While each layout type has its own unique customization features and end-user capabilities, they all have common features which include the following:

• For utmost UI consistency, each view can be represented through any DevExpress WPF Visual Theme.

• Horizontal or vertical group arrangement.

  

• Animated content scrolling support.

  

• Animated Navigation Pane expanding and collapsing

  

• Animated group expanding and collapsing

  

• Different item arrangement styles implemented by using various panel controls within groups. For instance, a wrap panel control or a carousel can be used for this purpose.

  

• Freely customizable group content - you can display a set of items or any embedded controls.

  

• Groups and items can be read from a bound data source.
• Item selection support.
• Ability to customize every aspect of the control's appearance and behavior
• Saving and restoring layout. This allows you to persist group expansion states and scrolling between application runs.
• Silverlight and WPF Navbar Controls have matching interfaces and this makes it easy to develop applications for multiple platforms.