Released: Dec 5, 2012

Updates in this release

Features

Windows 8 Grid Control

• Data Shaping and Summary Computations - Your end-users can sort values within the grid by simply clicking column headers. You can control multi-level data grouping in code or in XAML. Total and Group summaries are fully supported.
• Filtering - Filter information displayed within the Windows 8 XAML Grid by setting the appropriate filter criteria or using the Windows 8 Range Control to build an advanced data filtering UI.
• Live Data Shaping - All changes in your data source are instantly reflected within the Windows 8 Grid. The Grid automatically updates applied sort order, data grouping, summaries, and filters based on underlying data source values.
• Data Processing - Sort, group or filter by value or display text. Apply custom filters or custom group/total summary calculations, group intervals (Year, Month, Day, Alphabetical, Custom) and use unbound columns via unbound expressions or events.

Windows 8 Data Editors

• Masked Input - Supports a wide range of mask input types including DateTime, Numeric and RegEx masks.
• Data Validation - Supports validation via key press, loss of focus and value assignment.
• Buttons - Specify buttons displayed within the editing area.
• Null Text - Hint text is displayed within the Edit box when the Editor's value is null.
• Automatic Value Conversion - The Editor converts values as needed to simplify data binding scenarios.
• Popups - The Text Edit Control supports the display of popups with custom content.
• Spin Edit - Allows you to edit numeric values via Windows 8 Spin Buttons or by using standard text input.
• Date-Time Picker - A Windows 8 Date Picker Control that is touch friendly and optimized for date and time value selection.
• Date Edit - Displays the DevExpress Date Picker within a popup so end-users can specify date-time values.

Windows 8 Charting

• Performance - The Windows 8 Chart Control uses .NET interop services to natively call Direct2D libraries. You can render 100,000 points in less than 3 seconds on a Surface Tablet and zoom and scroll those 100,000 points instantaneously.
• MVVM is Built-in - DevExpress Windows 8 Chart Controls fully support the MVVM paradigm.
• Cartesian Chart Series Views - Points, Scatter Line, Line, Step Line, Stacked Line, Full-Stacked Line, Area, Step Area, Stacked Area, Full Stacked Area, Bars, Stacked Bars, Full Stacked Bars, Side-by-Side Stacked Bars and Side-by-Side Full Stacked Bars.
• 3 Pie Chart Series Views - Including Pie, Donut and Nested Donut.

Windows 8 Gauge Control

• Circular and Linear Gauge Control - Multiple Layers, hit testing and the ability to customize all elements within the Gauge control.

Windows 8 Map Control

• Services - Both Bing Maps and OpenStreetMaps Tile Services are fully supported.
• Navigation Panel - Provides a number of UI elements that empower your end-users to scroll, zoom and view detailed information.
• Vector Layer Support - Built-in vector layer support for ShapeFile and Kml File along with colorizer (chloropleth, graph) is further augmented with asynchronous loading of shape files.

Windows 8 Range Control

• Cartesian Chart Range Selector - Integrate the Range Control with the DevExpress Windows 8 Cartesian Chart and display any series and associated data within it.
• Date Range Selector - Specify a range of date values in a touch-friendly way.
• Spark Range Selector - A lightweight standalone Windows 8 Spark Chart optimized to display large amounts of data. With 4 built-in Series types (Spark Point, Spark Line, Spark Area and Spark Bar).

Windows 8 Tile Control

• Content, Header, NotificationHeader elements.
• Large and Small horizontal size and multi-row height.
• Visual selection and hover states along with check state.
• Visual transitions when pressed/selected/hovered.
• Compatible with the DevExpress MVVM Navigation Framework (by specifying Navigation target directly for a specific tile).
• Animation containers available for tile content and supports horizontal and vertical sliding and fading.