DevExpress 13.1

DevExpress 13.1

Your next great app starts here.

Explore our comprehensive product line and experience the DevExpress Difference.

Built-in Ribbon UI

New WinForms Spreadsheet Control Deliver Excel inspired capabilities with ease. The new DevExpress Spreadsheet Control ships with the following features: In-place cell editing Support for XLSX, XLS, CSV and TXT file formats (export and import) Print and Export to PDF Formula calculations Comprehensive worksheet, row, column and cell management Embedded pictures support Cell appearance and value formatting Automatically-generated Ribbon UI And so much more… Watch the Video

New WinForms Map Control The new DevExpress Map Control ships with the following features: Support for Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap data providers Multiple Layers: Ability to show an unlimited number of map layers Support for Loading Vector Data from Shapefile and KML formats Vector Elements: Numerous built-in vector elements such as Line, Rectangle, Polyline, Polygon and many others Navigation Panel: Contains various UI elements that help end-users scroll and zoom the map area Colorizer: Ability to automatically color map shapes (added manually or loaded from different shape formats) based on geographic data Color Legend: Support for two types of a color legend: color scale and color list Data Binding: Ability to generate elements from a data source Selection: Ability to select map elements in several selection modes such as Single, Multiple, Extended Built-in Tooltips: Does not require a single line of code and is enabled by default where appropriate Watch the Video

Weather Demo

New Live Tile Manager Component A bridge from your existing WinForms applications to the Windows 8 Start Screen. With this new control, WinForms Applications can transfer their data to Windows 8 tiles so that multiple tile frames can be set up for an animation. Watch the Video

New WinForms Editors Tree-List Lookup, Sparkline and Popup Gallery TreeListLookUpEdit: A lookup editor that utilizes our TreeList for its drop-down list. SparklineEdit: Sparklines are used to visualize data in a highly condensed manner allowing end-users to quickly consume and compare data. The DevExpress Sparkline is designed for use in 3 use-case scenarios: standalone, inside data-aware container controls like the WinForms Data Grid or within Reports. PopupGalleryEdit: A new drop-down editor that displays a GalleryControl within its popup.

New WinForms PDF Viewer Control Beta Version With the PDF Viewer control, you can display PDF files directly in your WinForms application without the need to install an external PDF viewer application on your end user's machine. This control supports zooming, scrolling, embedded fonts, continuous page layout and provides a ready-to-go Ribbon tab, so you can quickly incorporate it into your application.

DevExpress Icon Library Visual Studio Integrated Image Picker This release includes a rich collection of icons and images created by our design team. Using the design-time DevExpress Image Picker, you can access images from the Gallery and assign them to specific controls. The design-time Image Picker has powerful search and filtering mechanisms to locate images. The DevExpress Image Picker and extended smart tags work together to provide a superior design-time experience. DevExpress WinForms controls support two ways with which to assign images. The first is direct image assignment (using Image type properties). The second is based on the ImageCollection component and assigning images via indexes from the ImageCollection. The Image Picker supports both of these methods.

DevExpress Icon Library Grayscale Icons with Skin Synchronization If you are using grayscale icons from the new DevExpress Icon Library, you can now enable automatic color adjustment depending on the currently applied skin. If a dark skin is used, all icons will automatically switch to light colors thus maintaining appropriate contrast. These icons will also update colors for hot-tracked and pressed states. This feature is available across our WinForms Navigation controls including toolbars, menus, Ribbon and Navbar.

Grid Pixel Scrolling Our WinForms grid now provides flawless pixel-based vertical scrolling.

New Light Flat Theme

WinForms Gauge Controls New Scale Types and Visual Styles Logarithmic Scale for circular and linear gauges New styles - Flat Light and Flat Dark

New Touch-Optimized Controls Multiple new touch-friendly controls are now available, including DatePicker, TimePicker, ToggleSwitch.

WinForms Scheduler Custom Form Builder The design-time smart tag panel of the XtraScheduler control includes a smart tag that invokes an assistant to help you create custom appointment forms. The wizard allows you to select a form template, adds template to the project and automatically inserts the code required to display a custom form instead of the default appointment form.

New Control Designer UI Design-time customization dialogs for our WinForms Controls have been re-designed for improved usability and a more consistent user experience.

Contextual Smart Tags Design-Time Improvements WinForms Navigation Controls (including the Ribbon, Toolbars, NavBar) now display Smart Tags for their individual elements. This allows a customer to customize the control's layout and main settings with a few simple clicks, without using the Property Grid. We've also reviewed and extended our Smart Tags based on the usage experience of the controls.

New WinForms Data Source Wizard Available via a Smart Tag or the clickable label on any DevExpress data-aware control, this wizard helps you set up your Data Source in three easy steps. In the first step, the Wizard lists all data sources found in the solution, categorized by the data access technologies. If needed, you can select a data access technology and create a new data source. Once the data source has been selected or created, you choose a data binding mode from a list (all list items have short descriptions and links to our online documentation). Finally, the third step allows you to customize Control and Data Source specific settings. After you click Finish, the wizard adds a data source component to the form, binds the control and generates all necessary code.

Visual Studio Template Gallery Prior to 13.1, we offered numerous Project/Item Templates that were created over many release cycles. These templates could be found in various locations within Visual Studio. This release includes a fully consolidated DevExpress Template Gallery - the entry point for all Project/Item Templates. The Template Gallery provides a unified way to use DevExpress templates, features powerful filtering and searching mechanisms and contains sample images and descriptions for each template, thus simplifying the way in which selections are made for individual projects. 13.1 also includes improvements to shipping templates and offers additional template options.

FormAssistant component This helper component is designed for first time users. When placed on the application form, it allows you to: Convert between various form types (Form, XtraForm, RibbonForm) Select a skin Automatically initialize a skin engine to enable form skinning Add the BonusSkins library to the project's References section Specify basic form settings