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How to Create Accessible WinForms Applications

Creating accessible Windows Forms applications for users with disabilities is not just best practice; it's a commitment to inclusivity and user-centric design. Considering accessibility-related requirements early in the application development lifecycle...

Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)

18 January 2024

WinForms — Customize Accessibility Properties

In the past few release cycles, we have added a number of innovative features to the DevExpress WinForms product line, including: Web-inspired HTML & CSS Templates . DirectX support and features that leverage our DirectX engine under the hood (Windows...

The DevExpress Team

4 July 2022

WinForms Tips & Tricks — HTML & CSS Syntax Editor

It’s been a couple of weeks since we released our WinForms HTML & CSS Templates option (an entirely new approach to WinForms app design). The DevExpress HTML & CSS Template option for the WinForms platform allows you to re-imagine/re-design our data-aware...

The DevExpress Team

30 November 2021

WinForms Tips & Tricks — Virtual Keyboard and New Customer Cases

In this post we'll share some of the more interesting customer requests we've received over the past couple of months. And as a bonus, we’ll show you how to create a virtual keyboard for your app. Customer Usage Scenarios How to check whether the XtraMessageBox...

The DevExpress Team

7 July 2021

MDI, SDI, and MFI Interface Types in WinForms Applications

In my last blog post, I described a few of our traditional WinForms UI controls and how they can be replaced by their more modern counterparts: DevExpress WinForms Controls – New Ways to Address Old UI Requirements . In this post, I’ll discuss multi-document...

The DevExpress Team

10 August 2020

DevExpress WinForms Controls – New Ways to Address Old UI Requirements

We are working hard to make our next WinForms release (v20.2) the best ever. We have a lot of information to share about v20.2 and I will blog about release plans in August. For this post, I wanted to share a few ideas/UI suggestions and demonstrate how...

The DevExpress Team

17 July 2020

WinForms - Tips & Tricks (May 2020)

This month’s Tips & Tricks post includes a few examples and ways you can tweak our WinForms UI components. We hope this information will be of value as you explore the capabilities of our WinForms product line. How to Distinguish Light from Dark Skins...

The DevExpress Team

21 May 2020

WinForms - Tips & Tricks, March 2020

It’s an unbelievably difficult time – we do hope everyone is doing well and making the best out of present circumstances. If we can be of help, please don’t hesitate to reach out (clientservices@devexpress.com). In this post, I’ll share some interesting...

The DevExpress Team

6 April 2020

WinForms - How to Allow Users to Skip Messages

It’s an unbelievably difficult time – we do hope everyone is doing well and making the best out of present circumstances. If we can be of help, please don’t hesitate to reach out (clientservices@devexpress.com). A big shout-out to all the brilliant scientists...

The DevExpress Team

3 April 2020

How to Show Toast Notifications in WinForms Apps

Toast Notifications (or simply Toasts) are flat notifications first introduced in Microsoft Windows 8. They pop up in the bottom right corner of your screen and can be accessed through the Windows Action Center. You can incorporate these notifications...

The DevExpress Team

10 February 2020