Can I sell you a roadmap?

Hopefully you'll have squeezed in some release plans for WPF stuff among all the stabilizing and polishing. You are a component vendor for heavens sake, and should embraze WPF - not fear it. Get a grip !

Happy new year.

fantastic news Julian!!  I hope there is some great silverlight news too :)

Me too am looking forward for some great news on the silverlight front from you guys.

Crossing fingers for VCL components as well...

From the comments above it is obvious that you guys are being pulled in a lot of different directions, but I agree with Kai and honestly hope that you will put a big focus on WPF (and Silverlight) this coming year.

I am seriously in need of good WPF components.  I have tried the other vendors, but the stability of their WPF components does not come close to the quality of the stuff you guys put out.  So please, please, please put some more focus on WPF this year!

Yep, all of those things the guys mentiond above but I really do hope that there is going to be some XPO love this year, it's not had any love for a while now; 3-tier for example would make my dreams come true.

"VCL components..."

+1

In the rush to WPF do not forget that customers are still looking for Winforms features. The jury is still out as to whether WPF will ever enable a truly sophisticated and responsive UI but we know Winforms will. So please, please do not forget Winforms!

Our customers do not want new stuff every second year. They want reliable software with much features to work efficient. For me, please set your focus on new features in .NET-Controls. For example, the new gauges are nice, but if you compare with Dundas, i miss many useful features.

But lastly: You guys make a great job, go on like this in 2009!

Aren't Luxor rooms smaller than other hotels in Vegas ?

Great ideas need space ;-)

This seems to be the moment to push one more time for our favorite issues.  

Mine is DS57813 (basically provide tools for configuring the Ribbon quick access bar).  Recently I hacked up a tool to do this. on my own and even though it is a bad hack, it changed the way I use my application.  Once the QAB is more easily configurable, its utility increases dramatically.  Thus, I will make my pitch for DS57813 and say that it will change the way people use the Ribbion.

While, we are at it, maybe a thing to allow the users to configure complete ribbon pages would be useful also.

Cheers and best wishes for the new year.

While there are lots of people tracking lots of issues "Accepted - Release TBD" (some of which have been languishing for years), I would love to see more transparency regarding the numbers tracking what. In fact, it would be very nice to be able to have some sort of voting system for items somewhat similar to how uservoice.com works.

I now have everything i need from DevExpress and it all works perfectly for both WinForms and WebForms so any new nuggets you add will be a bonus.

I would say one thing though although i dont expect it to happen, i would love to see some form of diagramming components :)  i have written my own for the time being but they are in no way as superior as i would expect from DevExpress.

Scott.

I took the time out to offer you some thoughts as to why Winforms should not be forgotten when thinking about your roadmap for 2009 but I do not see the comments posted here...

Were they not deemed worthy enough for inclusion??

Anyway have a good lock-in.....

And all the best for 2009.

If you are going to send out coffee make sure it is in k-cups for me... :)

I think Silverlight focus is key.  The platform now has so much potential and for those of us that dread the hassles with javascript, html, etc...Silverlight is our silver lining!

I think there is another area of strong potential for Dx and that is in the area of application deployment.  Quite frankly there are no really good solutions out there for managing deployment of published applications and with the complexities (thanks Msoft) of all the security gotcha's in Server 2008 and IIS 7.x a tool that helps facilitate the deployment of Dx applications would be a big, big plus - it would also go to extending XAF's usability.

Seriously the deployment issues now surrounding applications due to Msof's draconian approach to their server security lock-downs is growing rapidly.  The majority of "production" problems we encounter are nearly all security related and there is very little reference and resource available to solve them.

Great job boys!

My vote(s): XAF + WPF, PivotChart, XPO

Hi Julian

GREAT! GREAT! GREAT!

PS: VCL Components +1 ;-)

VCL is the best for Windows development! We used Devexpress components since the beginning... But we think that Silverlight is the solution for 1-source development platform for RIA that have the same GUI look & feel like a Windows application. That is why we need asap the same component set for Silverlight as it is now available for VCL and Winform! Our clients are asking for brwoser enabled application and I think that ASP.net  with Ajax is not the solution. It's like the old Mainframe application in the past with an HTML jacket and a <submit> button!  Please don't make the same mistake Borland did by missing the Internet application development solution.  Why should I invest in WPF if I can do with Silverlight the same thing? Look at Adobe they are investing a lot for RIA enabled application and that is why MS counters with Silverlight. As a programmer shop its too expensive to cater for 2 development environments!

Regards,

KH

VCL ExpressLayoutControl 2.0 :)

Silverlight + Silverlight + Silverlight

WPF

More OLAP support in PivotGrid , dimention filters , measures filters like in Excel 2007 Pivot Tables.

Do we have to wait for Silverlight designer till VS 2010? Working all in the source tab is not a very pleasant experience, we need WYSIWYG

You are doing a great job

Cheers,Bassam

I've been tracking the XY Scatter chart suggestion (AS14503) for a good long while now. (It went "Accepted - Release TBD" just about 1.5 *years* ago!) I'd love to see this implemented soon.

What about Delphi Prism ?

VCL Components, Please!

WPF + Silverlight

dont do it like the car industry,

try to run the old cars until you dont sell anything anymore.

I am sure devExpress sells WinForms today, so did GM.

I say Winforms = GM, WPF/Silverlight = Fisker

My vote for VCL components (+++) and especially for Validators (www.devexpress.com/.../S20031.aspx) and new features for ExpressLayout like www.devexpress.com/.../B3623.aspx.

Best wishes for 2009.

Laurent

Silverlight. Silverlight. Silverlight.

Best wishes for 2009.

I am very much in agreement with David in that you should not forget Winforms and don't feel the comparison with GM is in any way justified. This is proven technology which delivers the goods. Nice to hear, Julian, about the changes to XtraGrid.

Hi,

This may be a radical idea, why not let your customers decide what features will be added in 2009? Make a list of possible features and let your costomers vote. Advantage database did something like this at:

feedback.advantagedatabase.com/.../general

Seems like a better idea then everybody posting messages here, and the DevExpress management locked up in a hotel room deciding what's best for us developers.

Raoul

(VCL, LayoutControl for VCL improvements, promised for years, and LEFT OUTER JOIN support for XPO)

Please don't waste any more energy on WPF - this technology is already dead in the water. Win Forms and ASP.NET are the way to go. Keep improving these already great products.

My Vote for VCL, Layout Control for VCL.

With Best Regards.

VCL: Layoutcontrol  PLEEEEEAASE!

VCL:

1. LayoutControl  (cause many of us use it even without new features/functionalities from dev. team);

2. TreeList 5 (since 2008...).

I shall be keeping a close eye on my accepted suggestion, thanks Julian.

VCL +++

WPF ++

SL +

Hoping for more Dev Express WPF controls in 2009 as I've got a couple of WPF apps on the cards this year and don't want to change vendors due to lack of Dev Express WPF controls!

Would love to see WPF Reporting and Scheduling appearing next....

Cheers guys

Hello,

For us, with XAF: marketting documentation helping us to sell our services, performance (Web/Win).

Less releases and more assured before publishing to reduce the effort that we've to make in every release (we have 9 products developed with XAF and sometimes is hard to keep them up to date)

Thanks from spain and good Job,

Sebastià Prat

VCL: Another vote for Layout control (with tabbed groups and possibly validators) and definitely a LayoutView for ExpressGrid !!!

Sebasti:  I can understand the effort required to update to a new release.  However, no one is saying that you have to update your programs when DevExpress releases a new version of their controls.  I feel that the more releases from  DevExpress, the better.  This ensuers that they are releasing their new enhancements / bug fixes as soon as possible.  It is your decision as to whether you want/need to upgrade your projects.  Maybe you should choose to upgrade only on every other release instead of every release?  Just my thoughts.

inc(VCL_Components);

(And PLEASE have a look at S91909.)

A Table button for the HTML Editor..please.

Hello Steve,

I'm agree with you. But if you don't update to the new release you can't prevent for "breaking" the software. We've some specifics relateds to the XAF.Core and it makes more sensitive to the changes.

Form few months ago you can ask/order a fix when you need it, I think this is better than changing all the staff every month ...

But, what's good is having different points of view ;-)

// VCL is alive and well.

inc(VCL_Components);

VCL Yes, VCL

It is time for GRID 7! (and LayoutControl 2 of course).

++VCL

... I cannot believe my eyes this morning. I've received notifications about DevExpress Support Center and concerns old DevExpress LayoutControls suggestions.

1. Suggestion Details: Resizing controls on the fly under customization mode at design-time

www.devexpress.com/.../B3625.aspx

New status is : Processed (Planned) by  Developer Express Team at  1/29/2009 12:08:37 PM

2. Suggestion Details: Add support for page controls / tabbed groups

www.devexpress.com/.../B3623.aspx

New status is Processed (Planned) by  Developer Express Team at  1/29/2009 12:12:44 PM

I'm wondering if DevExpress has started at least the upgrade of TdxLayoutComponents ...

Great news !!!

Thanks, thousand thanks DevExpress Team !!!!