WinForms Team Blog

Using the WinForms PictureEdit control, you can display images on your forms. Not long ago we implemented DirectX rendering support for the control, so that large high-DPI images are handled easily. For v19.1 we added another new feature: an embedded...

Here it is: the fifth part of our What You May Have Missed series for WinForms developers. ...

The DevExpress WinForms installation ships with two controls that allow end-users to build filter queries: a Filter Control that provides a GUI, and a Filter Editor Control that combines the Filter Control with a text input-based panel. Most data-aware controls in the WinForms line-up use these components, but you can also include them in your own forms and bind them to data-aware controls as required....

The tool provides hundreds of SVG icon templates drawn by DevExpress designers, for you to mix and adapt to your own color schemes....

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

The DevExpress WinForms Scheduler Control now provides two events that allow you to sort and group appointments: CustomAppointmentGroup and CustomAppointmentSort....

Time Regions are a new feature for our WinForms Scheduler Control. The enable you to selectively block modifications to appointments in certain timeframes, in other words, “freeze” a timeframe by prohibiting changes to existing appointments and the creation of new ones. ...

The DevExpress Data Grid control ships with a number of format rules that allow developers and end users to set up cell appearance rules that react to grid data....

Our Layout and Data Layout Controls can create the most sophisticated and complex UI structures – you can arrange hundreds of elements in a form or user control, split them into groups and tabs, persist and restore layouts....

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....