Desktop Development Survey

Thanks for all DevExpress Team !

I primarily write in-house applications, not commercially available applications, but I do so as a corporate employee, not a contractor or freelancer. The survey doesn't really seem to distinguish between these very well.

Additionally, I use more than one data access/business layer. I simply selected the one that is used the most in my work, although this question might benefit from multiple choice selection.

I am in the same boat as Brendon Muck, I make in-house software and my organization does not plan on selling it commercially anytime soon.

I was a little disappointed that this survey did not ask any questions about the MVVM Framework for Winforms/WPF.

We have a large code base of desktop WinForms (and one WPF) application still in active use (developed over the last 15 years) - but to be honest we now consider them legacy.  Any new developments (or re-development) we've started in the last 3 years have been client-side web apps (React, DevExtreme, XtraReports).

Thanks Devexpress!

I can agree with Brendon Muck.

Also, there should be a theme called "use windows theme colors" and some kind of switch between dark/light theme like in other apps.

I also am an in house developer of Business/Engineering tools using data from many data sources.  

Also an in-house developer.

Please put back in support for Windows XP / .NET 4.0. We can no longer upgrade to new versions of DevExpress since you dropped support, and as a result updates to the web controls are the only part of our Universal Subscription that is of value any more.

I recognize Microsoft wants everyone to go with the newest fashion, but our customers are not all clamoring for Windows 10. It is *not* that hard to maintain support. I know because I do it. Please consider this.

A VCL (Delphi) app made with MVVM would be a nice gift for novice developers.

I've read that you have planned in the near future (19.2) to add Gantt control in WinForms, that's a very happy new!!!... Maybe, could you combine Gantt control with your charts 2D in order to create "resource use" charts as Microsoft Porject does. That will be awesome!!!... In the meantime needs to sinchronize the two controls instances. Thank you very much for your efforts!!!.

*** You know everyone after that true universal deployment platform, code once deploy everywhere and on to anything.

I would like to see instead of WPF or XAF or take it to the next level.

Which I consider that this future platform is: Xamarin, with CSHTML5 (http://cshtml5.com/) so deployment of web can also be possible with Xamarin and web.

If you can build tools that allow already written WPF / XAML and C# to extend into this medium, you may control the future of 3rd party controls. I've been with you since you wrote Delphi controls when you first came out. So Please advance to the next stage.

Although our app are custom developed and offered commercially as part of our entire product delivery we use Remote App through RDP farm so we do not have to distribute the software to customers. this sometimes renders some directx stuff irrelevant. We have had to turn the EFX off on our servers as some items do not render properly under all circumstances.