Express Developer

[Ronna Bordelon]

Asalways, thank you for your continued support and your interest in the DevExpress Blazor UI component suite. The following Year-End Roadmap (v24.2) documents what we expect to ship in December 2024 (including 10+ new components).

In this post, we'll share our release plans for .NET MAUI in the second half of 2024 (v24.2). If you have any questions about the features/capabilities mentioned in this roadmap, please leave a comment in the survey at the end of this blog.

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of DevExpress Universal v24.1, our award-winning software development platform for .NET and Visual Studio developers. With numerous new products and dozens of high-impact features, v24.1 allows you to build your best, without limits or compromise. From the desktop, the web or your mobile world, DevExpress dev tools help you address a broad range of usage scenarios and deliver intuitive solutions that amaze.

I have used DevExpress WPF in the past, and always been impressed with their support and the richness of their offer. Now, as I am venturing into developing my first web application, I first looked at a competitor because they provide a free license. But I gave up because their documentation is inadequate. So, I have tried DevExtreme, and managed to use it quickly and with much less effort.

As a Manager of Technical Support Services for a former company, I know good customer service when I experience it. DevExpress Support is of the highest level. Issues are handled expediently. All the support resources appear to be highly knowledgeable, but beyond that they are all courteous and professional. I've also witnessed the issue escalation process which keeps the issue flowing to resolution. I have nothing but the highest praise for DevExpress Customer Support.

I just wanted to let you know that your support is great. Not only that I am getting quick answers to all of my questions, your public ticketing system is so well organized and indexed by search engines that it is very easy to find ideas to solve my problems even without contacting you.

We are very happy with DevExpress. The support team is amazing. All our question were answered within 12 hours. Even there is no solution out of the box, there is always an alternative way. This gives us the feeling that nothing is impossible. We are looking forward to program a lot more nice stuff with DevExpress.

I would like to take the opportunity to compliment you and your colleagues at DevExpress Support. I have worked with many support organizations and your support really stands out: it is outstanding. I have mainly been in contact with you and Anatol and it is always a pleasure to work with you guys. Keep up the good work!

Thank you for another year of using your controls to make some great products for our customers. Can you please say thank you to all of your support staff. They do a fantastic job, so I hope you never cut back on this service.

The experience I had with DevExpress is "top"! Outstanding support, very friendly interfaces and above all a marvellous framework to develop with. So far, it has been an extremely positive experience, I presume not due to change in the future! If you're looking for the fast road (with professional support) towards web-development ... don't look any further! DevExpress has it all!

The DevExpress team already set the new standard in software service industry. For every ticket that I created, there is not even one of them answered late. I didn't hesitate to tell my colleagues about your products.

The most invaluable third-party tool that we have. It has been selected to be our base controls since they're incredibly powerful, customizable and easy to implement. Saves us hundreds of hours in every project assigned to us.

Thank you DevExpress for building one of the most powerful, feature rich control suites on the market. Your superior support staff is second to none! I can't even begin to measure the amount of time the controls have saved me. And to see the look on people's faces when they experience the controls first hand, is priceless!

I would not have been able to produce such a comprehensive web application, 'ConversationalCRM', singlehandedly in the short timescale I had available without using the DevExpress tool set. DevExpress have allowed me to provide a fully-functional CRM, supporting marketing, sales and support activities to my end users. The CRM has full reporting, including User Report Templates (using the End-User Report Designer) and end-user designed Dashboards (using the Dashboard Designer).

I believe the real power of XAF is your special way of handling the MVC pattern. Adding a property to a Business Object - no matter if doing it in code or with the Application Model Editor - all possible types of views can show the new values: Detail View, List View, Reports, Statistics, etc. This is really stunning and flabbergasts me every time I see it. You've really done a great job. To be honest I've developed something very similar in the past and used it now for a long time for my projects. But XAF is much more powerful and easier to use. Not to mention your great UI components.

I'm really thrilled, I've been using this suite for a couple of months and it's really fantastic. Everything I was looking for in a product. The support is great, they help you in any situation by responding very quickly and very clearly.

I am using the DevExpress WPF components since more than two years ago as part of a major project to refactor an existing software. My users are very happy and impressed with the new features that I was able to provide thanks to the advanced capabilities of the grid, report builder and map controls. Thanks to the whole team of DevExpress for their great product and the useful technical support!

We use DevExpress components since 2007. Our 3-tier WinForm application uses the great capabilities of XtraGrid, XtraBars and other controls. Alternative web client is built on ASP.NET Grid. For our customers, it is very easy to use our applications, because it is intuitive. Thanks DevExpress for components we deliver to our customers, beautiful UI with charm.

DevExpress has made ProParts really come to life. Currently compiled with Delphi, the conversion to .NET is already underway and looking just as good. In addition, I've started the requested web site upgrade using ASP.NET controls, and the conversion is moving along smoothly. So yeah, I'm on both sides of the DevExpress fence with Delphi and .NET, but this is a case where you really get what you pay for.

We are using DevExpress components since day one we have started developing our software. We see DevExpress just as a member in our team, always responsive and producing great quality work. Keep up the good work and thanks for your continued support!

DevExpress XAF and XPO, these are amazing stuff you can use to speed things up developing application, web or windows. What else you want to expect if someone can give you more time to do other things in life?

Thank you for amazing components. We are using the WinForms component and are planning to move to the Universal subscription later this year to utilize the DevExtreme and ASP.NET components. The components saved me a lots of time in the past while building quick data driven applications.

In few words, you made my developing "green" because you save a lot of energy simplifying development and reduce the time my computer is on. Everything is done quicker than ever. Keep it up with your great suite, it saves me a lot of time, and also helps me to convince and impress my company.

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DevExpress engineers feature-complete Presentation Controls, IDE Productivity Tools, Business Application Frameworks, and Reporting Systems for Visual Studio, Delphi, HTML5 or iOS & Android development. Whether using WPF, ASP.NET, WinForms, HTML5 or Windows 10, DevExpress tools help you build and deliver your best in the shortest time possible.

Just wondering if it's worth it for a developer to use SQL Server 2005/2008 Developer Edition instead of the bundled SQL Server Express edition that comes with Visual Studio. I'm talking about for initial development of a website, where you need to create SQL scripts to generate the tables and things like that. I know with Express it's easy to add an .mdf file to your project and program against that, but wouldn't it be better to install Developer edition and program against a "real" database that would mimic what you're going to be using in production? That way if you're using VS Professional and can create a "database project" you can include all of your creation scripts and run them in production to recreate the environment.

If you have access to it, you're better off using Developer Edition because it supports more features and larger databases. For example, if you want to restore a 50gb database from your production server onto your workstation to do testing, you'll need Developer Edition.

Another example is if you're working with Enterprise-only features like partitioning, compression or the Resource Governor. Those features aren't available in Express, but they are available in Developer Edition.

If it is good enough for production then how can it be insufficient in development. And SQL Express is quite capable of handling fair loads (the kind of loads that would have stressed serious hardware just a few years ago).

Express has basic Reporting, with Advanced Services. If you go beyond the basic Reporting in the product, you will have to move up. YOu also have Service Broker. But, you will not have Analysis Services (no data warehousing) or SSIS (no ETL). If you need either of these features, you have to go to Developer.

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