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As with every planning phase we go through with regard to DevExpress Universal , we have a discussion about which versions of Visual Studio, C#, and .NET we should support in the proposed release. Our discussions about v18.2 (due in November or December...

Today, March 7, is a big day in the Microsoft developer world: Visual Studio 2017 has been released. So, where does DevExpress stand with regard to our .NET products? Will we be ready? Will you be able to download VS2017 on Day One and use your favorite...

As I posted yesterday , the newly published DevExpress Universal v16.1.8 supports the Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2017. VS2017 RC is a pretty stable release; however, you should be careful: this is still a beta and you may encounter issues as...

I received a pre-sales email today that had more than 20 questions about various aspects of purchasing and licensing our products. Since it took me a little while to reply to it, I thought I'd justify the time spent by posting it here as a kind of FAQ...

Something happened this afternoon that, although unremarkable on its face, wouldn't have worked without a couple of new technologies. I was monitoring my Twitter stream when I saw that one of our customers was having a problem with the new code issues...

I got a worried call from support this morning. In essence a customer had provided his entire application solution as an example program to reproduce a bug and they wanted a nice way (British, with a cup of tea and a ginger biscuit?) to turn his offer...

Dennis in our support team IMed me yesterday in some excitement. "We have the oldest customer!" was the message. I asked for more details. Dennis pointed me to Q180012 . I'll quote: ...born April 27, 1927. I'm a veteran of 3 wars and was involved in testing...

We've recognized for a while that there's a minor flaw in how we disseminate fixes to our products. Sure, the primary method of doing so is to issue a new release, either minor or major, but sometimes it's necessary to post an intermediate fix in some...

Over the past two or three months we've been implementing a new feature of our Support Center web site that we're calling Code Central. We've been dropping hints for a little time while we've been testing it internally, but it's come to the point that...

There's a new website in town, one that's a grand experiment in community involvement in bug reporting and tracking. The site is being run by Long Zheng and is named Windows UX Taskforce . He (and many others for that matter) noticed that although Vista...