Blazor: New CSS Location (Breaking Change in v22.1)
In our v22.1 release, we improved theme delivery with the new DevExpress.Blazor.Themes NuGet package. This package contains DevExpress Blazor themes and CSS styles used to apply Bootstrap themes to DevExpress controls
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Blazor Charts — Histogram, Drill-Down, Export to PDF & API Enhancements (v22.1)
In this post, I will highlight the new Blazor Chart-related capabilities available in our recent major update v22.1.
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BI Dashboard — Create Dashboards in Visual Studio Desktop .NET Apps (v22.1)
You can now create, design, and display dashboards in a single .NET WPF or WinForms Dashboard Viewer application for .NET 5+ with ease.
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CodeRush - Visual Studio Productivity Tools Are Available Free-of-Charge in v22.1!
Available Free-of-Charge to Everyone With our most recent release ( v22.1 ), we’re making CodeRush available free-of-charge. If you’re not familiar with CodeRush, you can learn more about its feature set here and download your copy today at https://devexpress…
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A 1-Click Solution for Role-based Access Control with Web API Services via Entity Framework Core & XPO (FREE)
In XPO blog post in November 2021 , I grumbled about how difficult it was to develop a robust and flexible app security system from scratch with any .NET ORM, including Entity Framework (by security, I’m referring to user authentication and role-based…
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Free WinUI Components in the Unified Installer
We are happy to announce that our WinUI components are now available from the DevExpress Unified Installer. If you are using our Unified Installer and wish to install our WinUI controls, simply select the WinUI tile pictured below.
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DevExpress Multi-Platform App UI Controls Support .NET MAUI GA Release (v22.1)
As you probably know, Microsoft released .NET MAUI to production recently. Our free .NET MAUI product line for mobile development (with Android and iOS) is compatible with this .NET MAUI release. To see what is new in v22.1, please follow this link. If you are migrating from Xamarin, please check out Microsoft migration guidelines and also our article on navigation control changes.
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WinUI Data Grid in MVVM Applications: Column Generation, Selection Binding, and other MVVM Techniques
MVVM is a well-known foundation for flexible and well-structured applications for such platforms as WinUI and WPF. That’s why we pay special attention to MVVM usage scenarios when developing our suite of controls. In this blog post, we will show you how…
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Blazor - End of Support for .NET 5
As you may already know, the Microsoft .NET team has announced the end of life support for the .NET 5 framework
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Reporting – No-Code Parameters Panel Layout Customization (v22.1)
In this blog post, I’ll review our new Parameters Panel customization editor (v22.1). Before I do, a quick word or two about the Parameters Panel
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WinForms — WXI Skin Options
In last week’s WXI Skin announcement post, I mentioned that our latest vector skin includes certain API-based options. This post will explain why you may want to use these options, and how they can help you create a unified appearance within your WinForms…
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Create your First MVVM Application in WinUI
Originally, we created the MVVM Framework for the WPF platform. Afterwards we found that the techniques developed in this framework could easily be used in WinForms, so we ported the framework there. In v22.1, we optimized our MVVM Framework for WinUI keeping the core functionality the same. If you use our WPF or WinForms Controls, you won't face any issues when migrating to WinUI.
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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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