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Silverlight Rich Edit Control and Silverlight Ribbon (coming in v2010 vol 2)

Silverlight Rich Edit Control + Silverlight Ribbon “ The shiny thing to end all shiny things ” - Sand Serif Cheers Azret

Posted Nov 11 2010, 10:00 AM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: Silverlight, v2010.2, RichEdit, Ribbon

Silverlight Rich Edit Control – Table Support (coming in v2010 vol 2)

Last week I posted some previews for an upcoming WPF Rich Edit Control . This time let’s have a look at what’s in store for our Silverlight Rich Edit Control . Fig 1: Tables related toolbar and menu items. Fig 2: Split Cells Dialog Fig 3:...

Posted Sep 03 2010, 10:21 AM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, AgRichEdit, v2010.2, RichEdit

Silverlight Charts (coming in v2010 vol 2)

This is probably the most awaited addition to our Silverlight Product Line . Yes, I am talking about the Charting Suite! Here are some early previews of the Bar and Point Charts, please let us know what you think. Fig 1: Side By Side Bars Fig 2: Full...

Posted Aug 25 2010, 04:45 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with 14 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, Charts, v2010.2, DXperience

End-User Report Designer – Viewing Reports (Part 2)

In part 1 we created an end-user report designer that can publish reports to a database using OData protocol. Now, let’s create a Silverlight application that can view the reports that we have published. Report Service First we’ll add a printing service...

Posted Aug 24 2010, 09:37 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: Silverlight, XtraReports, XPO, Reports, OData

End-User Report Designer - Publishing Reports (Part 1)

One of the challenges for any enterprise level application is reporting. How do we create reports? How to do we let our users create them without our involvement? How do we deploy them? etc… These and all other reporting related questions are addressed...

Posted Aug 24 2010, 05:47 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: Silverlight, XtraReports, XPO, Reports, OData

WPF and Silverlight Reporting Service Enhancements

For v2010 vol 2 release, the Reporting Service underwent a big revision to address the way it manages report objects on the server. Let me explain the problem. Fig 1: Client & Service Call Flow Fig 1, The above shows the basic call flow between...

Posted Aug 19 2010, 05:05 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: Silverlight, XtraReports, Reports

Silverlight Report Viewer and the XtraReports End User Report Designer - v2010 vol 1

In my previous post I have showed you how to display an XtraReport inside a Silverlight application. The assumptions we made last time were that the reports are created by the developer and that they are compiled into the solution. This is not always...

Posted Apr 28 2010, 02:50 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, XtraReports, v2010.1, Reports, ExMedia

Silverlight Drag and Drop – v2010 vol 1

v2010.1 has a new undocumented drag and drop library that is used internally by our controls. The code for it lives in DevExpress.Xpf.Core and is abstract enough to be reused. If you need drag and drop support in your Silverlight apps, please download...

Posted Apr 23 2010, 01:36 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, v2010.1, XPF

Silverlight Report Viewer – v2010 vol 1

Last week we made two big announcements regarding our Reporting Suite. The first one is that it will fully support Visual Studio 2010 and the second one is that we are introducing Report Viewer controls for both WPF and Silverlight. I know a lot of you...

Posted Apr 16 2010, 03:56 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, XtraReports, v2010.1, ExMedia

Silverlight Grid - Unbound Columns and Expression Editor – v2010 vol 1

The AgDataGrid in v2010.1 will introduce a new set of features to work with unbound columns. Now, it was possible to do unbound or calculated columns before but the approaches used to accomplish those had limitations. For example you could add a “calculated...

Posted Apr 09 2010, 04:37 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: Silverlight, AgDataGrid, v2010.1, ExMedia

Silverlight Filter Editor – v2010 vol 1

DXperience v2010.1 will introduce a new Filter Control to let the end-users build complex filter criteria. Operators Conditions In addition to the standard comparisons like equal, greater than etc…, DateTime fields have an additional set of date...

Posted Apr 09 2010, 03:57 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: Silverlight, AgDataGrid, v2010.1, FilterControl

Silverlight Grid Control and Data Annotations – v2010 vol 1

AgDataGrid in v2010.1 will introduce support for Data Annotations. This is especially useful if you have adopted .NET RIA Services for your data transport. In the first release the DataGrid will support the following annotation attributes from System...

Posted Apr 09 2010, 03:17 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: Silverlight, AgDataGrid, v2010.1, ExMedia

New Silverlight and WPF Editors – v2010 vol 1

I have described earlier about the merge of WPF and Silverlight into XPF. I should mention now that data editors will now live in DevExpress.Xpf.Core assembly instead of the old DevExpress.AgEditors/DevExpress.Wpf.Editors. The editors are used extensively...

Posted Apr 08 2010, 04:47 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with 8 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, v2010.1, XPF

Silverlight Upload Control – v2010 vol 1

With DXperience v2010.1 we are introducing a couple of new Silverlight only controls. One of them is a long requested Upload Control The Upload Control will provide a rich UI for adding and removing files, and a progress indicator where you can suspend...

Posted Apr 08 2010, 12:03 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, v2010.1, UploadControl

eXpress Presentation Framework: XPF - v2010 vol 1

As the release of DXperience v2010.1 is approaching, I thought I’d share some info about the new controls and new features that have made it into v2010.1. But first things first. What is XPF? Simply put, as of v2010.1, we have merged our codebases...

Posted Apr 05 2010, 03:17 PM by Azret Botash (DevExpress) with | with 18 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, v2010.1, XPF

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