Thinking Out Loud

As you know, a typical app-wide color scheme consists of numerous palettes/colors/shades. Without the proper tools, creating your own custom theme can be incredibly tedious and time consuming process - a process that very few people willingly tackle....

Our most recent release (v17.2) ships with three Visual Studio-inspired themes. These themes are a great option for those who prefer a Dock-based UX versus MDI or SDI interfaces. In addition to use within dock-based apps (apps that mirror the functionality...

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...

In this blog post we'll describe how you can store DevExpress Reports on Azure. As you'll soon discover, you can use this approach to create a shared report repository and make it available via simple Open/Save report commands. If you are currently using...

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...

We are days away from the official release of v17.1. As part of this update, we've made a series of changes to our product SKUs...one involves our Universal Subscription and the following describes changes we'll make to our ASP.NET Subscription . Before...

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...

We've got a few exciting new features to announce in the upcoming release of our ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC Spreadsheet controls - these include support for cell comments, max row/max column count and the ability to customize the Spreadsheet's context...

The upcoming release of our ASP.NET Rich Text Editor will include support for Floating Objects. With this feature, your end-users can insert pictures and text boxes within their documents with ease. As you might expect, our ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET...

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...