we started designing and building DataExplorer our goal was to create a tool that will allow .NET developers to build companion iOS apps for their existing applications, while reusing the same...
View ArticleASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit - How to Report Issues
Now that we, DevExpress, have started to maintain the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and are almost ready to release the first version under our stewardship, the question about support needs to be...
View ArticleDevExpress MVVM Framework. EnumItemsSourceBehavior.
All the features described in this post are available in both the free and non-free versions of the DevExpress MVVM framework (included in the DevExpress WPF component suite).There are often situations...
View ArticleScreencast “Making the Transition from WebForms to MVC” is available on YouTube
This series shows how to setup a real world application using the MVC framework together with the DevExpress MVC extensions and Xpress Persistent Objects (XPO) as data layer.I will take the WebForms...
View ArticleASP.NET Spin and Date Edit - Range Usability Enhancement (New in v14.2)
A tooltip hint displayed on form editors can help you deliver useful information to your end-users. You can now provide a tooltip with the DevExpress ASP.NET Spin Edit and Date Edit controls when...
View ArticleASP.NET Html Editor: Insert Media Content and Clipboard Pasting Processing...
Two new features of the DevExpress ASP.NET HTML Editor control now help your end-users with pasting and inserting media content. The features are part of the v14.2 release:Media Content Inserting...
View ArticleVideo: DevExpress ASP.NET MVC: Unobtrusive Validation
Validation of input data is important for your websites. Here's a great XKCD comic that drives home this point:Now, check out the video for my recent webinar on ASP.NET MVC's Unobtrusive Validation...
View ArticleUI Superhero Story: Mike Palgon
A couple of months ago, our videographer, Jeff Cosby, went to interview Mike Palgon about his experience with DevExpress ASP.NET controls in creating a website for an organization that helps cancer...
View ArticleNative Support for Amazon Redshift Databases Coming to DevExpress Dashboards
Analyzing large amounts of data is rather difficult. We have added a number of features to make this much easier with our dashboard component. Coming in the next minor release we will add support for...
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