Thinking Out Loud

• Dashboard
• Grid
• JavaScript
• Report Designer
• Reporting
• WinForms
• WPF

WinForms Themes - Office 2016 (coming soon in v15.2)

Thanksgiving weekend wouldn't be complete without a few screenshots for our WinForms customers. Office 2016 Black WinForms Theme Office 2016 Color WinForms Theme We'd love to hear your thoughts on these 2 new themes? Are you likely to use them vs existing...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

27 November 2015

HTML5 Scheduler & Calendar - Enhancements (Coming soon in v15.2)

Our upcoming release is going to include a number of enhancements to our HMTL5 JS Scheduler widget, including the ability to customize appointment detail forms. With the help of the new dxForm widget ( read my blog post from earlier today ), you can now...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

24 November 2015

HTML5 Form Layout Widget (Coming soon in v15.2)

v15.2 will ship with a great new addition to our HTML5 / JavaScript widget collection - dxForm. As I'll explain in a moment, this client-side widget was designed to simplify how you create and layout forms. The screenshot above helps illustrate the power...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

24 November 2015

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

HTML5 Data Grid - Enhancements (Coming soon in v15.2)

Based on great customer feedback, the upcoming release of our HTML5 Grid will include a number of usability and performance enhancements. #1 - The Built-in Edit Form As you can see in the image below, v15.2 includes a new Grid based “form” editing mode...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

23 November 2015

WPF Reporting - Report Wizard, Report Explorer and more (Coming soon in v15.2)

v15.2 will bring with it a number of enhancements to our WPF Report Designer. Before I describe those, please note that though you are free to use this control inside your WPF projects, we have not yet officially released it. This product will remain...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

19 November 2015

WinForms Toolbox Control (Coming soon in v15.2)

Last week I announced the upcoming release of our WinForms and WPF Diagram Control . A "by-product" of our investments in a Diagram component is our new Toolbox Control. As you can see in the image below, it can be used as a "toolbox" but also offers...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

19 November 2015

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

DevExtreme HTML5 Pivot Grid - Excel Export, Drill Down & More (Coming soon in v15.2)

Our HTML5 team has been hard at work improving the DevExtreme HTML 5 Pivot Grid widget and with v15.2, we'll introduce the following new features/capabilities: Excel Data Export Once v15.2 is released, you'll be able to export Pivot Grid Data to an Excel...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

18 November 2015

WinForms & WPF Map Control - Clustering (Coming soon in v15.2)

Set for release in v15.2 is clustering support for both our WinForms and WPF Map Controls. For those unfamiliar with this feature, its designed to aggregate map items and perform data density analysis. Once shipped, the DevExpress Map Control will support...

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

17 November 2015