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WinRT Live Tile Manager: it’s being deprecated

Two years or so ago, we introduced a component that enabled you to start up and communicate with live tiles in Windows 8 from a WinForms application. So, you know, a non-Windows-RT application talking to a tile on the Start Screen. It was the WinRTLiveTileManager...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

22 October 2015

deprecated LiveTileManager v15.2 Win8 WinForms WinRT

Windows 8 XAML controls package now with Windows 8.1 support

I’m sure that our customers already know that Windows 8.1 is due to be released on October 17. However, after a rocky start where that release date applied to everyone (apart from manufacturers), Microsoft eventually relented and allowed MSDN and TechNet...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

4 October 2013

Metro Win8 XAML

WinForms Tile Control (new features coming in 13.1.6)

As you all know by now, Windows 8.1 is right around the corner and it will include new Live Tile features for the Start Menu. In the next minor release of our WinForms Subscription, we'll be updating our WinForms Tile Control to include support for small...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

12 July 2013

Live Tiles Start Menu Tile Control Win8 WinForms

DevExpress Universal 13.1: Binding tomorrow to today

There are some major releases which accrue a certain amount of importance, and, in looking through the What’s New for this first major release of 2013, I can’t help but feel that sense of significance. The reason? There’s so much good stuff here that...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

6 June 2013

ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC reporting v2013.1 Win8 WinForms WPF

Presenting the Windows 8 XAML controls in DXTREME

It’s a funny old world. It seems only like yesterday we had a WinForms suite of controls and an ASP.NET suite of controls for .NET and that was about it. (My first commercial use of DevExpress controls was led by the old original version 1 ASPxGrid mumblety...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

9 October 2012

DXTREME Win8 WinRT XAML

BUILD Conference: Recap and our commitment to you

Unless you went on vacation last week to Machu Picchu (where there’s not even electricity, let alone WiFi), you will have heard about the BUILD Conference (or //build/ if you OCR the logo). You may already have looked at some of the videos of the sessions...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

20 September 2011

Build Conference Metro Win8

BUILD Conference: the S. Somasegar interview

Julian blogged about Dave Mendlen's interview with Jason Zander yesterday. Here's Seth's interview with S. Somasegar, Senior VP at the Developer Division in Microsoft. http://tv.devexpress.com/#BUILDSomasegar...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

15 September 2011

Build Conference visual studio Win8

BUILD Conference: impressions of Windows 8 keynote news

Like many people, I watched the keynote by Steven Sinofsky at BUILD remotely – I am not one of the on-site DevExpress crew this time. Rather than rehash what the keynote revealed (after all you can watch it again if you want to), I thought I’d summarize...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

13 September 2011

Build Conference Win8 WinRT

WinForms Controls: Multi-Touch and Tablet Support part 2

A few days ago I posted a teaser video outlining some of the multi-touch enabled features of our WinForms Controls in the upcoming release of DXperience v2011 vol 2. As is usually the case, we've gotten a lot of questions...among them one from vaskess...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

12 September 2011

Build Conference Tablet Touch Win8 WinForms

WinForms Controls: Multi-Touch and Tablet Support (coming in v2011 vol 2)

I think the subject line of this post is self-explanatory...but to tease you even further, we've prepared a short video.... http://tv.devexpress.com/#WinFormsMultiTouchSupport The video demontrates multi-touch enabled versions of our WinForms Grid, WinForms...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

6 September 2011

Build Conference Charts Grid Tablet Win8 Windows 8 WinForms XtraCharts XtraGrid