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You may have noticed something peculiar once you’d installed v15.1: no Silverlight controls came as a part of the product and hence were no longer present on your machine. Wait, what? Back in December 2014, at the time of the v14.2 release, I announced...

Over the past year, it has become increasingly apparent to the Microsoft development market that Silverlight has become sidelined. Silverlight 5, the current major version, was released December 9, 2011 , three years ago. Apart from a series of minor...

XBAP? Betcha can’t remember what it stands for, let alone use it. The reply to the first point is XML Browser Application, and to the second part frankly not many people do use it. There are several reasons for the lack of love I suppose. Since it’s a...

As I stated in one of my most recent and (most heavily commented) blog posts, we made the decision to target Silverlight 5 for our Silverlight controls in v2011 vol 2. Now, that may or may not have been the right decision to make, but make it we did....

We have been working on a pretty amazing release for all of our customers and by now you have seen the depth and breadth of the DXv2 launch. One area that we are particularly proud of is our continuing work to support Silverlight. As is usual in these...

Just a quick post to say we’re here at DevConnections in Las Vegas showing off our packages, libraries, controls, and tools. Also some hush hush new features on our *cough*touch*cough* screens. If you are here, come by the booth and we’ll show you some...

I saw this one fly by as part of the What’s New proofing that’s going on (Ray is doing a fine job!) and the image alone made it worth publishing a blog post about it. First of all, what’s a workspace? A workspace is a particular layout of DevExpress controls...

The first beta of DXperience v2010 vol.1 has just been made available to our DXperience customers, and so I’d like to take this chance to talk a little about one of the major impacts of that release: the merging of our Silverlight and WPF controls to...

Yesterday, on the Ides of March, a date of which you should beware if you happen to be Caesar, an anniversary came and went. Four years ago, fresh-faced and wet behind the ears, I became CTO of Developer Express. Today, I’m older and wiser, grizzled you...

Scott Guthrie's big keynote of MIX09 has just ended and we're left with the aftershocks of some pretty exciting news. The Silverlight 3 beta was released (along with the SDK , and other goodies ) and Scott took us on a whirlwind tour of what's new and...