WinForms: .NET 5 Design Time Enhancements

Before I describe our new WinForms .NET 5 designer and associated design-time experience, I think a word or two is needed about how we got here and why it took so long to address the needs of our loyal (and patient) WinForms developer community. WinForms...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

1 July 2021

WinForms .NET 5 Designer

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Design-Time Support for DevExpress WinForms Controls for .NET 5

While the WinForms platform has yet to fully address important design-time issues, Microsoft has made good progress for those considering .NET 5. For example, you can call up smart tag menus for a control......

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

11 November 2020

WinForms .NET 5 .NET Core Featured

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.NET Core 3.0 Support for ASP.NET Core, WinForms, and WPF Controls

.NET Core 3.0 and some supporting libraries, such as Entity Framework Code 3.0, is being launched at the online .NET Conf conference this week. As a .NET developer, you should have a myriad of questions: What benefits does .NET Core 3.0 provide compared...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

24 September 2019

WinForms XPO ASP.NET WPF XAF .NET .NETConf .NET Core Featured

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Two issues with Windows 10, version 1903

Although version 1903 of Windows 10 is still an optional upgrade, I’m going to guess that more people will be applying it as more news and information about it is revealed by Microsoft....

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

25 July 2019

WinForms .NET Windows 10 version 1903

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DevExpress Universal v19.1 released

DevExpress Universal v19.1 released...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

21 May 2019

universal DevExtreme WinForms ASP.NET WPF v19.1

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Visual Studio 2019 and .NET Core 3 Support

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 VS2019 .NET Core Featured Visual Studio

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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 v18.2 Featured

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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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