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Delphi and C++Builder devs: VCL Subscription v2011.1 now released

If you are an active VCL subscription license owner, the DevExpress Downloads page ( http://devexpress.com/downloads ) has been updated with the official v2011 vol.1 release. You can download and install it immediately. photo © 2004 Frank Waaland | more...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

24 June 2011

VCL product subscriptions: listening to feedback

We’ve had a lot of extremely valuable feedback from my previous post about our plans for our VCL product line , both as comments to the post itself and as emails to me. I want to thank everyone who did respond: we’ve looked at and discussed all of them...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

21 June 2011

VCL subscription and v2011.1 news

( UPDATE : I've published some new information about our VCL plans here . By all means read this, but realize that there's more that's not covered here.) After some great feedback from you, our customers, and a bit of analysis on the data in our sales...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

13 June 2011

Sneak peek: Improving the navigation bar support in our VCL subscription (coming in v2011.1)

Normally, writing about removing support for an older control in favor of the newer one is enough to get me worried. In this case, the VCL team have done a bang-up job to make the transition as painless as possible. In essence, we’re making the older...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

3 May 2011

Sneak peek: New WinForms Document Manager control provides tabbed and MDI views (coming in v2011.1)

In v2011.1 we will be adding a new DocumentManager control to DXperience WinForms. This new control has been designed as a drop-in replacement for the older XtraTabbedMdiManager control, providing pretty much the same features (and interface) as the older...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

29 April 2011

Sneak peek: Visual Studio dock style for VCL docking library (coming in v2011.1)

We have implemented a new dock style for our ExpressDocking Library: the Visual Studio look and feel (suggestion: DS2222 ). Here it is in action: (Click to enlarge.) Switching the dock style can be performed via the newly introduced DockStyle property...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

26 April 2011

Sneak peek: improvements for the VCL pivot grid (coming in v2011.1)

The VCL team are readying the VCL subscription v2011.1 Release Candidate for this week. Depending on customer feedback of this RC, we shall be releasing the actual v2011.1 soon thereafter. In this RC, there have been a few improvements to the pivot grid...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

5 April 2011

Sneak peek: improving the performance and memory footprint of Excel and PDF export from WinForms grid (coming in v2011.1)

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...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

5 April 2011

Sneak peek: WinForms Alert Window gains great new features (coming in v2011.1)

We’ve implemented a couple of great new features for the WinForms AlertControl (a.k.a. – at least as far as I’m concerned – the “toaster” control) for v2011 vol.1, which will help make your apps pop. 1) Animation effects for showing the alert window In...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

25 March 2011

Sneak peek: WinForms grid – the best keeps getting better with multi-summary footers (coming in v2011.1)

Today is my fifth anniversary of working at DevExpress (I started on the 15th March, 2006), and just like that very first day, I’m travelling. This time, it’s chez Microsoft where we’re learning about the New Stuff coming up in the near future. This coming...

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

15 March 2011