How to create complex custom controls (XRTreeList and XRGrid)
This example demonstrates how to create custom data-aware controls that have a complex structure. The example consists of two projects:- DevExpress.XtraReports.CustomControls. Contains all classes and...
View ArticleHow to create custom shapes with custom connection points for the...
The Diagram control supports a special language for defining shapes. The main element that contains shape description is ShapeTemplate. This element describes a shape contour and may contain several...
View ArticleHow to create a report dynamically in the ASP.NET MVC application
This example illustrates how to create a report dynamically in the ASP.NET MVC application.See also:How to use XtraReports in an ASP.NET MVC applicationHow to link the Document Viewer with an external...
View ArticleHow to create fully custom Role, User, Event, Resource classes for use with...
This example demonstrates how to create fully custom classes for use in our Security Module (with the 'old' DevExpress.ExpressApp.Security.SecurityComplex component) and Schedule Module: - Activity...
View ArticleHow to share one RichEditControl toolbar between several RichEditControls
Let us assume that we have created a simple rich text editor with a toolbar interface (see How to: Create a Simple Word Processor with Bar Menu and How to: Create a Simple Word Processor with Ribbon...
View ArticleAdding report management functionality to an MVVM application
This example demonstrates how to use GridReportManagerService in conjunction with ReportManagerBehavior to provide the end-user with the ability to create and manage reports.
View ArticleReport Storage for the End-User Report Designer (WPF beta)
The following example demonstrates how to implement a report storage to persist report definitions in a database or in any other custom location. This may be useful when providing end-users with the...
View ArticleXtraEditors Library - How to change the border color of an editor assigned to...
This example illustrates how to change the border color of an editor if editor is assigned to Bar or Ribbon and the editor's BorderStyle property is set to UltraFlat
View ArticleOBSOLETE - ASPxGridView - How to display a truncated text in a column
UPDATED:Starting with version v2015 vol 2 (v15.2), this functionality is available out of the box. Simply set the ASPxGridView.SettingsBehavior.AllowEllipsisInText /...
View ArticleOBSOLETE - ASPxGridView - How to display truncated text in a resizable column...
UPDATED:Starting with version v2015 vol 2 (v15.2), this functionality is available out of the box. Simply set the ASPxGridView.SettingsBehavior.AllowEllipsisInText /...
View ArticleOBSOLETE - ASPxTreeList - How to display a truncated text in a column
UPDATED:Starting with version v2015 vol 2 (v15.2), this functionality is available out of the box. Simply set the ASPxTreeList.SettingsBehavior.AllowEllipsisInText /...
View ArticleA master-detail grid with Entity Framework objects
Starting with version 2012 vol 1, it is possible to enable the master-detail feature for collection properties generated by Entity Framework. See the Use Master-detail views with generic collections of...
View ArticleHow to implement conditional formatting for cells
The following sample demonstrates how to change the appearance of grid cells in a certain column based upon some condition. For example, in this tutorial you can see that the background color of cells...
View ArticleHow to serialize DockLayoutManager when TabbedDocumentUIService is used
Some of DockLayoutManager’s panel groups can contain documents that were created from ViewModel with IDocumentManagerService. To serialize and restore them correctly, it is necessary to perform these...
View ArticleCustom XtraTabbedMdiManager - How to add a button showing MDI child windows...
This sample shows how to add a button showing MDI child windows list to the XtraTabbedMdiManager's header. A button like "Active Files" in Visual Studio. To accomplish this, we've created an...
View ArticleHow to bind a GridControl to a DataTable
This example demonstrates how to use a DataTable from iOS and Android projects as a data source for Xamarin.Forms Grid.
View ArticleHow to print DetailBand a particular amount of times irregardless of the...
Sometimes, it is necessary to print a detail section a particular number of times even if the underlying DataSource contains a less number of records. The current version of XtraReports does not allow...
View ArticleHow to repeat the Detail report band multiple times (a data-bound report)
If a report is unbound, you can specify how many times the Detail band content is printed through the XtraReport.PrintOptions.DetailCountOnEmptyDataSource property.If a report is data bound, you can...
View ArticleHow to change the current NavigationPane behavior to make it look like...
The "hamburger menu" is a popular menu control for modern mobile applications. We have NavigationPane whose layout looks similar to this "hamburger menu", but has several differences. So, this example...
View ArticleWPF Report Designer (Beta) - How to hide a property in the Properties window
This example demonstrates how to hide the "DataSource", "DataMember", and "DataAdapter" properties in the Properties window. First, get the Property Grid from the visual tree. I completed this by using...
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