The unspoken rule is: when Microsoft releases a new Office suite, our DevExpress designers draw a new set of skins to emulate the fresh Office appearance. We promised in our 2018 roadmap that we would deliver a vector-based Office inspired skin, to follow on from The Bezier, the latest skin we released....

The idea of partially transparent window elements dates back to the Aero effect in Windows 7. In latest Windows 10 builds Microsoft is introducing Acrylic, which is explained in this article relating to UWP. To illustrate, the image above is a form with a partially transparent Accordion control....

The DevExpress Property Grid is an object inspector that displays properties of one or several assigned objects, and allows end-users to modify these properties at runtime. In this image, a Property Grid is attached to the Diagram Control so that users can customize shapes parameters....

Yesterday, both as part of the general Microsoft Build announcements and a blog post from the .NET team, there was a fairly momentous announcement about the proposed .NET Core 3. ...

For a long while now, we have been on a mission to improve performance and memory handling when creating very large reports. Traditionally, we kept a complete document model in memory in order to print the document, or export to any of the supported formats...

In addition to Crosshair Cursor performance improvements mentioned in our recent post about performance improvements , we extended the Crosshair functionality on the basis of some very popular customer requests. The improvements apply to Chart Controls...

Our End-User Report Designer components were originally derived from the implementation we created for developers. We tried to make every feature of the reporting system available in the designers, and to keep the UI usable at the same time. The components...

The DevExpress WinForms PDF Viewer and PDF Document API will soon ship with DirectX rendering support. If you’ve followed our blogs over the last few months, you already know the performance benefits DirectX rendering brings to the table (see our blog...

The details in this post apply to the ChartControl in WPF and Windows Forms, the WebChartControl in ASP.NET WebForms, and the control created by the DevExpress.Chart() function when using ASP.NET MVC Extensions. Additional flexibility for MeasureUnit...

Our Map Control can display several standard types of vector items : lines, ellipses, polygons, pushpins, callouts and others. We have had feedback from users of the control that indicated a need for more interactive capabilities, and so we decided to...