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WinForms Controls - Updates to Our Outlook-inspired NavBar, Accordion Control and New Office Animations (Coming soon in v16.1)

In this post, I want to quickly describe some of the Microsoft Office related and app navigation features we'll introduce in v16.1. DevExpress NavBar - Compact View Our WinForms NavBar and Office Navigation Bar controls now offer a compact mode. When...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

24 May 2016

WinForms: Right to Left Support

Last month, I blogged about support for Right-to-Left languages across our WinForms product line. Yes, this was a feature long time in coming and since it's finally here, I wanted to take a moment and show you how you can try our implementation for yourself...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

23 June 2015

WinForms Ribbon Control - Office Universal UI (Coming soon in v15.1)

A couple of release cycles ago, we introduced a new Ribbon Style to replicate the UX that shipped as part of Office for iOS. In v15.1, we'll introduce our "Office Universal" Ribbon style... If you're not familiar with this UX, take a moment to search...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

22 May 2015

Facebook Poll: Which Ribbon Style Do You Use Most?

We're running a poll on Facebook to see which of our WinForms and/or WPF Ribbon styles you use most in your desktop applications. We'd love to get your feedback - please take a moment to submit your vote. http://apps.facebook.com/my-polls/dxribbon If...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

19 November 2014

WPF Ribbon Control: New "Office for iOS" Presentation Style (Now available in v14.2)

As you all know by now, with the release of Office for iPad, Microsoft made significant changes to its Ribbon to accommodate the touch-first nature of tablet devices. In our upcoming release, we've updated our WPF Ribbon Control to support the look, feel...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

18 November 2014

WinForms iPad Style Ribbon (coming soon in v14.1)

With the release of Office for iPad, Microsoft made significant changes to its Ribbon to accommodate the touch-first nature of tablet devices. In our upcoming release, we've updated our WinForms Ribbon Control to support the look, feel and user-experience...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

13 May 2014

WPF SpreadSheet Control

I've been sharing some of the newest controls we'll release in December over the last couple of days. For our WPF customers, we're going to be releasing a WPF SpreadSheet Control and its feature set will be much like its current WinForms counterpart....

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

18 October 2013

ASP.NET WebForms Ribbon Control

In the upcoming major release of our ASP.NET Subscription (v13.2), we'll be introducing a brand new Ribbon Control for WebForms. The images below should give you some indication of its capabilities and if you look real carefully, you'll be able to see...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

15 October 2013

Silverlight and WPF Ribbon Bar Merging (MDI Apps) and Runtime Customization (coming in v2011 vol 2)

Silverlight and WPF Ribbon Bar Merging For those who prefer building WPF or Silverlight MDI applications, you may already be using our WPF Docking Library...If you are considering MDI for your next application, you can read more about the WPF DXDocking...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

26 September 2011

VCL Ribbon Control, Gallery and Skin Chooser

For all of our Delphi and C++ Builder customers - The following new features will ship as part of the ExpressBars Suite v7 Build 54. Microsoft Office 2010 style Ribbon UI We've implemented changes to the following Ribbon UI elements to emulate corresponding...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

14 December 2010