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WPF — June 2024 Roadmap (v24.1)

In this post, I'll outline WPF controls/features we expect to ship in our next major update (v24.1). If you'd like to share feedback about the features outlined herein, feel free to submit your thoughts/comments using the surveys below or create a Support Center ticket. We’ll be happy to follow-up. ...

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

13 February 2024

WPF v23.1 — June 2023 Roadmap

This post outlines WPF-related enhancements we expect to ship in the first half of 2023. As always, we formulate our development strategy based on incoming feedback (via the DevExpress Support Center and recent surveys). Thank you for your continued support...

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

28 February 2023

WPF TreeList Control — Load Nodes Asynchronously (v22.2)

In this post, we’ll detail how you can asynchronously load tree nodes within the DevExpress WPF TreeList control and our WPF Data Grid ’s TreeListView. As you may already know, when fetching data from a service or loading a node with many child records...

The DevExpress Team

11 January 2023

WPF Tips & Tricks (November 2022)

This post includes interesting support tickets answered throughout the last few months and updates to help topics/code examples. As always, should you have any questions about DevExpress WPF Controls , feel free to submit a support ticket via the DevExpress...

The DevExpress Team

8 November 2022

WPF Data Grid — Items Source Wizard for New XAML Design Time (v22.1)

When you add a WPF Data Grid to your application, the first logical step is to bind the Data Grid to a data source (EF Core, Entity Framework, XPO). In this post, I’ll describe our Items Source Wizard and show you how it’s used to bind data to our WPF...

Ekaterina Pochinshchikova (DevExpress)

26 September 2022

WPF Data Grid — Upcoming Features (v22.2)

In this blog post, I’ll outline WPF Data Grid enhancements we expect to deliver in v22.2. We encourage you to answer the survey questions for each item described below. Your responses will help us fine tune our development plans....

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

17 August 2022

WinUI 3 Performance Boost

Performance and UI rendering speed remains at the top of our WinUI priority list. In this blog post, we will describe performance challenges we’ve encountered with WinUI and what we’ve done to address these issues. We’ll also show you how we created the fastest Data Grid for Microsoft’s new WinUI platform....

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

24 January 2022

Microsoft’s New XAML Designer for WPF apps

As you may already know, Visual Studio 2022 uses an entirely new WPF XAML Designer (for all versions of .NET and .NET Framework). We’ve been working closely with Microsoft to replicate (and extend) the design-time capabilities of our WPF product line...

The DevExpress Team

15 November 2021

WPF and WinUI — Early Access Preview, Upcoming Features (v21.2)

As you may know, we are a few months away from our next major release (v21.2). In this post, I’ll summarize WPF-related features/capabilities available in our upcoming Early Access (EAP) build, and preview additional WPF and WinUI features we expect to ship in November...

Ekaterina Pochinshchikova (DevExpress)

10 September 2021

WPF MVVM – A New Way to Work with Events

Our latest release (v21.1) includes a series of new MVVM-related enhancements for our WPF product line. These enhancements make it much easier to process control events at the ViewModel level (as you’ll soon see, we added multiple command properties and extended EventToCommand behavior capabilities)...

Ekaterina Pochinshchikova (DevExpress)

13 August 2021