I am pleased to announce that DevExpress Universal v18.2.4, which we just published, has added full support for the new Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 release. Although this is excellent news, do please note that we know of three issues (so far!) with VS2019...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

20 December 2018

WinForms WPF Featured Visual Studio VS2019 .NET Core

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DevExpress Universal v18.2 released

I am pleased to announce that we have just released DevExpress Universal v18.2. As usual, Universal includes our suites for WinForms, the assorted varieties of ASP.NET, WPF, UWP, as well as DevExtreme. CodeRush Ultimate has also been updated. For what...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

15 November 2018

DevExtreme WinForms ASP.NET WPF .NET Featured v18.2

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Build2018: WinForms and .NET Core 3 announcement

Yesterday, both as part of the general Microsoft Build announcements and a blog post from the .NET team, there was a fairly momentous announcement about the proposed .NET Core 3. ...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

8 May 2018

WinForms WPF Build 2018

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Windows 7 support for DirectX in WinForms

Three weeks ago, at the start of our beta period for v17.2, I described a fascinating new feature for our data grid in WinForms: sidestepping GDI+ and going straight to DirectX for way faster rendering. At the time I mentioned that, unfortunately, it...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

20 November 2017

Grid WinForms XtraGrid v17.2 DirectX

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Unified criteria-based filtering in WinForms grids (coming soon in v17.2)

In the v17.2 release of DevExpress WinForms, we’re adding a valuable new feature across our full range of grid-based controls (Data Grid, Property Grid, Pivot Grid and Vertical Grid): a criteria-based filtering system. This filtering system is common...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

13 November 2017

filtering Grid WinForms v17.2

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Major speed enhancements in WinForms grid (coming soon in v17.2)

Now that we’ve published the beta for v17.2 , it’s time to reveal a major new enhancement for our WinForms grid. After reading this, I’m going to bet you’ll be downloading the installer and trying it out for yourself. Let us know your results! WinForms...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

2 November 2017

Grid WinForms XtraGrid DirectX

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DevExpress v17.2 beta has just been released!

Just a quick note to say that the beta for DevExpress v17.2 has just been published. Be the first kid on the block that downloads it and tries it out. Usual caveats: it is a beta, so beware. Things work, sure, but there may be some issues that are still...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

2 November 2017

DevExtreme beta WinForms ASP.NET WPF v17.2

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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...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

21 April 2017

Breaking changes WinForms compatibility v17.1

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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...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

30 November 2016

Spreadsheet v16.2 WinForms WPF

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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...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

22 October 2015

LiveTileManager v15.2 deprecated WinForms WinRT Win8

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