XAF — World Training Tour by Xari to Master DevExpress .NET Application Framework
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by Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
2d ago
Good news for those of you interested in DevExpress XAF training. Microsoft and DevExpress MVPs, Jose Columbie of Xari.io and Joche Ojeda of BitFrameworks.com have organized a world training tour for DevExpress XAF (our Cross-Platform .NET App UI and Web API Service products). For more information on Xari.io and their XAF training tour, visit: https://xari.io/xaftraining/xari-xaf-training-tour/  Get Started with XAF today if you want to build Office-like line-of-business (LOB) apps powered by Blazor, WinForms, or WebForms much faster tha ..read more
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WinForms — Performance Enhancements in the Microsoft WinForms Designer for .NET 6+ Development
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by Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
1w ago
We were in close collaboration with the Microsoft dev team over the last few months, and Microsoft has recently released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 2, which improves form load performance across a number of .NET Core / .NET usage scenarios. I invite you to download Visual Studio 2022 v17.10 Preview 2 (or newer) and test how forms using DevExpress components perform at design time. These performance enhancements are not tied to any DevExpress version because they are implemented at the Visual Studio core level (based on our feedback associated with problem ..read more
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PDF Document API — PDF/A Conversion (v23.2)
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by Poline Fedorova (DevExpress)
3w ago
As you may already know, our PDF Document API (part of the DevExpress Office File API suite) now ships with a PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b converter. PDF/A is an ISO standard (ISO 19005) designed for long-term electronic document preservation. PDF/A documents are self-contained and do not rely on external resources such as fonts or images. Because of the self-contained nature of this file format, they are rendered consistently and always preserve the look and feel of the document itself. By converting documents to the PDF/A format, you maintain long-term document accessibility/consistency. In our mo ..read more
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Comment Dictation in CodeRush for Visual Studio
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by Mark Miller (DevExpress)
3w ago
CodeRush Voice features include a powerful voice-to-text dictation engine available in C# comments. Comment Dictation features are triggered with the right Ctrl key. Make sure you've set up voice features first. Also available: Dictation features also let you automatically include intelligent code references (for example, “see also” markup in an XML doc comment). To start voice dictation with the caret inside a comment, simply hold down the right Ctrl key and start speaking. Release the Ctrl key when you are done. To reference in-scope symbols while dictating, h ..read more
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String Dictation in CodeRush for Visual Studio
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by Mark Miller (DevExpress)
3w ago
CodeRush Voice features include a powerful voice-to-text dictation engine available in C# strings. String Dictation features are triggered with the right Ctrl key. Make sure you've set up voice features first. Also available: String dictation features let you automatically include intelligent code references (for example, a reference to an in-scope symbol or perhaps a simple expression inside an interpolated string). To start voice dictation inside a string, hold down the right Ctrl key and start speaking. Release the Ctrl key when you are done. To ref ..read more
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Voice to Code in CodeRush for Visual Studio
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by Mark Miller (DevExpress)
3w ago
One of the more exciting features in this release is Voice to Code, which uses Visual Studio's IntelliSense to intelligently convert spoken words to code. Voice to Code features are triggered with the right Ctrl key. Make sure you've set up voice features first. To create a new simple expression inside source code, hold down the right Ctrl key and say the expression. Release the right Ctrl key when you have finished saying the expression. For example, for qualified expressions like “a.b.c()”, you can omit the dots and parens and simply say “a b c”. Also available: Simple ..read more
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Enhance WinForms Application Reliability with UI Test Automation
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by Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)
3w ago
As you know, UI Automation testing leverages specific tools/frameworks to simulate user interactions with the interface - and helps ensure an app meets relevant end-user requirements. When used in conjunction with other testing methods (API tests, Unit tests, etc), UI automation can improve application stability, reduce time spent on manual testing, and of course improve user satisfaction. In this blog post I’ll show you how to write simple/advanced UI tests in Visual Studio 2022 using UI Automation.   Before I start - a word or two about the advantages of UI tes ..read more
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Blazor Grid - Batch Editing with Entity Framework Core
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by Svetlana Mikheeva (DevExpress)
3w ago
If you are using the DevExpress Blazor Grid with Entity Framework Core and are interested in batch data editing, we recently published a GitHub example that incorporates batch data editing within the DevExpress Blazor Grid using Entity Framework Core. Your browser does not support the video tag. The example uses DbContext to obtain and update Blazor Grid data. When a user creates a new row or modifies/deletes an existing row, a DbContext instance tracks changes. End users can press Save to save all changes or press Cancel to discard accumulated changes. The CustomizeElement event han ..read more
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Word Processing Document API, Rich Text Editors (WinForms and WPF) — Content Controls (v23.2)
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by Poline Fedorova (DevExpress)
3w ago
As you know, content controls are interactive UI elements (text fields, drop-down lists, date pickers) designed to enter and manage information on-screen. Content controls are often used within templates/forms to standardize document formatting and streamline data entry. DevExpress word processing product libraries (Word Processing Document API, Rich Text Editors for WinForms and WPF) ship with content control support (v23.2+). Documents with content controls can be processed, printed, or exported to PDF. In this blog post, I’ll describe implementation options available to you. Content contro ..read more
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Blazor — Accessibility Enhancements and Options
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by Svetlana Nikulina (DevExpress)
1M ago
In our last major update (v23.2), we modified element structure to improve screen reader compatibility, added alternate text descriptions, and WAI-ARIA roles/attributes for the following DevExpress Blazor UI components: Grid Data Editors TreeView Toolbar Menu and Context Menu We also introduced keyboard navigation and shortcuts for the following Blazor UI components: Grid Calendar Toolbar Menu Context Menu These accessibility-related capabilities are available "out-of-the-box." You can also extend accessibility in code. For instance, you can specify available descriptions for ind ..read more
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