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New Diagram Control (CTP)
The new DevExpress WinForms Diagram Control allows users to visually communicate complex information using data-linked diagrams, flow and org charts. Its features include:
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110+ shapes include: basic, flow chart, arrow and SDL diagram shapes
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Software icons
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Visio inspired diagram themes including: Office, Linear, Integral, Daybreak, Parallel, Sequence and Lines. You can also define custom themes as needed.
- Connectors (straight, curved and right angle)
- 15 predefined connector arrows
- A* algorithm-based auto-connector routing
- Automatic Shape layout
- End-User Diagram Designer
- Open/Save diagrams
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New Date Editor & Calendar
The calendar used in our WinForms Date Editor is now available as a standalone control and can be dropped directly onto a form.
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New Excel Data Source
With this release, you can use our new WinForms ExcelDataSource component to bind DevExpress WinForms data-aware controls to Microsoft Excel workbooks and CSV files (a worksheet, table or named region).
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New Tabbed Form & Pane
New Tabbed Form
Our new WinForms Tabbed Form incorporates a Tabbed MDI interface, allowing you to eliminate the use of MDI managers.
Help Topic
New Tabbed Pane
The DevExpress WinForms Tabbed Pane control is a SDI (Single Document Interface) navigation control. This control owns a collection of pages and uses buttons to navigate between them. Only a single page can be active at any point in time. Pages can host any content, from panels and group boxes to user controls. Page navigation includes animation effects.
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New Toolbox Control
v15.2 ships with a Microsoft Visio inspired Toolbox control. Features include:
- Any number of items
- Item groups/categories
- Search box
- Minimize control
- Quick access to item groups via a menu
- Events to handle outer drag-and-drop operations
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New Clipboard Management (CTP)
With this release, you can retain source formatting (fonts, appearance settings, cell colors, etc.) when copying data from our WinForms Data Grid or Tree List controls to apps using Biff8 (XLS), RTF, HTML and CSV file formats.
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Data Grid Control
Data Cell Images
Data cells can now display custom images either to the left or rightmost edge of the control. New event handlers allow you to display different images for different grid cells.
Align Summary Values with Group Rows
Summary values can be displayed in group rows under corresponding column headers.
Partial Groups
This new option allows you to display group rows with two or more data rows. If a group row contains only a single data row, it is not displayed.
Grid-Based Report Generation
This release ships with a new WinForms Grid-based report generation option. With only a few lines of code, you can invoke the DevExpress WinForms Report Designer from the Grid Control and create reports based on its data.
Blog Post
Sparklines Export to XLSX
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App UI Manager
The new layout mode allows you to mix vertical and horizontal tabbed groups in Tabbed Views.
Help Topic
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Chart Control
New Financial Indicators
This release ships with the following new financial indicators:
- AverageTrueRange
- CommodityChannelIndex
- DetrendedPriceOscillator
- MassIndex
- MedianPrice
- MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence
- RateOfChange (Momentum)
- RelativeStrengthIndex
- StandardDeviation
- StochasticIndicator
- TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TEMA)
- TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TriX)
- TypicalPrice
- VolatilityChaikins
- WeightedClose
- WilliamsR
Blog Post
Miscellaneous
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Clear Type Fonts
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Auto generated labels can now display custom labels.
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With this release, you can implement custom sorting algorithm for the Qualitative scale.
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Layout Control
Resizing
You can view an item's current size during resize operations. Layout items that cannot be resized (due to size constraints) are now highlighted.
Blog Post
Search within Customization Form
With this release you can locate items by entering their names with the search box.
Blog Post
Visual Enhancements
Selected items in customization mode are painted in light blue. Drop position is now highlighted during drag-and-drop operations.
Blog Post
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Map Control
Data Clustering
To help increase dataset readability and analyze data density, you can now aggregate data using the DevExpress Map Control's clustering methods.
Video
Vector Data Export/Import Enhancements
Our WinForms Map Control can now import SVG vector graphics and export its vector data to KML, SVG and Shapefiles.
Miscellaneous
- Overlays.
- MapPushpin selection support
- Geodesic lines and polylines support
- Improved ellipse/rectangle API
- Ability to export and print the MiniMap
- Ability to include the Navigation Panel into the exported file
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PDF Viewer
Open/Save Attachments
With this release, our WinForms PDF Viewer displays attachments in the Attachments panel. You can open and/or save attachments as needed.
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Rich Text Editor
Custom Drawing Using Layout API
Blog Post
Nested Comments
With this release, end-users can reply to comments. Comments and replies are grouped and displayed as a conversation.
Blog Post
Improved PDF Export
We've optimized our export to PDF algorithms. It's now twice as fast and consumes 30% less memory.
Blog Post
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Scheduler Control
Time Indicator
Our Scheduler now indicates current time. In the Day, Work-Week and Full Week views, current time is indicated by a horizontal line that can go across the entire view or can be restricted to the current date. In the Timeline view, the time indicator is represented by a vertical line drawn across the view.
Help Topic
New Default Appointment Ribbon Form
To better replicate the Microsoft Outlook appointment dialog, we've modified our default appointment editing form to a Ribbon form.
Help Topic
Time Zone Information for Each Appointment
With this release, you can associate time zones with individual appointments and display their Start and End time correctly when the Scheduler's time zone changes.
Performance Enhancements
We've improved the Scheduler Control's rendering performance. A view with numerous appointments is now rendered much faster.
Reporting Scripts Support
With this release, our WinForms End-User Report Designer allows users to handle our Scheduler control's reporting events.
New Date Navigator
Help Topic
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Snap Reporting Control
Data Source Wizard Customization
With this release, you can customize Snap's Data Source Wizard. You can manage data source lists, remove default wizard pages, create and add custom pages.
Help Topic
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Spreadsheet Control
Pivot Tables
The DevExpress WinForms Spreadsheet now offers Pivot Table support making it easy to analyze, categorize and summarize large volumes of data within a worksheet. You can dynamically manage data source fields by using the Field List, sort and filter PivotTable items, expand and collapse detail levels, perform calculations on field values using built-in aggregate functions, apply formatting, etc.
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Copy/Paste Enhancements
- With this release, clipboard operations support BIFF8. You can preserve cell formatting when data is pasted into a spreadsheet or Microsoft Excel.
- Our WinForms Spreadsheet control can now delay clipboard data rendering until data is requested.
- The WinForms Spreadsheet now responds to external changes made to the clipboard and automatically resets the copied cell range once the clipboard is cleared.
API Improvements
Ability to create a pivot table from a cell range or a PivotTable cache, modify and remove existing pivot tables. New events allow you to perform specific actions before or after data copy/paste.
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TreeList Control
Cell Selection
Our WinForms TreeList control now supports selection of multiple cells.
Drag & Drop Enhancements
With this release, you no longer need to handle events and write code to enable drag and drop for multiple nodes within the DevExpress WinForms TreeList control.
A new event makes it easier to incorporate drag-and-drop support for multiple nodes between different TreeList controls.
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MVVM & Scaffolding
New Services
This release provides four new services for the MVVM platform: notification, splash screen, layout serialization and print preview services.
Data Binding Improvements
Our MVVM Framework supports binding to properties, commands and event-to-command behaviors for nested ViewModels.
View Scaffolding
With this release, you can create MVVM Application parts (Model, ModelViews and Views) based on an Entity Framework Model.
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Application Themes
New Office 2016 Inspired Themes
This release ships with the following Office 2016 inspired themes: Office 2016 Colorful Theme and Office 2016 Dark Theme.
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Miscellaneous
- Property Grid Control: Row headers and data cells now support HTML text formatting.
- Ribbon Control: v15.2 includes a Recent Item control that extends our Ribbon BackstageView. With the Recent Item control, you can emulate menus introduced in the newest version of Microsoft Office.
- The WinForms Data Source Wizard now supports XPO (eXpress Persistent Objects) and Excel Data Source.
- Report generation in data-aware controls.
- Our Adorner UI Manager component now supports the Bar Manager and Ribbon controls.
- Design-time UX enhancements (DXCollectionEditor).
- Our WinForms SQL Data Source now supports Google BigQuery.
- Our WinForms Progress Panel and Transition Manager now support Office inspired animation styles.
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New CardView Control
The DevExpress ASP.NET CardView Control was released as a community preview earlier this year. This update marks its official release and includes the following new features:
- Batch Editing
- Conditional Formatting
- Export to PDF, XLS, XLSX and RTF Formats
- Selected Records Export
- Conditional Formatting Export
- Header Panel
- Total Summary
- Endless Paging
- Date Range Header Filter
- Ellipsis with tooltips in cell texts
- Design-Time Card Layout Editor allows you to build a Microsoft Outlook inspired Contacts View with integrated data shaping and editing capabilities.
Demos
Video
Help Topic
Blog Post
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New QueryBuilder Control (CTP)
The DevExpress ASP.NET Query Builder allows you to visually construct SQL queries and return a string containing a SELECT statement.
Features include:
- The database schema is automatically obtained and displayed within the QueryBuilder's UI.
- Ability to visually edit 'WHERE', 'ORDER BY' and 'GROUP BY' query clauses.
- Relationships between tables are automatically resolved based on foreign keys.
- Query results preview.
Demos
Help Topic
Blog Post
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GridView Control
Adaptivity Options
The DevExpress ASP.NET GridView can automatically adapt its UI based on screen size (resize UI elements, hide cells of small columns, switch from a table to a card layout on smaller screens, etc.).
Demos
Blog Post
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Date Range Header Filter
Two new representation modes inspired by Microsoft Windows Explorer are now available for a column header filter dropdown with dates. You can define a date range using a calendar or date editors. In both modes, the filter dropdown displays a customizable list of check boxes and allow you to select common date intervals: 'Last week', 'Last month', 'Last year', etc.
Demos
Blog Post
Conditional Formatting
With this release, our ASP.NET GridView supports Microsoft Excel inspired conditional formatting of individual cells. Your end-users can now highlight critical information, compare data, visualize trends by using data bars, color scales or icons. Format conditions applied to data cells can also be exported to PDF, RTF, XLS and XLSX.
Demos
Help Topic
Blog Post
Truncated Cell Values
Our ASP.NET GridView can now automatically truncate cell values if they don't fit in a cell. To indicate that the text is clipped, the grid displays an ellipsis ('...'). Point the mouse cursor over the ellipsis to display a tooltip with the full value of the cell.
Demos
Blog Post
Improved EditForm Layout Designer
This release ships with an improved EditForm Designer. New features include:
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Ability to move layout items via drag and drop.
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Ability to assign a nested control to an item via a context menu.
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Chart Control
New Financial Indicators
This release ships with the following new financial indicators:
- AverageTrueRange
- CommodityChannelIndex
- DetrendedPriceOscillator
- MassIndex
- MedianPrice
- MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence
- RateOfChange (Momentum)
- RelativeStrengthIndex
- StandardDeviation
- StochasticIndicator
- TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TEMA)
- TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TriX)
- TypicalPrice
- VolatilityChaikins
- WeightedClose
- WilliamsR
Demos
Miscellaneous
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Clear Type Fonts
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Auto generated labels can now display custom labels.
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With this release, you can implement a custom sorting algorithm for the Qualitative scale.
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File Manager Control
Virtual Scrolling
With this release, our ASP File Manager supports virtual scrolling and allows dynamic loading of files via callbacks.
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Filter Control
Filter Expression Text Editor
You can now edit the filter expression in a text editor.
Demo
Hierarchical Expression View
A tree-like (hierarchical) data field picker allows you to select nested properties of complex type columns. You can also specify the max hierarchy depth level.
Demo
Miscellaneous
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Ability to compare values of one filter column with values of another.
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Optional display of logical group operators (e.g. 'And', 'Or', 'Not And', 'Not Or') and operations (e.g. 'Add Group', 'Add Condition', 'Remove').
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Form Layout Control
This release includes an improved Layout Designer. New features include:
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Ability to move layout items via drag and drop.
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Ability to assign a nested control to an item via a context menu.
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HTML Editor
HTML Code Editor Enhancements
- Tag auto completion and auto closing
- Code highlighting
- Code folding
- Line numbering
- Selection is preserved when switching between tabs
Demo
Video
Blog Post
Find and Replace
The DevExpress ASP.NET HTML Editor now includes a 'Find and Replace' feature that allows end-users to easily locate and modify text within Design and HTML views. The 'Find and Replace' Dialog can be invoked using the corresponding toolbar button or from within the Search Panel. Search results are displayed as clickable list items.
Demos
Blog Post
HTML Document Editing
With this release, you can edit the entire HTML document including <html>, <head> (along with <title> and <meta>) and <body> tags.
Demo
Blog Post
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Ribbon Control
One-Line Mode
Our ASP.NET Ribbon control can now display all items within an active tab across a single line.
Demo
Help Topic
Blog Post
Contextual Tabs
You can now create contextual tabs with element-related commands. You can specify a tab's title, color, and manually change visibility based on a specific context.
Demo
Blog Post
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Rich Editor Control
Headers and Footers
v15.2 allows you to specify different headers and footers for the first page, odd and even pages, and each particular section. Headers and footers can also display page numbers, page count, current date, etc.
Demo
Help Topic
Blog Post
Tables
With this release, our ASP.NET Rich Editor supports tables. Specific table-related ribbon tabs and new menu items allow your end-users to create and modify tables as necessary.
Demos
Help Topic
Blog Post
Mail Merge with a Data Source
This release ships with an improved mail merge engine. You can now bind to an external data source and preview results. New ribbon commands allow end-users to visually insert mail merge fields (placeholders for dynamic content) from the bound data source, navigate through data source records and preview merged data. The resulting merged document can be generated for all or specific data source records. Once the merged document is generated, users can download or save it to the server.
Demos
Video
Help Topic
Blog Post
Bookmarks
End-users can now create and edit bookmarks.
Demo
Help Topic
Blog Post
Multi-Selection
End-users can now select different portions of a document by using the mouse and Ctrl keys simultaneously.
Page Color
End-users can now change the document's background color.
Document Autosave
With this release, our ASP.NET Rich Editor saves your work behind the scenes. You can specify the regularity by which documents are saved. New events allow you to manually handle AutoSave operations and resolve multi-user conflicts, if any.
Work Session Hibernation
Inactive documents are now automatically hibernated to the server's file system to free server RAM.
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Scheduler Control
Time Indicator
Our Scheduler now indicates the current time. In Day, Work-Week and Full Week views, current time is indicated by a horizontal line that can span the entire view or can be restricted to the current date. In Timeline view, the time indicator is represented by a vertical line drawn across the view.
Demo
Help Topic
Custom ToolTip (MVC)
Easily customize tooltips to display additional information when a mouse cursor hovers over a selected area.
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Spreadsheet Control
Excel Inspired Frozen Panes
With this release, you can lock specific rows or columns in a worksheet area to maintain its visibility while scrolling the worksheet vertically or horizontally.
Demo
Blog Post
Excel Inspired Data Validation
You can now maintain data accuracy/consistency by preventing the entry of invalid data.
Demo
Help Topic
Blog Post
Excel Inspired AutoFilter
With this release, our ASP.NET Spreadsheet provides a simple way to filter information in a worksheet and find required values quickly. Three filter types are available: Text, Number and Date Filters. You can also use the 'Filter by Values' option to filter by unique column values.
Demo
Help Topic
Blog Post
Excel Inspired Formula Bar
Used to enter or copy existing formulas into cells.
Demo
Blog Post
Formula AutoComplete
This release ships with a Formula AutoComplete feature that makes it easier to create and edit formulas. (minimizing typing and syntax errors).
Demo
Blog Post
Document Autosave
With this release, our ASP.NET Spreadsheet saves your work behind the scenes. You can specify the regularity by which documents are saved. New events allow you to manually handle AutoSave operations and resolve multi-user conflicts, if any.
Blog Post
Work Session Hibernation
Inactive documents are now automatically hibernated to free server RAM.
Blog Post
Extended Page Setup
This release includes a new Page Setup dialog. The new dialog provides a set of print-related options (document orientation, paper size, page margins, page order, etc.) and allows you to specify a page header and footer.
Help Topic
Blog Post
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Miscellaneous Enhancements
HTML5 Media Support
With this release, our ASP.NET Object Container allows you to embed HTML5 media (video and audio) into a web page (simply specify an object's URL and type).
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MVC CardView Extension
This release ships with our newest MVC Extension - the DevExpress Card View for MVC. Like its Web Forms counterpart, this extension provides a Microsoft Outlook-inspired Contacts View with integrated data shaping and editing capabilities. Its features include:
- Server Mode
- Custom Data Binding
- Data Editing
- Batch Editing
- Conditional Formatting
- Data Sorting
- Data Filtering
- Built-in Search
- Total Summary
- Focused Card and Multiple Card Selection
- Built-in Pager
- Endless Paging
- Vertical Scrolling
- Templates
- Data Export
Demo
Video
Help Topic
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MVC GridView Extension
Adaptivity Options
The DevExpress ASP.NET MVC GridView can automatically adapt its UI based on screen size (resize UI elements, hide cells of small columns, switch from a table to a card layout on smaller screens, etc.).
Demo
Blog Post
Video
Date Range Header Filter
TTwo new representation modes inspired by Microsoft Windows Explorer are now available for a column header filter dropdown with dates. You can define a date range using a calendar or date editors. In both modes, the filter dropdown displays a customizable list of check boxes and allow you to select common date intervals: 'Last week', 'Last month', 'Last year', etc.
Demos
Blog Post
Conditional Formating
With this release, our GridView extension supports Microsoft Excel inspired conditional formatting of individual cells. Your end-users can now highlight critical information, compare data, visualize trends by using data bars, color scales or icons. Format conditions applied to data cells can also be exported to PDF, RTF, XLS and XLSX.
Demos
Blog Post
Truncated Cell Values
Our ASP.NET MVC GridView can now automatically truncate cell values if they don't fit in a cell. To indicate that the text is clipped, the grid displays an ellipsis ('...'). Point the mouse cursor over the ellipsis to display a tooltip with the full value of the cell.
Demos
Blog Post
Filter Editor Improvements
- You can now edit the filter expression in a text editor.
- A tree-like (hierarchical) data field picker allows you to select nested properties of complex type columns. You can also specify the max hierarchy depth level.
- Ability to compare values of one filter column with values of another.
- Optional display of logical group operators (e.g. 'And', 'Or', 'Not And', 'Not Or') and operations (e.g. 'Add Group', 'Add Condition', 'Remove').
Demos
Blog Post
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MVC Chart Extension
New Financial Indicators
This release ships with the following new financial indicators:
- AverageTrueRange
- CommodityChannelIndex
- DetrendedPriceOscillator
- MassIndex
- MedianPrice
- MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence
- RateOfChange (Momentum)
- RelativeStrengthIndex
- StandardDeviation
- StochasticIndicator
- TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TEMA)
- TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TriX)
- TypicalPrice
- VolatilityChaikins
- WeightedClose
- WilliamsR
Video
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MVC File Manager Extension
Virtual Scrolling
With this release, our ASP.NET MVC File Manager supports virtual scrolling and allows dynamic loading of files via callbacks.
Demos
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MVC HTML Editor Extension
HTML Code Editor Enhancements
- Tag auto completion and auto closing
- Code highlighting
- Code folding
- Line numbering
- Selection is preserved when switching between tabs
Demos
Video
Blog Post
Built-in Search. Find and Replace
The DevExpress ASP.NET MVC HTML Editor now includes a 'Find and Replace' feature that allows end-users to easily locate and modify text within Design and HTML views. The 'Find and Replace' Dialog can be invoked using the corresponding toolbar button or from within the Search Panel. Search results are displayed as clickable list items.
Demos
Blog Post
HTML Document Editing
With this release, you can edit the entire HTML document including <html>, <head> (along with <title> and <meta>) and <body> tags.
Demos
Blog Post
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MVC Ribbon Extension
One-Line Mode
Our ASP.NET MVC Ribbon extension can now display all items within an active tab across a single line.
Demos
Blog Post
Contextual Tabs
You can now create contextual tabs with element-related commands. You can specify a tab's title, color, and manually change visibility based on a specific context.
Demos
Blog Post
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MVC Rich Editor Extension
Headers and Footers
v15.2 allows you to specify different headers and footers for the first page, odd and even pages, and each particular section. Headers and footers can also display page numbers, page count, current date, etc.
Demo
Tables
With this release, our ASP.NET MVC Rich Editor supports tables. Specific table-related ribbon tabs and new menu items allow your end-users to create and modify tables as necessary.
Demo
Mail Merge with a Data Source
This release ships with an improved mail merge engine. You can now bind to an external data source and preview results. New ribbon commands allow end-users to visually insert mail merge fields (placeholders for dynamic content) from the bound data source, navigate through data source records and preview merged data. The resulting merged document can be generated for all or specific data source records. Once the merged document is generated, users can download or save it to the server.
Demo
Bookmarks
End-users can now create and edit bookmarks.
Multi-Selection
End-users can now select different portions of a document by using the mouse and Ctrl keys simultaneously.
Page Color
End-users can now change the document's background color.
Document Autosave
With this release, our ASP.NET MVC Rich Editor saves your work behind the scenes. You can specify the regularity by which documents are saved. New events allow you to manually handle AutoSave operations and resolve multi-user conflicts, if any.
Work Session Hibernation
Inactive documents are now automatically hibernated to the server's file system to free server RAM.
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MVC Scheduler Extension
Time Indicator
Our Scheduler now indicates the current time. In Day, Work-Week and Full Week views, current time is indicated by a horizontal line that can span the entire view or can be restricted to the current date. In Timeline view, the time indicator is represented by a vertical line drawn across the view.
Custom ToolTip
Easily customize tooltips to display additional information when a mouse cursor hovers over a selected area.
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MVC Spreadsheet Extension
Excel Inspired Frozen Panes
With this release, you can lock specific rows or columns in a worksheet area to maintain its visibility while scrolling the worksheet vertically or horizontally.
Demo
Blog Post
Excel Inspired Data Validation
You can now maintain data accuracy/consistency by preventing the entry of invalid data.
Demo
Blog Post
Excel Inspired AutoFilter
With this release, our ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet provides a simple way to filter information in a worksheet and find required values quickly. Three filter types are available: Text, Number and Date Filters. You can also use the 'Filter by Values' option to filter by unique column values.
Demo
Blog Post
Excel Inspired Formula Bar
Used to enter or copy existing formulas into cells.
Demos
Blog Post
Formula AutoComplete
This release ships with a Formula AutoComplete feature that makes it easier to create and edit formulas. (minimizing typing and syntax errors).
Demos
Blog Post
Document Autosave
With this release, our ASP.NET MVC Spreadsheet saves your work behind the scenes. You can specify the regularity by which documents are saved. New events allow you to manually handle AutoSave operations and resolve multi-user conflicts, if any.
Blog Post
Work Session Hibernation
Inactive documents are now automatically hibernated to free server RAM.
Blog Post
Extended Page Setup
This release includes a new Page Setup dialog. The new dialog provides a set of print-related options (document orientation, paper size, page margins, page order, etc.) and allows you to specify a page header and footer.
Blog Post
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New Diagram Control (CTP)
The new DevExpress WPF Diagram Control allows users to visually communicate complex information using data-linked diagrams, flow and org charts. Its features include:
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110+ shapes include: basic, flow chart, arrow and SDL diagram shapes
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Software icons
- Visio inspired diagram themes including: Office, Linear, Integral, Daybreak, Parallel, Sequence and Lines. You can also define custom themes as needed.
- Connectors (straight, curved and right angle)
- 15 predefined connector arrows
- A* algorithm-based auto-connector routing
- Automatic Shape layout
- Automatic generation of hierarchical diagrams
- End-User Diagram Designer
- Open/Save diagrams
- WPF templates and styles support
Blog Post
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New Camera Control
Our new WPF Camera Control allows you to display a video stream from a webcam device and take a snapshot. Built-in Setting options help to adjust video settings (contrast, brightness, etc.) and to select the desired camera whenever multiple devices are plugged in.
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New Clipboard Manager
The new WPF Clipboard Manager allows you to copy data from the DevExpress Grid and TreeList Controls to MS Word, Excel and Outlook while preserving original formatting.
Blog Post
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New Report Designer (CTP)
The WPF Report Designer, a feature-rich end-user reporting tool for WPF, includes the following new features:
- Report Wizard and Data Source Wizard
- Dedicated editors (e.g., Style Editor, Formatting Rules editor, etc.)
- Support for all DevExpress Report controls including Subreports, Charts, Bar Codes and Pivot Grid
- Fully functional Report Explorer including Styles, Components, and Formatting Rules nodes
- Scripting support
- Modern interface
- Context menus
- Localization
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New TreeMap Control
The new DevExpress WPF TreeMap Control allows you to visualize flat or hierarchically structured data using nested rectangles that are sized and ordered by a quantitative variable. Built-in features include:
- Multiple Layout algorithms: Slice and Dice, Squarified and Striped
- Ability to visualize flat and hierarchical data
- Ability to color TreeMap items using one of the following algorithms: gradient, group gradient, palette or range
- Configurable tooltips
- Item highlights and selection
- Appearance customization
Blog Post
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Data Grid Control
Partial Data Grouping
This new option allows you to display group rows with two or more data rows. If a group row contains only a single data row, it is not displayed.
Blog Post
Inline Data Editing Form
The DevExpress WPF Grid now includes an in-line editor. This new option provides UI flexibility and make it easier for your end-users to edit data within the Grid.
Blog Post
Marquee Record Selection
A quick and easy way to select a range of rows/cells.
Blog Post
Group Row Template Optimization
Our Lightweight Templates first introduced in 2014 now include group row templates that make content rendering and scrolling significantly faster.
Performance Enhancements
v15.2 includes a new data source (ChunkList). It stores items in chunks instead of a plain list. With this new data source, insert, delete and search operations are executed much faster.
CardView Printing
Grid-Based Report Generation
This release ships with a new WPF Grid-based report generation option. With only a few lines of code, you can invoke the DevExpress WPF Report Designer from the Grid Control and create reports based on its data.
Blog Post
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Chart Control
New Financial Indicators
This release ships with the following new financial indicators:
- AverageTrueRange
- CommodityChannelIndex
- DetrendedPriceOscillator
- MassIndex
- MedianPrice
- MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence
- RateOfChange (Momentum)
- RelativeStrengthIndex
- StandardDeviation
- StochasticIndicator
- TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TEMA)
- TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TriX)
- TypicalPrice
- VolatilityChaikins
- WeightedClose
- WilliamsR
Blog Post
Performance Enhancements
Our WPF Chart Control can display large volumes of data (up to one million items) using Lines and Areas series with no performance loss. Our WPF Chart Control can also be used in applications incorporating real time data updates.
Miscellaneous
With this release, you can implement custom sorting algorithm for the Qualitative scale.
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Data Layout Control
With this release, you can generate layout items for all fields in a data source. We’ve added a new item (Generate items) to the layout control’s smart tag. Once you generate layout items, you can rearrange them in Design View.
Filtering UI
The DevExpress Data Layout Control can now generate a filter UI based on attribute settings.
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Editors
Server Mode for ComboBoxEdit, LookUpEdit, ListBoxEdit
ComboBoxEdit, LookUpEdit and ListBoxEdit now support server-side data processing.
Incremental Search for ComboBoxEdit, ListBoxEdit
The DevExpress WPF ComboBox and ListBox Editors now support incremental search.
Take Pictures with Your Webcam
Our WPF Image Editor includes a 'Take Snapshot' button allowing users to capture a picture from a webcam and display it within the control.
Standalone Button Controls
This release ships with the following new button controls:
- Simple Button
- Drop-down Button
- Split Button
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Map Control
Data Clustering
To help increase dataset readability and analyze data density, you can now aggregate data using the DevExpress Map Control's clustering methods.
Video
Help Topic
Vector Data Export/Import Enhancements
Our WPF Map Control can now import SVG vector graphics and export its vector data to KML, SVG and Shapefiles.
Miscellaneous
- Shape title arrangement improvements
- Geodesic line and polyline support
- Improved ellipse/rectangle API
- Ability to export and print the MiniMap
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PDF Viewer
Open/Save Attachments
With this release, our WPF PDF Viewer displays attachments in the Attachments panel. You can open and/or save attachments as needed.
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Property Grid Control
Performance Optimizations
With this release, rows and editors are rendered using lightweight templates. It now takes less time to load and render the Property Grid control.
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Rich Text Editor
Custom Draw Using Layout API
You can now draw lines, shapes and text above, below or in place of page elements.
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Nested Comments
With this release, end-users can reply to comments. Comments and replies are grouped and displayed as a conversation.
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Improved PDF Export
We've optimized our export to PDF algorithms. It's now twice as fast and consumes 30% less memory.
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Scheduler Control
Time Indicator
Our Scheduler now indicates current time. In the Day, Work-Week and Full Week views, current time is indicated by a horizontal line that can go across the entire view or can be restricted to the current date. In the Timeline view, the time indicator is represented by a vertical line drawn across the view.
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New Default Appointment Ribbon Form
To better replicate the Microsoft Outlook appointment dialog, we've modified our default appointment editing form to a Ribbon form.
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Time Zone Information for Each Appointment
With this release, you can associate time zones with individual appointments and display their Start and End time correctly when the Scheduler's time zone changes.
Performance Enhancements
We've improved the Scheduler Control's rendering performance. A view with numerous appointments is now rendered much faster.
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Spreadsheet Control
Pivot Tables
The DevExpress WPF Spreadsheet now offers Pivot Table support making it easy to analyze, categorize and summarize large volumes of data within a worksheet. You can dynamically manage data source fields by using the Field List, sort and filter PivotTable items, expand and collapse detail levels, perform calculations on field values using built-in aggregate functions, apply formatting, etc.
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Copy/Paste Enhancements
With this release, clipboard operations support BIFF8. You can preserve cell formatting when data is pasted into a spreadsheet or Microsoft Excel.
API Enhancements
Ability to create a pivot table from a cell range or a PivotTable cache, modify and remove existing pivot tables. New events allow you to perform specific actions before or after data copy/paste.
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Tab Control
Pinned Tabs
End-users can now pin and unpin tabs in Stretch View.
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MVVM and Scaffolding
Integration with Report Designer
Example
Many-to-Many Associations Support
We now support data models based on many-to-many relationships.
INotifyPropertyChanging Support
POCO mechanism can now automatically implement the INotifyPropertyChanging interface.
New Attributes
- The POCO mechanism now supports the new DependsOnProperties attribute, which indicates that the attributed property depends on values of other properties.
- The following attributes allow you to assign editors at the data model/view model level: DefaultEditorAttribute, GridEditorAttribute, LayoutControlEditorAttribute, PropertyGridEditorAttribute. Once the editors are assigned, they can be used in the corresponding controls through the entire application.
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Application Themes
New Office 2016 Inspired Themes
This release ships with the following Office 2016 inspired themes: Office 2016 Black Theme, Office 2016 White Theme, Office 2016 Colorful Theme.
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Miscellaneous
Our WPF Data Source Wizard now supports XPO (eXpress Persistent Objects) and Excel Data Source.
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New Hamburger Menu
This release ships with our new Hamburger Menu and Hamburger Frame controls.
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Ribbon Control
Our new Ribbon Control for Windows 10 Apps includes the following features:
- Ribbon items (button, check box, radio button, menu button, toggle button, spin editor and text box)
- Responsive UI
- Backstage View
- Mobile View
- MVVM Support
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Color Schemes (CTP)
Provide color schemes for your Windows 10 applications. You can use one of our predefined color schemes or design your own.
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UI Widgets
New dxForm
v15.2 includes the new dxForm widget - designed to present and edit data stored in an object. This widget allows you to bind each layout item to a specific data field or generate a new data object based upon form field values.
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dxPivotGrid Enhancements
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New summary display modes include: Display Mode, Running Total, Cross Group Summary Calculation and Calculate Summary Value.
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You can now specify where to display total rows/columns using the 'showTotalsPrior' option
With this release, you can export pivot grid data to Microsoft Excel.
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The DevExtreme pivot grid widget now supports virtual scrolling, making it much faster when working with large volumes of data.
- You can now reload data and change filter conditions at runtime.
New APIs allows you to retrieve a list of records (facts) used to calculate a specific summary.
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Ability to save and restore a pivot grid's state (fields in areas, sorting, filters, expanded headers).
dxDataGrid Enhancements
dxScheduler Enhancements
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You can now specify whether users can edit, create, delete, drag or resize appointments.
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Display/hide the 'All Day' event panel displayed at the top of the calendar.
With this release, users can edit individual events contained within recurring appointment patterns and convert them to standalone appointments when appropriate.
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With the 'appointmentTooltipTemplate' option, you can now specify custom markup of appointment tooltips.
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The Scheduler allows you to handle the 'AppointmentClick', 'AppointmentDblClick' and 'CellClick' UI events.
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Event cell duration can now be customized as necessary.
Fine-tune and perfect the Scheduler’s appointment detail form to address a broad range of use-case scenarios.
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- This release ships with timeline views available for a day, week and work week.
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Mobile UX Improvements:
- You can now switch a view using a drop-down menu.
- A view can now be scrolled horizontally if widget width is not enough to fit the view.
- A popup with appointment details can be displayed in full-screen mode.
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dxTreeView Enhancements
With this release, you can filter widget items.
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Data Visualization
dxPieChart
- Ability to display multiple series in a single pie chart. Different series are now displayed as rings located one inside another.
- With this release, we have added the ability to interact with pie chart series points using their labels (click and hover).
dxVectorMap
- With this release, we have added support for multiple area and marker layers.
- This release ships with new multiple projection types: Mercator, Equirectangular, Lambert cylindrical equal-area and Miller cylindrical projection. You can also implement your own projection.
Miscellaneous
Ability to specify the title and subtitle for all visualization widgets.
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HTML5/JS Core
Integration with Parse Core Library
With this release, the DevExtreme data layer can be seamlessly used with the Parse cloud data storage.
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Performance Improvements
Chart Widget Performance Enhancements
With this release, our chart widgets are rendered up to 3 times faster than previous versions.
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Visual Studio Integration
VS 2015 Apache Cordova Application Template Support
This release provides support for the Apache Cordova Application template for Visual Studio 2015.
Application Packaging for iOS 9
DevExtreme allows you to develop and submit applications for iOS 9 out-of-the-box.
Application Packaging for Windows 10
You can now build Windows 10 applications using the Apache Cordova Application template.
Support for Npm Repository as a Plugins Source
With this release, you can use the npm plugin repository. Simply add the plugin's address to the config and build a custom application template.
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Application Themes
This release includes a new Windows 10 inspired app theme.
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WPF Report Designer
The WPF Report Designer, a feature-rich end-user reporting tool for WPF, includes the following new features:
- Report Wizard and Data Source Wizard
- Dedicated editors (e.g., Style Editor, Formatting Rules editor, etc.)
- Support for all DevExpress Report controls including Subreports, Charts, Bar Codes and Pivot Grid
- Fully functional Report Explorer including Styles, Components, and Formatting Rules nodes
- Scripting support
- Modern interface
- Context menus
- Localization
Please note, though we are getting close its official release, our WPF Report Designer remains in beta.
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Web Report Designer
Subreports Support
The Web Report Designer now allows you to create and edit subreports. Once you add the XRSubreport control to a report's body, double-click it to begin editing.
Report Explorer
With this release, a Report Explorer has been added to the Web End-User Designer UI. The Report Explorer displays a report's structure in a tree-like form and provides easy access to all report elements.
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RichText Editing
The Web Report Designer allows you to edit content displayed by the XRRichText control. You can also load data from a RTF file.
Query Builder Enhancements
- Ability to edit ORDER BY and GROUP BY query clauses.
- Relationships between tables are automatically resolved based on foreign keys.
- Ability to preview resulting data.
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Web Document Viewer
Azure Support
With this release, our HTML5/JS Web Document Viewer supports Azure.
Asynchronous Export Mode
Our Web Document Viewer can now export reports asynchronously. With one option enabled, all data export operations can be executed in the background. During data export, the Document Viewer indicates progress. To avoid browser connection timeout errors for large export opreations, download of the resulting document is initiated after the final document has been fully generated.
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Cross-Platform Functionality
Export to MailMessage
With this release, you can export reports to HTML in code and use .NET Framework mailing functionality to send generated HTML messages to an arbitrary number of recipients using required email settings.
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Improved Single-File RTF Export
The layout of RTF documents generated using the export functionality of the XtraPrinting Library has been improved.
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Data Access
Excel Data Source
Our Data Access library allows you to bind your reports to data obtained from Microsoft Excel workbooks and CSV files. The following Excel formats are supported: XLS, XLSX and XLSM. You can specify the source worksheet, table or named region from which to obtain data.
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Google BigQuery Support
With this release, you can bind our SQLDataSource component to Google BigQuery.
Enhanced SQL Data Source API
Our SQL Data Source includes an API allowing you to access its tables, rows and columns in code.
Data Source Wizard Customization Enhancements
With this release, we've improved our Data Source Wizard's API to make wizard customization easier in most common use cases.
Query Builder Enhancements
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Ability to limit the number of resulting data rows (Top and Skip settings).
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Group filtering support.
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Ability to bind report parameters within the Filter String Editor.
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ASP.NET Maps Module
XAF's new Map Module for ASP.NET can display business objects on a map. This new module integrates our interactive dxMap and dxVectorMap widgets into ASP.NET XAF applications. You can configure both map types in the Model Editor.
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Reporting
- XAF's Reports Module can store a layout in XML format, making complex report rendering much faster.
- Complex types: Multi-value parameters are now supported.
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DevExpress HTML5 Report Viewer is now used in new projects by default.
- With this release, our Web Report Designer supports parameters with complex types.
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Security System Enhancements
- Security permissions are immediately refreshed once the administrator applies changes. You are no longer required to log off all affected users to refresh permissions.
- If the administrator grants certain permissions to a reference or collection property that participates in an association (one-to-many or many-to-many), the same permissions are automatically granted for a property at the other end of this association.
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The Data View mode in now supported.
- Upcasting is now supported in List View columns.
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Web Apps Usability
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ASP.NET applications can now prevent loss of unsaved data by displaying a warning dialog if a user attempts to close the browser tab or navigates to another View.
- Our ASPxGridListEditor supports the batch edit mode of the underlying GridView control.
- Our ASPxGridListEditor supports master-detail data presentation.
- Our ASPxGridListEditor supports an adaptive layout. Columns are collapsed automatically when the browser window is resized.
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#Inplace Validation
Data validation now occurs immediately after input focus changes if validation rule evaluation does not require querying additional data from the server. These rules are RuleRequiredField, RuleRegularExpression, RuleStringComparison, RuleValueComparison and RuleRange.
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Miscellaneous Enhancements
Reset View Settings Action
The Reset View Settings Action re-opens the current View and resets all user customizations of the View's model. This Action is disabled (grayed out) if there are unsaved changes.
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Detail Form Layout Customization in Code
With this release, you can customize the Detail View's default layout in your Data Model code using the DetailViewLayout attribute.
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Device-Specific Settings in ASP.NET Applications
Web applications can now have separate settings for desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Device-specific model differences are stored in the Model.Desktop.xafml, Model.Tablet.xafml and Model.Mobile.xafml files. Database settings storage is also supported.
Customizable ASP.NET Templates for Touch Devices
Page templates designed for touch devices can be easily customized. Corresponding project item templates are now available in Visual Studio:
- DevExpress v15.2 XAF ASP.NET Default Template Content V2
- DevExpress v15.2 XAF ASP.NET Dialog Template Content V2
- DevExpress v15.2 XAF ASP.NET Logon Template Content V2
- DevExpress v15.2 XAF ASP.NET Nested Frame Control V2
Non-Persistent Objects Enhancements
- The New, Delete and Save Actions are now available for non-persistent objects. Modified objects are accessible using the NonPersistentObjectSpace.ModifiedObjects property.
- The INotifyPropertyChanged.PropertyChanged event is now triggered for non-persistent objects.
- The non-persistent Object Space is now accessible in objects that support IObjectSpaceLink.
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Performance Enhancements
With this release, we have re-written the data engine used to perform data processing on the client. All client-side data shaping operations (grouping, sorting and aggregation) execute faster than previous versions of the Dashboard.
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New Scatter Chart
You can now visualize relationships between numerical variables using the Dashboard's Scatter Chart.
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Conditionally Formatted Data Bars
With this release, you can add data bars to Pivot and Grid cells and compare measure values corresponding to different categories.
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Excel/CSV Data Source
With this release, you can bind the DevExpress Dashboard to Microsoft Excel workbooks and CSV files. You can also export dashboard item data to a file in MS Excel format.
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Miscellaneous
- The Data Source wizard can now connect to Google BigQuery data sources.
- The Query Builder allows you to add Top and Skip clauses to SQL queries.
- You can now filter dashboard data by selecting individual data points.
- With this release, we have improved the Dashboard Designer UI used to manage SQL queries.
- The Grid dashboard item allows you now to add totals to columns. You can manage the visibility of Totals and Grand Totals for a Pivot dashboard item.
- The Chart dashboard item allows you to use a logarithmic scale for its Y-axis. Our new Scatter chart provides a logarithmic scale for both axes.
- With v15.2, the Dashboard Designer allows you to manage updates when designing the dashboard. If necessary, you can disable automatic updates and update the dashboard manually.
- Dashboard Parameters now support multi-selection allowing you to select multiple values at once. You can also pass a null value as a dashboard parameter.
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PDF Document Processor
Document Creation API
With this release, you can generate documents in PDF-A-2b and PDF-A-3b file formats in code. The new API allows you to prohibit font embedding in a PDF document.
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Edit Bookmarks
You can now create new bookmarks from scratch, change bookmark attributes (e.g. rename a bookmark, change its destination or font style) and delete bookmarks.
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Add Hyperlinks
With this release, you can add hyperlinks to URI or PDF pages.
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File Attachment
With this release, you can attach any number of files to a PDF document. You can also access files attached to a PDF file.
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Graphics API Improvements
- You can now draw a region of an image within specific boundaries.
- Ability to use different types of brushes.
- Ability to insert metafiles as a sequence of drawing commands.
- With this release, you can measure strings.
- Strings can now be drawn within specific boundaries with custom alignment and word wrapping options.
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XL Export
API Improvements
- Ability to apply different fonts to specific text regions within a cell.
- You can now create Sparkline groups of different types and adjust their formatting and scaling options.
- With this release, you can enable right-to-left worksheet direction in code.
- Ability to create image hyperlinks.
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Spreadsheet Document Server
API Improvements
Pivot Table API: create a pivot table from a worksheet range or the existing PivotTable cache, specify the report layout (compact, tabular or outline), set the calculation type to summarize field values, sort and filter report data, format pivot tables by applying the predefined or custom style, etc.
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Rich Edit
Improved Export to PDF
With this release, we've optimized our export to PDF. It is now twice faster and consumes 30% less memory.
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CodeRush for Roslyn v 1.0.7
Unit Test Runner
Starting with version 1.0.7, Unit Test Runner detects and runs unit tests for the MSTest framework. The Test Runner also runs CoreCLR test cases in the DNX environment.
Structural Highlighting
With this release we have implemented Structural Highlighting for C#, Visual Basic and XAML, so you can easily see the structure of your code.
Navigation Tools
Quick Navigation and Quick File Navigation are now ported to CodeRush for Roslyn, so you can quickly find symbols and files in your solution.
Refactorings
Starting with version 1.0.7, the Refactorings Catalog options page is now available. This options page lists all refactorings and enables you to control the availability of each one.
Code Cleanup
The Make properties auto-implemented code cleanup rule is now available.
Code Coverage
Now you can export code coverage statistics to XML, HMTL, and an NDepend-compatible format. CodeRush for Roslyn also now collects and presents coverage information for MSTest unit tests.
Decompiler
With this release, we have introduced new enhancements to the CodeRush Decompiler. Decompiled code structure more closely matches the original structure of the code before it was compiled, and the Decompiler now automatically names variables based on their usage or type.
The following code structures are now supported:
- for and foreach loops
- using statements
- auto-implemented properties
- null-coalescing operators
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CodeRush Classic
Code Coverage
You can now discover which parts of your solution are covered by unit tests, and find the at-risk portions of your application (those not covered by tests). The new Code Coverage window shows percentage of statements covered by unit tests for each namespace, type, and member in your solution.
Paste as XAML/SVG
Now it's easy to incorporate vector drawings into your applications, with the new "Paste as XAML" and "Paste as SVG" code providers. Simply copy a selection from a vector editing tool such as Microsoft Visio®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, or Adobe Illustrator® and then paste that vector drawing inside your XAML, or an HTML file as SVG.
The most powerful Desktop UI Component Suite for Delphi and C++Builder has been updated with new controls and features. For detailed information on the enhancements introduced in v15.2, review the What's New content by scrolling this page or using the navigation links on the left side.
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Office Navigation Bar
This release introduces a new Office Navigation Bar control that is capable of integrating with our NavBar control to help you fully replicate the user experience that's part of Outlook 2013.
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Sparkline Controls
Sparkline Editor & Sparkline Lookup
Sparklines are used to visualize data in a highly condensed manner allowing end-users to quickly consume and compare data. The DevExpress Sparkline Editor and Sparkline Lookup are designed for use in 2 use-case scenarios: standalone (in unbound or data-aware mode) and inside container controls, such as the Grid, Tree List, Pivot Grid, and Vertical Grid.
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Wheel Picker Controls
Date-Time Wheel Picker
A new touch-friendly editor whose wheels can be swiped or scrolled to select the corresponding parts of a date-time value. The editor features smooth animation, mouse wheel and touch gesture support. Unbound, data-aware, standalone, and in-place versions of the Date-Time Wheel Picker are available.
Generic Wheel Picker
We've also implemented an unbound Wheel Picker editor that allows selecting generic values using the same wheel-based UI metaphor. Features include:
- Any number of wheels and their items
- Customizable wheel dimensions and item text/image layout
- Optional cyclic wheel behavior
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Activity Indicator Control
This release ships with a new Activity Indicator Control - used to indicate the status of events with an unknown duration. With this fully customizable control, you can:
- Select from four animated indicator styles.
- Change the number of elements (dots) displayed in the control.
- Customize animation and appearance settings, including dot size, line width and color.
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Spreadsheet Control
With this release, we've added the following features:
- Conditional formatting
- Floating text boxes
- Cell comments
- Hyperlinks
- Ability to apply Look & Feel styles to built-in dialogs
- A comprehensive set of Action objects associated with the spreadsheet functionality
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Rich Edit Control
v15.2 ships with the following new features for the DevExpress VCL Rich Edit Control:
- Mail merge support
- Document fields
- Floating pictures and text boxes
- Page headers and footers
- Page numbering
- Bookmarks
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Grid Control
Fixed Group Rows
With v15.2, you can anchor group rows to the top of the Table View or Banded Table View so that scrolling through their content doesn't take them out of view. This is especially useful when groups contain a number of data rows. Anchored group rows display a special icon to indicate that their grouped data is partially visible.
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Ribbon Control
New Office 2016 Tablet Style
This release includes a new style inspired by the Office 2016 Mobile Ribbon available for tablets. This style features only one row of buttons and does not include multi-level popup menus – only one popup is displayed on screen at any point in time. If a user activates a submenu, it will appear within the same popup container and the window will adjust its size to properly fit its contents. To help you get started with the new style, we've added IDE templates that allow you to create Office 2016 Tablet Ribbon style applications and Ribbon forms from scratch.
New Color Gallery Item
With this release, our toolbar items have been extended with a gallery item that provides advanced color selection capabilities.
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Pivot Grid
With v15.2, you can export pivot grid data to Excel for further data analysis, using a simplified layout and without style information. The resulting worksheet includes outlined groups and frozen panes to make browsing the exported data simple. You can optionally highlight totals or hide field headers and/or cell borders in the worksheet.
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NavBar Control
Nested Groups
With v15.2, groups can contain nested groups so you can create advanced hierarchical navigation menus.
Accordion View
This release includes a new skin-based Accordion View that provides smooth group expansion/collapse animation.
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Layout Control
The Layout Control now provides the following layout options:
- Item arrangement into multiple lines on group sizing
- Word wrapping in item captions and labels
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Design-Time Improvements
Creating a Ribbon or Toolbar UI for your Spreadsheet or Rich Edit control is now a breeze with a new design-time capability. Simply click the corresponding item in the control's context menu, select your preferences in the opened dialog, click OK and a few moments later a ready-to-use action-based UI has been added to your app.
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VCL Application Themes
New Office 2016 Inspired Themes
This release ships with the following Office 2016 inspired themes: Office 2016 Colorful Theme and Office 2016 Dark Theme.
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Miscellaneous
Our Date Editors now provide a touch-friendly drop-down calendar featuring the date-time wheel picker introduced in this release.
