Don Wibier's Blog

• Angular
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• v16.1
• v17.2

DevExtreme for Angular– CRUD UI Scaffolding Wizard in Visual Studio (v18.2)

A lot of Angular developers are already familiar with the Angular CLI (Command Line Interface). Besides creating, running and testing an Angular project, it also enables you to generate different parts of your application including scaffolding....

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

5 November 2018

DevExtreme - New Material Design Theme (v18.1)

Google's Material Design is one of the most popular design languages used in Web and Mobile apps today. This UI is characterized by a grid-based layout and the use of only a few vivid colors to raise the user's attention to certain elements on the screen...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

26 April 2018

DevExtreme TreeList - Paging and State Persisting (v18.1)

We've included some really cool features in the DevExtreme TreeList widget in our upcoming v18.1 release. Paging If you're dealing with a lot of data in the TreeList, you might not want to scroll all the way down (or up). For this reason, we decided to...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

13 April 2018

DevExtreme: New TypeScript declarations and improved Angular typings (v17.2)

One of the things we support from the very first release of DevExtreme is TypeScript . As many of you know, TypeScript and its tooling allow us to use compile-time type checks and it offers support for classes and interfaces. Because of these features...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

14 November 2017

DevExtreme with and without jQuery (v17.2)

When we started developing DevExtreme back in 2012, jQuery was the de-facto library everybody used. It gave us the possibility to create a set of feature-rich widgets such as the DataGrid , TreeList , Scheduler and more in a short time-frame. If we take...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

9 November 2017

DevExtreme: A new set of themes and palettes (v17.2)

Since the first DevExtreme release, we shipped the product with a generic theme in both light and dark color schemes. We wanted to avoid color accents so the widgets would fit in any design. For us this meant that we needed to customize quite a bit in...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

3 November 2017

DevExtreme Editor Improvements (v17.2)

Besides the improvements and new features on complex controls like the dxScheduler, dxDataGrid , dxTreeList and dxPivotGrid , we also managed to add some useful features to the single-field Editors. dxTagBox The TagBox control, in general, is a rather...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

24 October 2017

Techorama 2017 Impressions

Last week, Julian, John and I where at the 4th edition of the Techorama Conference in Antwerp, Belgium. This year the conference was bigger as the previous editions, which was the reason to move from Mechelen to Antwerp. The speaker selection was impressive...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

30 May 2017

Creating Desktop Apps for Windows, Mac OS and Linux with DevExtreme

Last week I did a webinar on creating desktop applications with DevExtreme and Electron . In case you missed it, it is available on our YouTube Channel This was also one of the first webinars where a swift introduction on DevExtreme with Visual Studio...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

19 August 2016

DevExtreme: New client-side export for Charts and Data Visualization

DevExtreme comes with some really powerful Charting and other data visualization controls like Maps, Gauges and Range widgets. One of the issues faced in the pre-v16.1 versions of our suite was that exporting such a widget to e.g. PNG, JPG or PDF was...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

4 August 2016