XPO - Easy Way to Map a Property to a Read-Only Database Column (v18.2)
With v18.2, eXpress Persistent Objects™ (XPO) includes additional community-driven feature - FetchOnlyAttribute. Applied to a class property or field, this attribute indicates that you can only read...
View ArticleWinForms - New CheckEdit Styles
Once upon a time in the distant past, when the grass was greener and the world was young (and all of us were, too!), our designers created sixteen styles for our CheckEdit control. Using the CheckStyle...
View ArticleWeb Dashboards - Neutral Filter Mode - Feedback Wanted!
Data filtering is one of the most-used interactive features of our Dashboard suite. We have recently taken some time to analyze the current implementation as well as user interaction patterns for the...
View ArticleWinForms issue with Windows 10, version 1803
One of our customers has reported to us a issue with our WinForms controls, one that is related to a GDI resource leak. In their case, it caused an application crash – their system has a limit on how...
View ArticleWinForms Tips & Tricks - What You May Have Missed (Part 3)
Today we have another post for the Tips&Tricks series - useful features you may have missed. Here are links to the previous parts:What you may have missed - Part 1Boosting application...
View ArticleASP.NET Core Reporting - CLI Templates
Way back in April 2018, we announced .NET Core support for our excellent Reporting suite. I ended that blog post with our future intentions:Our long-term vision is to provide a completely consistent...
View ArticleXAF - Enhanced Office Module, Updated Learning Materials and More (v18.1.5)
Great news! XAF’s most recent maintenance release (v18.1.5) includes new features and updated learning materials (and of course, a few bug fixes).New featuresWinForms UI: Office Module performance...
View ArticleSimplifying our ASP.NET Control Suites
Writing for the web these days is very different from that a few years ago. The same goes for our control suites for ASP.NET: over the past decade we've evolved our original WebForms subscription in...
View ArticleBuilding the Ultimate Developer’s Walking Desk
Sitting for long periods of time can be deadly, whereas walking is healthy. If you’re obsessed with efficiency like I am, it makes sense to exercise while you work. I built my first walking desk three...
View ArticleSave the Date for .NET Conf 2018!
Hey Everyone! Amanda here....NET Conf 2018 is less than a month away, and DevExpress is sponsoring this year's event! .NET Conf is a FREE, 3 day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET...
View ArticleWinForms - Ribbon Performance Improvements
As you may have heard before, at DevExpress we allocate some resources in each release timeframe to find and eliminate performance issues in existing controls and components. After v18.1 came out, we...
View ArticleXPO - Interview with the Team
Many times, customers have asked us how we use XPO – or if we even do it at all. We decided to sit down with developers working on and with XPO and conduct an interview, with the goal of answering the...
View ArticleWPF - Actor Model as a Model layer for MVVM
A little while ago, we received some very interesting feedback from one of our DevExpress MVPs, Mikhail Shubin, who had created an Actor-based implementation of a model layer with a WPF MVVM...
View ArticleDevExtreme Reactive - A Feature Update (v1.7)
It’s been a while since the last blog post about DevExtreme Reactive controls and it’s time to catch up with the latest developments! Our developers have been hard at work and we are now on version...
View ArticleDevExpress will be in Munich during .NET Conf 2018
On Wednesday, September 12th 2018 the .NET Conf2018 conference will kick off. This 3 day virtual conference is free for anybody who wants to attend. If you’re a .NET developer and want to stay on top...
View ArticleFree DevExpress Bootstrap 4 Themes
We've created two beautiful new themes and, not only that, we've made them open source so you can download them for free! These themes were expressly created for websites that were built using...
View ArticleDevExpress Dashboards - Tab Support for Windows & the Web
Here’s some great news: we are getting ready to release a highly requested feature - Tabs support within DevExpress Dashboards! As you might imagine, our implementation is based on user feedback and a...
View ArticleXAF - Access v18.2 Features Today for Early Testing and BONUS for v18.1.6
Your feedback counts!As part of our ongoing commitment to support the needs of our XAF customers, the upcoming v18.2 release will ship with several major features. Many of them are inspired directly by...
View ArticleHoly Grail - Embedded Images Inside Source Code
DevExpress is proud to announce a killer new feature for Visual Studio developers using CodeRush: The ability to embed any image inside source code and effortlessly share that image with everyone on...
View ArticleDevExpress Dashboards - v18.2 and What You Can Expect in mid-November
Our v18.2 release is drawing closer and it is time to show you some of the features we have been working on. We also hope to gather some feedback, since it’s not too late yet to change things in case...
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