Released: Dec 2, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in 15.2.3

New Controls

• WinForms Diagram Control - Allows users to visually communicate complex information using data-linked diagrams, flow and org charts.
• WinForms Date Editor and Calendar - The calendar used in the WinForms Date Editor is now available as a standalone control and can be dropped directly onto a form.
• WinForms Excel Data Source - Bind DevExpress WinForms data-aware controls to Microsoft Excel workbooks or CSV files.
• Office Inspired Ring/Line Animations - The WinForms Progress Panel and Transition Manager now support Office inspired animation styles.
• WinForms Tabbed Form - The new WinForms Tabbed Form incorporates a Tabbed MDI interface, allowing you to eliminate the use of MDI managers.
• WinForms Tabbed Pane Control – A SDI (Single Document Interface) navigation control that owns a collection of pages and uses buttons to navigate between them.
• WinForms Toolbox Control - A Microsoft Visio inspired Toolbox control.

Enhancements

WinForms Grid Control

• Data Cell Images - Data cells can now display custom images either to the left or rightmost edge of the control.
• Align Summary Values with Group Rows - Summary values can be displayed in group rows under corresponding column headers.
• Partial Groups - This new option allows you to display group rows with two or more data rows. If a group row contains only a single data row, it is not displayed.
• Grid-Based Report Generation - With only a few lines of code, you can invoke the DevExpress WinForms Report Designer from the Grid Control and create reports based on its data.

WinForms App UI Manager

• The new layout mode allows you to mix vertical and horizontal tabbed groups in Tabbed Views.

WinForms Chart Control

• New Financial Indicators - This release ships with the following new financial indicators: AverageTrueRange, CommodityChannelIndex, DetrendedPriceOscillator, MassIndex, MedianPrice, MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence, RateOfChange (Momentum), RelativeStrengthIndex, StandardDeviation, StochasticIndicator, TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TEMA), TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TriX), TypicalPrice, VolatilityChaikins, WeightedClose and WilliamsR.

WinForms Layout Control

• Resizing - You can view an item's current size during resize operations. Layout items that cannot be resized (due to size constraints) are now highlighted.
• Search within Customization Form - With this release you can locate items by entering their names with the search box.
• Visual Enhancements - Selected items in customization mode are painted in light blue. Drop position is now highlighted during drag-and-drop operations.

WinForms Map Control

• Data Clustering - To help increase dataset readability and analyze data density, you can now aggregate data using the DevExpress Map Control's clustering methods.
• Vector Data Export/Import Enhancements - The WinForms Map Control can now import SVG vector graphics and export its vector data to KML, SVG and Shapefiles.

WinForms PDF Viewer

• Open/Save Attachments – The WinForms PDF Viewer now displays attachments and you can open and/or save attachments as needed.

WinForms Property Grid Control

• HTML Formatting - Row headers and data cells now support HTML text formatting.

WinForms Ribbon Control

• Recent Items - You can now emulate menus introduced in the newest version of Microsoft Office.

WinForms Rich Editor Control

• Custom Drawing Using Layout API - You can now draw lines, shapes and text above, below or in place of page elements.
• Nested Comments - Comments and replies are grouped and displayed as a conversation.
• Improved PDF Export - PDF algorithms have been optimized. It's now twice as fast and consumes 30% less memory.

WinForms Scheduler Control

• Time Indicator - The Scheduler now indicates current time.
• New Default Appointment Ribbon Form - To better replicate the Microsoft Outlook appointment dialog, the default appointment editing form has been changed to be a Ribbon form.
• Time Zone Information for Each Appointment - With this release, you can associate time zones with individual appointments and display their Start and End time correctly when the Scheduler's time zone changes.
• Reporting Scripts Support - The WinForms End-User Report Designer now allows users to handle the Scheduler control's reporting events.

WinForms Snap Reporting Control

• Data Source Wizard Customization - Manage data source lists, remove default wizard pages, create and add custom pages.

WinForms Spreadsheet Control

• Pivot Tables - Analyze, categorize and summarize large volumes of data within a worksheet.
• Copy/Paste Enhancements - Clipboard operations now support BIFF8.
• API Improvements - Create a pivot table from a cell range or a PivotTable cache, modify and remove existing pivot tables.

WinForms TreeList Control

• Cell Selection - The WinForms TreeList control now supports selection of multiple cells.
• Drag and Drop Enhancements - You no longer need to handle events and write code to enable drag and drop for multiple nodes within the DevExpress WinForms TreeList control.

WinForms MVVM and Scaffolding

• New Services - This release provides four new services for the MVVM platform: notification, splash screen, layout serialization and print preview services.
• Data Binding Improvements - The MVVM Framework supports binding to properties, commands and event-to-command behaviors for nested ViewModels.
• View Scaffolding - You can now create MVVM Application parts (Model, ModelViews and Views) based on an Entity Framework Model.

WinForms Application Themes

• New Office 2016 Inspired Themes - This release ships with the following Office 2016 inspired themes: Office 2016 Colorful Theme and Office 2016 Black Theme.