Thinking Out Loud

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• Grid
• v14.2
• WinForms
• WPF

WPF Data Grid - Merged Grouped Columns and Extended Live Update Support (Coming soon in v17.1)

I recently published a brief description of merged column support for our WinForms Data Grid . Many of you have asked about its availability in our WPF Data Grid . The good news (as you've probably surmised by the title of this blog post) is that the...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

2 May 2017

WPF Grid Control - Fixed Rows and Column Filtering Enhancements Coming Soon in v16.2

Yesterday, I shared a couple of the new features we're shipping in our WinForms Grid - today, I'd like to describe some of the things we have planned for our WPF Grid Control. Fixed Row Support If you've used our Grid in the past, you may be familiar...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

30 November 2016

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

WinForms Grid Control - Kanban View Coming Soon in v16.2

I'd like to apologize to those of you hoping to explore the feature set of our Grid's new Kanban View. This feature will ship in our v16.2 release, but we had a few last minute issues that prevented its inclusion in beta 1. It's coming...we promise! I...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

29 November 2016

WinForms Data Grid Master-Detail Mode - Performance and UX Enhancements (Coming soon in v16.1)

Displaying master-detail relationships on a form in a creative/functional manner can be a tricky proposition. Many of you rely upon our WinForms Grid Control and its Master-Detail View to do the heavy lifting in this regard. Though a great option, over...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

24 May 2016

WPF Data Grid - Scrollbar Annotations (Coming soon in v16.1)

Inspired by Visual Studio, our WPF Grid now offers scrollbar annotation support. It’s a cool feature and we’d love to hear how you might use it in your next WPF project....

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

18 May 2016

WinForms Grid Based Reporting (Coming soon in v15.2)

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a short blog about our upcoming Grid-based reporting solution for our WPF product line. As is always the case when we announce a new feature for a specific .NET platform, one of the questions on people's minds was whether...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

23 November 2015

WinForms & WPF Grid and TreeList Control - Enhanced Clipboard Operations (Coming soon in v15.2)

Over the years, a number of you have asked us to improve the manner in which we copy Grid and TreeList data - specifically, to maintain formatting so that data pasted into third-party programs will retain the formatting displayed within your app. With...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

11 November 2015

WPF Data Grid - Performance & UI Enhancements (Coming soon in v15.1)

Our upcoming release (v15.1) will include numerous new features across our WPF product line. In this post, I'll cover a few of the enhancements we've planned for our WPF Data Grid Control. Binding Performance Performance matters and in our continuing...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

14 May 2015

WinForms Grid and TreeList: Using Advanced UI Controls within Data Cells

One of the many features that sets our WinForms product line apart from others is the rich set of in-place cell editors we ship for controls such as the XtraGrid and XtraTreeList. From standard text boxes to progress bars - advanced lookups to sparklines...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

13 November 2014