As you may know, we’ve been improving DevExpress BI Dashboard’s asynchronous data processing capabilities in recent release cycles. We continue to invest resources in this area and thanks to some great feedback, we’ve further improved asynchronous data processing for supported desktop platforms (WinForms / WPF).
v20.1.6 includes the following Async-related changes to our Dashboard’s desktop controls (WinForms Dashboard Designer and Dashboard Viewer, WPF Dashboard Control).
What Has Changed?
We removed data calculations and data requests from the UI thread. With v20.1.6, Desktop Dashboard controls execute these operations without UI thread locking. To explore the impact of this change, simply...
Open a Dashboard
Change the DashboardParameter value
Call the ReloadDataAsync method
As you can see in the animations above, the Dashboard’s interface is no longer locked and it now displays a loading indicator to provide visual feedback to end users.
This change is available out-of-the-box and does not require any modifications to your code.
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