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Xamarin.Forms Are Available Free-of-Charge, Transition to .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)

Use Xamarin.Forms Today Got some good news for those of you considering our Xamarin.Forms product line - while we wait for .NET MAUI’s official release, all DevExpress Xamarin UI controls are available free-of-charge. If you are still targeting Xamarin…

XAF - Vanguard AI and its Trading Platform (Cross-Platform .NET App UI)

Meet Greffith Ponce of Vanguard AI (an IT company in the Philippines) who has been using the DevExpress eXpressApp Framework (XAF) since 2008. We recently published a case study about their trading platform powered by XAF and DevExpress WinForms components…

Case Study: Jōb Engineering Management System

We just published a case study submitted to us by Ben Rand, IT director at Jōb Industrial Services, Inc. - a multidisciplined engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company.

WinForms Charting – Data Binding Optimization and New Data Adapters (v21.1)

As you may know, the 2GB memory pool limits the maximum number of points that can be processed by our WinForms Chart Control. Over the last few months, we discovered a way to increase the maximum number of points in bound mode by approx. 35%-45% (when compared to our previous version – v20.2) without changing input data source schema.

WPF Tips & Tricks (March – April 2021)

Here is this month’s edition of WPF Tips & Tricks and interesting support tickets we answered over the last couple of months.

Dashboard Component for Blazor

v21.1 will include a new DevExpress Dashboard Component for Blazor (CTP)

WinForms Dashboard - Custom Items

Hope you’re doing well. As you may know, a couple of years ago we introduced custom item support for DevExpress Web Dashboards (v17.1). Many of you have asked us to add this capability to our WinForms Dashboard. The good news is that in our next major…

Important Changes to NuGet Packages and the Unified Component / .NET Core Desktop Product Installers (v21.1)

With our v21.1+ release, desktop NuGet packages will include both .NET Core Desktop and .NET Framework assemblies. DevExpress.WindowsDesktop.* NuGet packages will not be available for v21.1+ as in earlier versions.

WPF App Design - Views with Flexible Appearance Options

As you may already know, our WPF product suite includes a broad range of appearance customization options to help you address UI design requirements and deliver the best possible desktop user experience

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…

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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)

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…

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.

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…

v20.2 is Here. Experience it Today

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of DevExpress Universal v20.2, our award-winning software development platform for .NET and Visual Studio developers. With numerous new products and dozens of high-impact features, v20.2 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 v20.2

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.