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WinForms Default Settings: Some changes afoot in v17.1

Default settings: they can be a force for good and then quite quickly they can be a right royal pain. After all, when we supply some advanced functionality as part of our suites and controls, it’s good to have a reasonable default setting for the new...

Posted Apr 21 2017, 10:01 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Breaking changes, WinForms, compatibility, v17.1

WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet Control – Exciting New Features Coming Soon in v16.2

Microsoft Excel: ubiquitous, powerful, and familiar. Given its prevalence and breadth of functionality, there’ll always be a new feature to add to the DevExpress WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet control and for v16.2 it seems our dev team have gone above...

Posted Nov 30 2016, 11:00 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, WPF, Spreadsheet, v16.2

WinRT Live Tile Manager: it’s being deprecated

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...

Posted Oct 22 2015, 02:53 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, WinRT, Win8, LiveTileManager, v15.2, deprecated

Skinning WinForms: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

This may come as a shock to you – it certainly did to me – but it seems we provide over 50 skins to choose from for your WinForms projects. Well, I knew there were quite a few – you should see the number of pizzas we have to ship in to the graphic designer...

Posted Sep 24 2015, 03:45 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 51 comment(s)

Filed under: Skins, WinForms

WinForms and WPF Charting–Performance improvements in v15.1

In all walks of programming life, performance matters. It is especially true when you are using third-party controls where you have no influence over how quickly the controls and their content renders on the screen. We agree and have always considered...

Posted Jun 04 2015, 02:46 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: XtraCharts, WinForms, WPF, performance, v15.1

WinForms Layout Control: Usability Enhancements

As you may know – and in my opinion, should know: it’s a great, time-saving control – the Layout Control provides rich design-time and runtime customization capabilities, giving you and your users the ability to easily arrange controls in the way you...

Posted Mar 04 2015, 06:07 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 11 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, LayoutControl

WinForms Layout Control: Design-time templates

As with all matters in development, oftentimes we find ourselves building a user interface or part of a UI that is remarkably similar to something that we’ve just built. To avoid the repetition – in code, that is – we have had up to now several strategies...

Posted Dec 22 2014, 10:53 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 9 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, v14.2, LayoutControl

WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet: Mail-Merge, Comments, and more (Coming soon in v14.2)

In addition to the changes already described for the WinForms and the WPF spreadsheet controls, there are some smaller improvements and new features. Buckle up: this will be a wild ride… Mail-Merge: Data Source Wizard (WinForms) The Data Source Wizard...

Posted Nov 25 2014, 06:00 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: WinForms, WPF, Spreadsheet, v14.2

WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet: Grouping and AutoFilter (Coming soon in v14.2)

The premier spreadsheet control for Windows developers is getting a couple of much-requested features for v14.2: data grouping, and filtering of data using the AutoFilter feature. Let’s see what these involve. Data Grouping One of the biggest new features...

Posted Nov 21 2014, 05:00 PM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, WPF, Spreadsheet, filtering, grouping, v14.2

What’s New in 13.2.8 for the DevExpress Spreadsheet Control

We’re still some time away from publishing our first major release of the year, 14.1, but there have been some great new features added to our controls. Rather than forcing you to wait a few more months, we thought you’d benefit more by getting them early...

Posted Mar 17 2014, 08:00 AM by Julian Bucknall (DevExpress) with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: WinForms, WPF, .NET, Spreadsheet

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