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DXperience v2009.2 released!

     

I'm sure that many of you already know about this and have snagged the bandwidth to download before telling all your friends, but we released DXperience v2009.2 this morning (US time). Alongside that, we announced the new subscription package, DXperience WPF, to contain all of our WPF controls, in the same manner that DXperience WinForms and DXperience ASP.NET aggregate their respective controls.

You can find out what's new — and let me tell you, there is a great deal of What's New — in this particular release by visiting the official page, or by reading the blog posts we wrote as v2009.2 was moving from code freeze through integration and overall functional testing. For those of you who are upgrading from v2009.1 (and remember you can run these major versions side-by-side so you don't have to upgrade your applications immediately), you can see the breaking changes list here.

I personally feel that this is an excellent release with many new features and some great enhancements. Many of these changes were implemented as a direct result of feedback and suggestions from our customers, either by phone, by email to our support team, by filling out some great reports online, or by snagging us at the conferences we've attended, and almost certainly by ESP. Everyone at DevExpress would like to thank you for this feedback. It is very much appreciated, I can tell you.

And now, onto v2009.3!

Published Aug 25 2009, 01:35 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)
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John Frost2 said:

When will v2009.3 be released?

When will the roadmap to v2009.3 be released?

Sorry, just had to ask.  I will now remove my tongue from my cheek.

Great job!

August 25, 2009 5:14 PM
 

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) said:

Brian: I like to sometimes refer to the final major release of the year as the "tuna surprise" version, so named for when my wife asks what's for dinner, and I say Tuna Surprise. The surprise being, of course, there's no tuna in it. So, 9.3: the tuna-friendly release.

Seriously, we've been dropping hints already, but certainly pivot grid & scheduler for WPF, more stuff (including possibly the same pivot grid/scheduler combo) for Silverlight (and getting the controls out of beta), possibly some ASP.NET MVC controls. Usual enhancements spread over all controls. Other stuff that we'll be talking about in the weeks to come.

Cheers, Julian

August 25, 2009 6:55 PM
 

Bruno Cossi said:

Julian,

Very well done!

Cheers,

Bruno

August 25, 2009 7:45 PM
 

Alex Boston said:

Great Job,

And if we can speak about 9.3 :)

Can I ask about XAF using WPF.

August 25, 2009 8:23 PM
 

Alain Bismark said:

Great,

but what about new features for XPO and XAF to 9.3??

regards

August 25, 2009 10:45 PM
 

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) said:

All: Blimey, I knew if I was going to rattle something off the top of my head about 9.3, I would get someone who'd ask about "their" favorite product. Sorry, I didn't have (and don't now) the latest info about XAF/XPO in 9.3, but I can say that we recently increased the headcount in the team to help drive the product forward over the next 6 to 12 months.

Cheers, Julian

August 25, 2009 11:21 PM
 

Krishna Prasad said:

Was looking forward to this release!!.

am I missing something?

Are the Ag controls part of WPF?. Cannot find them anywhere?

August 25, 2009 11:44 PM
 

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) said:

Krishna: the AgXxx controls are our Silverlight controls. They are not part of the WPF controls. Although we were hoping to release them out of beta, like the WPF controls, there was too much still to complete. They will remain in beta for our DXperience customers and it's likely that they will come out of beta for v2009.3.

Cheers, Julian

August 25, 2009 11:59 PM
 

david@shannon.name said:

I know you don't really need to hear this kind of adulatory tripe.  But I couldn't do half the stuff I do without your components, XPO, and XAF.  Over the years they have become the backbone of my applications.

So don't screw up.  I need to make a living...

August 26, 2009 12:43 AM
 

Greffith Ponce said:

Aggree to you David. I am only one year in XAF and XPO but I am looking to it as my future.

August 26, 2009 3:33 AM
 

Paolo Liverani said:

What about XAF generating a silverlight application?

August 26, 2009 11:57 AM
 

Stanislaw Tristan said:

Is native ASP.NET MVC controls will be free?

August 26, 2009 1:14 PM
 

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) said:

David: As I intimated, we're putting in the resources to ensure XAF's and XPO's success.

Paolo: One of the things on the list, but I have no news to impart about schedules or release dates.

Cheers, Julian

August 26, 2009 1:18 PM
 

Christoph Brändle said:

2009.2 is indeed an excellent release, the DXGrid is now really high quality, I am slightly impressed by the progress (I did not expect that).

This makes it much more easily to wait and see what is coming next, the DXScheduler in DXGrid quality will be most welcome! My lost faith is back again, well done!

August 26, 2009 2:48 PM
 

Robert Colby said:

We are experiencing some severe slow-downs in instance creation of controls with a lot of DX controls on them in 9.2 vs. 9.1.  I have removed some layout controls and things are a little better, but still much slower than with 9.1.  Anyone else seeing these issues?

August 26, 2009 3:19 PM
 

Oleg Tiktinski said:

will .3 release fully support RIA ?  :)

full blown design time support for SilverLight ? :)

August 26, 2009 5:47 PM
 

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) said:

Robert: Please email support using support@devexpress.com. They will be the best people to diagnose this issue.

Cheers, Julian

August 26, 2009 5:57 PM
 

Jon Windust said:

Hi,

I have not been a DevExpress client for long. You have published a list of breaking changes in this release - which is great, I really appreciate that. But there seem to be a huge number of them. Is this typical of your recent releases? Or was this more than usual?

August 26, 2009 8:12 PM
 

Conrad Akunga said:

As usual, brilliant! I' m particularly keen on getting to grips with the new features

August 27, 2009 5:00 AM
 

DTR said:

Kudos to DevExpress for all the great work!

Any reason why the Silverlight demos were not included in the 9.2.4 install (Demo Center)?  I've found these a great reference on the previous releases.

August 27, 2009 12:22 PM

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Julian is the Chief Technology Officer at Developer Express. You can reach him directly at julianb@devexpress.com. You can also follow him on Twitter with the ID JMBucknall.
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