DevExpress VCL Spreadsheet control (Coming soon in v15.1)
As Ray said yesterday when talking about the new Rating Control, he and I are going to take it in turns describing the new features and functionality in v15.1 over the next few days. Today, it’s my...
View ArticleWinForms Demos: Code Snippets
We've done our very best to create demos that emphasize the flexibility of our WinForms controls and hopefully give you a clear understanding on how to implement them within your projects. As you...
View ArticleDevExpress VCL Rich Text Editor (now released in v15.1)
In our last VCL release cycle, we shipped the DevExpress VCL Rich Edit Control - our Microsoft Word inspired word processor - as a community tech preview. With our upcoming release, we'll officially...
View ArticleExcel Document Generation for .NET Developers - Your Options
In blog posts leading up to our launch couple of weeks ago, I described our new XL Export Library – the ultra fast Excel data export engine that generates spreadsheet files by writing them directly to...
View ArticleASP.NET File Manager - Enhancements (Shipping in v15.1)
We have added some very useful features to the DevExpress ASP.NET FileManager in v15.1 OneDrive® Inspired SelectionA lot of users do not know how to perform multi selection within MS-Windows list...
View ArticleVCL Gauges – new capabilities in v15.1
Back in v14.2 of DevExpress VCL we introduced a set of gauges that would help you be more visually expressive with pertinent and important information in your apps and in your dashboards. Well, it...
View ArticleEnhanced User Experience for VCL apps (coming in v15.1)
In this installment of what’s new in DevExpress VCL v15.1, I’m going to look at what’s been enhanced with regard to the user experience.Map ControlThis one sounds simple (and is anything but to code)...
View ArticleASP.NET MVC - Form Layout - Code Usability Improvement (Shipping in v15.1)
Available now in the DXperience v15.1 release, we've introduced a useful improvement for working with the DevExpress MVC Form Layout extension.Now it's much easier to configure a nested extension.Form...
View ArticleDevExpress Icon Library
A few weeks ago I mentioned that we've added a collection of new icons to our Icon Library - icons we created specifically for our DevAV demo apps. If you've not had the opportunity to review those...
View ArticleASP.NET File Manager - Custom Templates (Shipping in v15.1)
In our v15.1 release we have another exciting feature implemented for the ASP.NET File Manager. Template support for the File Container!What is the File Container?The ASP.NET File Manager control...
View ArticleWinForms: Right to Left Support
Last month, I blogged about support for Right-to-Left languages across our WinForms product line. Yes, this was a feature long time in coming and since it's finally here, I wanted to take a moment and...
View ArticleDevExpress VCL v15.1: the old spreadsheet has gone
One of the breaking changes we neglected to mention with the release of DevExpress VCL v15.1 yesterday is that the old spreadsheet control, deprecated when we released the new spreadsheet control a...
View ArticleSilverlight and DevExpress Universal v15.1
You may have noticed something peculiar once you’d installed v15.1: no Silverlight controls came as a part of the product and hence were no longer present on your machine. Wait, what?Back in December...
View ArticleEntity Framework and DevExpress ASP.NET
Last week Mehul and I did a webinar on Entity Framework and DevExpress.ASP.NET. What is Entity Framework?Entity Framework is an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tool, much like our own Xpress Persistent...
View ArticleXAF: A preview of the HTML5/JS Report Document Viewer integration in Web UI...
The new HTML5 / JS Report Document Viewer was introduced in our v15.1 release. This new report viewer is reliant on client-side logic and several enhancements to XAF’s ReportsV2 module were required...
View ArticleDevExpress Universal support for Visual Studio 2015 released
I’m sure that you can’t but helped to have noticed that Microsoft released the latest version of Visual Studio this morning. After completing its fairly lengthy beta, Visual Studio 2015 is now ready...
View ArticleCodeRush for Roslyn v1.0.4
CodeRush for Roslyn (CRR) v1.0.4 is now available. This free preview version expires on 4 September 2015.Here’s a list of what’s new in version 1.0.4. New TextCommands:Smart Return, used in the r and...
View ArticleCreating an Office 365 Clone with DevExpress ASP.NET
Recently Mehul and I did a webinar about one of our newest demo applications called “DevExpress Documents”. We talked about the functionality, its architecture and how modular and reusable this demo is...
View ArticleDataExplorer - Support for Charts (Column, Line, Area)
One of the best ways to present data for analytical purposes is through some kind of visualization. DataExplorer could already do this with maps and now it provides another way - Charts. In this...
View ArticleWPF: Choosing Images based on App Context
As you know, nearly all DevExpress WPF Controls support the display of glyphs/images within their container. For instance, our WPF Grid Control uses glyphs within its column header and the Ribbon...
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