Office File API and Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls – Tips, Tricks, and an Important Breaking Change (June-July 2021)
This post includes a series of interesting support tickets answered throughout June and July along with a breaking change notice and a series of enhancements made to our Office-inspired product line. We hope you find the contents of this post interesting…
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Reporting — New Native Report Viewer for Blazor Server (Available in v21.1)
As you may already know, we recently released a native Report Viewer component for the Blazor Server platform. Powered by our core reporting engine, our new Blazor Report Viewer has no JavaScript dependencies and utilizes components from our own Blazor…
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DevExtreme Gantt - Export to PDF, Task Appearance, and Scrolling Enhancements (v21.1)
This post summarizes the newest features/capabilities of DevExtreme Gantt v21.1 including its ability to export content to PDF, customize task appearance settings, and scroll to a specific date
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Pursuit of Optimum Performance
Performance always matters for CodeRush. Productivity tools, by their very definition, should not slow you down. With the recent CodeRush migration to Microsoft’s Roslyn engine, we eliminated the cost of maintaining an array of language infrastructures…
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WPF Tips & Tricks (May – June 2021)
WPF-related tips, interesting support tickets, and documentation updates
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Blazor Rich Text Editor for Word, RTF, and Text document editing (available in v21.1)
As you may already know, our most recent Blazor release (v21.1) ships with a new Rich Text Editor component for Blazor (available as a Community Tech Preview - CTP). Much like its ASP.NET MVC counterpart, this new Blazor component supports popular document formats (DOCX, RTF, TXT) and allows you to incorporate a Microsoft Word-inspired user experience within your Blazor Server applications
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Nächste Woche: Deutscher Live-Stream zu TestCafé mit Gregor Biswanger
Please note: the following post is written in German language, announcing a third-party event hosted by the German consultant Gregor Biswanger. Please forgive this rare occurrence if you don’t understand German. Testen ist mühsam, langwierig, anstrengend…
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WPF Scheduler – On-Demand Data Loading
Late last year (v20.2), we added on-demand data loading support to our WPF Scheduler control. In this post, we’ll describe how you can use the WPF Scheduler’s API to configure data loading logic within your WPF app.
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Reporting — Avoid Mistakes in Report Creation with The Help of Report Design Analyzer (v21.1)
To improve the report-design experience and make it more intuitive, we analyzed tech support traffic over the last few years and discovered a set of basic design-related issues – problems that could be resolved with ease directly within the DevExpress Report Designer.
Our new Report Design Analyzer (available in v21.1) extends the capabilities of our Script Errors panel and allows you to uncover key design-related issues with relative ease.
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DevExtreme DataGrid & TreeList - Pager Enhancements and New Data Editing API (v21.1)
In this short blog post we'll review both data Pager and data editing API-related enhancements introduced in our v21.1 release cycle. Should you have any technical questions related to items covered in this post, please submit a support ticket via the DevExpress Support Center. We will be happy to follow-up
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WinForms Tips & Tricks — Virtual Keyboard and New Customer Cases
In this post we'll share some of the more interesting customer requests we've received over the past couple of months. And as a bonus, we’ll show you how to create a virtual keyboard for your app. Customer Usage Scenarios How to check whether…
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.NET MAUI - FREE Early Access Preview of Multi-Platform App UI Controls (v21.2)
In this post, I’ll describe some of the MAUI controls we expect to ship in November 2021 and describe how you can get your hands on an early access preview (EAP) today . Before I begin, however, two quick reminders: Our Xamarin UI components are available…
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WinForms Deprecation Notice — Classic Visual Styles
Many of our experienced customers know that you can use the DevExpress WinForms UserLookAndFeel API to enable "classic" visual styles ("Flat", "UltraFlat", "XP", etc.) for an individual control or an entire application…
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Reporting — Row-Level Security in Multi-User Applications with the DevExpress Web Report Designer (v21.1)
Considering SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) for your app delivery model? If so, this post summarizes multi-tenant related enhancements introduced in DevExpress Reports v21.1.
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WinForms: .NET 5 Design Time Enhancements
Before I describe our new WinForms .NET 5 designer and associated design-time experience, I think a word or two is needed about how we got here and why it took so long to address the needs of our loyal (and patient) WinForms developer community. WinForms…
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Popup for Blazor - Appearance Customization, Multiple Windows, Custom Size and Alignment, and more (v21.1)
Our most recent release (v21.1) introduces a series of new features/enhancements to our modal Blazor Popup component
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PDF Document API - Form Field Enhancements and Facade API (v21.1)
As you already know, interactive forms (AcroForms) - with fillable form fields – are essential to many businesses. These forms help organizations facilitate/simplify data acquisition and record keeping processes. For example, AcroForms can be used to…
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Reporting — Enhancements, Documentation Updates, Tips & Tricks (April-May 2021)
This post includes important product/documentation updates along with a list of interesting support tickets answered throughout April and May. We hope you find this content of value. As always, should you have any questions, feel free to comment below…
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WPF Data Grid – Bind to a gRPC Service
As you probably know, the DevExpress WPF Data Grid can be bound to a gRPC service. gRPC is a modern, high-performance remote procedure call (RPC) framework that can run on any platform. Our Virtual Sources allow you to connect to a gRPC service easily.
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