Major enhancements for JavaScript (Angular, React, Vue), ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET, WPF and Reporting.

Features

DevExpress has released a major update across their entire product range.

• CodeRush - Improves JavaScript and TypeScript support.
• DevExpress ASP.NET - New Spreadsheet (CTP), Core Rich Text Editor (CTP) and Reporting for ASP.NET Core.
• DevExpress Reporting - Adds a fully integrated Report Designer within Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core, plus better Angular app support.
• DevExpress Windows 10 Apps Subscription - Adds a new UWP Scheduler control (CTP) and a new Virtual Data Source for the Data Grid.
• DevExpress WinForms - New Sunburst chart lets you visualize hierarchical data in an elegant and compact manner.
• DevExpress WPF - Diagram control adds Pan and Zoom window, plus introduces a new WPF Gantt Control (CTP).
• DevExtreme - New API to control DataGrid and TreeList focused row operations, plus improves Angular, React and Vue support.

Major enhancements for JavaScript (Angular, React, Vue), ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET, WPF and Reporting.

Features

DevExpress has released a major update across their entire product range.

• CodeRush - Improves JavaScript and TypeScript support.
• DevExpress ASP.NET - New Spreadsheet (CTP), Core Rich Text Editor (CTP) and Reporting for ASP.NET Core.
• DevExpress Office File API - Sign PDF documents with visual signatures, create & connect shapes in Excel, plus adds RTL support in Word files.
• DevExpress Reporting - Adds a fully integrated Report Designer within Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core, plus better Angular app support.
• DevExpress Windows 10 Apps - Adds a new UWP Scheduler control (CTP) and a new Virtual Data Source for the Data Grid.
• DevExpress WinForms - New Sunburst chart lets you visualize hierarchical data in an elegant and compact manner.
• DevExpress WPF - Diagram control adds Pan and Zoom window, plus introduces a new WPF Gantt Control (CTP).
• DevExtreme - New API to control DataGrid and TreeList focused row operations, plus improves Angular, React and Vue support.

Improves Grid, PDFViewer, Printing, Scheduler and SpreadSheet controls.

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• Ribbon Form - A form maximized on a monitor is also partially visible on another monitor if the DisableAero property is True and the first monitor's DPI exceeds the system DPI.

ExpressEditors Library

• A glyph of the last visible gallery item created at runtime becomes invisible after calling the glyph's Scale procedure if the gallery shows a classic scrollbar.
• TcxDBTimeEdit - An exception occurs on appending a record to a dataset after changing a value in its field bound to the unfocused editor.

ExpressLayout Control

• The transparent background is incorrectly painted for controls embedded into tabbed groups after displaying a window within the layout control's BeginUpdate/EndUpdate method block if runtime themes are enabled.

ExpressLibrary

• SVG Images - The "fill-opacity" element attributes are ignored.
• SVG Images - The "path" elements that include Bezier curves can be incorrectly rasterized in certain cases.
• TcxImageList - A PNG image loaded into an image list at design time is automatically converted to BMP even if both the image and the image list have identical dimensions.

ExpressPDFViewer

• Images whose stencil mask's pixel format is wrong are rendered incorrectly.
• Text rendering routines calculate font glyph indexes incorrectly for built-in TrueType fonts in certain cases.

ExpressPrinting System

• Export to PDF - The "Out of Memory" exception occurs on exporting text if it is within a rectangle that has a zero or negative width or height.
• Grid Report Link - Banded Table View - The height of a footer containing a summary cell is calculated incorrectly if cells within a corresponding column are at least two rows in height.
• Scheduler Report Link - Modern Style - All events that show descriptions, except for day header events, omit the event location text.
• Spreadsheet Report Link - An AV occurs on creating a report that has an RTF string in its first row if the ssovRowAndColumnHeadings flag is not set in the OptionsView property value.

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• Export - Table and Banded Table Views - The "List index out of bounds" exception occurs on calling the ExportGridTo~ methods if the View is grouped and has fixed data rows.
• Master-Detail - A detail Layout View's OnCustomDrawRecordCaption event never occurs.
• Server Mode - Expanding a group row in the View grouped by a column whose date-time values are grouped using the dtgByDateAndTime option causes an exception that mentions non-unique columns in the order by list.
• Table and Banded Table Views - Record navigation using the Up Arrow or Down Arrow keystroke produces painting artifacts if the OptionsBehavior.AlwaysShowEditor property is set to True and the OnFocusedRecordChanged event handler is time-consuming.
• TcxPropertiesStore - A control anchored to the bottom and right edges of its parent, resizes in response to resizing the parent if its dimensions are restored after storing at a different monitor DPI.

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

• Dragging a column header to the column header panel's right or left edge doesn't scroll the panel's content.
• Switching the root node's Checked property value doesn't affect the checked state of the node's children.
• There is no gap between the right border of a node's checkbox and the focus rectangle's left border if the "TheBezier" skin is applied.

ExpressRichEdit Control

• The "Borders and Shading" dialog shows no fill color for a table cell in which the caret or text selection is located.
• The control ignores fallback fonts specified by a CSS style's font-family property value loaded from an HTML file.
• The control ignores the zero-width joiner (ZWJ) and zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ) characters loaded from an HTML file.
• The Spell Checker does not recognize words separated by a slash or backslash as individual words.

ExpressScheduler Suite

• Dragging multiple events hides only one of them in the scheduling area.
• Gantt View - Connectors are not displayed between tasks if any of them is located outside the scheduling area.
• Gantt View - It is impossible to link user events that are created programmatically if the Scheduler control's EventOperations.Intersection property is False.
• Modern Style - TimeGrid View - An all-day event with an empty description and at least one event image is resized on toggling the View's EventDetailInfo property.
• Modern Style - TimeGrid View - An event's right border is not visible in certain cases.
• Modern Style - TimeGrid View - Toggling the View's EventDetailInfo property changes positions of the caption and images within an event's layout.
• Switching between the nearest months using the date navigator doesn't display certain events.
• The ribbon tab and group captions displayed by the Ribbon~ style Event dialogs cannot be localized.

ExpressSkins Library

• A skinned form's scrollbars are not repainted according to the new VertScrollBar.Position and HorzScrollBar.Position property values set within a handler of the form's OnMouseWheel event.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• An AV occurs on removing a worksheet that contains a merged cell using the caption bar’s context menu built with the ExpressBars Suite.
• The "Customize Object", "Insert Hyperlink", and "Edit Hyperlink" dialogs show a horizontal scrollbar if their localized UI element captions are wider than the default captions.

Includes Web Workers, new OLAP features, a Ribbon sample, accessibility improvements and more.

Features

• Faster PDF Export with Web Workers
  • PDF export can often slow down web apps: since the export is happening in the browser’s UI thread, it can cause the rest of the application to be unusable. This is where Web Workers comes to the rescue. We used Web Workers to process the exporting of PDF files on a separate thread from the application UI. This allows the applications to stay usable and the PDF export to churn along in the “background”.
• Group Headers in ComboBox/ListBox
  • We've added a showGroups property that you can use to add group headers to ListBox and ComboBox controls. Group header items are added if the showGroups property is set to true and the itemsSource collection has grouping enabled.
• Ribbon Sample using TabPanel
  • We’ve added a ribbon sample that shows how you can create ribbons easily using the TabPanel control and the controls in Wijmo's input module.
  • The ribbon element is a TabPanel. The tab pages contain groups of controls arranged in rows and columns. Controls in the groups use Material Icons, and have tooltips created automatically based on the aria-label attribute assigned to each control.
• Slicer for OLAP
  • We have added a Slicer control to our OLAP module. The Slicer control provides a quick way to edit filters applied to PivotField objects.
  • It provides buttons the user can click to filter data based on values and indicates the current filtering state, which makes it easy to understand what is shown in filtered PivotGrid and PivotChart controls.
• Detail Dialog API in OLAP
  • The Wijmo PivotGrid allows you to drill down into cells to see the data items that were used to calculate each summary. Users can invoke the detail dialog by double-clicking any value cell. You can also invoke the detail dialog by calling the grid's showDetail method and passing the coordinates of the cell.
  • Now, the grid exposes the detail dialog through its detailDialog property, which can be used to customize the dialog.
• Calculated Fields in OLAP
  • We also added a PivotField.getValue property to OLAP that allows you to specify a custom function to be used for retrieving the field value for a given item. You can use this to implement calculated fields such as 'binning' (e.g. Value => large/medium/small) or calculated expressions (e.g Conversion => downloads/sales).
• Year Picker in Calendar
  • We added a small but useful feature in our Calendar and InputDate controls. You can now click on the year header to open a year picker that allows you to much more easily jump to different years. This little enhancement should save your end users some time when selecting dates.
• Submenu Support Added to Menu
  • We got this request from a customer and thought it was a great idea. Our Menu control now supports adding multiple submenus to it so that you can create more complex menus and context menus. We also added an option to open menus on hover.
• Looking for Angular 7 Support?
  • We're very excited about Angular 7, and as you know, Wijmo has first-class Angular support. We're happy to announce that Wijmo supports Angular 7, so you can use the current version of Wijmo to build Angular 7 applications today.
• New Samples
  • WebComponentsIntro
  • MyBI
  • Ribbon Control Example
  • Slicer for OLAP
  • OLAP Detail Dialog
  • Group Headers in ComboBox
  • HierarchicalMenu

Includes Web Workers, new OLAP features, a Ribbon sample, accessibility improvements and more.

Features

• Faster PDF Export with Web Workers
  • PDF export can often slow down web apps: since the export is happening in the browser’s UI thread, it can cause the rest of the application to be unusable. This is where Web Workers comes to the rescue. We used Web Workers to process the exporting of PDF files on a separate thread from the application UI. This allows the applications to stay usable and the PDF export to churn along in the “background”.
• Group Headers in ComboBox/ListBox
  • We've added a showGroups property that you can use to add group headers to ListBox and ComboBox controls. Group header items are added if the showGroups property is set to true and the itemsSource collection has grouping enabled.
• Ribbon Sample using TabPanel
  • We’ve added a ribbon sample that shows how you can create ribbons easily using the TabPanel control and the controls in Wijmo's input module.
  • The ribbon element is a TabPanel. The tab pages contain groups of controls arranged in rows and columns. Controls in the groups use Material Icons, and have tooltips created automatically based on the aria-label attribute assigned to each control.
• Slicer for OLAP
  • We have added a Slicer control to our OLAP module. The Slicer control provides a quick way to edit filters applied to PivotField objects.
  • It provides buttons the user can click to filter data based on values and indicates the current filtering state, which makes it easy to understand what is shown in filtered PivotGrid and PivotChart controls.
• Detail Dialog API in OLAP
  • The Wijmo PivotGrid allows you to drill down into cells to see the data items that were used to calculate each summary. Users can invoke the detail dialog by double-clicking any value cell. You can also invoke the detail dialog by calling the grid's showDetail method and passing the coordinates of the cell.
  • Now, the grid exposes the detail dialog through its detailDialog property, which can be used to customize the dialog.
• Calculated Fields in OLAP
  • We also added a PivotField.getValue property to OLAP that allows you to specify a custom function to be used for retrieving the field value for a given item. You can use this to implement calculated fields such as 'binning' (e.g. Value => large/medium/small) or calculated expressions (e.g Conversion => downloads/sales).
• Year Picker in Calendar
  • We added a small but useful feature in our Calendar and InputDate controls. You can now click on the year header to open a year picker that allows you to much more easily jump to different years. This little enhancement should save your end users some time when selecting dates.
• Submenu Support Added to Menu
  • We got this request from a customer and thought it was a great idea. Our Menu control now supports adding multiple submenus to it so that you can create more complex menus and context menus. We also added an option to open menus on hover.
• Looking for Angular 7 Support?
  • We're very excited about Angular 7, and as you know, Wijmo has first-class Angular support. We're happy to announce that Wijmo supports Angular 7, so you can use the current version of Wijmo to build Angular 7 applications today.
• New Samples
  • WebComponentsIntro
  • MyBI
  • Ribbon Control Example
  • Slicer for OLAP
  • OLAP Detail Dialog
  • Group Headers in ComboBox
  • HierarchicalMenu

Wijmo Core adds Web Workers, new OLAP features, a Ribbon sample, accessibility improvements and more.

Features

Updates in Wijmo Core 2018 v3

• Faster PDF Export with Web Workers
  • PDF export can often slow down web apps: since the export is happening in the browser’s UI thread, it can cause the rest of the application to be unusable. This is where Web Workers comes to the rescue. We used Web Workers to process the exporting of PDF files on a separate thread from the application UI. This allows the applications to stay usable and the PDF export to churn along in the “background”.
• Group Headers in ComboBox/ListBox
  • We've added a showGroups property that you can use to add group headers to ListBox and ComboBox controls. Group header items are added if the showGroups property is set to true and the itemsSource collection has grouping enabled.
• Ribbon Sample using TabPanel
  • We’ve added a ribbon sample that shows how you can create ribbons easily using the TabPanel control and the controls in Wijmo's input module.
  • The ribbon element is a TabPanel. The tab pages contain groups of controls arranged in rows and columns. Controls in the groups use Material Icons, and have tooltips created automatically based on the aria-label attribute assigned to each control.
• Slicer for OLAP
  • We have added a Slicer control to our OLAP module. The Slicer control provides a quick way to edit filters applied to PivotField objects.
  • It provides buttons the user can click to filter data based on values and indicates the current filtering state, which makes it easy to understand what is shown in filtered PivotGrid and PivotChart controls.
• Detail Dialog API in OLAP
  • The Wijmo PivotGrid allows you to drill down into cells to see the data items that were used to calculate each summary. Users can invoke the detail dialog by double-clicking any value cell. You can also invoke the detail dialog by calling the grid's showDetail method and passing the coordinates of the cell.
  • Now, the grid exposes the detail dialog through its detailDialog property, which can be used to customize the dialog.
• Calculated Fields in OLAP
  • We also added a PivotField.getValue property to OLAP that allows you to specify a custom function to be used for retrieving the field value for a given item. You can use this to implement calculated fields such as 'binning' (e.g. Value => large/medium/small) or calculated expressions (e.g Conversion => downloads/sales).
• Year Picker in Calendar
  • We added a small but useful feature in our Calendar and InputDate controls. You can now click on the year header to open a year picker that allows you to much more easily jump to different years. This little enhancement should save your end users some time when selecting dates.
• Submenu Support Added to Menu
  • We got this request from a customer and thought it was a great idea. Our Menu control now supports adding multiple submenus to it so that you can create more complex menus and context menus. We also added an option to open menus on hover.
• Looking for Angular 7 Support?
  • We're very excited about Angular 7, and as you know, Wijmo has first-class Angular support. We're happy to announce that Wijmo supports Angular 7, so you can use the current version of Wijmo to build Angular 7 applications today.
• New Samples
  • WebComponentsIntro
  • MyBI
  • Ribbon Control Example
  • Slicer for OLAP
  • OLAP Detail Dialog
  • Group Headers in ComboBox
  • HierarchicalMenu

New Material Theme Designer, Sparkline control and FlexGrid integration, plus DataFilter control beta release.

Features

• New Material Theme Designer - In addition to adding Material, Material Dark, and Office 2016 Excel Green themes, WinForms now features a Material Theme Designer sample that allows you to set the primary and accent colours of Material theme and save\load them in C1themes format.
• New DataFilter control (beta) - A powerful UI addition, the DataFilter provides an easy, ecommerce-like filter to accompany any data-aware control. You can create filters from datasources, autogenerated, or create them manually. The accordion-based filtering UI can be attached to any control sharing a datasource or plugged into an info screen. The DataFilter is in beta mode and will be launched in 2019 v1.
• New Sparkline control and FlexGrid integration - This lightweight sparkline chart control represents the general shape of data variation in a condensed visual. It's often embedded in grids, and as such, FlexGrid can now display sparklines in columns, and it's now easier to plot trends inside FlexGrid cells. The sparkline property of the FlexGrid column supports plotting line, column, and WinLoss sparklines. You can further customize these sparklines by setting the Axis, markers, and series colours among others.
• FlexGrid now supports SortInfo and GroupInfo, so column information can now be saved and loaded.
• Scheduler's table and agenda views are now launched and out of beta.
• FlexChart now supports animation when loading, updating, and adding new data.

Adds Simplified Ribbon contol, new FlexGrid101 Samples, customized icons, plus updates to Scheduler.

Features

• Simplified WPF Ribbon - Improve the look and navigation of your WPF apps with the modern, minimalistic simplified ribbon. This new control occupies the middle ground between a ribbon a toolbar, providing a single-line collapsed state, or a three-line ribbon-like appearance, and its design is influenced by Microsoft's ever-evolving Office 365 ribbon. You can customize the style of the ribbon, as well as the buttons you'd like to include.
• FlexGrid101 Samples - Added a new C1Icon that enables a new level of customization for the sort, filter, and grouping glyphs, as well as FlexGrid101 samples to make it even easier to get started with this popular control. They demonstrate features like selection, cell customization, conditional formatting, filtering, the RowDetails feature, cell merging, and many other points of interest.
• C1Icon - A new object that is used within the FlexGrid to make it much easier to customize the many icons used throughout for sorting, filter, etc. C1Icon allows you to specify your own image, font character, or use a built-in template to change the appearance of the icons found in the data grid.
• Scheduler Updates:
  • New TableView Scheduler sample displays appointments in a table view that can be grouped, sorted, or filtered as specified by the developer or end user. It's similar to the Outlook 2016 List and Active views:
  • AgendaView displays appointments grouped by date in a table view where a single table row represents a single appointment. Users can edit appointments by double-clicking on an appointment and opening the EditAppointment dialog. This view is always sorted by dates in ascending order, and doesn't have row or column headers.
  • New "Working Elsewhere" appointment availability status has been added.
• FlexChart Updates:
  • Animations - FlexChart and Finanical Chart now has animations for loading, updating, and changes to the chart axes. You can also create your own custom animations using the AnimationTransform event.
  • Scale Breaks - FlexChart has also been updated to support axis scale breaks. Scale breaks can make irregular data that varies by a large magnitude easier to read as it makes the lower end of the scale more visible.
  • Ranged drawing mode - allows support for built-in floating bar and Gantt charts. Ranged drawing mode is available for Bar, Column, and Area Charts.
  • UWP controls are now available through NuGet.

Adds new Flight Statistics sample, Group Items in ComboBox and ActiveReports support to FlexViewer.

Features

• New Control Designer for ASP.NET MVC - With the newly-enhanced scaffolders, you can use the control wizard to configure controls when you're not using Entity Framework and generate code for a C1 MVC control. In addition to inserting a new control, this now supports updating an existing control definition using the wizard. This wizard can be invoked through the context menu or through Quick Actions in Razor view. This feature is supported in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core MVC.
• New Flight Statistics Sample - This dashboard-style sample displays flight performance data over time. Controls include FlexGrid with sparkline columns for delay trend and KPI columns. A treemap, bar chart, and line symbol chart are used in to display region-wide statistics, and users can drill down to a specific region and city by selecting the data points. On clicking a region in the Total Flights TreeMap, the FlexGrid displays the details of that region.
• Group items in ComboBox - From the user request folder! With CollectionView already supporting grouping, ComboBox grouping could be implemented with some custom code, but we added this as a simple property in the control itself:
• ActiveReports added to FlexViewer - In addition to FlexViewer's support for ActiveReports, a new Item Template allows you to quickly configure the viewer in your ASP.NET MVC app.
• DashboardDemo updated with Material Design - The DashboardDemo has been updated to include Material Design principles and color schemes. In addition, the DashboardLayout control has been added to the dashboard and analysis tabs.
• FlexGrid Enhancements:
  • Use ColumnGroupProvider to create multi-level merged-cell column headers for groups of related columns.
  • FlexGrid AccessibilityExtender can be used to easily extend accessibility support in one of two ways; Resize columns using the keyboard (alt+left/right keys). Provide an "alert" method that changes the content of an invisible element with the role "alert." This allows assistive tools to announce grid actions like sorting and filtering.

New animations for FlexChart and Financial Chart, plus ranged drawing mode for Bar, Column and Area Charts.

Features

• Simplified WPF Ribbon - Improve the look and navigation of your WPF apps with the modern, minimalistic simplified ribbon. This new control occupies the middle ground between a ribbon a toolbar, providing a single-line collapsed state, or a three-line ribbon-like appearance, and its design is influenced by Microsoft's ever-evolving Office 365 ribbon. You can customize the style of the ribbon, as well as the buttons you'd like to include.
• FlexGrid101 Samples - Added a new C1Icon that enables a new level of customization for the sort, filter, and grouping glyphs, as well as FlexGrid101 samples to make it even easier to get started with this popular control. They demonstrate features like selection, cell customization, conditional formatting, filtering, the RowDetails feature, cell merging, and many other points of interest.
• C1Icon - A new object that is used within the FlexGrid to make it much easier to customize the many icons used throughout for sorting, filter, etc. C1Icon allows you to specify your own image, font character, or use a built-in template to change the appearance of the icons found in the data grid.
• Scheduler Updates:
  • New TableView Scheduler sample displays appointments in a table view that can be grouped, sorted, or filtered as specified by the developer or end user. It's similar to the Outlook 2016 List and Active views:
  • AgendaView displays appointments grouped by date in a table view where a single table row represents a single appointment. Users can edit appointments by double-clicking on an appointment and opening the EditAppointment dialog. This view is always sorted by dates in ascending order, and doesn't have row or column headers.
  • New "Working Elsewhere" appointment availability status has been added.
• FlexChart Updates:
  • Animations - FlexChart and Finanical Chart now has animations for loading, updating, and changes to the chart axes. You can also create your own custom animations using the AnimationTransform event.
  • Scale Breaks - FlexChart has also been updated to support axis scale breaks. Scale breaks can make irregular data that varies by a large magnitude easier to read as it makes the lower end of the scale more visible.
  • Ranged drawing mode - allows support for built-in floating bar and Gantt charts. Ranged drawing mode is available for Bar, Column, and Area Charts.
  • UWP controls are now available through NuGet.

New WinForms Material Theme Designer, Simplified Ribbon contol for WPF and Control Wizard for ASP.NET MVC.

Features

Updates in WinForms

• New Material Theme Designer - In addition to adding Material, Material Dark, and Office 2016 Excel Green themes, WinForms now features a Material Theme Designer sample that allows you to set the primary and accent colours of Material theme and save\load them in C1themes format.
• New DataFilter control (beta) - A powerful UI addition, the DataFilter provides an easy, ecommerce-like filter to accompany any data-aware control. You can create filters from datasources, autogenerated, or create them manually. The accordion-based filtering UI can be attached to any control sharing a datasource or plugged into an info screen. The DataFilter is in beta mode and will be launched in 2019 v1.
• New Sparkline control and FlexGrid integration - This lightweight sparkline chart control represents the general shape of data variation in a condensed visual. It's often embedded in grids, and as such, FlexGrid can now display sparklines in columns, and it's now easier to plot trends inside FlexGrid cells. The sparkline property of the FlexGrid column supports plotting line, column, and WinLoss sparklines. You can further customize these sparklines by setting the Axis, markers, and series colours among others.
• FlexGrid now supports SortInfo and GroupInfo, so column information can now be saved and loaded.
• Scheduler's table and agenda views are now launched and out of beta.
• FlexChart now supports animation when loading, updating, and adding new data.

Updates in WPF and UWP

• Simplified WPF Ribbon - Improve the look and navigation of your WPF apps with the modern, minimalistic simplified ribbon. This new control occupies the middle ground between a ribbon a toolbar, providing a single-line collapsed state, or a three-line ribbon-like appearance, and its design is influenced by Microsoft's ever-evolving Office 365 ribbon. You can customize the style of the ribbon, as well as the buttons you'd like to include.
• FlexGrid101 Samples - Added a new C1Icon that enables a new level of customization for the sort, filter, and grouping glyphs, as well as FlexGrid101 samples to make it even easier to get started with this popular control. They demonstrate features like selection, cell customization, conditional formatting, filtering, the RowDetails feature, cell merging, and many other points of interest.
• C1Icon - A new object that is used within the FlexGrid to make it much easier to customize the many icons used throughout for sorting, filter, etc. C1Icon allows you to specify your own image, font character, or use a built-in template to change the appearance of the icons found in the data grid.
• Scheduler Updates:
  • New TableView Scheduler sample displays appointments in a table view that can be grouped, sorted, or filtered as specified by the developer or end user. It's similar to the Outlook 2016 List and Active views:
  • AgendaView displays appointments grouped by date in a table view where a single table row represents a single appointment. Users can edit appointments by double-clicking on an appointment and opening the EditAppointment dialog. This view is always sorted by dates in ascending order, and doesn't have row or column headers.
  • New "Working Elsewhere" appointment availability status has been added.
• FlexChart Updates:
  • Animations - FlexChart and Finanical Chart now has animations for loading, updating, and changes to the chart axes. You can also create your own custom animations using the AnimationTransform event.
  • Scale Breaks - FlexChart has also been updated to support axis scale breaks. Scale breaks can make irregular data that varies by a large magnitude easier to read as it makes the lower end of the scale more visible.
  • Ranged drawing mode - allows support for built-in floating bar and Gantt charts. Ranged drawing mode is available for Bar, Column, and Area Charts.
  • UWP controls are now available through NuGet.

Updates in ASP.NET MVC

• New Control Designer for ASP.NET MVC - With the newly-enhanced scaffolders, you can use the control wizard to configure controls when you're not using Entity Framework and generate code for a C1 MVC control. In addition to inserting a new control, this now supports updating an existing control definition using the wizard. This wizard can be invoked through the context menu or through Quick Actions in Razor view. This feature is supported in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core MVC.
• New Flight Statistics Sample - This dashboard-style sample displays flight performance data over time. Controls include FlexGrid with sparkline columns for delay trend and KPI columns. A treemap, bar chart, and line symbol chart are used in to display region-wide statistics, and users can drill down to a specific region and city by selecting the data points. On clicking a region in the Total Flights TreeMap, the FlexGrid displays the details of that region.
• Group items in ComboBox - From the user request folder! With CollectionView already supporting grouping, ComboBox grouping could be implemented with some custom code, but we added this as a simple property in the control itself:
• ActiveReports added to FlexViewer - In addition to FlexViewer's support for ActiveReports, a new Item Template allows you to quickly configure the viewer in your ASP.NET MVC app.
• DashboardDemo updated with Material Design - The DashboardDemo has been updated to include Material Design principles and color schemes. In addition, the DashboardLayout control has been added to the dashboard and analysis tabs.
• FlexGrid Enhancements:
  • Use ColumnGroupProvider to create multi-level merged-cell column headers for groups of related columns.
  • FlexGrid AccessibilityExtender can be used to easily extend accessibility support in one of two ways; Resize columns using the keyboard (alt+left/right keys). Provide an "alert" method that changes the content of an invisible element with the role "alert." This allows assistive tools to announce grid actions like sorting and filtering.

New Simplified Ribbon for WPF, Control Wizard for ASP.NET MVC, plus updates to WinForms and UWP controls.

Features

Updates in WinForms

• New Material Theme Designer - In addition to adding Material, Material Dark, and Office 2016 Excel Green themes, WinForms now features a Material Theme Designer sample that allows you to set the primary and accent colours of Material theme and save\load them in C1themes format.
• New DataFilter control (beta) - A powerful UI addition, the DataFilter provides an easy, ecommerce-like filter to accompany any data-aware control. You can create filters from datasources, autogenerated, or create them manually. The accordion-based filtering UI can be attached to any control sharing a datasource or plugged into an info screen. The DataFilter is in beta mode and will be launched in 2019 v1.
• New Sparkline control and FlexGrid integration - This lightweight sparkline chart control represents the general shape of data variation in a condensed visual. It's often embedded in grids, and as such, FlexGrid can now display sparklines in columns, and it's now easier to plot trends inside FlexGrid cells. The sparkline property of the FlexGrid column supports plotting line, column, and WinLoss sparklines. You can further customize these sparklines by setting the Axis, markers, and series colours among others.
• FlexGrid now supports SortInfo and GroupInfo, so column information can now be saved and loaded.
• Scheduler's table and agenda views are now launched and out of beta.
• FlexChart now supports animation when loading, updating, and adding new data.

Updates in WPF and UWP

• Simplified WPF Ribbon - Improve the look and navigation of your WPF apps with the modern, minimalistic simplified ribbon. This new control occupies the middle ground between a ribbon a toolbar, providing a single-line collapsed state, or a three-line ribbon-like appearance, and its design is influenced by Microsoft's ever-evolving Office 365 ribbon. You can customize the style of the ribbon, as well as the buttons you'd like to include.
• FlexGrid101 Samples - Added a new C1Icon that enables a new level of customization for the sort, filter, and grouping glyphs, as well as FlexGrid101 samples to make it even easier to get started with this popular control. They demonstrate features like selection, cell customization, conditional formatting, filtering, the RowDetails feature, cell merging, and many other points of interest.
• C1Icon - A new object that is used within the FlexGrid to make it much easier to customize the many icons used throughout for sorting, filter, etc. C1Icon allows you to specify your own image, font character, or use a built-in template to change the appearance of the icons found in the data grid.
• Scheduler Updates:
  • New TableView Scheduler sample displays appointments in a table view that can be grouped, sorted, or filtered as specified by the developer or end user. It's similar to the Outlook 2016 List and Active views:
  • AgendaView displays appointments grouped by date in a table view where a single table row represents a single appointment. Users can edit appointments by double-clicking on an appointment and opening the EditAppointment dialog. This view is always sorted by dates in ascending order, and doesn't have row or column headers.
  • New "Working Elsewhere" appointment availability status has been added.
• FlexChart Updates:
  • Animations - FlexChart and Finanical Chart now has animations for loading, updating, and changes to the chart axes. You can also create your own custom animations using the AnimationTransform event.
  • Scale Breaks - FlexChart has also been updated to support axis scale breaks. Scale breaks can make irregular data that varies by a large magnitude easier to read as it makes the lower end of the scale more visible.
  • Ranged drawing mode - allows support for built-in floating bar and Gantt charts. Ranged drawing mode is available for Bar, Column, and Area Charts.
  • UWP controls are now available through NuGet.

Updates in ASP.NET MVC

• New Control Designer for ASP.NET MVC - With the newly-enhanced scaffolders, you can use the control wizard to configure controls when you're not using Entity Framework and generate code for a C1 MVC control. In addition to inserting a new control, this now supports updating an existing control definition using the wizard. This wizard can be invoked through the context menu or through Quick Actions in Razor view. This feature is supported in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core MVC.
• New Flight Statistics Sample - This dashboard-style sample displays flight performance data over time. Controls include FlexGrid with sparkline columns for delay trend and KPI columns. A treemap, bar chart, and line symbol chart are used in to display region-wide statistics, and users can drill down to a specific region and city by selecting the data points. On clicking a region in the Total Flights TreeMap, the FlexGrid displays the details of that region.
• Group items in ComboBox - From the user request folder! With CollectionView already supporting grouping, ComboBox grouping could be implemented with some custom code, but we added this as a simple property in the control itself:
• ActiveReports added to FlexViewer - In addition to FlexViewer's support for ActiveReports, a new Item Template allows you to quickly configure the viewer in your ASP.NET MVC app.
• DashboardDemo updated with Material Design - The DashboardDemo has been updated to include Material Design principles and color schemes. In addition, the DashboardLayout control has been added to the dashboard and analysis tabs.
• FlexGrid Enhancements:
  • Use ColumnGroupProvider to create multi-level merged-cell column headers for groups of related columns.
  • FlexGrid AccessibilityExtender can be used to easily extend accessibility support in one of two ways; Resize columns using the keyboard (alt+left/right keys). Provide an "alert" method that changes the content of an invisible element with the role "alert." This allows assistive tools to announce grid actions like sorting and filtering.

AutoCompleteView adds DisplayTextFormatter to easily change Text in the Entry or the Tokens on selection.

Features

• AutoCompleteView
  • Added DisplayTextFormatter which allows you to easily change the Text in the Entry (if the DisplayMode is Plain) or in the Tokens on selection.

Fixes

• AutoCompleteView
  • Filtering is not performed when ShowSuggestionView is set to False.
  • [iOS] Both NoResultMessage and Suggestions are shown when there isn't a match.
  • [Android] Popup flickers when filtering is performed.
  • ArgumentNullException is thrown when the Text is null and ShowSuggestions is called.
  • [Android] Suggestions could not be selected on LG devices.
• Calendar
  • [UWP] Appointments from the next and previous month are not visible in MonthView.
  • [Android] Exception is thrown in DayView when read from screen reader.
• Common
  • [UWP]: RadCheckBox, RadNumericInput and RadButton could not be rendered while debugging in Windows 1809.
• DataGrid
  • [UWP] ArgumentException is thrown when filtering icon is clicked.
• Entry
  • [UWP] TextColor property is not applied.
• NumericInput
  • When the Minimum is set, trying to add decimal separator after typing the minimum value causes undesired effects.

Adds Right-To-Left support, plus a new storage component for Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

Features

• Right-To-Left Support - The v18.2 release introduces Right-to-Left (RTL) support with the following DevExpress VCL components:
  • Grid Control
  • TreeList Control
  • Layout Control
  • Tile Control
  • Scheduler Control
  • NavBar Control
  • Tabbed MDI Manager
  • Page and Tab Controls
  • Skin Form
  • and the majority of the editors
• Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive Access - This release introduces a storage component that allows users to manage files and folders on Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive cloud services. Accessing storage data requires that you obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials for your application and specify them via the authorization components introduced in v18.1.
• Flow Chart - This release adds the following enhancements:
  • 70+ new shapes including basic, flowchart, arrow, decorative, and SDL diagram shapes.
  • New Ribbon-based designer with improved drag and drop support.
  • A* algorithm-based auto-connector routing.
  • Shape rotation capabilities.
• Spreadsheet
  • Excel-inspired Formula Bar - This release introduces a Formula Bar component that you can integrate with the Spreadsheet Control to allow end-users to easily manage formulas in worksheets.
  • New Document-based Report Link - The new report link generates a report using the print area, print titles, page margins, and other print options specified in a document.
  • Improved Performance
    • More responsive UI - it's two times faster than in previous versions.
    • Array formulas are calculated 10 times faster when compared with previous versions.
    • Significantly improved performance when displaying merged cells whose text is wrapped into multiple lines, especially when it includes CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) characters or glyphs.
  • New Style Galleries for Generated UI - When generating a Ribbon/Toolbar UI for the VCL Spreadsheet Control, you can now add the Conditional Formatting Rule Style galleries, which are similar to those in Microsoft Excel. They display available icon sets and miniature previews of formatting applied to data bars and color scales. The following UI elements are now represented as galleries:
    • The Margins and Paper Sizes options on the Page Setup toolbar/ribbon group.
    • The formula categories and calculation options on the Formulas toolbar/ribbon group.
• Rich Edit
  • New Style Galleries for Generated UI - When generating a Ribbon/Toolbar UI for the VCL Rich Edit Control, you can now create Style and Table Style galleries similar to the Quick Styles and Table Styles galleries in Microsoft Word.
• TreeList and Vertical Grid
  • DevExpress continue to extend these controls with the filtering options available in the Grid control. This release adds filter dropdowns to tree list columns and vertical grid rows. As you might expect, the controls, columns, and rows offer numerous options to customize the display and behavior of the filter dropdowns.
• Scheduler
  • Implemented multi-threaded event operations and recurrence calculations to improve performance when using storage components.
• PDF Viewer
  • Support for semi-transparent text.
  • Display widget annotations and the content of interactive form fields.
  • Limited support for transparency groups.
  • Ability to display a replacement image or text while a page or its thumbnail is rendered.
• Entity Mapping Framework (ORM) - This release extends the capabilities of the dataset component with field expressions, parameterized queries, sorting, grouping, support for master-detail relationships and TOP/SKIP query clauses, etc. In addition, it introduces the following components to improve design-time UX:
  • New Data Context Component - This new component allows you to expose entities contained in an entity model's package (stored as a BPL file or installed to the IDE) for dataset components at design time. You can share a data context between dataset components for unified access to entity metadata.
  • New Table Dataset Component - With this component, you can bind data-aware controls to a single entity. The component provides all of the features you've come to expect from a classic dataset, including a design-time field editor, index settings, and support for master-detail relationships.
• Miscellaneous
  • The Layout, Page, and Tab controls can now display tab captions across multiple lines. Either add line breaks manually or specify a tab width to enable caption wrapping.
  • Optimized Package List - This release merges the packages containing the Layout Control, Editors, Data Controller, Page Control, and XP Theme Manager into the Cross-Platform Library to reduce the number of packages your IDE loads at startup and thereby improve its performance.
  • Icon Library - New SVG Images - This release extends the icon library with nearly 2,000 new SVG images.

Adds data binding from external ODBC or ADO data sources for charts, plus new theme support for gauges.

Features

• Chart Control
  • Implemented data binding. You can easily add chart data from external data sources such as ODBC or ADO.
    The following classes were added:
    • CBCGPChartDataProvider.
    • CBCGPChartODBCDataProvider.
    • CBCGPChartDAODataProvider.
    • CBCGPChartADODataProvider.
  • New methods BindDataTable and BindDataSQL were added to CBCGPChartVisualObject class.
  • Chart color theme can be edited in the Visual Designer now.
• Gauge Controls
  • Added themes support: you may specify new themes in the Visual Designer and switch between themes using new CBCGPVisualContainer methods SelectVisualTheme or SelectVisualThemeByName.
  • CBCGPCircularProgressIndicatorImpl: added animation effect for setting a new position. CBCGPCircularProgressIndicatorImpl::SetPos has a new, optional parameter uiAnimationTime.
• Grid and Report Controls
  • Added a new virtual method CBCGPGridCtrl::DestroyRow - override it to add some custom actions when grid row is destroyed.
  • Method CBCGPGridCtrl::CleanUp is virtual now.
• Graphics Manager
  • A new static member CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D::m_bTrailingSpacesInTextSize specifies whether text trailing spaces should be counted in CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D::GetTextSize method. By defaut this member is FALSE and trailing spaces are ignored.
  • CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D: added factory access methods: GetD2D1Factory returns Direct2D factory, GetDWriteFactory returns DirectWrite factory and GetWICImagingFactory returns WICImaging factory.
  • A new static method CBCGPGraphicsManager::SetDefaultGraphicsManagerType allows to specify a graphics manager type that will be used by default. For example, if for some reason you wish to disable D2D usage, please call CBCGPGraphicsManager::SetDefaultGraphicsManagerType(CBCGPGraphicsManager::BCGP_GRAPHICS_MANAGER_GDI_PLUS) and GDI+ will be used by default.
• Miscellaneous
  • BCGPGLOBAL_DATA: added new public member 'm_bControlsVisualManagerStyle'. Set this member to TRUE if you wish to enable a visual manager style for all library controls.
  • CBCGPMessageBox: added a new static member 'm_nTextHeightRatio' (default value is 5). You may change this value to make a message box wider or narrower.
  • CBCGPListBox: implemented default item support. A default item is rendered using bold font. Call new method CBCGPListBox::SetDefaultItem to specify default item and CBCGPListBox::GetDefaultItem to get a current default item index.
  • A new method CBCGPSVGImage::ReplaceColors: replaces all occurrences of specific color with a new one.
  • CBCGPRibbonBar: tooltip default dimensions are scaled now according to current DPI.
  • CBCGPRibbonPanel::RemoveAll method is virtual now.
• Examples and Samples
  • BCGPChartExample: added new view "Chart Data Binding".
  • BCGPDigitalDashboard: added theme selection (light and dark) demonstration.

Fixes

• CBCGPMessageBox: addressed issue with message box width in case of a wide caption.
• CBCGPPropList: OnPropertyChanged is not called twice now when user changes a Boolean property when switch or check box style is specified.
• CBCGPEditCtrl: addressed issue with hiding a caret in the editor control.
• Diagram: addressed issues with connectors tracking in the edit mode.
• CBCGPToolBoxEx: "Out of Filter" text doesn't appear on the empty toolbox now.
• CBCGPToolbarEditBoxButton and CBCGPToolbarComboBoxButton: a default control width is automatically scaled according to current DPI now.
• CBCGPCircularProgressIndicatorImpl: addressed issue with reposing sub-gauges when a parent container is being scrolled.

Adds data binding from external ODBC or ADO data sources for charts, plus new theme support for gauges.

Features

• Chart Control
  • Implemented data binding. You can easily add chart data from external data sources such as ODBC or ADO.
    The following classes were added:
    • CBCGPChartDataProvider.
    • CBCGPChartODBCDataProvider.
    • CBCGPChartDAODataProvider.
    • CBCGPChartADODataProvider.
  • New methods BindDataTable and BindDataSQL were added to CBCGPChartVisualObject class. Please take a look at BCGPChartExample application ("Chart Data Binding" view) to see this feature in action.
  • Chart color theme can be edited in the Visual Designer now.
• Gauge Controls
  • Added themes support: you may specify new themes in the Visual Designer and switch between themes using new CBCGPVisualContainer methods SelectVisualTheme or SelectVisualThemeByName.
  • CBCGPCircularProgressIndicatorImpl: added animation effect for setting a new position. CBCGPCircularProgressIndicatorImpl::SetPos has a new, optional parameter uiAnimationTime.
• Grid and Report Controls
  • Added a new virtual method CBCGPGridCtrl::DestroyRow - override it to add some custom actions when grid row is destroyed.
  • Method CBCGPGridCtrl::CleanUp is virtual now.
• Graphics Manager
  • A new static member CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D::m_bTrailingSpacesInTextSize specifies whether text trailing spaces should be counted in CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D::GetTextSize method. By defaut this member is FALSE and trailing spaces are ignored.
  • CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D: added factory access methods: GetD2D1Factory returns Direct2D factory, GetDWriteFactory returns DirectWrite factory and GetWICImagingFactory returns WICImaging factory.
  • A new static method CBCGPGraphicsManager::SetDefaultGraphicsManagerType allows to specify a graphics manager type that will be used by default. For example, if for some reason you wish to disable D2D usage, please call CBCGPGraphicsManager::SetDefaultGraphicsManagerType(CBCGPGraphicsManager::BCGP_GRAPHICS_MANAGER_GDI_PLUS) and GDI+ will be used by default.
• Miscellaneous
  • CBCGPMessageBox: added a new static member 'm_nTextHeightRatio' (default value is 5). You may change this value to make a message box wider or narrower.
  • CBCGPListBox: implemented default item support. A default item is rendered using bold font. Call new method CBCGPListBox::SetDefaultItem to specify default item and CBCGPListBox::GetDefaultItem to get a current default item index.
  • A new method CBCGPSVGImage::ReplaceColors: replaces all occurrences of specific color with a new one.
• Examples and Samples
  • BCGPChartExample: added new view "Chart Data Binding".
  • BCGPDigitalDashboard: added theme selection (light and dark) demonstration.

Fixes

• CBCGPMessageBox: addressed issue with message box width in case of a wide caption.
• CBCGPEditCtrl: addressed issue with hiding a caret in the editor control.
• Diagram: addressed issues with connectors tracking in the edit mode.
• CBCGPCircularProgressIndicatorImpl: addressed issue with reposing sub-gauges when a parent container is being scrolled.

Adds new chart types, support for Typescript, plus new annotation API for user interaction.

Features

• Typescript support:
  • Highcharts NPM package now allows type checking for most Highcharts options and functions, including auto-complete code with integrated documentation for TypeScript-capable editors like Visual Studio Code.
• Annotation API for supporting user interaction:
  • Build user-interfaces for client-side annotation, via the API. Offered as a turnkey solution that includes commonly used annotations, such as text labels, shapes, arrows, and flags, it is also easily extended with your own annotations.
  • Client-side editing of charts makes it easy for non-developers to enhance their charts for more engaging storytelling. Allows end users to write text, draw arrows and symbols, ideal for all kinds of publishers, scientists or analysts.
• New, interactive Highcharts Debugger helps speed up development by providing instantaneous warnings and error reports above your charts. The error messages provide clear instructions on how to resolve your issue.
• New chart types:
  • Venn diagram.
  • Euler diagram.
  • Packed Bubble charts.
  • Depth Chart (aka. Wall Chart).
  • Pyramid Column.
  • 3D Cylinder.
  • Force-Directed graphs (aka. Network Graph).
• Enhanced accessibility module with a sonification API for rendering data series into audio frequencies.
• Improved label positioning options in pie charts.
• Improved legend representation of bubble charts.
• Improved chart styling with CSS (aka. styled mode) will now be activated through options on a chart-by-chart basis, instead of as a separate library.

Now includes Highcharts Gantt, plus new chart types, support for Typescript, and new annotation API.

Features

• Now also includes Highcharts Gantt.
• Typescript support:
  • Highcharts NPM package now allows type checking for most Highcharts options and functions, including auto-complete code with integrated documentation for TypeScript-capable editors like Visual Studio Code.
• Annotation API for supporting user interaction:
  • Build user-interfaces for client-side annotation, via the API. Offered as a turnkey solution that includes commonly used annotations, such as text labels, shapes, arrows, and flags, it is also easily extended with your own annotations.
  • Client-side editing of charts makes it easy for non-developers to enhance their charts for more engaging storytelling, ideal for all kinds of publishers, scientists or analysts. However, when used in conjunction with Highstock, the annotations module is capable of advanced, ad-hoc financial analysis as well. In addition to writing text, drawing arrows and symbols, end users may apply advanced financial annotations such as Fibonacci, Pitchfork, and Parallel Channels via simple click-and-drag. This functionality, along with the ability to interactively render over 40 popular Technical Indicators, such as ranging from SMA, Bollinger Bands, Pivot Points, Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, makes Highstock a unique and comprehensive, interactive, front-end framework for financial analysis and trading, as well as online financial publication.
• As a convenience for users of Highmaps, hundreds of maps, optimized for fast download and rendering, may now also be accessed via NPM.
• New, interactive Highcharts Debugger helps speed up development by providing instantaneous warnings and error reports above your charts. The error messages provide clear instructions on how to resolve your issue.
• New chart types:
  • Venn diagram.
  • Euler diagram.
  • Packed Bubble charts.
  • Depth Chart (aka. Wall Chart).
  • Pyramid Column.
  • 3D Cylinder.
  • Force-Directed graphs (aka. Network Graph).
• Enhanced accessibility module with a sonification API for rendering data series into audio frequencies.
• Improved label positioning options in pie charts.
• Improved legend representation of bubble charts.
• Improved chart styling with CSS (aka. styled mode) will now be activated through options on a chart-by-chart basis, instead of as a separate library.

Improves Grid, Spreadsheet, Scheduler, RichEdit, Skins and Tile controls.

Fixes

ExpressLibrary

• cxFilterControl - The dialog's controls are not skinned.

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• Server Mode - An AV occurs on applying a filter to the View whose OptionsSelection.MultiSelect property is set to True and the DataController.Summary.Options property value includes the soMultipleSelectedRecords flag.
• The "RowIndex out of range" exception occurs in certain cases when applying a filter to the selection and then clicking any record while holding down the Shift key if the View's OptionsSelection.MultiSelect property is set to True.

ExpressRichEdit Control

• The control does not load external images to a document loaded from an HTML file if image source URLs include certain escape characters.

ExpressScheduler Suite

• Day View - Classic Style - In certain cases, concurrent events do not occupy all available width within the View layout if the WorkTimeOnly property is True.

ExpressSkins Library

• Applying a skin for the first time resets skin options set in the Project Skin Options Editor if a project has no SKINCFG file.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• Conditional Formatting - Formulas specified in the Data Bar, Icon Set, and Color Scale formatting rules are not localized.

ExpressTile Control

• Provide events that enable in-depth control of drag-and-drop operations on tile groups.

Installation (VCL)

• The "Functions that differ only in their return type cannot be overloaded" error occurs on compiling a C++Builder project in RAD Studio 10.3 Rio.
• The "Package XXX.bpl can't be installed because it is not a design time package" error referring to a DevExpress package occurs on launching the IDE after installing v18.2.2.

Updates segmented digital gauges to support the single and double quote characters.

Features

• Updated segmented digital gauges to support the single and double quote characters.