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Bootstrap ASP.NET Core & WebForms - Sparkline Control available (v18.1)

The Sparkline control is a simplified compact version of a Line chart control. It only contains one series. It is used most commonly in areas which leave very little space but a visual indicator is required. An example is by integrating the Sparkline...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

4 June 2018

ASP.NET WebForms & MVC - Adaptive Improvements

In the last couple of releases we have put quite some effort in making our WebForms controls and MVC extensions adaptive so they will look good on any device. We decided that there were some controls that needed some more work and in the v18.1 release...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

30 May 2018

ASP.NET Core & WebForms Bootstrap - Control Enhancements (v18.1)

We have added a couple of nice enhancements on several of our WebForms Bootstrap controls which I’d like to highlight in this post....

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

30 May 2018

ASP.NET & MVC–TreeList Batch Editing (v18.1)

Our ASP.NET WebForms and MVC TreeList controls have a very cool feature added in their v18.1 release. It’s Batched Editing! You might already be familiar with this feature in the ASPxGridView . Batched updates eliminate unnecessary roundtrips to the server...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

29 May 2018

Microsoft Identity and XPO Continues: Support for .NET Core available

Some time ago I wrote an article on an XPO-based storage provider for Microsoft Identity . This provider is available as NuGet package , but at the time of writing, we didn’t have XPO available for .NET Core. One of the things we released in v17.2 is...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

7 March 2018

Webinar: Bootstrapping your Web App with DevExpress

This week I presented the webinar about our DevExpress Bootstrap Controls. You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel . I took an existing third party Bootstrap design from startbootstrap.com and showed how easy it is to incoprorate the DevExpress Bootstrap...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

13 September 2017

Microsoft Identity and XPO: A true universal storage provider for more than a dozen different databases

Shortly after Microsoft introduced their Identity system as a replacement for the ASP.NET Membership API, there was some documentation published about it's architecture and a nice sample showed up at the Microsoft web-site on how to use MySQL instead...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

8 September 2017

Take a Closer Look at the DevExpress Web Report Designer

In this webinar Mehul and I showed you how to use the End User Web Report Designer where we talked about some topics you will run across when implementing the Report Designer in your own application. Introduction The Web Report Designer is a very powerful...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

15 April 2016

Upcoming webinar: Give AdHoc Query Powers to Your ASP.NET Grid Users

March 8th at 10:00 am (PST), Mehul and I will present a really cool webinar on one of our new WebForms controls, the ASPxQueryBuilder. Though this control is in beta with v15.2, it offers a really nice way to your end users to visually create all kinds...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

24 February 2016

ASP.NET Ribbon Control - One Line Mode and Context Tabs (Coming soon in v15.2)

Those of you familiar with the Ribbon Control, originally created for the Microsoft Office® applications, might have come to the conclusion that this UI element is actually a pretty complex control with one simple design aspect in mind: “Show a lot of...

Don Wibier (DevExpress)

18 November 2015