There are two things you have to know: don’t do a simple upgrade. Rather uninstall previous version, clean GAC, Program Files and Common Files and do a fresh […]

Did you ever wonder what does mean CodeRush’s Maintenance Complexity tool window (accessible via DevExpress/Tool Windows/Metrics menu item). Here is Mark Miller’s blogging about it and it explains […]

As soon as I downloaded the new WinForms Component Collection 2.2.1 for Visual Studio 2005 I installed them, turned the visual inheritance “experimental” support on opened an existing project. It […]

I have to admit that this Thursday really surprised me in positive way. Or better, Developer Express guys did it. They just released a service release of their […]

Sit down, this one is huge. Apparently Microsoft doesn’t have Windows Forms Designer support for complex controls on derived forms, in other words, if you created a form with […]

Developer Express WinForms stuff (including CodeRush and Refactor! Pro) for Visual Studio 2005 RTM is out. Go grab them from mydevexpress.com.

I’ve posted about the problem of co-existance of DevExpress componenents here. And here is the fix, thanks to support:To fix the problem you need to delete the following […]

Regarding to this post I just noticed that the WinForms suite 2005 RTM version (numbered 2.2) doesn’t co-exist with non-whidbey 2.x version. You’ll get errors when you create […]

If you are in a need for Developer Express VS 2005 RTM components right now (officially this is an intermediate version) you can request them by dropping an […]

A lot of people have noticed a highly annoying bug in Visual Studio 2005 when dealing with Developer Express’ controls. The description of the bug goes like this: […]