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Check out this week’s case study with EC Software. Help & Manual, their flagship product, is an XML authoring tool for web-based and local online help (along with print documentation and PDF files)...

My girlfriend Shelly is by no means a technophile. She loves text messaging but doesn’t care how it works. If her PC stops working then she just walks over to another one or uses a friends. Her PC can sit there for months as long as she can get her email and text messages some where she is happy...

There are a lot of little things one has to do to complete any project. Exporting files, tweaking data, documenting things, coming up with graphics are just some of the skills developers need. Technical books projects are a lot like software projects...

Using XAF recently reminded me of my Smalltalk days in the early ‘90s, more on why that was at the end of the post, but for now let’s talk about pair programming. You know about pair programming right...

Here's the Message from the CTO from the fifth DevExpress Newsletter: Being first or being best... It's a problem to be sure. You're working on a software solution for some new problem space. You know your competitors are working on similar solutions...

I was curious and surprised to discover that some employers are literally listing “Developer Express controls experience” as a pre-requisite for some programming employment...

Every once in a while some confluence of events causes my Developer Express controls to disappear from the Visual Studio toolbox. I am not going to be an apologist for this, but support are having problems reproducing this problem...

Check out this 10 minute TechEd video interview with Miguel Castro. Miguel is an ASP.NET MVP and the wizard behind the DXAirways real world application videos...

Ever seen the XAF validation dialog? Yeah of course you have. Ever double clicked on the text in the “Description” column? Nope, me neither until recently, try it now: Whoah, what happened there?! DevExpress secret sauce happened! Well okay, not so secret now I’ve told you...

As a man I never read the instructions; it’s baked into our DNA. There were no instruction manuals back when we lived in caves, right? So if we didn’t need them then, we sure as heck don’t need them now. This applies doubly so when I’m working with XAF. Why? Two reason really...

One of a series of posts on the new functionality that'll appear in DXperience v2009 vol 2. This is all pre-beta stuff. The beta will be released to DXperience Enterprise and Universal customers at the beginning of July. Ha! Didn't take long...

One of a series of posts on the new functionality that'll appear in DXperience v2009 vol 2. This is all pre-beta stuff. The beta will be released to DXperience Enterprise and Universal customers at the beginning of July...

Check out this list of new controls and features for ASP.NET editor controls in the DXperience 2009 volume 2 release. First, the common ASP.NET editors like the textbox, combo box and others are finally get their due respect...

We can't help it. We love grids. We love new technology. So the opportunity to marry them together is irresistible. Here's a very early preview of what could become a new product, although I emphasize there is a very long way to go. So don't ask about release dates or betas just yet, just enjoy...

When you press F9 in Visual Studio—or select Debug|Toggle breakpoint—a little red circle representing the breakpoint is placed in the left-hand column of the editor window adjacent to the line of code containing the break...

If you develop web applications with DevExpress' ASP.NET controls and the language used by your customers is anything other than English, this message is for you. The ASPxGridView and other ASPx components show messages to end-users in certain situations...

The ASPxHTMLEditor component lets you easily drop a high quality editor into any page. The next major DXperience release will add HTML Table support to the ASP.NET HTML Editor, the ASPxHTMLEditor...

If you’ve been waiting around for a good WinForms Rating control, then you’re in luck with the current release of DevExpress WinForms Gauges. The XtraGauges Suite...

Unless you’ve been hiding somewhere not even the search engines can find you, you couldn’t help but notice that there’s a new kid on the block; that new kid comes in the shape of Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine...

One of the reasons I’m excited about the upcoming 2009 Volume 2 release of DXperience is the new ASP.NET Rating control which allows your website visitors to rate content on your site, just like rating a movie on Netflix.com or Blockbuster.com: The...

One of a series of posts on the new functionality that'll appear in DXperience v2009 vol 2. This is all pre-beta stuff, it'll probably be something like the end of the month before the beta is ready. This new feature is cool (not that the others weren't of course)...

I feel like one of those newspaper boys on the streets in those old black-and-white newsreels: "Extra, extra, read all about it!" Damon, the team lead on the XtraCharts team, informs me that the new hit-testing support works on web charts too...

  We have been working very hard to not only bring you the latest installment in the DX Airways series, but also to create and publish much-needed training videos for our ASP.NET controls which ship as part of the ASPxperience Suite...

Another new feature in v2009 vol 2 of XAF. This is very early stuff, I hear the beta won't be along before the end of June. XAF now supports a tree view for navigation purposes, both in Windows Forms and ASP.NET. Of course this is very useful for applications that have a lot of different views...

Just a very quick look at a new feature in v2009 vol 2 of XAF. This is very early stuff, I hear the beta won't be along before the end of June. We have added the ability to apply rules to collection properties...

One of a series of posts on the new functionality that'll appear in DXperience v2009 vol 2. This is all pre-beta stuff, it'll probably be something like the end of the month before the beta is ready...

One of a series of posts on the new functionality that'll appear in DXperience v2009 vol 2. This is all pre-beta stuff, it'll probably be something like the end of the month before the beta is ready. In this post, we'll look at a new feature for charting in Windows Forms: hit testing...

Malcolm Gladwell wrote in "Outliers" that a person needs to invest 10,000 hours of concentrated and reflective practice to achieve mastery - which means it's going to take most developers 10 years just to attain mastery just through practice...

Check out these four DevExpress customers videos below. In the videos, the smart devs discuss their projects and why they use DevExpress tools.  David Romig, CTO The Computer Solution Co. David's software helps catch the bad guys...

I guess some who have known DX for over 4 years might remember me, but for the many who don't my partner Julie and I both joined DevExpress in Las Vegas in 2002 and left in 2006 to move back to our Native Australia.  Julie headed up Customer Services and I was CTO - during the pre Road...

A customer posted a question to the forums, and I was asked to handle. Mehul Harry and the other guys have been pretty good to me on this front. They know I am busy with the book—Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls—and have been handling the.lion’s share of the forums work...

  Previously, we looked at how to set up the basic foundations of the “DX Airways” home page as well as how to add and customize the basic user interface using DevExpress ASP.NET Components. If you missed those tutorials, feel free to head over to the DevExpress Channel and view them...

Over the years, many of you have asked us to introduce Rich Text Editing capabilities within the XtraGrid Suite for WinForms...

I wanted to briefly show you a few of the things we're developing for AgRichEdit and XtraRichEdit (DXperience v2009 vol 2)...In particular, the ability to open and save HTML documents and Save to docx format...

Here's the Message from the CTO from the third DevExpress newsletter: One of the banes of our industry is that there is no real, universally accepted, professional certification...

Check out this great Amazon Web Services session that Joe Kunk was kind enough to share. After the Reporting Webinar, I got a chance to record this very cool session with Joe. Usually, Joe presents this talk at various developer events...

In our continuing effort to address your business needs, we will be introducing a number of new Skins/Themes in the next major release of DXperience...

You may on occasion want to query client information for your Web application using JavaScript. You can get this information by enabling unsigned ActiveX objects in IE and a couple of lines of code...

One of the trends to catch my eye this week is Google Wave; the personal communication and collaboration tool, was announced at the Google I/O conference, which ran from May 27 –28 this year...

I read an interesting article last week that waxed lyrical about customer service and its status as a new marketing method. The article’s author seemed delighted at his searing insight into the world of the consumer, but I have to be honest, I did not echo his delight...

There is a reason technical titles are so boring: the title is trying to tell you what the technical content is about. Its still boring...

One of a series of posts on the new functionality that'll appear in DXperience v2009 vol 2. This is all pre-beta stuff, we're probably something like a month from beta. In this post, we'll look at the new regression line support that coming up in the next major release of XtraCharts...

One of a series of posts on the new functionality that'll appear in DXperience v2009 vol 2. This is all pre-beta stuff, we're probably something like a month from beta. This time, we'll look at the new scatter line charts in XtraCharts, again available in both WinForms and ASP.NET...

Ever wonder how to edit multiple rows of the DevExpress ASP.NET GridView at the same time...

One of a series of posts on the new functionality that'll appear in DXperience v2009 vol 2. This is all pre-beta stuff, we're probably something like a month from beta. This time, let's look at the new funnel chart in XtraCharts, for both ASP.NET and WinForms...

Check out this great Dustin Campbell TechEd video interview...

I left Portoroz and Slovenia yesterday, to travel on to Den Haag for DevDays Netherlands 2009. Slovenia was great - my sessions all went very well, and I also met a lot of DevExpress customers...

Recently I attended the Agile Edge conference in London, where I presented a talk entitled “Compare and Contrast the Implementation of Agile methods in the Enterprise and ISVs”, sound thrilling or what...

Check out this list of XtraCharts features and suggestions available for you in the next major release: Series View - Add Funnel charts Line Series View - Scatter Line (add the capability to draw a line without sorting by point arguments) Data Analysis - Linear regression analysis ...

We’ve recently published a new Support Center feature – the ability to start, read, and participate in a discussion on an issue right from the issue's view page. Simply click on the Discussion tab when you view an issue...

Check out this video interview I did with web developers Wietse Dol and John Doornbos. Last year, Wietse and John created a website to financially manage European Union research projects. They chose DevExpress ASP.NET tools to build the website and they've been very pleased...

I was having a chat with Rachel, our advocate of community outreach, and she proposed that I republish my "Message from the CTO" section from each newsletter here on my blog so that you, our customers, can comment on my thoughts...

I'm now in Portoroz in Slovenia for NT konferenca. The lecture in Graz went well - thanks to everybody for coming, and if you want to check out the slides and samples for yourself, you can find them here...

  In the last videos, we looked at the architecture of “DX Airways” as well as how to setup the data access layer using XPO. We’re going to take a little break from the Business Engine and start building the web application for our fictional airline company...

The ExpressBars Suite allows you to bring the user interface elements and customization features available in today's most popular applications and platforms, easily and without hassles...