Thinking Out Loud

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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

Pricing Changes to the DevExpress WinForms Subscription

A moment ago, I posted a message regarding changes to our ASP.NET Subscription . If you're using our WinForms product line , you can expect a similar change once we release v17.1. Before I summarize changes to pricing, I want to state that these changes...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

15 May 2017

WinForms and WPF Diagram Control - Pan Tool and More (Coming soon in v17.1)

Our upcoming release will include two new features for both our WinForms Diagram and WPF Diagram Controls. Pan Tool As you can see in the animation below, the Diagram's new Pan Tool allows you and your end-users to move or "pan" a diagram in any direction...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

9 May 2017

WinForms TreeList - Improved Performance and API (Coming soon in v17.1)

I wanted to share some of the performance and API improvements we've made to the DevExpress WinForms TreeList Control in our v17.1 development cycle. If you're not familiar with this product, you can think of it as a treeview and listview hybrid...The...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

4 May 2017

WinForms Expression Editor (Coming soon in v17.1)

Our upcoming release will include a new Expression Editor for WinForms. Here's a brief summary of what you can expect and what you should consider if using our legacy Expression Editor going forward. First and foremost, the DevExpress WinForms Expression...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

25 April 2017

WinForms and WPF Charting - Performance Enhancements (Coming soon in v17.1)

One of our primary goals in 2017 is to improve performance across our entire product line. This concerted R&D effort has already paid dividends for a number of key products including our WinForms Chart and WPF Chart controls... As you'll discover once...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

25 April 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 Data Grid - Merged Column Grouping and Compact Data View (Coming soon in v17.1)

We've been hard at working extending our WinForms Data Grid and in our upcoming release, we'll ship a handful of new features designed to help you create incredibly refined WinForms user interfaces. In this post, I'll focus on the new Compact View and...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

19 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