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Friday, November 16, 2007

Developer Express Launches DXperience

by Don Burnett

 

Developer Express sent me an announcement of some new products they are bringing out.. I usually don't talk about ASP.NET products here, but Developer Express usually does a great job with visual components and with a name like "DXperience" I couldn't resist mentioning it here. They are a great company with some great talent and a proven track record for high value component products.  At least it's not an attempt at misusing the term "user experience" as so many other Visual Studio component marketers are today.. There products are both visual appealing and useful.

 

The Press Release:

Developer Express is proud to announce the immediate availability of DXperience v2007 vol 3 - Feature-complete visual components and IDE tools for Visual Studio .NET. Our technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows® and the Web in the shortest possible time. All of our products come with a 60 day unconditional money back guarantee and fully functional evaluation versions are available for download at devexpress.com.

With v2007 vol 3, ASP.NET product line has been extended with the availability of the ASPxScheduler Suite. Built and optimized for ASP.NET 2, the ASPxScheduler Suite includes all the tools you will need to create web based scheduling solutions that mimic the capabilities found in Microsoft Outlook.

In addition to the ASPxScheduler Suite, we've extended capabilities across our entire product line. Major new features include:

XtraGrid Suite

- New LayoutView – powered by features found in the XtraLayoutControl Suite, it allows you to present data to your end users in a variety of unique ways. You can freely customize field layout and thus use form space more effectively.

XtraEditors Library

- New Components: DropDownButton & DXValidationProvider

- Embeddable MarqueeProgressBar Сontrol

- GIF animation support in PictureEdit and ImageEdit

- Displaying RTF Data in Container Controls

XtraBars Suite:

- Standalone Toolbars

- A number of Ribbon enhancements: Ribbon Merging, Customizable Height for Embedded Editors, Displaying Bar Commands to the Right of Tab Headers, Transparent Background for In-place Editors, New Navigation Capabilities

XtraCharts Suite

- A number of new 3D Bar Views

- 2D and 3D Doughnut Views

- AJAX Callback Support

- Empty Point Representation

- Advanced Customization

XtraReports Suite

- A number of major ASP.NET improvements: Complete AJAX Callback Support, Medium Trust Support, Report Caching for Faster Navigation and Export Operations, Document Map Support (Bookmarks), The Ability to Build Custom Report Toolbars

- Cross-Band Controls (Line and Box)

- Built-in Data Filtering support

- Anchor Control Edges to Band Edges

ASPxGridView and Editors Suite

- Popup Edit Forms support

- Group Summary Footers

- Grouping Intervals support

- Custom Sorting

- Support for Sorting Data by Display Text

- A New Button Control

- A New Spin Editor Control

- A number of ASPxCalendar enhancements: Multi-Date Selection, Multi-Month View, Fast Navigation Panel, etc.

- A number of ASPxComboBox enhancements: Incremental Filtering (Auto-Complete), On-demand Item Loading, Keyboard support

- A number of general enhancements.

Common Enhancements across our ASP.NET Component Suites

- SEO-Friendly Paging

- Images for Selected and Hot-tracked Elements

- Enhanced Client-Side API

A good number of new other capabilities...

To learn more about this release and experience the Developer Express difference first hand, feel free to visit:

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/DXperience/WhatsNew2007v3/index.xml

and

http://www.devexpress.com/Support/WhatsNew/NET/7.3.2.xml

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