[DevEx] XtraLayoutControl sets its items default Padding to 5;5;5;5 (left, right, top, bottom) which might not be always desired value and there is no easy way to alter this default […]

After installing VS 2005 SP1 beta I noticed that all 3rd party icons disappeared from toolbox. Apparently SP1 beta looses icons on install. The situation is more annoying with [DevEx] components […]

Ctrl+3 aka embed method in region with the name of method Auto Completition aka completes the word you are typing and mostly the suggestion is correct. Introduce local […]

It contains new ASP.NET controls; ASPxMenu, ASPxNavBar, ASPxTabControl, ASPxSiteMapcontrol and of course, full support for AJAX. Then there is a RibbonControl, XtraCharts has new graphs (3D ones among […]

CodeRush made a major version jump to 2.0.1. Apparently the most of the improvements are template related which makes sense as templates are huge productivity booster. Check new training videos […]

Sometimes you want to override certain method that fires an event.  By design guidelines one would expect a protected virtual On[EventName] method. But for some reason [DevEx] decided […]

These days I’ve came across this situation – related to [DevEx]’ XPO:XPCollection<Customer> coll = new XPCollection<Customer> (session, false); // false means LoadingEnabled = false; coll.Criteria = new BinaryOperator(“SomeColumn”, […]

Yesterday I had a repeat of my whole day presentation “What’s new in Visual Studio 2005/.net 2” and the audience was great. Note: you can find the slides […]

Imagine a class with lot of fields.class Person { private string name; private string surname; private int age; private string address; private string city; private string zip; private […]

Developer Express recently released first beta version of their XPO2 ORM product to their subscribers (currently there are also betas of both XtraCharts and XtraLayout – all of […]