WinForms — How to Integrate Semantic Similarity Search in the Grid Control (Powered by Embedding Models)
I am sure many of you remember Introducing .NET Smart Components – AI-powered UI controls by Daniel Roth and Steve Sanderson (both from Microsoft) and the excitement this article generated within the community. While this is still an ongoing experiment…
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Office File API — Enhance Accessibility in Office Documents using OpenAI Models (Part 2)
In our last AI-related post, we described how to generate AltText (meaningful descriptions) for images and charts using DevExpress Office File API libraries and Azure AI OpenAI service ( Office File API — Enhance Accessibility in Office Documents (Word…
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Enhanced User Experience: Navigate the Web Report Designer with Ease in v23.2
Review smart tags and context menu for the DevExpress Web Report Designer
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.NET MAUI Collection View — Switch Between Different Item Representations
How many different ways can you present information using the CollectionView? More importantly, which presentation option should you choose for the best possible user experience? Here is our recommendation: Consider offering users multiple options and let them choose based on requirements/preferences.
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How to Implement Material Design 3 in a .NET MAUI Application
Material Design is a cross-platform system of guidelines developed by Google. Inspired by the textures of the physical world, it helps you craft visually captivating interfaces with balanced colors and enhanced usability (the objective is to focus attention on essential UI elements). The DevExpress .NET MAUI Suite includes 10 built-in Material Design 3 color themes - available in both dark and light variants.
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Office File API — Enhance Accessibility in Office Documents (Word & Excel) using OpenAI Models
For accessibility-related reasons, certain business usage scenarios require that Office documents include meaningful descriptions/alternative text (Alt Text) for graphics content (images, charts, etc). Alt Text helps individuals with visual impairments…
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Unlock Seamless Deployment: Discover Our Latest Tutorials on Deploying Reporting and Office File API-powered Apps to Azure and AWS
New Deployment Guides for Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) We've just released new guides for deploying DevExpress Reports and Office File API-based applications to Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS). As you know, deployment on Azure…
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Choosing a Framework/App Architecture for Desktop & Mobile Cross-Platform Apps
“ Write once, run anywhere " – this slogan helped Java achieve widespread popularity in the mid-1990s. Since then, many cross-platform frameworks have been introduced, such as Ionic, Flutter, and of course .NET MAUI. These frameworks allow developers…
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Spreadsheet Document API, Spreadsheet Controls (Win and WPF) — Import Chart Setting from CRTX Template Files (v23.2)
In our v23.2 release cycle, we've introduced a series of Spreadsheet Chart control enhancements. We've already described error bars, rotated axis labels, and rich text formatting for Chart titles and Axis titles in a previous blog post: Spreadsheet…
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WinForms HTML & CSS Support: Best Practices
In this post, we outlined important Do's and Don'ts when using the DevExpress WinForms HTML/CSS engine/templates.
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VCL v23.2 — Support for RAD Studio 12.1 Patch 1
Kudos and a big thanks to Embarcadero for their quick turnaround on the RSS-536 incompatibility issue for the Delphi 64-bit compiler (please apply this patch if you installed RAD Studio 12.1 previously). From RAD Studio 12.1 Athens Patch 1 Available …
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Reporting — Tagged (Accessible) PDF Export Enhancements (v23.2)
Accessibility support remains a high priority here at DevExpress. In our v.23.2 release lifecycle, we focused on accessibility at the control level and to producing more accessible content (PDF documents generated by DevExpress Reports). We enhanced accessible…
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Blazor - Official Release, Free Offer, and Future Plans
I'm happy to announce the official release of DevExpress UI for Blazor. To help celebrate Blazor official launch at #dotnetconf, we're offering our this release to our customers free-of-charge!
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