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Visual Studio 2013 Support - Now Available

Good news...If you who've been waiting for our official Visual Studio 2013 update, you can now log onto our website and navigate to the download manager to obtain the most recent release of our .NET products. In addition to Visual Studio 2013 support...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

25 October 2013

WPF and Silverlight Tile Layout Control - Windows 8.1 features

In the next minor update of our WPF and Silverlight XAML Controls, we've updated our Layout Control to support the newest Tile Layout options shipping as part of Windows 8.1, including Extra Small and Extra Large Tile Sizes and Group Header editing. Learn...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

29 July 2013

WPF Map Control - it's FREE to all MSDN Subscribers

We've been receiving lots of questions on our WPF Map Control and I wanted to take a minute to remind all of you that the control is free to all MSDN Subscribers. Download your free DevExpress WPF Map Control here: http://dxpr.es/rAQxNW To learn more...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

2 December 2011

Silverlight Report Designer and End-User Report Wizard (coming in v2011 vol 2)

With the upcoming release of DXperience v2011 vol 2, XtraReports for Silverlight will feature a new WYSIWYG End-User Report Designer for in-browser report editing. The report designer will allow your users to: Edit static content. Re-position controls...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

27 September 2011

Silverlight Calendar and Date Navigator Control (coming in v2011 vol 2)

We'll be describing some of the capabilities of our upcomingn Silverlight Scheduler Control shortly, but in the meantime, here's a short description of another new control for the Silverlight Platform - The DevExpress Silverlight Calendar. I won't get...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

27 September 2011

Silverlight and WPF Ribbon Bar Merging (MDI Apps) and Runtime Customization (coming in v2011 vol 2)

Silverlight and WPF Ribbon Bar Merging For those who prefer building WPF or Silverlight MDI applications, you may already be using our WPF Docking Library...If you are considering MDI for your next application, you can read more about the WPF DXDocking...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

26 September 2011

WPF and Silverlight Map Control: A few more images (coming in v2011 vol 2)

I recently mentioned the upcoming release of our WPF and Silverlight Map Control and wanted to provide you with a few more descriptive images of what the new Map Control will deliver to market once we release DXperience v2011 vol 2. First and foremost...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

23 September 2011

.NET Reporting - a Preview of Report Templates for WPF Silverlight WinForms and ASP.NET

As I'm writing this, I realized that though we put out a press release about our Silverlight Report Designer Wizard , I have not actually blogged about it (will do so shortly) In any event, among the most interesting new features we'll introduce for our...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

22 September 2011

WPF and Silverlight Grid Control - Advanced Banded View Layout (a cool workaround)

In the next minor release of DXperience (11.1.8), we will be extending the capabilities of our WPF and Silverlight Data Grid with a cool "workaround" to generate Banded View Layouts - allowing you to arrange column headers and corresponding data cells...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

21 September 2011

WPF Silverlight Map Control (an early preview)

As part of our BUILD Conference related announcements, I wanted to share an early preview of the DXMapControl for the WPF and Silverlght Platforms. The following are planned features for our WPF and Silverlight Map Controls: Online Data Providers - Bing...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

15 September 2011