Software Review: DXperience, Part III: DXperience WinForms Subscription from DevExpress - Page 3

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XtraRichEdit Suite allows you to introduce Microsoft Word-like text editing features into your WinForms application. It provides advanced text formatting capabilities and delivers numerous end-user options helping you deliver competitive word processing WinForms products.

XtraScheduler Suite is a complete scheduling library that gives you the power to build scheduling applications that mimic the UI of Microsoft Outlook and give your end-users the type of environment that they already know. They have the ability to see in day/week/month view, manage appointments, as well as having multi-resource calendars.

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XtraSpellChecker provides to you a straightforward way to add Microsoft Office spellchecking capabilities into your WinForms applications. It also offers you suggestion forms that replicate the ones found in Outlook integrating easily into your application.

XtraTreeList Suite is a fully featured treeview-grid control. It is a multi-purpose data visualization system that can display information as a tree, a grid, or a combination of both. It also fully exploits ADO.NET as well as being used in unbound mode. It does not cache any data and therefore has a small memory footprint.

XtraVerticalGrid Suite will save you the traditional hassles associated with positioning and alignment of individual field labels and controls. This control can be thought of as an inverted grid control - allowing you to display individual rows from a dataset or to display multiple dataset rows within the container.

XtraWizard Control now gives you a way to provide step-by-step guidance for your end-user. You just drop a wizard control onto a form and then describe a minimum set of pages. All service elements (including wizard and page titles, header images, navigation buttons) are created and aligned automatically. All you need to do is provide text and images for these elements via appropriate properties.

XtraReports tools, XtraCharts control, and XtraPrinting library are also included in this WinForms subscription or as standalone suites. While I will go into these in more depth in part four, suffice it to say that these give you the ability to create and generate reports and charts as well as providing a printing solution for your WinForms Applications.

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