DevExpress WPF adds Spreadsheet Grouping

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Updates in 14.2.3

• OneNote Inspired Radial Menu - When collapsed, only the central button is visible. When a user clicks this button, the menu expands and displays all menu items associated with the control.
• New Excel Data Export Engine - The Grid control uses a new, more powerful Excel data export engine. Both the performance and memory usage of this new engine has been significantly improved.
• Conditional Formatting Enhancements - Create new conditional formatting rules and configure existing ones.
• Grid Cell Merging - Neighboring column cells with identical values can be merged into a single cell.
• Web Inspired Token Mode - Both the WPF ComboBox and Lookup Data Editors now ship with capabilities found in modern mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Google GMail.
• Adaptive Chart Element Layout - Hide chart elements (legends, titles, axes) and change element positions automatically for a more effective visual presentation of data.
• Map Preview - A Mini Map (inset) can be displayed on the map control.
• SQL Geometry Support - The DevExpress WPF Map Control can display vector map data stored using SQL Geometry.
• New Map Projections - Predefined map projections can be used to display vector maps.
• Automatic Chart Generation from a Data Source - The DevExpress WPF Map Control can automatically aggregate the underlying data and show chart items at locations which correspond to aggregated values.
• Map Printing and Data Export - End-user printing via a built-in WYSIWYG printing engine.
• Standalone Main Menu, Toolbar and Status Bar - Three new standalone controls that don't require the use of a separate BarManager component: main menu, toolbar and statusbar.
• Spreadsheet Grouping - Arrange related columns or rows into groups and display summaries for each group.
• Annotate a Worksheet Using Comments - The DevExpress WPF Spreadsheet Control allows you to associate additional information to individual cells via comments.
• Per-Pixel Scrolling - Pivot Grid rows and columns can now be scrolled on a per-pixel basis.
• PDF Viewer - You can now populate existing AcroForms (interactive forms) using the DevExpress WPF PDF Viewer.
• Spell Checker - Highlight misspelled words with a wavy line using the new Check-As-You-Type mode..

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