WinForms Team Blog

As you may know, Microsoft Office 2019 introduced multiple enhancements to its Ribbon UX. With our most recent release (v19.1), we’ve added a number of new features to the DevExpress WinForms Ribbon control to keep pace with changes made by the Microsoft Office team. ...

The introduction of vector skins brought with it a second innovation for our skinning engine: palettes. A palette is basically a skin for a skin. Element settings like border widths, sizes and visibility are stored in a skin, while color themes moved into palettes. This means you can have countless color variations of the same skin....

The TransitionManager component animates control state changes. For instance, it can fade pages of the XtraTabControl in and out when users switch between them. Some controls, like the Navigation Frame, embed a TransitionManager component so you don’t have to add it manually....

In the recent CTP blog post we mentioned new functionality for the Find Panel. The CTP is available now to all active Universal and DXperience subscribers and in this post I will describe the new functionality in more detail....

We are about two months away from the official v19.1 launch, so we wanted to share our progress and let you test major new functionality before we wrap up another development cycle....

Based on survey results and Support Center feedback, we’ve finalized our 2019 Roadmap. We want to thank you for your continued support and for your insightful comments. Here is our official 2019 WinForms Roadmap…...

Note that this roadmap does not cover all DevExpress WinForms UI products. The following product teams will conduct separate surveys: Charting and Visualization Office File API, Office-inspired Desktop UI Controls Reporting Dashboards XPO - ORM Library...