Thinking Out Loud

• ASP.NET
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• Dashboard
• Excel
• Export
• functional testing
• Grid
• Report Designer
• Reporting
• SpreadSheet
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• TestCafe
• web
• WinForms
• WPF
• XLS
• XLSx
• XtraReports

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

DevExpress VCL Rich Text Editor (now released in v15.1)

In our last VCL release cycle, we shipped the DevExpress VCL Rich Edit Control - our Microsoft Word inspired word processor - as a community tech preview. With our upcoming release, we'll officially launch our VCL Rich Text Editor and will incorporate...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

15 June 2015

WinForms Demos: Code Snippets

We've done our very best to create demos that emphasize the flexibility of our WinForms controls and hopefully give you a clear understanding on how to implement them within your projects. As you already know, many of the demos we ship are module-based...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

15 June 2015

WinForms Layout Control & CRUD Forms - New Table Layout vs Flow Layout Mode

We have a lot of customers who rely on the flexibility of our WinForms Layout Control to create CRUD forms. One of my favorite features is its runtime customization capabilities - something I'll talk about later in the month. In this post, I want to recap...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

11 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 Camera Control (Shipping in v15.1)

Here's something we didn't get a chance to talk about leading up to release, a new UI component...Our WinForms Camera Control. As it's name implies, the control allows you to view/display live video from your Windows device directly on your form. When...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

8 June 2015

WinForms Data Layout Control: Data Annotation Attributes (Shipping in v15.1)

For those unaware of our WinForms Data Layout Control, here is a quick summary of its newest feature (Data Annotation Attributes) and how you can build forms and layout individual controls directly from your data source. As I hope you'll discover, this...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

8 June 2015

WinForms & WPF Charting - Series Point Colors and Colorizers (Shipping in v15.1)

As you already know, we've officially released v15.1 and among the new features we're shipping in our Charting libraries for WinForms and WPF is the ability to associate visual information to charts using colors. In order to provide this functionality...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

4 June 2015

WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet: Data Validation, Page Setup and more (Coming soon in v15.1)

Yesterday I discussed the improved Copy/paste functionality in our Spreadsheet control. In this post, I'll discuss a few other important features we'll introduce for our WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet Control. Data Validation Support Use it to prevent invalid...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

3 June 2015

WPF Reporting - GDI+ Document Viewer (Coming soon in v15.1)

A couple of weeks back, I described our new HTML5/Java Script Report Viewer for the Web - in this post, I'll quickly review our new WPF Report Viewer... v15.1 ships with a brand new WPF Document Viewer that will replace the Document Viewer included in...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

2 June 2015