DevExpress WPF adds PDF Viewer

Released: Dec 5, 2013

Updates in this release

Updates in 13.2.5

  • PDF Viewer Control - Display PDF files directly in your WPF application without the need to install an external PDF viewer.
  • Grid - Fix, print, export and serialize bands along with support for horizontal virtualization and hit testing.
  • Themes - New Office inspired themes including Office 2013 Dark Gray and Office 2013 Light Gray.
  • Sparkline Control - Sparklines can be used to visualize data and communicate cause/effect in an ultra-efficient manner.
  • Flyout Control - Push information to your end-users via hints or use it as a popup panel displayed on the side of your application window.
  • Windows 8 Dialog and Message Box - Emulate the Windows 8 user experience.
  • Map Control - Support for item virtualization via Web services to provide faster performance.
  • Tree List Control - Select individual or multiple cells as needed.
  • Property Grid Control - Ability to edit multiple objects.
  • Legend Check Boxes - The chart control introduces legend checkboxes which allow end-users to toggle visibility of various chart elements.

Scaffolding Wizards

  • Windows 8 UI. 
  • Visual Basic Support.
  • WCF Data Services Support. 
  • Fluent API and Data Annotations Support.
  • EntityFramework 6.0 Support.
  • POCO ViewModels Support.

Spreadsheet Control

  • Cell editing in the formula bar or directly in the cell.
  • Support for XLSX, XLS, CSV and TXT file formats (export and import)
  • Print and Export to PDF.
  • Built-in and custom functions for formula calculations.
  • Comprehensive worksheet, row, column and cell management.
  • Embedded pictures support.
  • Cell appearance and value formatting.
  • Conditional formatting.
  • Automatically-generated Ribbon UI.
  • Embedded charts support.