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WinForms Controls

Intermediate Level

v20.1 DevExpress Version
7 Modules
87 Videos
4:13 Duration

This course provides an overview and introduction to the DevExpress WinForms suite of components. It describes the steps required to get started with the product suite and shows the techniques needed to work with the individual components and to put them together to create a WinForms application. The course includes information on a large number of products and individual components, providing intermediate level coverage on any single product.

This course builds a .NET Framework application. If you target .NET 6+, certain design-time capabilities will be unavailable.

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Welcome and Getting Started / 36 min

This module provides an introduction to the class as well as to the techniques available for getting started with your own DevExpress WinForms based application, incorporating the look&feel technology to enable skinning. You also learn about the role of data binding and your data layer in conjunction with the DevExpress controls, High-DPI support and behaviors.

Class Introduction
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Creating a New Application
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Visual Studio Templates (Demo 1)
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Visual Studio Templates (Demo 2)
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Visual Studio Integration
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Visual Studio Integration (Demo)
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Skins
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Working with Skins (Demo 1)
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Runtime Skin Switching (Demo 2)
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Data Binding
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Basic Object Collection Binding (Demo)
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Different Data Layers (Demo)
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Advanced Binding Modes (Demo)
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High-DPI Support
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High-DPI Support (Demo)
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Behaviors
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Behaviors (Demo)
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Navigation Controls / 49 min

The focus of this module is navigation in your application. You learn about configurable menu, toolbar and Ribbon systems. Second level navigation options using the NavBar or Accordion Control, docking and tool windows, round things off.

Welcome
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Menus and Toolbars
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Setting Up the BarManager (Demo)
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Customization Persistence (Demo)
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Context Menus and Standalone Bar Docking (Demo)
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The Ribbon
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Basic Ribbon Configuration (Demo)
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Advanced Ribbon Features (Demo)
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Ribbon Settings Persistence (Demo)
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Application Menu and BackstageViewControl (Demo)
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Ribbon Context Pages (Demo)
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Accordion Control and Navigation Bar
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Accordion Control (Demo)
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Docking and Tool Windows
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Docking and Tool Windows (Demo)
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Splash Screen Manager
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Splash Screen Manager (Demo)
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Application Layout / 43 min

DevExpress controls support a broad range of application layout options, from the "old-style" MDI application over tabbed interfaces to current Windows 10 UI. In this module you will see how to use the feature set in your application, and how to utilize several runtime settings persistence APIs.

Welcome
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MDI Applications
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Menu and Toolbar Merging (Demo)
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Ribbon Merging (Demo)
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The Document Manager
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The Document Manager (Demo)
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SDI Applications
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SDI Applications (Demo)
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Windows UI
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Setting Up Windows UI (Demo)
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Content Containers (Demo)
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Custom Container Actions (Demo)
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Persisting Runtime Customization
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Persisting Runtime Customization (Demo)
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Data Grid / 34 min

This module is entirely dedicated to the Data Grid, probably the most complex control in the DevExpress WinForms suite, and the most commonly used. You learn how to set up the control for a number of different use cases from simple data binding to advanced editing.

Welcome
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The Data Grid
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A Basic Data Grid Setup (Demo)
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Level and View Configuration (Demo)
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Card and Layout Views (Demo)
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Data Editing and Validation
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Data Editing and Validation (Demo)
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Simple and Complex Grid Editors (Demo)
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Advanced Editing Scenarios
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Dynamic Data Sources in a Lookup Editor (Demo)
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Data Visualization / 47 min

Data visualization and analysis is the broad topic of this module. It begins with the highly interactive scheduler for specific visualization scenarios. Gauges are simple controls that show individual or small numbers of business values, while charts display graphical diagrams of value sequences. Finally, the pivot grid is a cross table data analysis solution for the most complex cases.

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The Scheduler
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A Dynamic Scheduler Setup (Demo)
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Customizing the Scheduler Behavior (Demo)
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Gauges
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Setting Up Gauges (Demo)
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Feeding Gauges with Data (Demo)
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Charts
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A Data-Bound Chart Setup (Demo)
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Charts with Dynamic Data Sources (Demo)
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The Pivot Grid
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Pivot Grid Field Setup
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Configuring the Pivot Grid (Demo)
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Pivot Grid Advanced Options and Customization (Demo)
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Pivot Grid / Chart Binding (Demo)
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Document Generation and Reporting / 20 min

Creating various document formats for export and printing is made easy by the Printing System functionality. On top of that, DevExpress Reporting provides a powerful solution for data-bound reporting needs, including previewing capabilities for all the .NET platforms, and easy integration with the WinForms application environment.

Welcome
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Printing System Core Library
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Printing the Data Grid (Demo)
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Scheduler and Composite Links (Demo)
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DevExpress Reporting
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Designing a Report (Demo)
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Integrating the Report Previewer (Demo)
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MVVM / 20 min

In this module you learn about the MVVM support library that makes it easy to create ViewModel classes and utilize those with Views, supplying UI functionality to the ViewModels by way of services and behaviors.

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The MVVM Pattern
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MVVM With DevExpress
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A First View/ViewModel Combination (Demo)
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ViewModel Business Logic (Demo)
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Using Services (Demo)
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Multiple ViewModels and Views (Demo)
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