Office File API — Enhance Accessibility in Office Documents (Word & Excel) using OpenAI Models
For accessibility-related reasons, certain business usage scenarios require that Office documents include meaningful descriptions/alternative text (Alt Text) for graphics content (images, charts, etc). Alt Text helps individuals with visual impairments…
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Unlock Seamless Deployment: Discover Our Latest Tutorials on Deploying Reporting and Office File API-powered Apps to Azure and AWS
New Deployment Guides for Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) We've just released new guides for deploying DevExpress Reports and Office File API-based applications to Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS). As you know, deployment on Azure…
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Choosing a Framework/App Architecture for Desktop & Mobile Cross-Platform Apps
“ Write once, run anywhere " – this slogan helped Java achieve widespread popularity in the mid-1990s. Since then, many cross-platform frameworks have been introduced, such as Ionic, Flutter, and of course .NET MAUI. These frameworks allow developers…
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Spreadsheet Document API, Spreadsheet Controls (Win and WPF) — Import Chart Setting from CRTX Template Files (v23.2)
In our v23.2 release cycle, we've introduced a series of Spreadsheet Chart control enhancements. We've already described error bars, rotated axis labels, and rich text formatting for Chart titles and Axis titles in a previous blog post: Spreadsheet…
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WinForms HTML & CSS Support: Best Practices
In this post, we outlined important Do's and Don'ts when using the DevExpress WinForms HTML/CSS engine/templates.
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VCL v23.2 — Support for RAD Studio 12.1 Patch 1
Kudos and a big thanks to Embarcadero for their quick turnaround on the RSS-536 incompatibility issue for the Delphi 64-bit compiler (please apply this patch if you installed RAD Studio 12.1 previously). From RAD Studio 12.1 Athens Patch 1 Available …
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Reporting — Tagged (Accessible) PDF Export Enhancements (v23.2)
Accessibility support remains a high priority here at DevExpress. In our v.23.2 release lifecycle, we focused on accessibility at the control level and to producing more accessible content (PDF documents generated by DevExpress Reports). We enhanced accessible…
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.NET MAUI: Edit HTML Content with the DevExpress .NET MAUI HTML Edit Control
In this blog post, I'll overview the HTML Edit Control and use it to display and edit descriptions of houses in a simple application with a CRUD editing form.
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XAF v24.1 EAP — Tabbed MDI, Batch Edit, Notifications, Customization Form and Accessibility for Blazor, EF Core 8 and Performance Boost for Middle Tier Server
As you may already know, we are a couple of months away from our next major update (v24.1). This post describes a few XAF -related features we expect to ship in early June and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build (for additional information…
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Reporting — Create Reports in Node.js Apps via .NET And WebAssembly Integration
Why Node.js and WebAssembly? Customizing DevExpress Reports (within a back-end application) may present unique challenges to front end-web developers new to .NET. In this post, we'll show you how the integration of .NET and WebAssembly can help address…
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DevExtreme (v23.1, v23.2) – TypeScript Enhancements (Angular, React, Vue)
In this post, I'll describe TypeScript-related enhancements introduced in our last two major updates (v23.1 and v23.2). Should you have questions about these new capabilities, please submit a ticket via the DevExpress Support Center
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VCL v24.1 EAP — RAD Studio 12.1 Support, Secondary Axes & Palettes in Charts, Office 365 Ribbon Style, Enhanced Image Editors
As you may already know, we are a couple of months away from our next major update (v24.1). This post describes a few VCL-related features we expect to ship in early June and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build (for additional information…
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Blazor - Official Release, Free Offer, and Future Plans
I'm happy to announce the official release of DevExpress UI for Blazor. To help celebrate Blazor official launch at #dotnetconf, we're offering our this release to our customers free-of-charge!
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