Thinking Out Loud

• Conditional Formatting
• data grid
• Export
• Pivot Grid
• treelist
• v15.1
• WinForms
• WPF
• XLS
• XLSx

WinForms Pivot Grid: Excel Inspired Filtering and Conditional Formatting (v17.2)

Excel-Style Filter Popup As you may know, our WinForms Grid , WinForms TreeList and WinForms Vertical Grid controls allow end-users to filter data using Excel-like filter popups . These filter popups were designed to display unique filter options based...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

30 November 2017

WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet Control - Conditional Formatting Enhancements and Rotated Text Support (Coming soon in v17.1)

Our upcoming release will include a couple of enhancements for both our WinForms Spreadsheet and WPF Spreadsheet controls. First on the list is a new Conditional Formatting Rules Manager . As you can see in the image below, once v17.1 ships, you can allow...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

24 April 2017

WinForms TreeList Control - Enhanced Data Filtering (Coming soon in v17.1)

Yesterday I wrote about two enhancements we'll ship in our WinForms Data Grid . Today, I'd like to describe a couple of the new capabilities planned for our WinForms TreeList . First on the list is support for Excel-inspired column filtering . This option...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

20 April 2017

WinForms Grid Control - Improved Column-Based Filtering Options Coming Soon in v16.2

Before I describe this new feature, let me thank those of you who voted for DevExpress in this year's Visual Studio Magazine Readers' Choice Awards. Our WinForms Grid was once again voted BEST in class (I believe that makes it 6 years in a row). With...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

29 November 2016

WPF TreeList Control - Excel Data Export (Coming soon in v16.1)

Over the last couple of release cycles, we've done quite a bit of work to improve our support for Microsoft Excel - specifically how we export data to Excel from our UI controls. With v16.1, our WPF TreeList has been enhanced so that it fully supports...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

2 June 2016

DevExpress Dashboard - Excel Export & Excel Data Binding (Coming soon in v15.2)

As you all know, Microsoft Excel plays a significant role in business and so with our upcoming release, DevExpress Dashboard will introduce Microsoft Excel data export support. Simply said, you'll now be able to export the contents of the following Dashboard...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

18 November 2015

Excel Document Generation for .NET Developers - Your Options

In blog posts leading up to our launch couple of weeks ago, I described our new XL Export Library – the ultra fast Excel data export engine that generates spreadsheet files by writing them directly to a stream. If you have used our Document Generation...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

15 June 2015

WinForms Grid: Excel Data Export Customization

If you've used our WinForms Grid in the past, you already know that with a single call to the ExportToXlsx, method you can export the contents of the grid and generate a Microsoft Excel document. In this post, I want to quickly discuss use of our updated...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

9 June 2015

WinForms & ASP.NET Pivot Grid Controls - New Excel Data Export Engine

Last week I mentioned our Excel data export engine - a new capability which piggy-backs on earlier work we did for our Grid controls... Many of you have already asked about introducing this new export option for our Pivot Grid...o I think the cat's out...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

27 May 2015

New Excel Export Library - XLSX, XLS, CSV (Coming soon in v15.1)

Last year, I blogged about the updated Excel export capabilities of our WinForms, WPF and ASP.NET Grid Controls. As we saw by all your great feedback, this was an important enhancement and something many of you were looking forward to... Based on your...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

20 May 2015