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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...

Now that we’ve published the beta for v17.2 , it’s time to reveal a major new enhancement for our WinForms Data 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...

A week or so ago, Don published a blog post about our new Microsoft Excel-inspired conditional formatting feature for the WinForms data grid, XtraGrid, that’s coming in v14.2. (Again, the release is only a few weeks away, the beta is out if you are an...

Through valuable customer feedback and our own testing, we realized that our exporting engine wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, especially with regard to raw performance and memory usage. The call went out: increase the performance, and, at the same...

As part of the check-in process for Code Freeze for the next major release, the WinForms team did some more testing with Visual Studio 2010. And, lo and behold, there were still problems with the code that the designer in VS2010 RC produces. (I talked...

These are the new features for the XtraGrid and Editors Suite. Windows Vista Style Filtering for Date-Time Columns For date-time columns, you can easily filter data using a handy filter dropdown. This now contains an embedded calendar. In addition, the...

This is the fourth part of the Breaking Changes list for v2008 vol 3, covering miscellaneous changes. This list is not the What's New list for v2008 vol 3, but merely the changes we've had to make to DXperience in order to fix bugs, add new functionality...

Someone in WinForms R&D obviously finished his work early and decided to add something we've been talking about for a little while: formatted text for labels and such like. It's not in the Release Candidate, but will be in the v2008 vol 2 release itself...

It seemed like a long day at the second exhibitor session today. In fact, now that I've sat down I don't know if I'll be able to stand again for quite a while. The biggest thing that happened today was the editor of Visual Studio Magazine popping around...

In all the excitement of releasing both DXperience v2008 vol1 and our VCL Subscription build 34 on the same day a week or so ago, you may have missed this rather stunning bit of news, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention again. SD Times also phoned...