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WinForms Charts: How to use panes programmatically

A request came in just recently, prompted by my video introducing the three major new features in XtraCharts v2008 vol 2: how do you set up a couple of series and display them in separate panes. "Programmatically" came the kicker before I could quip with...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

27 August 2008

WinForms Charting basics: the Radar plot

A quick video this one, part of a series on the different chart types available in XtraCharts. Here I discuss the three radar charts provided in our charting product: radar points, lines, and area. [For some reason, it looks as if some demented two-year...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

26 August 2008

WinForms & ASP.NET Charts: what's new in v2008 vol 2

Here's a video that describes three of the important new features in XtraCharts for v2008 vol 2. The three features I talk about are: Intelligent label layouts: making sure that your series labels don't overlap. Since this can be a very processing intensive...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

21 August 2008

Video: DXperience v2008 vol 2 released

Earlier on today we released DXperience v2008 vol 2. Loads of great features and enhancements, such as the gauges, the wizard, the improved HTML editor, and so on. But... Coincidence or not? Yesterday afternoon I blogged about the delay in releasing the...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

25 July 2008

Major release on its way

Something came up today in sales-land, both in a phone call and in a couple of emails. "When's v2008 vol 2 going to be released?" "Any day now. We discovered a showstopper bug that would affect too many customers, and needed to fix it prior to release...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

24 July 2008

Labels, Grid with formatted text

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...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

11 July 2008

WinForms gauges: The XtraGauges dial goes to 11 not 10

OK, I know, a little over the top, but please allow me a teensy bit of hyperbole. I've been playing around with the latest demo for XtraGauges for a couple of hours so that I could prepare this blog post and I'm wowed. Yep, ol' Mr Cynical here loves this...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

3 July 2008

Doing the Timewarp

I know, I know. You're anxiously awaiting the DXperience v2008 vol.2 beta and all we seem to be doing is releasing new minor releases of v2008 vol.1. [UPDATE: Thu 3-Jul, 6am Mountain time - v2008.1.6 has just been released.] A bit of background: there...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

2 July 2008

Breaking Changes for v2008 vol.2 (UI controls)

This is the second part of the Breaking Changes for v2008 vol.2, covering changes to our ASP.NET and WinForms controls. I must add here that this list is not the What's New list, but merely the changes we've had to make to DXperience in order to fix bugs...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

1 July 2008

Breaking Changes for v2008 vol.2 (frameworks)

These are the breaking changes for the the frameworks (eXpress Persistent Objects, XPO, and eXpressApp Framework, XAF) in v2008 vol.2. Breaking changes for the UI controls will be discussed in another post. XPO IXPSimpleObject is now derived from IXPClassInfoAndSessionProvider...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

30 June 2008