DevExpress VCL 13.2 beta now available
Our VCL team have been working diligently towards the 13.2 release of DevExpress VCL for mid-December, and as part of that work have just published the beta for active customers of the full VCL...
View ArticleWinForms Widget View: Dashboard Style Cards (What's New in 13.2)
The new Widget View is part of the DevExpress Document Manager and was designed to give you a rich set of UI options so you can deliver experiences that are easy-to-use, easy-to-understand and ready...
View ArticleWinForms Taskbar Assistant (What's New in 13.2)
Another new addition to our WinForms product line is the Taskbar Assistant. It was built to simplify the customization of the Windows taskbar button, its live preview (displayed when you hover your...
View ArticleTourSnap–Sample Code
Recently Julian and I demonstrated the use of PhoneJS and a text editor to create a WebApp that was capable of capturing a photo, grabbing your current location and posting the photo and a message on...
View ArticleWPF Spreadsheet: New in 13.2
With only days to wait before you get your hands on it, I wanted to share some of the cool functionality that will be available in the WPF Spreadsheet control. Ever since we announced the first release...
View ArticleASP.NET: MVC 5 Support (What's new in 13.2)
Great news for ASP.NET MVC developers: DevExpress MVC Extensions support ASP.NET MVC 5!The Microsoft ASP.NET team recently released the ASP.NET MVC 5 version of the framework. And the over 50...
View ArticleASP.NET: SharePoint 2013 Support (What's new in 13.2)
Take a look at the new DevExpress SharePoint 2013 Demo site:http://sharepoint.devexpress.com/The new demo is great too. It's cleaner and we've improved the navigation. On the left side, you'll find the...
View ArticleASP.NET WebForms & MVC: Token Box Control (What's new in 13.2)
Check out the new DevExpress ASP.NET Token Box control that's part of the DevExpress 13.2 release:The DevExpress ASP.NET Token Box (ASPxTokenBox) editor provides your end-users the ability to...
View ArticleDevExpress MVVM Framework. Introduction to POCO ViewModels.
Traditionally, MVVM development means writing significant ViewModel boilerplate for bindable properties and commands. Even after extending the DevExpress.Xpf.Mvvm.ViewModelBase class, you need at least...
View ArticleNew in CodeRush 13.2: Unit Test Builder
Here’s a new feature that will help you generate test cases as you’re stepping through code. You know the scenario – you’re debugging and find a problem caused by the data passed in or the state of the...
View ArticleDevExpress Universal 13.2: Building modern apps everywhere
If you’ve been a DevExpress customer for a while now you’ll know the cadence of our releases: June and December, named year dot 1 and year dot 2. So it should come as no surprise that this week is the...
View ArticleNew CodeRush Plugin – Cleanup File and Namespaces
This plugin wraps up 2 existing tasks (The ‘CleanupFile’ command and the ‘Optimize Namespace References’) in to a single new command ‘CleanupFileAndNamespaces’.In order to use this plugin:Step 0 –...
View ArticleDevExpress MVVM Framework. Interaction of ViewModels. Messenger.
An application’s architecture depends on the degree of connection between its modules. Loosely-coupled systems are suited for large applications. This usually means many scattered modules, operating...
View ArticleVCL Roadmap news: Delphi 7 and 2007 support
We’ve just completed our Company Summit for 2014, where we all meet up, management and team leads alike, to discuss and formulate a plan for the following year. One of the results from this endeavor is...
View ArticleASP.NET WebForms & MVC: GridView Batch Edit (What's new in 13.2)
Check out the DevExpress ASP.NET GridView's excellent new editing feature in the latest 13.2 release:GridView Batch EditingThe DevExpress ASP.NET Grid (ASPxGridView) control allows you to modify a...
View ArticleHow To Customize DevExpress ASP.NET Check Box control for the iOS theme
The DevExpress ASP.NET controls are customizable. In fact, you can do things like move text from the left side of a control to the right side:In the image above, there is a DevExpress ASP.NET CheckBox...
View ArticleCodeRush Plugin – Cleanup File and Namespaces - How does it work?
As promised in my last post, I’m going to explain just how the CleanupFileAndNamespaces plugin works.To recap, this plugin creates a new Command (CleanupFileAndNamespaces) which will cause CodeRush to...
View ArticleDevExpress VCL 13.2: Modernizing your apps
As long-time customers know, we release our new major versions at the end of the first half of the year and at the end of the second half (June and December, usually). A couple of weeks ago, we...
View ArticleDevExpress MVVM Framework. Using Scaffolding Wizards for building Views.
Today, we examine using ViewModels to automatically generate Views. Our application looks as follows.When the application starts, the MainWindow shows the GridControl. The Ribbon provides some basic...
View ArticleA few more reasons to upgrade to v13.2
13.2 was a great release and many of you already upgraded your applications. For everyone else I am here to help you make that decision sooner and easier, by reminding you what our reviewers had to...
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