Version History

v2011 vol 2

ASP.NET applications powered by DevExpress Controls are now touch enabled for both iOS and Android - from scrolling and resizing to the dragging of web controls.

The following is a list of DevExpress Controls shipping with built-in touch support:

• Callback Panel - scrolling
• Combo Box - item list scrolling
• Dock Panel - dragging, resizing, scrolling
• Grid View - scrolling, column header dragging, column resizing
• List Box - item list scrolling
• Menu - scrolling
• Panel - scrolling
• Pivot Grid - scrolling, column header dragging, customization window resizing
• Popup Control - dragging, resizing, scrolling
• Scheduler - scrolling, appointment dragging
• Splitter - pane resizing, pane scrolling
• Tree List - column header dragging, node dragging

Touch support is available to both WebForms and MVC counterparts of each control.

Hierarchical Filter for Grouped Fields

DXperience v2011 vol 2 introduces a new Group Filter feature, which provides an enhanced filtering mechanism for field groups. Each group of fields has a single filter drop-down invoked when clicking the filter button in the header of the first field within the group. The drop-down presents values for all group fields in a tree-like manner, allowing end-users to distinguish between equal field values that correspond to different values of a parent field.

In addition, ASPxPivotGrid introduces a new option allowing you to switch to the filter drop-down behavior available in previous versions of the control.

Display Only Available Filter Items

With this release, filter drop-downs have the ability to ignore field values that cannot be displayed because of filters applied to other fields.

Alternatively, ASPxPivotGrid can disable unavailable filter items instead of hiding them. Disabled filter items are inactive and painted in gray.

New Ways of Presenting Summary Values

We have introduced new summary value display modes that allow your end-users to discover correlations between cell values far more effectively. The pivot grid can now replace raw summaries with the following values:

• Percent of the summary in the Grand Total, Column Grand Total or Row Grand Total value.
• The summary value's rank in its column or row - from largest to smallest values, or vice versa.
• The index value that reflects the summary value's importance in its row and column context. This value is calculated as follows:
  ((value in cell) x (Grand Total of Grand Totals)) / ((Grand Row Total) x (Grand Column Total))

Hide Filter Items

You can now hide or disable filter drop-down items when handling the CustomFilterPopupItems event to prevent end-users from changing their checked state.

The ASP.NET Theme Builder is a standalone tool designed to help developers create new themes based on shipping DevExpress ASP.NET Themes. The primary objective of the product is to simplify the otherwise cumbersome aspects associated with Theme customization. The ASP.NET Theme Builder provides numerous options to navigate through Theme elements - be it locating a visual element with one click, browsing the element trees of individual controls and exploring hierarchies of the CSS classes used to render a given control.

The DevExpress ASP.NET Theme Builder allows you to:

• Create new or modify previously generated Themes.
• Select individual controls and their elements using the Control Navigator (left most pane).
• Activate/Disable selection mode above the Preview pane. If active, you can select control elements within the preview, much like FireBug.
• View the CSS rules used for rendering the selected control element. You can edit them as text or use the controls below the Preview pane.
• Edit the skin file for the selected control by using the Skin pane.
• Modify images (for CSS and skins) using an external editor which can be specified via the Theme Builder's Options page.
• Save modified Themes in a desired folder.
• Change Theme properties (name, control set) using the Theme Properties form.
• Build a custom Theme assembly and use it in your web project.

In this release, we ship four new demos illustrating how DevExpress web controls can be integrated together to deliver real life solutions.

• Event Registration
  
  An event scheduling application demonstrating the use of DevExpress data editors, scheduler and report controls.
  
• Hotel Booking
  
  A simple application that emulates a hotel booking system.
  
• Webmail Client
  
  A Microsoft Outlook inspired web mail application.
  
• Video Portal
  
  A simple YouTube-like application to find, watch and comment on videos.
  

Licensed users can apply and or extend the capabilities of these demos as needed.

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