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DXperience v2008 vol 3: What's New is now live

OK, there I was writing about the new features in DXperience v2008 vol 3, and I needed to find out about a particular one. So I nipped into the next room to ask Andrew about it, and he said, duh, the What's New has just been uploaded to the main website...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

31 October 2008

DXperience v2008 vol 3: End-user report designer now fully skinnable (WinForms)

We've now replaced the standard property grid in XtraReports' end-user report designer with our own XtraPropertyGrid. This has two consequences. First, the end-user designer is now fully skinnable with our various skins. Here it is with the Pumpkin skin...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

31 October 2008

DXperience v2008 vol 3: sorting by any column/row in the pivot grid (WinForms)

This one is for those hard-core types who live and breathe pivot grids (and I'm talking about the end-users here). In version v2008 vol 3, you can specify the summary columns or rows that can be sorted. At run-time, the user merely has to right-click...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

31 October 2008

Breaking Changes for DXperience v2008 vol 3 (miscellaneous)

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...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

30 October 2008

Breaking Changes for DXperience v2008 vol 3 (frameworks)

This is the third part of the Breaking Changes list for v2008 vol 3, covering changes to XAF (eXpress App Framework). 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...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

30 October 2008

Breaking Changes for DXperience v2008 vol 3 (scheduling)

This is the second part of the Breaking Changes list for v2008 vol 3, covering changes to XtraScheduler (WinForms) and ASPxScheduler. 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...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

30 October 2008

Breaking Changes for DXperience v2008 vol 3 (reporting, charting, gauges)

This is the first part of the Breaking Changes list for v2008 vol 3, covering changes to XtraCharts and XtraReports in WinForms and AS.NET, as well as XtraGauges (WinForms only, the ASP.NET version of our gauges product is known as ASPxGauges). This list...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

30 October 2008

DXperience v2008 vol 3: Conditional formatting in reports (WinForms and ASP.NET)

An oft-requested feature in XtraReports is the ability to print certain report controls in the report differently based on some formatting rule. The rule would (presumably) be based on the values in the record bound to that control. As usual, a picture...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

28 October 2008

DXperience v2008 vol 3: First page preview for reporting in WinForms

This is a cool feature that improves the user experience when generating preview reports on a lot of data. Until v2008.3, XtraReports used to generate the entire report before showing it to the end-user, and, in those cases when there was a lot of data...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

28 October 2008

DXperience v2008 vol 3: Bubble charts for WinForms and ASP.NET

Bubble charts are an interesting way of showing data that has a third dimensional component. You map two dimensions along the usual X and Y axes, and then the third dimension is displayed as a shape, usually a filled circle; hence, "bubble") at the data...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

28 October 2008