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WPF — Early Access Preview (v25.1)

Our next major update (v25.1) is a couple of months away. In this post, I'll summarize some of the features/capabilities available in our early access (EAP) build. All active DevExpress Universal and DXperience subscribers can download and install the...

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

11 April 2025

Increase WPF App Performance with Lightweight DevExpress Themes

What if your next DevExpress-powered (classic theme based) WPF application loaded nearly twice as fast? And what if I told you that you could achieve this very thing with a simple theme change? By switching from classic DevExpress themes to lightweight...

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

26 February 2025

WPF — Early Access Preview (v23.2)

This blog post describes new features included in our Early Access Preview (EAP) build. If you are an active DevExpress Universal or DXperience subscriber, you can download and install the EAP today (visit the DevExpress Download Manager to obtain our...

The DevExpress Team

18 September 2023

WPF Themes, Dialogs, MessageBox and Other Controls — Upcoming Features (v22.2)

In our next major release, we will extend our WPF product line with a number of frequently requested features/capabilities. Please take a moment to review the features below and share your thoughts/opinions with us. The information contained within this...

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

13 September 2022

New WPF Windows 11 Theme and Window Appearance Enhancements

Over the years, we've been tracking the latest appearance changes in Windows and have been implementing them within our WPF Subscription to give the best experience to your users and help make your applications look familiar and up to date....

Anthony Sameishchev (DevExpress)

30 May 2022

WPF Accessibility – Enhanced Contrast Palettes and Validation Support

As you may already know, our most recent release includes two major accessibility-related enhancements for our WPF product line (Enhanced Color Palettes and Validation Support). Enhanced Contrast Palettes We have added Enhanced Contrast predefined palettes...

The DevExpress Team

24 November 2021

WPF Themes - Use System Colors and Switch Between Light and Dark App Modes Like Office 2021 (v21.2)

In the latest version of Microsoft Office products, users can select a theme based on system settings. When this theme is used, Office takes Windows Accent Color and App Mode (Light/Dark) settings and applies them to Office itself. If a user changes the Accent Color or App Mode in the OS, Office detects this change and updates the appearance of the application automatically....

Anthony Sameishchev (DevExpress)

22 November 2021

WPF App Design - Views with Flexible Appearance Options

As you may already know, our WPF product suite includes a broad range of appearance customization options to help you address UI design requirements and deliver the best possible desktop user experience...

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

14 April 2021

WPF - Application Themes (v20.2)

As you may already know, v20.2 ships with new Visual Studio 2019 theme palettes, a Windows 10 inspired theme, and a palette that can apply Windows 10 accent colors to your DevExpress-powered WPF applications...

Anthony Sameishchev (DevExpress)

23 November 2020

WPF Sample Apps — Stock Market Demo Update with New Charting Features and More (v20.1)

As you may already know, our demos include sample applications that replicate potential real-word usage scenarios. In our last major release, we updated our WPF Stock Market demo and extended its capabilities. In this post, I’ll summarize some of the changes we made and ask for feedback from those of you in the finance sector. We’d love to hear your thoughts as we want to refine this demo further in future builds....

The DevExpress Team

7 September 2020