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WPF Map Control - it's FREE to all MSDN Subscribers

We've been receiving lots of questions on our WPF Map Control and I wanted to take a minute to remind all of you that the control is free to all MSDN Subscribers The link to MSDN is: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ Look for the banner that says:...

Posted Dec 02 2011, 04:33 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, controls, v2011.2, map, DXv2, free, msdn

Introducing DXv2 from DevExpress

Today we released DXv2 to the world and delivered the next generation of development tools from DevExpress. This marks a renewed commitment by DevExpress to help you bridge the gap from the technologies you are using today to the opportunities presented...

Posted Nov 28 2011, 10:58 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 15 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF, v2011.2, Touch, DXv2, Whats New

New WPF and Silverlight Themes (coming in v2011 vol 2)

DXperience v2011 vol 2 will bring those of you targeting the WPF Platform a brand new Theme Editor and 2 new WPF Themes - emulating the Windows 7 and Office 2010 Black Look & Feel. As always, a picture is worth a thousand words... The DevExpres Seven...

Posted Sep 29 2011, 03:17 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, WPF, Themes, Office 2010, v2011.2, windows 7

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...

Posted Sep 26 2011, 12:18 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, Ribbon, MDI, v2011.2, customization, merging

WPF Font Picker - ICollectionView Support (coming in v2011 vol 2)

If you've been using our WPF controls, you are already aware of the collection of individual controls that ship in the DXEditors Library...If you've not had a chance to evaluate our WPF Controls, the following webpage details the 25 WPF Controls...

Posted Sep 25 2011, 11:22 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: WPF, v2011.2, search, editors, font, icollectionview, lookup

WPF and Silverlight Map Control: A few more images (coming in v2011 vol 2)

I recently mentioned the upcoming release of our WPF and Silverlight Map Control and wanted to provide you with a few more descriptive images of what the new Map Control will deliver to market once we release DXperience v2011 vol 2. First and foremost...

Posted Sep 23 2011, 02:03 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 22 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, map, open street, bing

.NET Reporting - a Preview of Report Templates for WPF Silverlight WinForms and ASP.NET

As I'm writing this, I realized that though we put out a press release about our Silverlight Report Designer Wizard , I have not actually blogged about it (will do so shortly) In any event, among the most interesting new features we'll introduce...

Posted Sep 21 2011, 11:51 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 19 comment(s)

Filed under: XtraReports, Silverlight, WinForms, DXperience, ASP.NET, WPF, reports, v2011.2

WPF and Silverlight Grid Control - Advanced Banded View Layout (a cool workaround)

In the next minor release of DXperience (11.1.8), we will be extending the capabilities of our WPF and Silverlight Data Grid with a cool "workaround" to generate Banded View Layouts - allowing you to arrange column headers and corresponding...

Posted Sep 21 2011, 03:26 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, DXGrid, Grid, xpf, bands, data grid

WPF Silverlight Map Control (an early preview)

As part of our BUILD Conference related announcements, I wanted to share an early preview of the DXMapControl for the WPF and Silverlght Platforms. The following are planned features for our WPF and Silverlight Map Controls: Online Data Providers - Bing...

Posted Sep 15 2011, 12:35 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 19 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, Build Conference, xaml, map

WPF Theme Editor by DevExpress (coming soon in v2011 vol 2)

The upcoming release of DXperience for WPF developers will include numerous new features - among them a shiny new application - the WPF Theme Editor. Before I get into the details, let me preface things with the following: This application uses 3 open...

Posted Sep 14 2011, 07:40 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 10 comment(s)

Filed under: WPF, Themes, Build Conference, editor, xaml

BUILD Conference: Thank You Microsoft...Here's to a Great Future

The Build Conference promises to be an amazing event. All of us at DevExpress (and I'm sure all of you) are looking forward to the official announcements and the proposed path for the future. We thank Microsoft for extending an invitation to DevExpress...

Posted Sep 09 2011, 12:12 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Silverlight, WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF, Build Conference

.NET Reporting - an Overview of What's on Tap for v2010 vol 2

With this post, I wanted to summarize the key features we'll be introducing into our .NET Reporting Controls in DXperience v2010 vol 2 - across the major platforms we support: WinForms, ASP.NET, Silverlight and WPF. 1. WinForms MDI End-User Report...

Posted Aug 27 2010, 11:47 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: XtraReports, Silverlight, WPF, v2010.2, ExMedia, reports, controls

WPF Scheduler - Calendar (coming in v2010 vol 2)

The screenshots you've been waiting for...early preview of our WPF Scheduler/Calendar control suite. Would love to get feedback from those of you targeting the WPF platform. WPF Day View - DX WPF Scheduler Control WPF Work Week View - DX WPF Scheduler...

Posted Aug 19 2010, 11:17 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 14 comment(s)

Filed under: WPF, v2010.2, Calendar, Scheduler

WPF Grid - Design Time and Misc Enhancements - v2010 vol 1

DevExpress WPF Data Grid Design-Time Enhancements in DXperience v2010 vol 1 With this release, our WPF Grid control provides enhanced design-time support within Visual Studio 2010 and Blend. Among these enhancements is the Quick Customization Panel that...

Posted Apr 22 2010, 11:59 AM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: WPF, Grid, v2010.1, blend, visual studio 2010

WPF Pivot Table-Grid - v2010 vol 1

In DXperience v2009 vol 3, we introduced our WPF Pivot Table control - with this release, we've extended its feature set to mirror those found in its WinForms and ASP.NET counterparts. New features available in DXperience v2010 vol 1 include: Three...

Posted Apr 06 2010, 06:14 PM by Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress) with | with 11 comment(s)

Filed under: WPF, v2010.1, Pivot, DXPivotGrid

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