DevExpress Data Blog

You might have heard we are (finally) releasing an end user designer for the web. I’ve been wanting this gem for years! Imagine being able to manage reports (create, edit, view) all from the web! We promised more details so I’m here to spill the beans...

This blog post outlines the process of adding a Document Preview for WPF to an End-User Report Designer for Windows Forms. The complete application is available in our Code Central at How to embed a Document Preview for WPF into the End-User Report Designer...

I wanted to do a little recap on what was covered in our End-User Designer Webinar which is found here: In this webinar, I prepared a sample app for managing contacts using XPO as the data layer: We started with this basic contact manager application...

In our previous webinar we had an “Ask the Reporting Team” session where we voted on the topics that should be covered in the future. The fist webinar will deal primarily with the End-User Report Designer. I thought I would take a moment mind-mapping...

Coming in version 2010 volume 2 we’ve made it easier to save and load reports to any data source in the end-user report designer. In the following diagram I have created a new Open Dialog which loads the report definition from a dataset saved to an xml...

Coming in v2010 vol 2 we have added the ability to provide custom images for field list elements in the end-user report designer. Take a look: The best way to do this is to add a new component and drag on an image collection (you could also create an...