Thinking Out Loud

With DXperience v2009 vol 2, we've introduced the following new features/options to our Pivot Grid control. Excel 2007 Style Customization Window The XtraPivotGrid's customization window can now mimic the appearance and behavior of Microsoft Excel 2007...

In previous versions, the only way to specify unbound column values was to handle an event and write appropriate code. The same applied if you needed conditional formatting with complex criterias. With this new release, DevExpress WinForms controls now...

With DXperience v2009 vol 2, we're extending the data shaping options available to your end-users. When data is grouped against a date-time field, you can now use the grouping column's context menu to change group interval. Choices include: yearly, monthly...

Our Silverlight team has been working hard to produce a series of multi-purpose utility type controls. Among these is our Silverlight Book Control which - as the name implies - uses a book metaphor to display information on screen. To navigate contents...

A couple of days ago I described some of the new features you will see in our WPF Data Grid. Among these was the new DXPrinting System - a new WPF Printing Library. DXPrinting System is a universal printing and export library for WPF. We call it universal...

As we get ready to release DXperience v2009 vol 2, I thought I'd describe some of the changes you can expect to see in our WPF Data Grid. Performance Improvements With the release of v2009 vol 2, we've changed the grid's visual tree structure to make...

In our continuing effort to address your business needs, we will be introducing a number of new Skins/Themes in the next major release of DXperience. They will include the following: The Darkroom Windows 7 High Contrast Something we call "Sharp" Something...