DevExpress WinForms adds Office Navigation Bar

DevExpress WinForms includes 130+ controls which help you emulate the UI of today's most popular productivity apps. Whether you need to reproduce the look and feel of Microsoft Office or to deliver data mining and decision support systems for your enterprise, DevExpress libraries have been built to help you intuitively present data to your end-users in the shortest possible time.

Updates in 14.1

• WinForms TileNav Pane - A touch-friendly version of traditional navigation elements used within Windows desktop or touch-enabled hybrid apps.
• WinForms TileBar Control - Introduce a simple navigation experience to your WinForms applications.
• Outlook 2013 Inspired Bar - Fully replicate the Outlook 2013 UX.
• Token Editor - A new advanced text-box inspired by behaviors found in modern mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Google Gmail.
• Range Control Clients - Define DateTime and Numeric ranges.
• BreadCrumb Editor - Add breadcrumb navigation to your WinForms apps.
• Search Control - Quickly locate and filter records in a bound control.
• Transition Manager - Add visual effects when changes are made to a form's content.
• WinForms Toast Notification Manager - Display transient messages based on events within your WinForms app.
• Password Protection for Worksheet and Workbook Elements - Protect worksheet data or workbook elements to prevent their modification.
• Spreadsheet Chart Object Model and API - Create all chart types in code, specify the layout and position of chart elements, customize series markers and labels.
• Spreadsheet Formula Builder - Assist end-users creating formulas containing functions.
• Spreadsheet Text Search - Find and replace text in a range, worksheet or in the entire document.
• Nested Doughnut Chart - Compare series by positioning one doughnut inside another.
• Office 2013 Inspired Palettes - New palettes include Blue Warm, Blue, Blue II, Blue Green, Green, Green Yellow, Yellow, Yellow Orange, Orange, Red, Red Orange, Red Violet, Violet, Violet II, Median, Paper, Marquee and Slipstream.
• WinForms NavBar Control - Reproduce the folder pane experience of Outlook.
• Grid Column Headers Auto-Height - Long column captions can be wrapped onto the next line.
• Grid Custom Draw - When handling custom draw events, you can invoke the default painting mechanism with a single method call.
• Floating Time Zone for All-day Events - Schedule all-day events in a floating time zone.
• New Map Items - Display chart items above the Map control.
• New Size Legend - The Size legend visually describes the information displayed within the WinForms Map.
• Multiple Legends - Display multiple legends within the WinForms Map control.
• Shape Titles - Automatically display titles for shape items.
• Tablet Ribbon UI - Support the look, feel and user-experience of Office Ribbon for iOS.
• WinForms Layout Control - Optimized for touch devices.
• Outlook 2013 Inspired Peek Panel - Can be used as a popup panel displayed on the side of your application window.
• Windows 8 Dialog - Display Windows 8 UI-style dialogs.
• WinForms PDF Viewer - No need for Adobe, select and copy text and images to the clipboard.

About DevExpress (Developer Express)

DevExpress (Developer Express) is a software development company based in the United States. It produces coding assistance tools and components for Delphi, C++ Builder and Microsoft Visual Studio developers. The major part of its product line is VCL, .NET WinForms and ASP.NET components that replicate the UI of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications. Developer Express has won many industry awards for its products.