Blog Post: WinForms HTML & CSS Templates — New Controls and Features
A few days ago, we announced support for HTML & CSS templates in our Alert Control. As last week’s post outlined, HTML & CSS templates allow you to create custom/modern notifications with...
View ArticleBlog Post: WPF View Model Generator - Prism & MVVM Light Support
View Models in complex views contain many properties, commands, and repeated interface implementations. Writing code for all these members is not only boring, but may result in typos and bugs....
View ArticleBlog Post: WPF Accessibility - .NET 6 Tooltips Support
We continue to improve accessibility-related capabilities of DevExpress WPF Controls. For example, in our previous release (v21.2), we included UI Automation-based alerts for validation errors and...
View ArticleBlog Post: WinForms — New WXI Skin
Over the years, we’ve done our best to update the DevExpress WinForms Skin library and associated API settings (for example, RibbonControl.RibbonStyle) to mirror Microsoft’s design language. Our next...
View ArticleBlog Post: WinForms — New DirectX Form with HTML and CSS Template Support
As you may already know, the DevExpress WinForms Subscription ships with a number of counterparts to standard System.Windows.Forms.Form objects. Before we dive into a new Form option shipping in our...
View ArticleBlog Post: New WPF Windows 11 Theme and Window Appearance Enhancements
Over the years, we've been tracking the latest appearance changes in Windows and have been implementing them within our WPF Subscription to give the best experience to your users and help make your...
View ArticleBlog Post: Create your First MVVM Application in WinUI
In this blog post, I will describe how to create a WinUI MVVM application from scratch and in doing so, reveal the power of DevExpress WinUI MVVM Framework. Originally, we created the MVVM Framework...
View ArticleBlog Post: WinForms — WXI Skin Options
In last week’s WXI Skin announcement post, I mentioned that our latest vector skin includes certain API-based options. This post will explain why you may want to use these options, and how they can...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reporting – No-Code Parameters Panel Layout Customization (v22.1)
In this blog post, I’ll review our new Parameters Panel customization editor (v22.1). Before I do, a quick word or two about the Parameters Panel...The Parameters PanelThe DevExpress Parameters Panel...
View ArticleBlog Post: Blazor - End of Support for .NET 5
As you may already know, the Microsoft .NET team has announced the end of life support for the .NET 5 framework:.NET 5.0 will reach end of support on May 10, 2022. After the .NET May updates, Microsoft...
View ArticleBlog Post: WinUI Data Grid in MVVM Applications: Column Generation, Selection...
MVVM is a well-known foundation for flexible and well-structured applications for such platforms as WinUI and WPF. That’s why we pay special attention to MVVM usage scenarios when developing our suite...
View ArticleBlog Post: DevExpress Multi-Platform App UI Controls Support .NET MAUI GA...
.NET MAUI GA ReleaseAs you probably know, Microsoft released .NET MAUI to production recently. Our free .NET MAUI product line for mobile development (with Android and iOS) is compatible with this .NET...
View ArticleBlog Post: XAF - 2022 Roadmap (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & API Services)
Before I detail XAF’s 2022 Roadmap, my thanks to everyone who shared feedback/comments last year. Your contribution to XAF’s evolution is appreciated. The following list outlines the...
View ArticleBlog Post: DevExpress Multi-Platform App UI Controls Support .NET MAUI GA...
.NET MAUI GA ReleaseAs you probably know, Microsoft released .NET MAUI to production recently. Our free .NET MAUI product line for mobile development (with Android and iOS) is compatible with this .NET...
View ArticleBlog Post: Free WinUI Components in the Unified Installer
We are happy to announce that our WinUI components are now available from the DevExpress Unified Installer. If you are using our Unified Installer and wish to install our WinUI controls, simply select...
View ArticleBlog Post: A 1-Click Solution for Role-based Access Control with Web API...
In XPO blog post in November 2021, I grumbled about how difficult it was to develop a robust and flexible app security system from scratch with any .NET ORM, including Entity Framework (by security,...
View ArticleBlog Post: CodeRush - Visual Studio Productivity Tools Are Available...
Available Free-of-Charge to EveryoneWith our most recent release (v22.1), we’re making CodeRush available free-of-charge. If you’re not familiar with CodeRush, you can learn more about its feature set...
View ArticleBlog Post: BI Dashboard — Create Dashboards in Visual Studio Desktop .NET...
With our upcoming release (v22.1), we’ve addressed dashboard design-time limitations for those targeting .NET 5+ (you no longer need to use auxiliary projects). You can now create, design, and display...
View ArticleBlog Post: Blazor Charts — Histogram, Drill-Down, Export to PDF & API...
As you may already know, we extended the capabilities of our Chart control for Blazor in our upcoming major update (v22.1). For a complete list of new features, please refer to the following web page:...
View ArticleBlog Post: Blazor: New CSS Location (Breaking Change in v22.1)
In our v22.1 release, we improved theme delivery with the new DevExpress.Blazor.Themes NuGet package. This package contains DevExpress Blazor themes and CSS styles used to apply Bootstrap themes to...
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