.NET 8 WPF News

Transform Applications with Ready-Made Themes

September 16, 2025
DevExpress DXperience offers customizable themes to create modern, consistent, and visually engaging interfaces with ease.

DevExpress DXperience is a comprehensive development suite that enables developers to build high-performance applications for Windows, Web, mobile, and tablet platforms using a unified set of controls and tools. It includes hundreds of desktop UI controls for WinForms, WPF, and reporting, as well as web UI controls for Blazor, ASP.NET, MVC, Core, Bootstrap Web Forms, JavaScript, Angular, React, Vue, and web reporting, plus productivity tools like XPO ORM and CodeRush for Visual Studio. With its extensive component library, DXperience accelerates development, ensures visually consistent and responsive interfaces, and is ideal for creating enterprise applications, data-driven web apps, dashboards, and reporting solutions.

DevExpress DXperience enhances application development with new app-wide themes and skins, allowing developers to apply a consistent, modern visual style across entire projects with minimal configuration. By providing professionally designed themes that align with Microsoft Office and Windows 11 aesthetics, along with built-in tools for customizing these designs, it improves the UI design process and reduces the need for manual styling. This enables developers to focus on functionality while delivering polished, cohesive user interfaces that improve usability and maintain a professional appearance across all application modules.

DevExpress DXperience is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. See our DevExpress DXperience licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our DevExpress DXperience product page.

Unify Charts with Consistent Themes

September 10, 2025
Ensure every chart follows the same colors and fonts, delivering a cohesive, branded look across reports, dashboards, and presentations.

Chart themes provide a simple yet powerful way to standardize the appearance of charts by applying predefined color schemes, fonts, and styling options across visualizations. Instead of manually adjusting each element, users can quickly switch between themes to achieve a consistent, professional look that aligns with brand guidelines or presentation needs. The benefits include improving readability, enhancing accessibility - with inclusive color palettes - and ensuring visual consistency across multiple charts or entire dashboards. Chart themes improve the process of creating impactful, audience-ready data visualizations.

Several .NET WPF chart components offer the ability to add themes, including:

  • Telerik WPF Chart (part of Telerik UI for WPF) allows you to switch seamlessly between chart themes, enhancing readability, accessibility, and visual appeal.
  • DevExpress WPF Chart (part of DevExpress WPF) lets you apply customizable chart themes, ensuring consistent fonts and colors that align with brand standards.
  • TeeChart WPF (pat TeeChart for .NET Standard Business Edition by Steema) facilitates professional data storytelling by using chart themes to improve style management.
  • Syncfusion WPF Chart (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) enables you to unify chart appearance using flexible themes, saving time and ensuring design consistency.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET WPF charts comparison.

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Import 3D Scan Data From E57 Files

September 9, 2025
Eyeshot 2025.3 now supports the E57 format enabling direct import of point clouds, images, and metadata from 3D scanning systems.

Eyeshot by devDept is a comprehensive 3D graphics toolkit designed for .NET developers building engineering and CAD (Computer-Aided Design) applications. It offers a robust set of components for creating, editing, and rendering complex 2D and 3D geometry directly within Windows Forms and WPF environments. With support for advanced modeling features, viewport controls, and industry-standard file formats, Eyeshot simplifies the integration of interactive graphics into technical software. It is well-suited for developers working in areas like mechanical design, architecture, and simulation who need high-performance rendering and precise modeling capabilities.

The Eyeshot 2025.3 update adds preview support for the E57 file format through its new 'ReadE57' class, allowing developers to import data captured by 3D imaging systems such as laser scanners. E57 is a compact, vendor-neutral format that stores rich 3D content, including point clouds, images, and associated metadata. This new functionality gives developers greater flexibility when working with real-world scan data, making it easier to integrate 3D captures into engineering, architecture, and visualization applications.

To see a full list of what's new in version 2025.3, see our release notes.

Eyeshot is licensed per developer and is available as an annual license, with either Lite or Priority support. See our licensing pages for Eyeshot Pro, Eyeshot Ultimate, and Eyeshot Fem for full details.

Eyeshot is available to buy in the following products:

Cross-Platform Reporting Coming to List & Label

September 9, 2025
Special Offer: Buy List & Label Professional Edition before October 9th 2025 and get the Enterprise Edition with cross-platform support for Free!

combit have announced an exciting new development for their popular report generator with the introduction of List & Label Cross Platform (LLCP), due for release in October.

This is a significant milestone for combit, as they will now offer a cross-platform reporting solution for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The new powerful print engine is entirely based on the most recent version of .NET, with no native dependencies. For reporting that runs anywhere your app runs.

Features will include:

  • Support for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  • PDF export for web & cloud.
  • Introduction of JSON-based project files.
  • Easy conversion of existing projects to JSON.
  • Numerous supported reporting functions.

Special Offer

This cross-platform functionality will only be included as part of the List & Label Enterprise Edition. To help customers benefit from this major advancement, special offers are available until October 9th 2025.

* Subscription terms for free upgrades will not be extended. Special discounted renewal options will be available until October 2026, please contact us for details.

Ensure Text Accuracy Across your WPF Apps

September 5, 2025
Spell checkers help users to catch errors as they type, with red underlines, correction suggestions, and custom or multi-language dictionary support.

Spell-checker components in UI suites provide built-in functionality to detect and correct spelling errors within user-input fields and documents. They enhance text accuracy by underlining errors as the user types and offering context-menu corrections or dialog-based review, mirroring the familiar, production-grade experience found in Microsoft Office. These components typically support multiple dictionary formats (such as ISpell, OpenOffice, Hunspell, or custom dictionaries), integrate seamlessly into both basic and advanced text editors, and are essential for ensuring text quality in enterprise and productivity applications.

Several WPF UI suites offer spell checker components including:

  • DevExpress WPF includes a Spell-Checker component which delivers a Microsoft Office-inspired experience with check-as-you-type features and configurable dictionaries.
  • Telerik UI for WPF offers RadSpellChecker which allows spell checking across several controls including TextBox, RichTextBox, RadRichTextBox, RadGridView, and DataGrid.
  • ComponentOne Studio WPF by MESCIUS provides C1SpellChecker which brings rapid, Word-like spell checking, capable of processing up to 400,000 words per second.
  • Infragistics Ultimate UI for WPF includes the xamSpellChecker control which supports nine language dictionaries (including multiple English variants).

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our WPF UI suites comparison.

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