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PDF Document API – How to Use Page Facade API to Update Bates Numbering (v21.2)

Though the digital realm has overtaken much of society, paper documents or “paper trails” remain crucial for certain market segments (for instance, the legal professionals often produce paper documents that span hundreds, if not thousands of pages). To help better organize and identify these documents, you can use different indexing methods, including Bates numbering. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use DevExpress PDF Document API to update sequential page numbering across PDF files, a

DevExpress Localization in .NET Apps - Your Feedback Matters

As you may recall from my recent blog post , our Unified Component Installer will soon include an option to install localized resources for certain languages (DE, ES, JA, RU). We will not install these resources by default – you can install them at your…

Scaffolding Wizards (for WPF and WinForms) – The Past and the Future

In this blog post, we’ll quickly summarize the history behind our Scaffolding Wizard, and explain why we’ve chosen to cease additional development on the wizard itself.

Reporting — Enhancements, Documentation Updates, Tips & Tricks (January 2022)

A Few Recent Enhancements Visual Studio Report Designer - Improved Error Handling Our Visual Studio Report Designer for .NET 6 / .NET 5 / .NET Core apps tracks the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis NuGet package and informs you if it is not referenced when your…

WinUI 3 Performance Boost

Performance and UI rendering speed remains at the top of our WinUI priority list. In this blog post, we will describe performance challenges we’ve encountered with WinUI and what we’ve done to address these issues. We’ll also show you how we created the fastest Data Grid for Microsoft’s new WinUI platform.

WPF Components on Windows ARM Devices

As you know, .NET 6 includes support for Windows ARM64, including native ARM64 execution. If ARM64 is on your radar, here is what you need to remember when using DevExpress WPF components on ARM64 devices.

Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls - Use Custom Fonts without Installation on the System (v21.2)

In our most recent major release (v21.2), we added custom font support to our Spreadsheet and Word Processing product lines. You can now load and apply custom fonts to avoid font substitution effects when you display, print, or export (to PDF) documents (when/if a document includes fonts not installed on the target operating system, in Azure App Service, or a Docker container).

Blazor Components - 2022 Survey

We hope you had a happy and healthy holiday season. We’ve nearly completed our 2022 Blazor Roadmap... To help us finalize and publish our Blazor roadmap, we need your feedback on the following

WinUI 3 – UWP’s Successor

As you already know, WinUI is Microsoft’s follow-up to UWP. As the successor to the UWP platform, Microsoft has invested heavily in the WinUI platform. According to Microsoft’s Windows UI Library roadmap, Microsoft will not introduce major changes to UWP – and to state the obvious – Microsoft will shift focus away from UWP in favor of WinUI 3.

Reporting — Troubleshoot Report Printing Issues within the DevExpress Web Document Viewer

I try to print a document but nothing happens! Ever heard this complaint from a customer? Last year we encountered an issue with Google's Chrome browser when Chromium chose to discontinue support for scripts within PDF files. We used PDF scripting…

Announcing DevExpress Mobile UI for .NET MAUI Preview 11

We are pleased to announce the newest preview release of our mobile controls for .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) . In this post, I’ll summarize what’s inside this release and describe the enhancements we’ve introduced to our .NET MAUI component…

ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC - Internet Explorer support questions

Our ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC components still support Internet Explorer 9+. Last versions of Internet Explorer have security risks and a lack of modern CSS approaches and JavaScript features. Development both for advanced and feature-poor browsers requires…

Heatmap Control — A New Data Visualization for Desktop (WinForms, WPF)

In our most recent major release (v21.2), we added a new interactive and high-performance Heatmap Control for both WinForms and WPF. As you know, a heatmap is a chart, where individual values are displayed in a grid using different color shades. You can quickly spot the highest and lowest values based on cell background color. Heatmaps can address a variety of data visualization requirements.

Happy Holidays from the DevExpress Reporting Team - Demo with Material Design Theme Inside

For 2021, we used the DevExpress End-User Report Designer to create our 2021/2022 Season’s Greetings Card Builder app. Please note that this demo includes a sneak peek of the Material UI theme for the DevExpress Web Report Designer (We’d love to hear your feedback on our implementation in the comments section below).

.NET Word Processing API and UI Components - How to Use Fields to Create a Holiday Party Invitation

With the winter holidays upon us, some of you may be busy sending electronic greeting cards, invitations, and other mailouts to your family, friends, and business associates. The purpose of this blog post is to illustrate the use of our word processing…

.NET Data Processing API - First Community-Sourced Scenarios Addressed

As you may recall, we prioritized solutions for the most common ETL scenarios in September. The good news is that we've built our first prototype (a .NET library/API) to address the most popular usage scenarios.

XAF - New Grid List Editor, Survey on the Main Menu Toolbar and End-User Layout Designer in Blazor UI

New DxGridListEditor (CTP) - Try It Out in v21.2.4+ As you may already know, XAF's Blazor UI includes a new UI element - Grid List Editor (DxGridListEditor). This new UI element is built atop the new DevExpress Blazor Grid control. Like the new Blazor…

WinForms/WPF/WinUI Survey - Decide What's Coming Next to Your Desktop App

With 2021 nearing an end, we are preparing our 2022 roadmaps across all supported desktop platforms (WinForms, WPF, WinUI). Before we finalize our plans, we want to hear from our loyal users and learn more about your new requirements and long-term desktop development needs

Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls – Tips and Tricks (December 2021)

This post includes a series of interesting support tickets answered throughout October and November along with a handful of enhancements made to our Office-inspired product line. We hope you find the contents of this post interesting and of business value. Should you have any questions about this post, feel free to comment below.

v21.2 is Here. Experience it Today

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of DevExpress Universal v21.2, our award-winning software development platform for .NET and Visual Studio developers. With numerous new products and dozens of high-impact features, v21.2 allows you to build your best, without limits or compromise. From the desktop, the web or your mobile world, DevExpress Universal allows you to deliver intuitive solutions that fully address a broad range of usage scenarios.

What's New in v21.2

DevExpress Products Voted Best-in-Class 20 Times

DevExpress and its products were voted best-in-class in 20 development categories in this year's Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards. Our deepest thanks to those who voted on our behalf. We appreciate the trust and confidence you’ve placed in DevExpress.

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TestCafe Studio is Here

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of TestCafe Studio – our next-gen automated web testing framework. To learn more about TestCafe Studio and experience its capabilities first hand, feel free to download a no-cost 30-day evaluation version today.