Released: Dec 2, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in 15.2.3

WinForms

New Controls

• WinForms Diagram Control - Allows users to visually communicate complex information using data-linked diagrams, flow and org charts.
• WinForms Date Editor and Calendar - The calendar used in the WinForms Date Editor is now available as a standalone control and can be dropped directly onto a form.
• WinForms Excel Data Source - Bind DevExpress WinForms data-aware controls to Microsoft Excel workbooks or CSV files.
• Office Inspired Ring/Line Animations - The WinForms Progress Panel and Transition Manager now support Office inspired animation styles.
• WinForms Tabbed Form - The new WinForms Tabbed Form incorporates a Tabbed MDI interface, allowing you to eliminate the use of MDI managers.
• WinForms Tabbed Pane Control – A SDI (Single Document Interface) navigation control that owns a collection of pages and uses buttons to navigate between them.
• WinForms Toolbox Control - A Microsoft Visio inspired Toolbox control.

Enhancements

WinForms Grid Control

• Data Cell Images - Data cells can now display custom images either to the left or rightmost edge of the control.
• Align Summary Values with Group Rows - Summary values can be displayed in group rows under corresponding column headers.
• Partial Groups - This new option allows you to display group rows with two or more data rows. If a group row contains only a single data row, it is not displayed.
• Grid-Based Report Generation - With only a few lines of code, you can invoke the DevExpress WinForms Report Designer from the Grid Control and create reports based on its data.

WinForms App UI Manager

• The new layout mode allows you to mix vertical and horizontal tabbed groups in Tabbed Views.

WinForms Chart Control

• New Financial Indicators - This release ships with the following new financial indicators: AverageTrueRange, CommodityChannelIndex, DetrendedPriceOscillator, MassIndex, MedianPrice, MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence, RateOfChange (Momentum), RelativeStrengthIndex, StandardDeviation, StochasticIndicator, TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TEMA), TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TriX), TypicalPrice, VolatilityChaikins, WeightedClose and WilliamsR.

WinForms Layout Control

• Resizing - You can view an item's current size during resize operations. Layout items that cannot be resized (due to size constraints) are now highlighted.
• Search within Customization Form - With this release you can locate items by entering their names with the search box.
• Visual Enhancements - Selected items in customization mode are painted in light blue. Drop position is now highlighted during drag-and-drop operations.

WinForms Map Control

• Data Clustering - To help increase dataset readability and analyze data density, you can now aggregate data using the DevExpress Map Control's clustering methods.
• Vector Data Export/Import Enhancements - The WinForms Map Control can now import SVG vector graphics and export its vector data to KML, SVG and Shapefiles.

WinForms PDF Viewer

• Open/Save Attachments – The WinForms PDF Viewer now displays attachments and you can open and/or save attachments as needed.

WinForms Property Grid Control

• HTML Formatting - Row headers and data cells now support HTML text formatting.

WinForms Ribbon Control

• Recent Items - You can now emulate menus introduced in the newest version of Microsoft Office.

WinForms Rich Editor Control

• Custom Drawing Using Layout API - You can now draw lines, shapes and text above, below or in place of page elements.
• Nested Comments - Comments and replies are grouped and displayed as a conversation.
• Improved PDF Export - PDF algorithms have been optimized. It's now twice as fast and consumes 30% less memory.

WinForms Scheduler Control

• Time Indicator - The Scheduler now indicates current time.
• New Default Appointment Ribbon Form - To better replicate the Microsoft Outlook appointment dialog, the default appointment editing form has been changed to be a Ribbon form.
• Time Zone Information for Each Appointment - With this release, you can associate time zones with individual appointments and display their Start and End time correctly when the Scheduler's time zone changes.
• Reporting Scripts Support - The WinForms End-User Report Designer now allows users to handle the Scheduler control's reporting events.

WinForms Snap Reporting Control

• Data Source Wizard Customization - Manage data source lists, remove default wizard pages, create and add custom pages.

WinForms Spreadsheet Control

• Pivot Tables - Analyze, categorize and summarize large volumes of data within a worksheet.
• Copy/Paste Enhancements - Clipboard operations now support BIFF8.
• API Improvements - Create a pivot table from a cell range or a PivotTable cache, modify and remove existing pivot tables.

WinForms TreeList Control

• Cell Selection - The WinForms TreeList control now supports selection of multiple cells.
• Drag and Drop Enhancements - You no longer need to handle events and write code to enable drag and drop for multiple nodes within the DevExpress WinForms TreeList control.

WinForms MVVM and Scaffolding

• New Services - This release provides four new services for the MVVM platform: notification, splash screen, layout serialization and print preview services.
• Data Binding Improvements - The MVVM Framework supports binding to properties, commands and event-to-command behaviors for nested ViewModels.
• View Scaffolding - You can now create MVVM Application parts (Model, ModelViews and Views) based on an Entity Framework Model.

WinForms Application Themes

• New Office 2016 Inspired Themes - This release ships with the following Office 2016 inspired themes: Office 2016 Colorful Theme and Office 2016 Black Theme.

ASP.NET WebForms

New Controls

• ASP.NET CardView Control - Features include:
  • Conditional formatting.
  • Export to PDF, XLS, XLSX and RTF formats.
  • Selected records export.
  • Conditional formatting export.
  • Header panel.
  • Total summary.
  • Endless paging.
  • Date range header filter.
  • Ellipsis with tooltips in cell texts.
  • Design-Time Card Layout Editor allows you to build a Microsoft Outlook inspired Contacts View with integrated data shaping and editing capabilities.

Enhancements

ASP.NET GridView Control

• Adaptivity Options - Automatically adapt the UI based on screen size.
• Date Range Header Filter - You can define a date range using a calendar or date editors. In both modes, the filter dropdown displays a customizable list of check boxes and allow you to select common date intervals including 'Last week', 'Last month', 'Last year', etc.
• Conditional Formatting - Your end-users can now highlight critical information, compare data, visualize trends by using data bars, color scales or icons.
• Truncated Cell Values - Automatically truncate cell values if they don't fit in a cell.
• Improved EditForm Layout Designer - New features include the ability to move layout items via drag and drop and the ability to assign a nested control to an item via a context menu.

ASP.NET Chart Control

• New Financial Indicators - This release ships with the following new financial indicators: AverageTrueRange, CommodityChannelIndex, DetrendedPriceOscillator, MassIndex, MedianPrice, MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence, RateOfChange (Momentum), RelativeStrengthIndex, StandardDeviation, StochasticIndicator, TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TEMA), TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TriX), TypicalPrice, VolatilityChaikins, WeightedClose and WilliamsR.

ASP.NET File Manager Control

• Virtual Scrolling - The ASP File Manager now supports virtual scrolling and allows dynamic loading of files via callbacks.

ASP.NET Filter Control

• Filter Expression Text Editor - You can now edit the filter expression in a text editor.
• Hierarchical Expression View - A tree-like (hierarchical) data field picker allows you to select nested properties of complex type columns.

ASP.NET Form Layout Control

• Improved Layout Designer - Move layout items via drag and drop and assign a nested control to an item via a context menu.

ASP.NET HTML Editor

• HTML Code Editor Enhancements
  • Tag auto completion and auto closing.
  • Code highlighting.
  • Code folding.
  • Line numbering.
  • Selection is preserved when switching between tabs.
• Find and Replace - Allow end-users to easily locate and modify text within Design and HTML views.
• HTML Document Editing - You can now edit the entire HTML document including.

ASP.NET Ribbon Control

• One-Line Mode - The ASP.NET Ribbon control can now display all items within an active tab across a single line.
• Contextual Tabs - You can now create contextual tabs with element-related commands.

ASP.NET Rich Editor Control

• Headers and Footers - Specify different headers and footers for the first page, odd and even pages, and each particular section.
• Tables - Specific table-related ribbon tabs and new menu items allow your end-users to create and modify tables as necessary.
• Mail Merge with a Data Source - You can now bind to an external data source and preview results.
• Bookmarks - Create and edit bookmarks.
• Multi-Selection - Select different portions of a document by using the mouse and Ctrl keys simultaneously.
• Page Color - Change the document's background color.
• Document Autosave - The ASP.NET Rich Editor now saves your work behind the scenes.
• Work Session Hibernation - Inactive documents are now automatically hibernated to the server's file system to free server RAM.

ASP.NET Scheduler Control

• Time Indicator - The Scheduler now indicates the current time.

ASP.NET Spreadsheet Control

• Frozen Panes - You can now lock specific rows or columns in a worksheet area to maintain its visibility while scrolling.
• Excel Inspired Data Validation - You can now maintain data accuracy/consistency by preventing the entry of invalid data.
• AutoFilter - Filter information in a worksheet and find required values quickly.
• Formula Bar - Used to enter or copy existing formulas into cells.
• Formula AutoComplete - Easily create and edit formulas.
• Document Autosave - The ASP.NET Spreadsheet saves your work behind the scenes.
• Work Session Hibernation - Inactive documents are now automatically hibernated to free server RAM.
• Extended Page Setup - The new dialog provides a set of print-related options and allows you to specify a page header and footer.

WPF

New Controls

• WPF Camera Control - Display a video stream from a webcam device and take a snapshot.
• WPF Clipboard Manager - Copy data from DevExpress Grid and TreeList Controls to MS Word, Excel and Outlook while preserving original formatting.
• WPF TreeMap Control - Visualize flat or hierarchically structured data using nested rectangles that are sized and ordered by a quantitative variable.

Enhancements

WPF Grid Control

• Partial Data Grouping - This new option allows you to display group rows with two or more data rows. If a group row contains only a single data row, it is not displayed.
• Inline Data Editing Form - The DevExpress WPF Grid now makes it easier for your end-users to edit data within the Grid.
• Marquee Record Selection - A quick and easy way to select a range of rows/cells.
• Group Row Template Optimization - Now includes group row templates that make content rendering and scrolling significantly faster.
• Grid-Based Report Generation - With only a few lines of code, you can invoke the DevExpress WPF Report Designer from the Grid Control and create reports based on its data.

WPF Chart Control

• New Financial Indicators - This release ships with the following new financial indicators: AverageTrueRange, CommodityChannelIndex, DetrendedPriceOscillator, MassIndex, MedianPrice, MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence, RateOfChange (Momentum), RelativeStrengthIndex, StandardDeviation, StochasticIndicator, TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TEMA), TripleExponentialMovingAverage (TriX), TypicalPrice, VolatilityChaikins, WeightedClose and WilliamsR.
• Performance Enhancements - Display large volumes of data (up to one million items) using Lines and Areas series with no performance loss.

WPF Data Layout Control

• Filtering UI - Generate a filter UI based on attribute settings.

WPF Editors

• Server Mode for ComboBoxEdit, LookUpEdit, ListBoxEdit - ComboBoxEdit, LookUpEdit and ListBoxEdit now support server-side data processing.
• Incremental Search for ComboBoxEdit, ListBoxEdit - The DevExpress WPF ComboBox and ListBox Editors now support incremental search.
• Take Pictures with Your Webcam - The WPF Image Editor includes a 'Take Snapshot' button allowing users to capture a picture from a webcam and display it in the control.
• Standalone Button Controls - This release ships with the following new button controls: Simple Button, Drop-down Button and Split Button.

WPF Map Control

• Data Clustering - You can now aggregate data using the DevExpress Map Control's clustering methods.
• Vector Data Export/Import Enhancements - Import SVG vector graphics and export its vector data to KML, SVG and Shapefiles.

WPF PDF Viewer

• Open/Save Attachments - You can now open and/or save attachments as needed.

WPF Property Grid Control

• Performance Optimizations - Rows and editors are now rendered using lightweight templates.

WPF Rich Editor Control

• Custom Draw Using Layout API - You can now draw lines, shapes and text above, below or in place of page elements.
• Nested Comments - Comments and replies are grouped and displayed as a conversation.
• Improved PDF Export - Export to PDF algorithms have been optimized. It's now twice as fast and consumes 30% less memory.

WPF Scheduler Control

• Time Indicator - The Scheduler now indicates current time.
• Time Zone Information for Each Appointment - You can now associate time zones with individual appointments.

WPF Spreadsheet Control

• Pivot Tables - Analyze, categorize and summarize large volumes of data within a worksheet.
• Copy/Paste Enhancements - Clipboard operations now support BIFF8.
• API Enhancements - Create a pivot table from a cell range or a PivotTable cache, modify and remove existing pivot tables.

WPF Tab Control

• Pinned Tabs - End-users can now pin and unpin tabs in Stretch View.

WPF Application Themes

• New Office 2016 Inspired Themes - This release ships with the following Office 2016 inspired themes: Office 2016 Black Theme, Office 2016 White Theme, Office 2016 Colorful Theme.

Windows 10 Apps

New Controls

• UWP Menu and Frame - This release ships with the new Menu and Frame controls.
• UWP Ribbon Control - The new Ribbon Control for Windows 10 Apps includes the following features:
  • Ribbon items (button, check box, radio button, menu button, toggle button, spin editor and text box).
  • Responsive UI.
  • Backstage View.
  • Mobile View.
  • MVVM Support.

Reporting

Web Report Designer

• Subreports Support - The Web Report Designer now allows you to create and edit subreports.
• Report Explorer - The Report Explorer now displays a report's structure in a tree-like form and provides easy access to all report elements.
• RichText Editing - Edit content displayed by the XRRichText control. You can also load data from a RTF file.
• Query Builder Enhancements
  • Ability to edit ORDER BY and GROUP BY query clauses.
  • Relationships between tables are automatically resolved based on foreign keys.
  • Ability to preview resulting data.

Web Document Viewer

• Azure Support - With this release, the HTML5/JS Web Document Viewer supports Azure.
• Asynchronous Export Mode - The Web Document Viewer can now export reports asynchronously.

Cross-Platform Functionality

• Export to MailMessage - Export reports to HTML in code and use .NET Framework mailing functionality to send generated HTML messages.
• Improved Single-File RTF Export - The layout of RTF documents generated using the export functionality of the XtraPrinting Library has been improved.

Data Access

• Excel Data Source - Bind your reports to data obtained from Microsoft Excel workbooks and CSV files.
• Google BigQuery Support - Bind the SQLDataSource component to Google BigQuery.
• Enhanced SQL Data Source API - The SQL Data Source now includes an API allowing you to access its tables, rows and columns in code.

Document Server

PDF Document Processor

• Document Creation API - Generate documents in PDF-A-2b and PDF-A-3b file formats in code. T
• Edit Bookmarks - Create new bookmarks from scratch, change attributes and delete bookmarks.
• Add Hyperlinks - Add hyperlinks to URI or PDF pages.
• File Attachment - Attach any number of files to a PDF document.

Graphics API Improvements

• You can now draw a region of an image within specific boundaries.
• Use different types of brushes.
• Insert metafiles as a sequence of drawing commands.
• Strings can now be drawn within specific boundaries with custom alignment and word wrapping options.

API Improvements

• Ability to apply different fonts to specific text regions within a cell.
• You can now create Sparkline groups of different types and adjust their formatting and scaling options.
• Enable right-to-left worksheet direction in code.
• Create image hyperlinks.

Spreadsheet Document Server

• API Improvements - Create a pivot table from a worksheet range, specify report layouts and sort and filter report data.

Rich Edit

• Improved Export to PDF - Export to PDF has been optimized. It is now twice faster and consumes 30% less memory.

Report Server

Scheduled Reports

• Sending Scheduled Reports - A scheduled report can now be sent to subscribers in HTML within the email body.
• Schedule Hourly Reports - In previous versions, the highest frequency for scheduled report generation was daily. With v15.2, you can now schedule hourly reports.

CodeRush for Roslyn

• Unit Test Runner - Detects and run unit tests for the MSTest framework.
• Structural Highlighting - Structural Highlighting for C#, Visual Basic and XAML lets you easily see the structure of your code.
• Navigation Tools - Quickly find symbols and files in your solution.
• Code Cleanup - The auto-implemented code cleanup rule is now available.
• Code Coverage - Now you can export code coverage statistics to XML, HMTL and an NDepend-compatible format.
• Decompiler - Decompiled code structure now more closely matches the original structure of the code before it was compiled.

CodeRush Classic

• Code Coverage - You can now discover which parts of your solution are covered by unit tests, and find the at-risk portions of your application.
• Paste to XAML/SVG - Now it's easy to incorporate vector drawings into your applications, with the new "Paste to XAML" and "Paste to SVG" code providers.

HTML5/JS Widgets

dxForm

• Present and edit data stored in an object.

dxPivotGrid

• New summary display modes include: Display Mode, Running Total, Cross Group Summary Calculation and Calculate Summary Value.
• Now supports virtual scrolling, making it much faster when working with large volumes of data.
• You can now reload data and change filter conditions at runtime.
• New APIs allows you to retrieve a list of records (facts) used to calculate a specific summary.
• Save and restore a pivot grid's state (fields in areas, sorting, filters, expanded headers).

dxDataGrid

• Rendering and refresh now execute twice as fast when compared to previous versions.
• Data caching prevents unnecessary requests to a remote data storage.
• Using the new calculateDisplayValue column, the grid loads only string values displayed by the Lookup field.
• You can now edit rows using the edit form.
• Customize a column's header filter.
• Data grouping and summary calculations can be executed on the server.
• Two-way binding for Knockout and AngularJS frameworks forces grid cells to be updated when corresponding field values change outside the grid.
• Specify configuration options for editors used to edit column values.
• Show/hide the checkbox column when multiple cell selection mode is enabled.
• A new 'cellValue' method allows you to obtain and specify cell values.
• You can now check whether changes made to grid data are committed to the server.
• Page navigator can now display the total number of rows.

dxScheduler

• Specify whether a user can edit, create, delete, drag or resize appointments.
• Show/hide the 'All Day' panel.
• Specify custom markup for an appointment tooltip.
• Customize the duration of a view cell.
• New timeline views for day, week and work week.
• A view can now be scrolled horizontally.
• A popup with appointment details can be displayed in full-screen mode.

dxTreeView

• With this release, you can now filter widget items.

dxPieChart

• Display multiple series in a single pie chart.
• Interact with pie chart series points using their labels.

dxVectorMap

• Support for multiple area and marker layers.
• New multiple projection types.

HTML5/JS Core

• Integration with Parse Core Library - The DevExtreme data layer can now be seamlessly used with the Parse cloud data storage.
• Visual Studio Integration - This release provides support for the Apache Cordova Application template for Visual Studio 2015.
• Application Packaging for iOS 9 - DevExtreme allows you to develop and submit applications for iOS 9 out-of-the-box.
• Application Packaging for Windows 10 - You can now build Windows 10 applications using the Apache Cordova Application template.
• Support for Npm Repository as a Plugins Source - Simply add the plugin's address to the config and build a custom application template.