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
XMLA Support
DXperience v2011 vol 2 introduces support for the XMLA data access standard in XtraPivotGrid.
The new XMLA data source does not require any data access libraries or data providers to be installed on the client system. Nevertheless, it supports all OLAP features available in OLE DB and ADOMD.NET data providers - drill-down, KPI, hierarchical filtering, etc.
To retrieve data via XMLA, you will need to configure a data pump on your IIS server, then specify the required parameters to establish an HTTP connection to the pump.
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.
Toolbars for Filter Drop-Downs
Filter drop-down windows now display toolbars designed to unify control over all aspects of the filter. This includes settings and commands you may be familiar with (like filter type setting or invert filter command), as well as the newly introduced Display Only Available Items.
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:
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Percent of the summary in the Grand Total, Column Grand Total or Row Grand Total value.
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The summary value's rank in its column or row - from largest to smallest values, or vice versa.
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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 items from filter drop-downs when handling the CustomFilterPopupItems event to prevent end-users from changing their checked state.
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: