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Build2018: WinForms and .NET Core 3 announcement
May 8, 2018
Microsoft Build is coming…
May 3, 2018
DevExpress Roadmap for 2018
Mar 8, 2018
Fun times at Microsoft Tech Summit, Frankfurt
Feb 26, 2018
Spoiled for choice in Frankfurt
Feb 20, 2018
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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
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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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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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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...
Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)
24 September 2015
Skins WinForms
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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...
Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)
4 June 2015
v15.1 XtraCharts WinForms WPF performance
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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...
Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)
4 March 2015
LayoutControl WinForms
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