WinForms - Tips & Tricks (November and December 2019)

This blog post is a collection of the most interesting customer questions we received in the last two months of 2019. Hope you find some of them useful.

Azure Servers

With an ever-growing interest in cloud technologies, we’ve written a few articles that help explain how to use Azure data with DevExpress controls.

• How to bind a Data Grid to Azure data (documentation)
• How to download and upload images from/to Azure Blob storage (example)
• How to build DevExpress-based applications on Azure DevOps (T852862)

MVVM Framework

Over the course of past few months, WinForms MVVM related questions have skyrocketed (the highest since our original release in 2015). Here is a list of the most interesting MVVM Framework related questions we answered last year.

• How to execute UICommands upon user actions performed in a dialog (T656182)
• How to bind the SelectedNode property of a TreeList control to a ViewModel’s SelectedEntity (T827918)
• How to keep focus on a button bound to an asynchronous command (T846666)
• How to validate new data source records (T837197)
• Does DevExpress MVVM Framework has an equivalent of Aurelia’s computedFrom? (T845422)
• How to implement a behavior seen in the “MVVM Expenses” sample for applications that were not built with the DevExpress Scaffolding Wizard (T838472)
• Why certain control properties are not bindable and how to fix this (T846078)
• The best way to transfer data from a View to a ViewModel (T845427)
• Standard WinForms binding techniques vs MvvmContext.SetBinding - pros and cons (T851336)
• Should I dispose off IDisposables returned by various binding APIs of MVVMContext? (T845418)

Controls and Components

• How to minimize floating documents and emulate the Visual Studio behavior (T827743)
• How to create TileView tiles with various widths (T822012)
• How to access in-place editors for invisible Data Grid cells (T852636)

Others

• Bug fix: Data-aware export operations are slow when a progress bar is shown (T852619)
• New user-inspired feature: You can now embed ResourcesComboBoxControl and AppointmentResourceEdit controls into BarEditItems (T851316)

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