WinForms — Skin Patches
As you may know, a few years ago we overhauled our WinForms Skin Editor . This new tool – what we now call "Skin Editor v2" - is superior to its predecessor in every possible way: it includes a more discoverable skin element hierarchy, customizable…
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Reporting — Enhancements, Documentation Updates, Tips & Tricks (January-March 2021)
This Tips & Tricks post includes links to a few interesting technical support tickets and info on product/documentation updates. We hope this information will be helpful to those of you considering DevExpress Reports for an upcoming project. As always, should you have any questions, feel free to post your comments below.
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DevExtreme Data Grid & Tree List - Data Editing API Enhancements (v21.1)
DevExtreme v21.1 will address a series of user requests and add a new data editing API to our Data Grid and Tree List components (these capabilities were available as a CTP in v20.2)
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WPF - UI Automation & Appium Testing Support (v20.2)
In our last major update (v20.2) we enhanced UI Test Automation support for our WPF product line. You can create automated tests with the UIAutomationClient library API or use any UI testing library based on the UI Automation technology. In this blog post, we'll show you how to test our OutlookInspired Demo App.
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DevExpress WinUI 3 Components - Official Release, Reunion 0.5 Support & Free Offer
We are happy to announce the official release of our first WinUI 3 and Reunion 0.5 UI component suite. As I mentioned previously in my XAML Roadmap blogpost, our WinUI components will be available free of charge for a limited time.
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Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls – Tips & Tricks (January-March 2021)
The first portion of this blog post includes interesting support tickets answered over the last few months. The second half includes enhancements to our Office and PDF File API/Office-inspired UI controls for WinForms and WPF.
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Blazor UI Enhancements and IDE Productivity (available in v20.2.6)
Hope you are all doing well. I wanted to quickly summarize some of the new features introduced in our most recent minor update (v20.2.6)
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XAF - .NET App Security API Benchmark for EF Core and XPO ORM
Hope you are all doing well. We created this GitHub project to test the performance of XAF's Security System for the two Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) libraries. We tested these libraries with BenchmarkDotNet : Microsoft Entity Framework Core (EF…
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Reporting — Accessible Document Viewer for Web (Available in v20.2.6)
We recently improved accessibility support within our Web Document Viewer component. We’ve done our best to address Section 508 standards and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. We also published our VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) summary for those interested: VPAT v2.4: DevExpress Document Viewer for Web.
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CodeRush Organize Members - Grouping by Member Type Name & Member Name
One of our ongoing priorities is to continuously refine existing features based on customer feedback. Your feedback allows us to devote more resources to what matters most, and helps us better understand a diverse range of possible usage scenarios. In…
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WinForms Data Grid – A New Filtering Option
Hope you are all well. As always, thank you for your continued support. Our next major WinForms Grid update (v21.1) will introduce a new UI element to help improve usability. As you can see in the animation below, v21.1 will allow end-users to enter search…
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WPF Tips & Tricks (January – February 2021)
We compiled a series of WPF-related support tickets we hope you’ll find useful as you explore and use our WPF product line.
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CodeRush - 2021 Roadmap
Here's what you can expect from the IDE Tools Team in 2021: CodeRush for Visual Studio We continue to invest heavily in CodeRush for Visual Studio. In 2021 we expect to focus on productivity, ease of access, discoverability, performance and stability…
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ASP.NET Core, WebForms, & MVC - 2021 Roadmap
The following list outlines the features/capabilities we expect to incorporate into our ASP.NET Core, WebForms, and MVC components this year
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WPF & WinUI - 2021 Roadmap
In this post, I’ll summarize WPF-related features we expect to ship in the coming year and share our plans for Microsoft’s WinUI platform
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Bootstrap ASP.NET Core - .NET Core 3.1 Support
One of our users recently asked us whether we could upgrade our Bootstrap ASP.NET Core controls to support the .NET Core 3.1 framework
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DevExpress Dashboard – 2021 Roadmap
In this post, we’ll summarize DevExpress Dashboard-related development plans for 2021 and hopefully address some of your questions along the way.
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DevExtreme JavaScript – 2021 Roadmap
Before we detail our 2021 Roadmap, we want to thank you for the feedback you submitted in our 2021 roadmap survey (if you have yet to submit your thoughts, feel free to do so)
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VCL Controls - 2021 Roadmap
Based on your terrific feedback, we’ve finalized our 2021 VCL Roadmap. As always, thank you for your continued support and for your insightful comments. Please do keep the feedback coming – we definitely want to know how to better serve your needs in…
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