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DevConnections Las Vegas 2011–And they’re off!

Just a quick post to say we’re here at DevConnections in Las Vegas showing off our packages, libraries, controls, and tools. Also some hush hush new features on our *cough*touch*cough* screens. If you are here, come by the booth and we’ll show you some...

Posted Nov 01 2011, 10:35 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, ASP.NET, DevConnections, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, v2011.2

DXperience moving to .NET 3.5 or above after next major release

One of the discussions we had last week was over our continued support for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET versions prior to 3.5. We’ve come to the conclusion that we are unnecessarily limiting the features we can produce for WinForms and ASP.NET. photo ...

Posted Jul 01 2011, 04:33 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 116 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, ASP.NET, v2011.2

Sneak peek: New WinForms Document Manager control provides tabbed and MDI views (coming in v2011.1)

In v2011.1 we will be adding a new DocumentManager control to DXperience WinForms. This new control has been designed as a drop-in replacement for the older XtraTabbedMdiManager control, providing pretty much the same features (and interface) as the older...

Posted Apr 29 2011, 03:54 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 29 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v2011.1, DocumentManager

Sneak peek: improving the performance and memory footprint of Excel and PDF export from WinForms grid (coming in v2011.1)

Through valuable customer feedback and our own testing, we realized that our exporting engine wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, especially with regard to raw performance and memory usage. The call went out: increase the performance, and, at the same...

Posted Apr 05 2011, 10:55 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 19 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, XtraGrid, v2011.1

Sneak peek: WinForms Alert Window gains great new features (coming in v2011.1)

We’ve implemented a couple of great new features for the WinForms AlertControl (a.k.a. – at least as far as I’m concerned – the “toaster” control) for v2011 vol.1, which will help make your apps pop. 1) Animation effects...

Posted Mar 25 2011, 03:58 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 34 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v2011.1

Sneak peek: WinForms grid – the best keeps getting better with multi-summary footers (coming in v2011.1)

Today is my fifth anniversary of working at DevExpress (I started on the 15th March, 2006), and just like that very first day, I’m travelling. This time, it’s chez Microsoft where we’re learning about the New Stuff coming up in the near future. This coming...

Posted Mar 15 2011, 08:15 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 19 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v2011.1

Sneak peek: Date interval grouping in server mode. Again the WinForms grid scores (coming in v2011.1)

In version 11.1, we'll be adding support for group intervals for date-time columns in XtraGrid, our WinForms grid. In server mode, no less, in order to minimize the data transferred across the wire. You’ll be able to change group intervals via a single...

Posted Mar 08 2011, 03:11 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v2011.1

Sneak peek: Incremental search in column filter dropdowns? WinForms grid, of course (coming in v2011.1)

Another great feature coming in the next major version of XtraGrid: the ability to use incremental search in column filter dropdowns. One way to filter a column is to use column filter dropdowns. These dropdowns can be represented as regular or checked...

Posted Mar 08 2011, 02:59 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v2011.1

Sneak peek: WinForms grid gets better unbound columns in server mode (coming in v2011.1)

In the next major version of DXperience, v2011.1, XtraGrid is going to be gaining some more intelligence in Server mode. From that version onwards, unbound grid columns can be populated with data using expressions. In server mode. With the expression...

Posted Mar 08 2011, 02:28 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 9 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v2011.1

WinForms and DXperience v2011

[ UPDATE 7-Mar-2011: fixed grammar, spelling, links] There has been some feedback recently that we’re not paying enough attention to WinForms in our product plans and roadmap , or, putting it another way, we’re paying way too much attention to WPF, Silverlight...

Posted Mar 04 2011, 03:49 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 32 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v2011.1

Sneak peek: the WinForms Ribbon gains a mini toolbar (coming in v2011 vol.1)

We’ll be releasing a new Ribbon mini toolbar in DXperience WinForms v2011.1. This control emulates the familiar context toolbar in Microsoft Office applications, such as Word. Here’s a quick animated screenshot of the mini toolbar in action: The toolbar...

Posted Feb 17 2011, 10:53 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v2011.1

WinForms videos uploaded–gallery control, project wizard, simple skinning support (v2010 vol.2)

We’ve just uploaded a trio of videos I did 10 days or so ago (yes, a little delayed but we’ve been producing videos faster than Jeff, our videographer, can edit and render, poor chap). They’re on new v2010 vol.2 functionality and are in a tutorial style...

Posted Dec 02 2010, 03:27 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v2010.2, Tutorial

WinForms and ASP.NET Charting: moving averages (coming in v2010.2)

One of the pleasures of being in a downtime at a show like DevConnections is that you can browse the What’s New of our various products through the new Demo Center. Yes, I know I get notified of the new features well in time, but there’s nothing...

Posted Nov 04 2010, 12:26 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: XtraCharts, WinForms, Charting, v2010.2

WinForms skin choosers: using your own skin names

In the recent couple of blog posts on the new skin chooser that’s coming up in v2010 vol. 2, there were many comments about requiring the need to change the names of the skins we provide in WinForms. For some unknown reason ;), the example name that came...

Posted Oct 22 2010, 11:33 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, WinForms, v2010.2, XtraBars, ribbon

Still problems with ISupportInitialize and VS2010 RC

As part of the check-in process for Code Freeze for the next major release, the WinForms team did some more testing with Visual Studio 2010. And, lo and behold, there were still problems with the code that the designer in VS2010 RC produces. (I talked...

Posted Mar 16 2010, 12:38 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 8 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, XtraGrid, v2010.1

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DevConnections Las Vegas 2011–And they’re off!

DXperience moving to .NET 3.5 or above after next major release

Sneak peek: New WinForms Document Manager control provides tabbed and MDI views (coming in v2011.1)

Sneak peek: improving the performance and memory footprint of Excel and PDF export from WinForms grid (coming in v2011.1)

Sneak peek: WinForms Alert Window gains great new features (coming in v2011.1)

Sneak peek: WinForms grid – the best keeps getting better with multi-summary footers (coming in v2011.1)

Sneak peek: Date interval grouping in server mode. Again the WinForms grid scores (coming in v2011.1)

Sneak peek: Incremental search in column filter dropdowns? WinForms grid, of course (coming in v2011.1)

Sneak peek: WinForms grid gets better unbound columns in server mode (coming in v2011.1)

WinForms and DXperience v2011

Sneak peek: the WinForms Ribbon gains a mini toolbar (coming in v2011 vol.1)

WinForms videos uploaded–gallery control, project wizard, simple skinning support (v2010 vol.2)

WinForms and ASP.NET Charting: moving averages (coming in v2010.2)

WinForms skin choosers: using your own skin names

Still problems with ISupportInitialize and VS2010 RC