DXperience Silverlight

All the Silverlight component suites and libraries produced by Developer Express in one package. DXperience Silverlight includes the following products: Data Grid for Silverlight, Menu-Toolbar for Silverlight, Layout Manager for Silverlight, Rich Text Editor for Silverlight, Data Editors for Silverlight, Spell Checker for Silverlight, Book Control for Silverlight, Window & Dialog for Silverlight, Tab Control for Silverlight and Transition Animator for Silverlight.

What’s new in DXperience Silverlight v2011 vol 1?

.NET Reports: Silverlight Report Viewer

• Interactive Document Preview
• New Zooming Modes
• Improved server error diagnostics.

Silverlight Grid Control

• New View – TreeListView
• Representation of Hierarchical Data Relationships
• Unbound Mode Support
• On-Demand Data Loading in Unbound Mode
• TreeNode Iterator
• Node Images
• Instant Feedback™ UI
• Per-Pixel Vertical Scrolling
• Cascading Data Updates Support
• Design-Time Support
• Improved Print Preview
• Searching within the Document Preview
• Report Scaling in Document Preview
• Column Data Binding Improvements
• Direct Columns Access from Code-Behind
• Column Binding Improvements

New Silverlight Tree List

• Introducing the DXTreeList for Silverlight
• Data Presentation Features
• View-Based Information Display
• Representation of Hierarchical Data Relationships
• Unbound Mode Support
• Asynchronous Loading of Visible Nodes
• Design-Time Support
• Tree-Traversal API

Silverlight Chart Control

• Zooming and Scrolling in 2D Charts
• 4 New Chart Types - Stacked Line, Full-Stacked Line, Step Line and Step Area 2D chart types are now available in the WPF and Silverlight versions of DXCharts.

New Silverlight Gauge Control

• DXperience v2011 vol 1 includes our newest WPF and Silverlight Control Library – the DXGauges Suite. This initial version ships with two gauge types: Circular and Linear.
• Built-in Models
• Scale Ranges
• End-User Interaction
• Animations

Silverlight Ribbon Control

• Ribbon Design Time Enhancements

Rich Editor Control for Silverlight

• New Rich Edit Document Server
• Mail Merge Enhancements
• Master-Detail Reporting
• Mail Merge Events
• Progress Indication
• Merge Field Mappings
• Automatic Table of Contents
• Document Variables
• DOC File Format Support
• Automatic Correction
• Table API
• Syntax Highlighting
• Line Numbering

Silverlight Spell Checker Control

• Hunspell Dictionaries Support
• Load Dictionaries On Demand

Silverlight Dock Window Control

• MDI Mode
• Layout Functionality
• Design-Time Improvements

Silverlight Form Layout Control

• Layout Control - Runtime Customization Enhancements
• XML persistence

Silverlight Data Editor Controls

• New Control - Silverlight Progress Bar
• DXperience v2011 vol 1 introduces a new Silverlight progress bar that can an be used as a standard or marquee progress bar. Like other DevExpress Data Editors, both standalone and embedded versions are available.

What's new in DXperience Silverlight v2010 vol 2?

• NEW DXGrid for Silverlight - Data can be filtered, sorted and grouped against an unlimited number of columns.  DXperience DXGrid for Silverlight also includes: custom grouping, sorting, filtering, group intervals support, total and group summary computation. It also comes with advanced end-user filtering capabilities including: Filter Editor, column filter and automatic filter row and more.
• NEW DXCharts for Silverlight - DXperience v2010 vol 2 ships with a complete range of charts and diagrams for Silverlight. DXCharts for Silverlight includes the same 2D series views as its WPF counterpart (such as various Bars, Pie and Financial views), with comprehensive animation support. DXCharts for Silverlight supports series template binding, smart series point labels, secondary axes, constant lines, and custom draw.
• NEW DXRibbon for Silverlight - DXperience v2010 vol 2 introduces a Microsoft Office style Ribbon Control for Silverlight. By exploiting its advanced features - including Context Tabs or In-Ribbon Galleries - you can deliver navigation systems with a highly effective command-based layout for enhanced usability.

What's new in DXperience v2010 vol 1? - With this release, DevExpress is proud to announce the availability of numerous new Silverlight controls along with extended features and capabilities across the entire product line, including:

• Full Support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework Client Profile
• NEW Report Viewers for WPF and Silverlight
• Filter Builder and Expression Editor for WPF and Silverlight

Changes Across the DevExpress .NET Product Line

• Visual Studio 2010 Support - All DevExpress .NET Products are fully compatible with Visual Studio 2010 and take advantage of the IDE’s new capabilities.

Updates and new features include the following:

• Client Profile Support  - .NET Framework Client Profile is a lightweight version of the full .NET Framework designed for clients that do not need the entire framework. Visual Studio 2010 creates projects for this version by default and we expect a lot of applications to target this lightweight framework. All DevExpress controls shipped with DXperience v2010 vol 1 fully support the .NET Framework Client Profile (The only exception is the XtraReports End-User Designer).

.NET Reports: Silverlight Viewer

• Report Viewer for Silverlight - Your Silverlight applications can now display reports created with the XtraReports Suite via the new Silverlight Report Viewer.

Silverlight Grid Control

• Performance Improvements - Re-designed grid loading procedure reduced load times by 50%.Content scrolling is now twice as fast as previous versions. No intermediate objects are now used for data binding.
• Filter Control - The Silverlight Grid control now allows you to specify filter conditions of any complexity using an advanced Filter Editor dialog ported from the WinForms and ASP.NET platforms.
• Unbound Columns and Expression Editor - In previous versions, the only way to specify unbound column values was to handle an event and write the appropriate code. With this new release, the DevExpress Silverlight Grid control allows you to address this requirement using an intuitive design-time editor.

Rich Editor Control for Silverlight and WinForms

• Headers and Footers - Rich Editor controls fully support Header and Footer section editing. You can provide common headers and footers for all pages within a document or you can specify different content for odd/even pages and change the first page’s header and footer individually.
• Regular Expressions for Find and Replace Operations - WinForms and Silverlight Rich Editors now allow you to use Regular Expressions when searching for text. This feature is similar to Microsoft Word’s Use Wildcards search option. When the Find/Replace dialog is invoked, you can check the Regular Expressions option and then build your expression manually or use the expression elements dropdown shown in the screenshot below.
• Opening Documents via Drag and Drop -End-users can now drag documents into the DevExpress Rich Editor Controls to open them.
• Document Restrictions - You can now deactivate specific functionality (such as formatting, pictures etc.) and can determine whether restrictions are enforced immediately or after document reload. If restrictions are applied on reload, changes which are considered restricted won't be imposed on the document content. For instance, if character formatting is restricted, the document will be loaded with all characters formatted with the default font.
• User Restrictions - You can specify which operations can be performed thus preventing users from copying and pasting, printing, saving etc.
• Native Printing Support in Silverlight Rich Editor - The Silverlight Rich Editor control now takes full advantage of the Printing features introduced in Silverlight 4. Native printing support replaces the previous workaround that involved JavaScript processing to print browser contents.