DevExpress WinForms adds Office Navigation Bar

Released: Jun 5, 2014

Updates in this release

Updates in 14.1

  • WinForms TileNav Pane - A touch-friendly version of traditional navigation elements used within Windows desktop or touch-enabled hybrid apps.
  • WinForms TileBar Control - Introduce a simple navigation experience to your WinForms applications.
  • Outlook 2013 Inspired Bar - Fully replicate the Outlook 2013 UX.
  • Token Editor - A new advanced text-box inspired by behaviors found in modern mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Google Gmail.
  • Range Control Clients - Define DateTime and Numeric ranges.
  • BreadCrumb Editor - Add breadcrumb navigation to your WinForms apps.
  • Search Control - Quickly locate and filter records in a bound control.
  • Transition Manager - Add visual effects when changes are made to a form's content.
  • WinForms Toast Notification Manager - Display transient messages based on events within your WinForms app.
  • Password Protection for Worksheet and Workbook Elements - Protect worksheet data or workbook elements to prevent their modification.
  • Spreadsheet Chart Object Model and API - Create all chart types in code, specify the layout and position of chart elements, customize series markers and labels.
  • Spreadsheet Formula Builder - Assist end-users creating formulas containing functions.
  • Spreadsheet Text Search - Find and replace text in a range, worksheet or in the entire document.
  • Nested Doughnut Chart - Compare series by positioning one doughnut inside another.
  • Office 2013 Inspired Palettes - New palettes include Blue Warm, Blue, Blue II, Blue Green, Green, Green Yellow, Yellow, Yellow Orange, Orange, Red, Red Orange, Red Violet, Violet, Violet II, Median, Paper, Marquee and Slipstream.
  • WinForms NavBar Control - Reproduce the folder pane experience of Outlook.
  • Grid Column Headers Auto-Height - Long column captions can be wrapped onto the next line.
  • Grid Custom Draw - When handling custom draw events, you can invoke the default painting mechanism with a single method call.
  • Floating Time Zone for All-day Events - Schedule all-day events in a floating time zone.
  • New Map Items - Display chart items above the Map control.
  • New Size Legend - The Size legend visually describes the information displayed within the WinForms Map.
  • Multiple Legends - Display multiple legends within the WinForms Map control.
  • Shape Titles - Automatically display titles for shape items.
  • Tablet Ribbon UI - Support the look, feel and user-experience of Office Ribbon for iOS.
  • WinForms Layout Control - Optimized for touch devices.
  • Outlook 2013 Inspired Peek Panel - Can be used as a popup panel displayed on the side of your application window.
  • Windows 8 Dialog - Display Windows 8 UI-style dialogs.
  • WinForms PDF Viewer - No need for Adobe, select and copy text and images to the clipboard.