DXperience DXv2

What’s New in DXv2 WinForms?

• Tile Metro Inspired Touch Controls - This release has been re-engineered so you can leverage your existing skill set and platform investments to fully exploit next-generation operating systems and devices such as the Windows 8 tablet. With minimal effort, you can now deliver rich and compelling touch-enabled solutions on the WinForms platform. The new WinForms Tile Control allows you to re-imagine the way in which an application interacts with end-users and build dashboards that are ultra-efficient and fully customizable.
• Custom Themes and Skins - DevExpress WinForms Skin and Theme Editor gives you total control over the look, feel and appearance of DX WinForms Controls.
• New WinForms Metropolis Theme - Whether building touch-enabled solutions or to simply deliver a more polished UI, DevExpress Application Themes give you the tools to address the needs of your most demanding users.
• Hybrid WinForms WPF Tree-List - The first hybrid Tree-List View control for WinForms continues its evolution and now offers filtering and search options to radically simplify the way in which information is retrieved by your end-users.
• Windows Touch Support - Target new devices such as tablets by using the extensive range of touch enabled WinForms Controls offered by DevExpress.
• Extended WinForms Image Controls - Usability matters, and the enhanced Picture Editor and new Image Slider have been engineered to help you effectively communicate visual information with your end-users.
• New WinForms Gantt Control - Visually represent and easily edit schedule dependencies and activity relationships in your next WinForms project.
• Industrial Strength PivotGrid - Never restricted to a single database or data access strategy, the XtraPivotGrid adds XMLA data access support.
• WinForms Report Template Gallery - Simplifying the way in which you create reports and provide them to your customers remains the top priority and with the Report Template Gallery, you can now use pre-built report templates from the online gallery and thus deliver more in less time.
• WinForms Grid Control - New Split Presentation View…an innovative new way in which to display data to end-users.
• WinForms Gauge Controls - The highly optimized XtraGauge Controls ships with more models than ever before and with new built in animation effects, the suite allows you to apply visually stunning elements to any information centric application with ease.

What’s New in DXv2 ASP.NET?

• Fast Grid Control - ASPxGridView gets even better with the new Filter Builder for MVC. With the release of DXv2, both WebForms and MVC counterparts of the ASP.NET Grid now offer your users with comprehensive data filtering and search options.
• TrackBar Control - The newest addition to the ASPxEditors Library, the ASP.NET TrackBar (Slider Control) provides your users with an easy to use visual data selector.
• HTML Editor - The all-inclusive ASP.NET HTML Editor has been updated with key usability features including the ability to remap keyboard shortcuts and bind keys to any Editor command.
• New Theme Builder - The standalone ASP.NET Theme Builder has been designed to help you create new themes based on shipping DevExpress ASP.NET Themes and to simplify the otherwise cumbersome aspects associated with Theme customization.
• Touch Support - ASP.NET applications powered by DevExpress Controls are now touch enabled for both iOS and Android - from scrolling and resizing to the dragging of web controls. Among controls with touch support are the ASPxGridView and ASPxScheduler.
• Multi-File Upload Control - The new ASP.NET File Upload Control allows end-users to select multiple files and initiate upload operations with ease.
• CheckBox List Group - New in DXv2 is a ASP.NET CheckBox List Group – simplifying the way in which users specify multiple values in your web application.
• ASP.NET PivotGrid - The ASPxPivotGrid supports both WebForms and MVC and now includes group filtering options for enhanced filtering against field groups.
• ASPxGauge Controls - The highly optimized ASPxGauge Controls ships with more models than ever before and with significantly enhanced performance, the suite allows you to apply visually stunning elements to any information centric web page with ease.

What’s New in DXv2 WPF?

• Metro Inspired Touch Controls WPF Tile - The DevExpress Layout Control has been extended with a new Tile Layout option, allowing you to replicate the look, feel and behavior of Windows 8 and thus target next generation devices with ease. Whether using WPF or Silverlight, the Tile Layout Control allows you to re-imagine the way in which an application interacts with end-users and build dashboards that are ultra-efficient and fully customizable.
• Custom Themes and Skins - Available in DXv2, the new WPF Theme Editor provides total control over the look, feel and appearance of all WPF Controls that ship as part of the subscription. This sample application demonstrates how a standard theme can be customized to meet the exacting needs of a touch enabled app.
• Fully Customizable WPF Ribbon - The DXRibbon ships with new end-user customization and integrated MDI merging options, so you can deliver flexible business solutions to meet the needs of your most demanding customers.
• Hybrid WPF Tree-List - Whether used as a standalone control or embedded as a view within the DXGrid, the DXTreeList has been extended with key productivity features including integrated clipboard, serialization and data template support.
• All-Inclusive WPF Scheduler - With additions such as the built-in Appointment Recurrence Dialog, the DXScheduler allows you to focus on customer requirements rather than spend countless hours creating individual scheduler related forms.
• Windows Touch Support - Target new devices such as tablets by using the extensive range of touch enabled WPF Controls offered by DevExpress.
• Fast WPF Grid - From the Instant Feedback UI Mode for WCF Data Services to PLINQ data source support, the DXGrid continues to extend its market-leading performance and usability feature set.
• WPF PivotGrid - Never restricted to a single database or data access strategy, the DXPivotGrid continues its evolution with XMLA data access support.
• WPF Charting - From new chart types to multi-pane support, DXChart maintains its commitment to you and your customers: High performance and visual elegance in one comprehensive chart package.
• Elegant WPF Themes and New Theme Editor - The new Windows 7 and Office 2010 style themes help augment the already rich collection of application wide skins available in DXv2. For utmost flexibility, the new DevExpress WPF Theme Editor allows you to quickly modify themes as your business needs dictate.
• Robust Collection of WPF Editors - Most data centric applications require the use of editors and no WPF package offers a richer collection of data editors than DXv2.
• Refined WPF Gauge Controls - Compelling business intelligence and data analytics solutions require innovative ways in which to present information to end-users. The DXGauge Control helps you address a wide range of scenarios with new models and custom symbol mapping features. 

What’s New in DXv2 Silverlight?

• Metro Inspired Touch Controls Silverlight Tile - The DevExpress Layout Control has been extended with a new Tile Layout option, allowing you to replicate the look, feel and behavior of Windows 8 and thus target next generation devices with ease. Whether using WPF or Silverlight, the Tile Layout Control allows you to re-imagine the way in which an application interacts with end-users and build dashboards that are ultra-efficient and fully customizable.
• Touch Support - DevExpress has taken key steps to enable touch support on the Silverlight platform. Yes, that means your end-users can use touch to interact with the Silverlight Tile Control and Silverlight Grid.
• Fully Customizable Ribbon-  The DXRibbon ships with new end-user customization and integrated MDI merging options, so you can deliver flexible business solutions to meet the needs of your most demanding customers.
• Hybrid Tree-List - Whether used as a standalone control or embedded as a view within the DXGrid, the DXTreeList has been extended with key productivity features including integrated clipboard, serialization and data template support.
• New All-Inclusive Scheduler - The Silverlight Scheduler from DevExpress allows you to incorporate Microsoft Outlook® Style scheduling/calendar functionality with ease.
• Fast Grid - From the Instant Feedback UI Mode for WCF Data Services to PLINQ data source support, the DXGrid continues to extend its market-leading performance and usability feature set.
• Intuitive Map Control - Supporting both Bing and Open Street data providers, the new Silverlight Map Control empowers your end-users with key productivity features including, zooming, scrolling, shapefile support, and map layers.
• PivotGrid - The newest member of the Business Intelligence product line, the Silverlight PivotGrid is easy-to-use and ships with a powerful data access architecture - able to slice and dice information efficiently and provide customers with an extremely intuitive end-user experience.
• End-User Report Designer - DXv2 includes a, XtraReports for Silverlight features a new easy to use WYSIWYG end-user report designer for in-browser report editing. To help simplify the report generation process, DXv2 ships with a End-User Report Wizard.
• Robust Collection of Editors - Most data centric applications require the use of editors and no Silverlight package offers a richer collection of data editors than DXv2.
• Refined Gauge Controls - Compelling business intelligence and data analytics solutions require innovative ways in which to present information to end-users. The DXGauge Control helps you address a wide range of scenarios with new models and custom symbol mapping features.
• Charting - From new chart types to multi-pane support, DXChart maintains its commitment to you and your customers: High performance and visual elegance in one comprehensive chart package.

What’s New in CodeRush 11.2?

• Color Swatches in the Code - See the actual color of color references in the code. Change the color using CodeRush's first class color picker. C#, VB, XAML, HTML and CSS are supported.
• Preview Hinting - Preview Hinting shows that code that's going to change so you can see the impact of a refactoring before you apply it.
• Test Result Icons - CodeRush places test result icons next to each test method, so you can not only see the results of the last test run, but also quickly run the test after making changes.
• Code Issues - CodeRush shows errors, warnings, hints, code smells, and duplicate code while you work. Fixes for many issues are a single click or keystroke away.
• Duplicate Detection and Consolidation - Easily see duplicate code throughout your solution while you work. Increase the quality of your source code by consolidating duplicates into a single location.
• Multi-Select - Select what you need from multiple locations and copy or cut that to the Clipboard.
• Speed - Navigate to the symbol, class or file you want with the fewest keystrokes. Efficiency is everywhere in CodeRush.

Developer Express DXperience DXv2 Subscription comes in four editions:

• DXperience DXv2 Universal
• DXperience DXv2 Enterprise
• DXperience DXv2 WinForms
• DXperience DXv2 ASP.NET

DXperience DXv2 Universal includes all Developer Express products engineered for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. With this DXperience DXv2 2010 subscription, you receive all key technologies engineered by Developer Express including IDE Productivity Tools, Business Application Frameworks, and components for Windows Forms, WPF and ASP.NET. In addition to individual tools, you receive complete source code for WinForms, ASP.NET AJAX, WPF, Silverlight controls and ORM Library. With the DXperience DXv2 2010 Universal subscription, you also receive Priority Support which means that your support inquiries will always be moved to the front of the line. Also includes eXpressApp Framework - The eXpressApp Framework is a instrument for creating business applications quickly and easily. A strong modular architecture allows for platform independent domain specific extensions. Examples of typical applications include business/sales/CRM systems, projects, documentation, HR and training class management, and many others. The currently supported target platforms are Windows Forms and ASP.NET 2, and the open architecture allows extensions of either of these platforms as well as the introduction of completely new targets.

DXperience DXv2 Enterprise includes all Developer Express products engineered for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. With DXperience DXv2 v2010 Enterprise subscription, you receive all key technologies engineered by Developer Express including IDE Productivity Tools, Business Application Frameworks, and components for Windows Forms, WPF and ASP.NET. In addition to individual tools, you receive complete source code for WinForms, ASP.NET AJAX, WPF, Silverlight controls and ORM Library. With the Enterprise subscription, you also receive Priority Support which means that your support inquiries will always be moved to the front of the line.

DXperience DXv2 WinForms includes all Developer Express .NET Windows Forms Components. This subscription does not include source code nor priority support.

DXperience DXv2 ASP.NET includes all ASP.NET components engineered by Developer Express. This subscription type does not include source code nor priority support.

DXperience DXv2 Subscription: Components designed for both DXperience DXv2 v2010 Windows Forms and ASP.NET platforms

(Included with all DXperience DXv2 subscriptions: DXperience DXv2 Universal, DXperience DXv2 Enterprise, WinForms, ASP.NET)

XtraReports Suite
A reporting tool that features an extremely easy-to-use report designer - the XtraReports Suite is fully integrated into MS Visual Studio IDE so you customize reports like you customize your Windows Forms. You simply build an XtraReport class descendant either within the designer or via code. XtraReports is included in dexperience.

Other features include: large set of export formats including XLS, HTML and PDF; the ability to integrate reports into ASP.NET applications; several wizards simplifying the report construction process; numerous built-in native controls including rich text box, bar code, zip code and charts; the ability to print 3-rd party Windows Forms controls; master-detail and sub-report support; fully functional end-user designer; multi-column reports, and much more.

XtraCharts Suite

A 2D/3D charting solution for both Windows Forms and the Web. Regardless of platform or chart type, you are free to customize each aspect of data representation – from axes and diagram backgrounds to legend and titles. The XtraCharts Suite offers multiple built-in coloring schemes for all charts types and natural lighting with full smoothing support for 3D charts. You simply provide data and automatically get a perfect visualization. XtraCharts is included in devxperience.

Windows Forms Components

(Included with the DXperience DXv2 Universal, Enterprise and DXperience DXv2 WinForms subscriptions)

XtraGrid Suite
A grid control with four data layout options from a simple table to banded multi-line row layout and card views. XtraGrid offers true master-detail support with unlimited nesting levels that doesn’t affect any other features, intuitive on-form customization without the need for any designer dialogs, rich end-user experience, printing and exporting to a number of formats, and so much more.

XtraBars Suite
The suite offers you the complete range of navigation and window layout management tools. Using XtraBars, you can build Ribbons, traditional toolbar-menu systems, dock windows, tabbed MDI interfaces and context menus. You have the choice of over ten item types to be used in Ribbons, bars and menus – from push and check buttons and integrated editors from the XtraEditors Library to automatically constructed MDI children lists and toolbar lists.

XtraScheduler Suite
XtraScheduler Suite enables you to incorporate the UI found in Microsoft Office Calendar to your applications with just a couple of mouse clicks. Everything you need is available out-of-the-box. You get multiple data views - from a single day to multiple weeks; you get built-in recurrence and reminders, and, most importantly, you get the complete set of build-in end-user menus and dialogs.

XtraPivotGrid Suite
The XtraPivotGrid Suite is a data analysis, data mining and visual reporting solution for Windows Forms applications. It was engineered to provide a bridge between on-screen forms and printed reports. With it, your users can break down raw data in any manner they require using easy-to-understand Windows commands and instantly render the desired output to a printer. By incorporating the XtraPivotGrid in your application, you can deliver an almost endless array of reports - both on-screen and in printed form - without hassles or aggravation. XtraPivotGrid Suite is included in DevExpress DXperience DXv2.

XtraLayoutControl

The XtraLayoutControl represents an new way in which to design and manage your Windows GUI - with it, you can construct forms with full runtime customization and offer end-users complete control over the layout and appearance of your applications with ease.

XtraTreeList Suite
A hybrid tree-view and grid control that has both bound and unbound data access options. The optimal choice for building newsreader-like applications and any other hierarchical data viewers like folder or registry browsers.

XtraVerticalGrid Suite
A 90 degrees rotated grid where records are arranged one after another from right to left. The control gives you the choice of 3 data layouts – single record (similar to the Properties window of the MS Visual Studio), bands layout (one record is displayed in a number of columns) and multi-records layout (just like the inverted grid control). The vertical grid supports tree-like data representation structure, breaking the columns into collapsible categories, complex cell layouts, automatic row drag and drop and much more.

XtraNavBar
A navigation control allowing you to build side-bars, explorer bars and Office 2003 navigation panes – over 20 views are available which also includes XP painted and custom-skinned views. You set up the control structure once and don’t have to redo a single thing to change the paint style and layout. Within its groups, the control can display either links arranged using one of the four built-in layouts or any Windows Forms controls. Other main features include: on-form design-time customization without the need for designer dialogs, automatic link drag and drop support, full appearance customization including even owner-drawn hints for groups and links.

XtraEditors Library
The library is comprised of over 20 editors that can be used both as standalone or be embedded into cells of the XtraGrid, XtraTreeList, XtraVerticalGrid controls and bars and menus produced with the XtraBars Library. Additionally, the XtraEditors Library offers numerous controls like labels, buttons, list boxes, splitters and so on so you can create visually consistent applications. Included style controller and editors repository components eliminate the need to create the same styles or editors more than once.

XtraPrinting Library
The data rendering and visualization system allowing you to construct any printed pages from scratch or print Windows Forms controls like the XtraGrid, XtraTreeList, XtraPivotGrid, XtraCharts, DataGrid, ListView, TreeView. This library is also integrated into the XtraReports Suite to provide printing facilities.

XtraSpellChecker

The XtraSpellChecker provides you a straightforward way in which to add Microsoft Office style spell checking capabilities into your next Windows application and offers you built in suggestion forms that replicate corresponding forms found in Microsoft Word and Outlook.

ASP.NET Components

(Included with the DXperience DXv2 Universal, Enterprise and DXperience DXv2 ASP.NET subscriptions)

ASPxGridView and Editors Library
A robust Grid and Data Editors Library for ASP.NET. With 18 individual components, the ASPxGridView and Editors Library gives you the ability to deliver robust and user-friendly web applications.

ASPxPivotGrid Suite
A multi-dimensional analysis component library for ASP.NET 2. The ASPxPivotGrid allows you to deliver fully configurable visual reporting solutions so that your end-users can mine and analyze their data with ease. The ASPxPivotGrid is both dynamic and fully configurable and is certain to improve your productivity and significantly improve the effectiveness of data centric applications.

ASPxNavBar Suite
Web navigation bar with full AJAX support, numerous link layout options and total appearance customization capabilities.

ASPxMenu Suite
Extremely lightweight, customizable and easy-to-use main and context menu controls for your web pages.

ASPxPopupControl
A component suite allowing you to easily add popup windows and advanced hints onto your web pages. It offers you numerous options for window arrangement customization and even automatic window popup and close-up in response to end-user actions. You also have full manual control over your popup windows on the client side.

ASPxTabControl Suite
AJAX-enabled tab or page control allowing you to build stunning navigation for your web applications.

ASPxSiteMapControl Suite
An easy-to-configure site map control with myriads of appearance customization options, automatic content generation possibilities and built-in design-time site map editor.

WPF Products (Included into DXperience DXv2 Universal and Enterprise)

• DXGrid for WPF
• DXCharts for WPF
• DXBars for WPF
• DXDocking for WPF
• DXPrinting for WPF
• DXEditors for WPF
• DXNavBar for WPF
• DXCarousel for WPF

Visual Studio Productivity Tools

(Included into DXperience DXv2 Universal and Enterprise only)

CodeRush
CodeRush is a Visual Studio .NET add-in that enhances the developer experience by accelerating developer and team productivity via an integrated suite of IDE technologies.

Refactor! Pro for Visual Studio .NET
Refactor! Pro is a refactoring toolset for Visual Studio. It fuses a language-independent code shaping engine with a highly-optimized user experience. Refactor! is designed to help all developers craft and sculpt their code with the speed and efficiency needed to meet their line of business demands.

Business Application Frameworks

(Included into DXperience DXv2 Universal, Enterprise only)

eXpress Persistent Objects
XPO represents a bridge between the true object world and relational databases. It gives developers the freedom to build true business objects without having to deal with the tedious complexities of mapping them onto individual database tables.

(Included into DXperience DXv2 Universal only)

eXpressApp Framework - The eXpressApp Framework is a instrument for creating business applications quickly and easily. A strong modular architecture allows for platform independent domain specific extensions. Examples of typical applications include business/sales/CRM systems, projects, documentation, HR and training class management, and many others. The currently supported target platforms are Windows Forms and ASP.NET 2, and the open architecture allows extensions of either of these platforms as well as the introduction of completely new targets.