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.NET Charts - New Crosshair Features (v18.1)

In addition to Crosshair Cursor performance improvements mentioned in our recent post about performance improvements , we extended the Crosshair functionality on the basis of some very popular customer requests. The improvements apply to WinForms Chart...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

26 April 2018

.NET Charts - Data Aggregation Improvements (v18.1)

The details in this post apply to the WinForms Chart and WPF Chart controls, the WebChartControl in ASP.NET WebForms , and the control created by the DevExpress.Chart() function when using ASP.NET MVC Extensions. Additional flexibility for MeasureUnit...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

20 April 2018

WinForms Map Control - Runtime Editor for Vector Items (v18.1)

Our WinForms Map Control can display several standard types of vector items : lines, ellipses, polygons, pushpins, callouts and others. We have had feedback from users of the control that indicated a need for more interactive capabilities, and so we decided...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

18 April 2018

WinForms Charts - Performance Improvements (v18.1)

For our Windows Forms Chart Control , performance is one of our highest development priorities. In the upcoming v18.1 release, we had the goal of improving rendering performance for High DPI resolutions. We also optimized the internal data processing...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

17 April 2018

WinForms Accordion Control - Hamburger Menu and Navigation Pane support (v18.1)

The Hamburger Menu The Hamburger Menu has a long history. It was introduced by Norm Cox in the early 1990s as a part of the user interface for the Xerox Star, but became much more popular in the last decade when mobile app developers were looking for...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

16 April 2018

WinForms Overlay Forms - Coming soon in v18.1

Many of you are probably familiar with the Splash Screen Manager and its Wait Forms . These tiny elements implement a solution for the popular scenario of displaying a loading panel to indicate that the application is currently busy. Wait Forms are good...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

9 April 2018

Introducing DevExpress WinForms Project Settings - Dropping Global Components

Throughout years of development, we have been adding components and static properties that allow you to instantly apply global settings across an entire project. Here are a few notable mentions: DefaultFont - allows you to change the default font for...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

3 April 2018

SVG Icon Builder: Now Available in the Microsoft Store

As you can tell from the title of this post, we have released the SVG Icon Builder to the Microsoft Store. Please follow this link to install. The SVG Icon Builder is documented here . It provides template shapes that you can mix to create custom icons...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

28 March 2018

Using Online Course Sample Projects

Back in October 2016, I announced the availability of sample project source code to accompany our online training classes . We have had lots of positive feedback about this step, but there have also been a few common stumbling blocks that I would like...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

3 February 2017

New training events announced for the first half of 2014

We have just announced several new training events for the next few months. This is the largest lineup yet, with seven classes coming up between now and early June, in the US and Europe. March: WinForms and ASP.NET classes in New York We have listened...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

21 January 2014