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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...

While Rachel is preparing a post to let you all know about our new enhancements to the WinForms Ribbon Control, I thought I'd mention a cool new feature being introduced in our WinForms Tab Control...that of custom buttons within the tab/page container...

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...

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 for showing the alert window In...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[ 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...

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...