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WinForms Layout Control: Design-time templates

As with all matters in development, oftentimes we find ourselves building a user interface or part of a UI that is remarkably similar to something that we’ve just built. To avoid the repetition – in code, that is – we have had up to now several strategies...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

22 December 2014

DevExpress VCL: Improvements to grid, maps, and spreadsheet (coming soon in v14.2)

A quick trio of improvements to the DevExpress VCL Subscription… VCL Grid Control As part of v14.2, we've added a Find Panel to our grid control, the ExpressQuantumGrid. This enhancement is dead simple for your users: to find some text in the dataset...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

9 December 2014

DevExpress VCL: New Rich Edit Control CTP (coming soon in v14.2)

As I’ve said many times now, if you want to guess what will be coming in future versions of DevExpress VCL, all you have to do is look at what our .NET teams have been adding to their suites right now. And this next new control fits the pattern exactly...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

8 December 2014

DevExpress VCL: Camera control, Toggle switch editor (coming soon in v14.2)

Among all the major new features, we found the time to add a couple of new smaller controls to DevExpress VCL v14.2. The first is a fun control, directly from customer feedback: the Camera Control. This control allows you to incorporate the camera on...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

8 December 2014

DevExpress VCL: Gauge Control (coming soon in v14.2)

With every release of DevExpress VCL, we add more controls and features for data visualization . Many applications these days are growing into business analysis systems: data crunching and the presentation of results in the clearest way possible to allow...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

5 December 2014

DevExpress Universal v14.2 released

As I write this post, the teams are making the final v14.2 build ready to upload to our servers. In fact, by the time you read this, we will have flipped the (metaphorical) big red switch that makes it available to you, our active customers. Although...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

4 December 2014

WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet: Mail-Merge, Comments, and more (Coming soon in v14.2)

In addition to the changes already described for the WinForms and the WPF spreadsheet controls, there are some smaller improvements and new features. Buckle up: this will be a wild ride… Mail-Merge: Data Source Wizard (WinForms) The Data Source Wizard...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

25 November 2014

WinForms Data Grid: breaking change with Conditional Formatting (v14.2)

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...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

21 November 2014

WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet: Grouping and AutoFilter (Coming soon in v14.2)

The premier spreadsheet control for Windows developers is getting a couple of much-requested features for v14.2: data grouping, and filtering of data using the AutoFilter feature. Let’s see what these involve. Data Grouping One of the biggest new features...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

21 November 2014

DevExpress v14.2 beta 1 is now ready for download

Just in time for the weekend and all that spare time you thought you’d have, we have released beta 1 of Universal v14.2. The beta is open to all active DXperience and Universal subscribers. To get it, all you need to do is login to devexpress.com , click...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

20 November 2014