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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...