Version History
v2011 vol 2
WinForms applications powered by DevExpress Controls are now touch enabled - from the dragging of UI elements to horizontal and vertical scrolling.
The following is a list of DevExpress Controls shipping with built-in touch support:
- Grid Control
- TreeList Control
- Chart Control
- Pivot Grid Control
- Docking Library
- Rich Text Editor
- Image Slider
Touch UI Support
Your end-users can directly scroll the grid's contents (horizontally and
vertically), reorder columns, group, sort and filter data via touch on any
Windows touch enabled device.
Split Grid Presentation
This release introduces a new split presentation feature for the Grid Control:
Easily invoked using a context menu, this feature allows you to divide the
grid into two view regions separated by a splitter. The regions present the
same data and can be scrolled separately. As such, you can edit the last
grid row in the first region, while simultaneously viewing the first grid
row in the second region.
Horizontal and vertical splitting is supported.
Splash Screen Manager
Adding splash screens to WinForms projects has never been easier with the SplashScreenManager Component. With two simple steps, you can display a splash screen when your app starts without writing any code.
The Splash Screen Manager allows you to display a custom image as your splash screen and with image transparency support, your splash screen may be any irregular form and contain shadows when required:
Splash screens are fully customizable. You can modify default splash screens by changing the default image, default control layout, adding custom controls, etc.
Automatic display mode is one of two options when using splash screens. You can also control the display of a splash screen manually from code - display and close it when required, and send custom commands to it.
In addition to splash screens displayed on form start up, the Splash Screen Manager helps you create Wait Forms with progress indicators:
Fully customizable, Wait Forms are useful when displaying information windows with progress indicators at any time during the application run. For each skin, the Wait Form has its own unique appearance.
A number of DevExpress controls allow you to format the display text using
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). For instance, you can use HTML tags to
format text in a Label Control, the Grid Control's column header, Alert
Windows, etc. With this release, support for the Image tag has been added.
This tag allows you to easily embed images into text, at any position:
You can display multiple images within the text whenever required:
HTML text formatting has been expanded to the following controls:
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XtraGrid Control - XtraGrid Control - In addition to the previously supported column
header, you can now use HTML tags to format text in group rows and cells
(when text editing is turned off).
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XtraEditors - XtraEditors - For all text button editors you can use HTML tags to
format edit values (when editing via an edit box is disabled). You can also
format text in the editor's embedded buttons when needed.
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ListBoxControl, CheckedListBoxControl, ComboBoxEdit, ImageComboBoxEdit and CheckedComboBoxEdit controls - You can use the HTML formatting feature to format control items.
New Metro-style Skin
DXperience v2011 vol 2 ships with a new skin - Metropolis, allowing you to introduce a Metro inspired look and feel to your WinForms application: