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WinForms — June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1)

This blog post outlines new WinForms–related features we expect to ship in our mid–year release (v25.1). You can leave your feedback at the end of the article - Go to the survey now . The information contained within this blog post details our current...

Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)

18 February 2025

WinForms — Year-End Roadmap (v24.2)

This blog post outlines some of our WinForms-related development plans for the second half of 2024 (v24.2). As you will read below, key focus areas will be .NET Core UX, AI, and Accessibility. The information contained within this blog post details our...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

23 July 2024

WinForms — Performance Enhancements in the Microsoft WinForms Designer for .NET 6+ Development

We were in close collaboration with the Microsoft dev team over the last few months, and Microsoft has recently released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 2 , which improves form load performance across a number of .NET Core / .NET usage scenarios...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 March 2024

WinForms — Year-End Roadmap (v23.2)

This blog post outlines some of our WinForms-related development plans for the second half of 2023 (v23.2). As you will see below, key focus areas will be accessibility support and .NET 8. Both are crucial and both will require substantial development...

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

22 August 2023

.NET 7 — Release Plans & Collaboration with Microsoft

In early November, Microsoft released .NET 7 — the latest iteration of the .NET initiative. During internal testing, we stumbled upon an issue that was later confirmed by our customers. In this post, I'll detail the issue, describe our joint efforts with...

The DevExpress Team

17 November 2022

.NET Core 6+ Migration Notes (WinForms, WPF)

Microsoft continues to update .NET (.NET Core, if you prefer the previous name) and we are doing our best to address customer needs in this regard. In a previous post , I shared our plans for .NET. Today, I’d like to get a bit more practical and talk...

The DevExpress Team

30 August 2022

DevExpress WinForms — 2022 Roadmap

This Roadmap outlines our core priorities for 2022. As always, you can expect many other smaller additions across our entire range of WinForms controls and components. HTML & CSS Templates .NET Support Scheduler Editor Controls Charts Maps Heatmap Word...

The DevExpress Team

18 February 2022

Windows Forms Controls - 2020 Roadmap

After careful consideration of your feedback and support center tickets, we’ve finalized our 2020 Roadmap. Thank you for sharing your perspective with us and for your continued support and commitment to DevExpress WinForms controls . If you have any questions...

The DevExpress Team

27 January 2020

WinForms - Early Access Preview (v19.2)

We are about two months away from our next major release (v19.2). As part of our ongoing commitment to engage the DevExpress developer community, we wanted to share our progress and give you the opportunity to test major new functionality before we wrap...

The DevExpress Team

19 August 2019

WinForms - Single-File Applications With .NET Core 3

Shortly after Microsoft announced WinForms support for .NET Core 3, we published a blog post to confirm our commitment to .NET Core....

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

20 May 2019