Released: Jun 25, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in 15.1.2

• VCL Rich Edit Control - Enable your users to create or edit rich text documents with ease using a set of text formatting commands.
• Rating Control - A new Rating Control now ships inside the ExpressEditors Library. With this fully customizable control, you can:
  • Switch the control's orientation to horizontal or vertical.
  • Reverse control direction.
  • Change the number of elements (stars) displayed in the control.
  • Provide custom element images.
  • Choose between three element fill modes: fill entire stars only, use half-star precision, or fill stars as specified by the control's value.
  • Unbound, data-aware, standalone, and in-place versions of the Rating Control are available.
• VCL Pivot Grid
  • Performance Enhancements - Improved performance and optimized memory usage when exporting data. Export methods are now about 3 times faster and use up to 4 times less memory than in previous releases. Large data sets can now be grouped into rows and columns up to 30% faster than in previous releases.
• Data Export - The VCL Spreadsheet control, and its core export functionality, are now a principal component of the data export engine. This significantly simplified the engine's code and avoids code duplication when implementing new features, including:
  • Track the progress of export operations and abort if necessary.
  • Export data to CSV files.
  • Export detail grid Views to XLS, XLSX, or TXT files.
  • Custom encoding formats for strings exported to TXT or CSV files.
  • Export images to XLS files.
• VCL Grid Control - Context menu now includes options to customize the Group By box settings and change Find Panel visibility.
• New Office 2016 Styles - Introduce the Office 2016 user experience to your application.
• VCL Layout Control
  • Unified Indicator for Drag-and-Drop Operations - This new indicator style replaces previously available styles ("classic" and "hot zone") with more intuitive suggestions on potential drop positions.
  • Alignment Customization Toolbar - Dropping a layout element in quick customization mode now displays a toolbar that offers options for customizing the element's alignment.
• VCL Gauge Control
  • New Gauge Styles - Clever, Cosmic, Eco, Red, Shining Dark, and Silver Blur.
• Circular and Linear Scale Enhancements
  • Optional value indicator animation.
  • New Three-Fourth Circular and Wide Circular gauges.
  • New logarithmic scale.
• Circular Scale Enhancements
  • Ability to customize tickmark label orientation.
  • Improved label positioning for tickmarks with wide labels.
• Digital Scale Enhancements
  • New display modes (8x14 and 5x8 segment matrices).
  • Ability to adjust spacing between characters or digits.
• Common Scale Enhancements
  • Auxiliary container element that allows the grouping of multiple scales and their simultaneous resizing.
  • Ability to display custom scale captions.
• Design-Time Enhancements
  • Create nested scales using the scale's on-form context menu.
  • Copy and resize scales using drag and drop.
• VCL Spreadsheet Control
  • Ability to outline (group) data in a worksheet.
  • A new built-in "Find and Replace" dialog.
  • Support for Excel template files (XLT and XLTX files).
  • Ability to export an active worksheet to a TXT, XML, or HTML file.
  • Ability to iterate through all generated cell objects.
  • Support for keyboard shortcuts available in Excel.
• VCL Map Control
  • Scrolling Improvements - New map option activates inertial scrolling. When the mouse button is released, map scrolling comes to a gradual stop. In addition to use of the mouse, end-users can scroll a map using arrow keys.
• VCL Data Editors and Controls
  • Modern-style drop-down calendar featuring mouse wheel support and optional animation.
  • Image Editor now supports animated GIF images.
  • Optionally align an error icon to the right edge of an editor whose value failed validation.
  • Toggle Switch Editor now allows you to indicate its checked state with text or an image.
• VCL Skinning Library New Visual Studio 2013 Themes - This release includes three new app-wide themes: Visual Studio 2013 Blue, Visual Studio 2013 Light, and Visual Studio 2013 Dark.
• Icon Library - The library now includes about 3,100 icons and the design-time DevExpress Image Picker is populated with icons significantly faster.